Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Title
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Daily sitting as a corporate wellness program of anxiety reduction
(Northern Illinois University, 1982)A corporate wellness program of anxiety redaction using a simple relaxation technique was conducted by the author at an international agribusiness. Corporate employees were selfselected for participation in an anxiety ... -
Dairying in Kane County, Illinois : a study of agricultural change
(Northern Illinois University, 1966)Kane County, the area of this study, is located in northeastern Illinois, less than one hundred miles from Chicago. It is a county of two personalities. Its glacial history has brought about a rolling, poorly drained, ... -
Damage assessment at crack tips in graphite/epoxy composites using ANSYS
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Damage detection in cylinders
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Dancing in black and white : the effects of choreography on the attitudes of dancers concerning the societal issue of violence
(Northern Illinois University, 1996)This study attempted to discover if the attitudes of dancers could be changed regarding violence in society through the use of choreography and improvisation and was based on the theories of dance therapy. It was hypothesized ... -
Dancing with mnemic neglect : new insights into the paradigm
(Northern Illinois University, 2016)Self-protection motivation is seen as a cause of the mnemic neglect phenomenon, the reduced recall for self-threatening information as compared to other-referent negative information. The phenomenon is well established, ... -
Data analytics for machinery vibration
(Northern Illinois University, 2015)Production and manufacturing technologies related companies are more and more opting for condition based maintenance of their machines. The condition based maintenance requires a monitoring system which collects the data ... -
Data-driven problem solving and students' critical thinking in a problem-based learning environment
(Northern Illinois University, 2008)This case study employed a data-driven problem solving system entitled ActionOrganizer as an instrument to investigate two research questions that focus on students' changing thinking processes. Twenty-two Chinese college ... -
Day care : effects on cognitive development of low and middle socio-economic status children
(Northern Illinois University, 1989)In today's society an increasing number of American women are entering the work force. This increase of working mothers has led to a subsequent need for substitute child care for children, particularly for children under ... -
"Daytime", "nighttime" and "24-hour-period" terms : a cross-linguistic study of polysemies
(Northern Illinois University, 1987)This thesis investigates recurring patterns of polysemy involving "daytime", "nighttime" and "24-hour-period" terms within a sample of 180 globally distributed languages from most of the world's major language phyla. The ... -
DBHGT : the fungal horizontal gene transfer database
(Northern Illinois University, 2017)Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a growing area of research in bioinformatics. It has been studied heavily in bacteria due to the abundance of genome data available as well as its various links to pathogenicity and ... -
(De) constructing students of concern : how Chief Student Affairs Officers make meaning regarding concerning student behavior
(Northern Illinois University, 2015)The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how Chief Student Affairs Officers make meaning of students demonstrating concerning behavior within large, residential university settings. The problem this study ... -
Deadlock detection and resolution in discrete-event simulation
(Northern Illinois University, 1995)Even though simulation models are validated and verified as steps in model development, a problem known as “deadlock” can still occur and go unnoticed in large, complex, discrete-event simulation models. Of all the commercial ... -
The death of philosophy in Karl Popper's The open society and its enemies
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The debates and religious forums of Clarence Darrow
(Northern Illinois University, 1970)This thesis contributes to a broader view of the speaking career of Clarence Darrow than is currently available. It is maintained that current scholarly material concerning Barrow tends to focus on his legal speaking, and ... -
Decay scheme of erbium-168 : a coincidence study of the electron capture decay of thulium-168
(Northern Illinois University, 1971)The electron capture decay of ¹⁶⁸Tm to ¹⁶⁸Er is examined by using a 20 cm³ Ge(Li) detector with a full width at half maximum resolution of 2.7 to 3.6 keV. Energy levels are determined by the gamma-ray transitions between ... -
Decentralization and public service provision in Indonesia : influence of the middle class
(Northern Illinois University, 2017)This study examines the role of the middle class in influencing local government spending and political turnovers in a decentralized Indonesia. It analyzes the changes in pattern of education and infrastructure spending ... -
Decentralization, horizontal institutional exchange, and accountability at the municipal level : institutional behavior in the Bolivian Orient
(Northern Illinois University, 2006)This dissertation tests the hypothesized link between popular participation and governmental performance in schemes of decentralization. It is of key importance here to determine the effect of decentralization on governmental ... -
Decision making and program practices in adult educational broadcasting : a comparison study in Sweden and Chicago
(Northern Illinois University, 1974)In recent years the concept of continuing adult education is gaining favor in many countries as a replacement for terminal forms of youth education. This concept is based on the belief that education is a continuing process ... -
Decorative domestics : the interior paintings of Edouard Vuillard
(Northern Illinois University, 1996)Through an examination of the domestic interior intimist paintings of Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), a comparison has been initiated, in terms of style and subject matter, between his genre scenes and different modes of ...
