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Saccharin
(Northern Illinois University, 1952)DISCOVERY: In about 1879 at John Hopkins University a graduate student named Fahlberg working under Ira Remsen noticed that the bread he ate after working in the laboratory one day had a sweet taste (1). Upon investigating ... -
Saccharin in the diabetic diet - a real need?
(Northern Illinois University, 1980)The effect of saccharin on dietary adherence and weight loss were determined in fifty adult-onset diabetic outpatients. Reliance upon and attitudes toward saccharin intake of high carbohydrate foods, consumption of sugar ... -
The Sacco-Vanzetti case
(Northern Illinois University, 1964)At about three o‘clock in the afternoon of April 15, 1920, the Slater and Morrill paymaster, Parmenter, and his guard, Berardelli, were killed by two men, and the pay roll of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company was stolen. ... -
Sacred sisterly secrets : a longitudinal study of twelve regional women artists
(Northern Illinois University, 2000)This thesis explored the lives, thoughts, and experiences, as well as the perceptions and practices, of twelve regional women artists using their own words responses to questionnaires from 1971 and 1996. The participants ... -
Sacred stories : faith experiences of volunteer teachers in a religious education program
(Northern Illinois University, 2005)This study explores the relationship between faith experiences of volunteer teachers and the curriculum of religious education. The conceptual framework that guided this study was a process model of faith formation based ... -
Salary plan satisfaction of management personnel
(Northern Illinois University, 1971)The study is concerned with the salary plan satisfaction of selected supervisors from the first three management levels in selected distribution centers of Company Y. General comments of discontent regarding cost of living ... -
The sale of Alaska by Russia to the United States : reasons for the sale and the purchase
(Northern Illinois University, 1966)On October 18, 1867 at Sitka, Alaska a ceremony took place in which Russia transferred its ownership of this territory to the United States. The price paid for what was to become our forty-ninth state was seven million two ... -
Salvator Rosa and eighteenth century England : a study of the influence of his art and idealogy on sublime landscape painting
(Northern Illinois University, 1981)To anyone who has studied the eighteenth century it is no doubt evident that there existed in England an immense enthusiasm for nature and, specifically, for nature as depicted in landscape painting. Coupled with the cult ... -
Sample lessons for melodic study
(Northern Illinois University, 1982)The study of melody is a topic which is generally not emphasized in theory classes. Ironically, when one listens to music, melody is usually in the foreground of their perception, and most theorists would probably agree ... -
Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter : a comparative study
(Northern Illinois University, 1966)The Theatre of the Absurd is a reflection of contemporary attitudes: the absurdity of man's condition in an uncertain universe, the elusiveness of truth or of any absolute, the alienation of man, the break-down of language. ... -
Samuel Sewall: Puritan-Yankee
(Northern Illinois University, 1960)The diary of Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) has preserved in abundant detail an intimate record of everyday life in old New England. In addition to providing a record of the homely activities of Boston in the waning years of ... -
Sarapis : a study in the syncretism of religion and iconography in Graeco-Roman Egypt
(Northern Illinois University, 1982)Religious syncretism began in the Mediterranean area long before the advent of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic period. In Egypt, the association of the Greek pantheon with corresponding native Egyptian divinities ... -
Satisfaction with medical care and herb use in the elderly
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Saturation effects in active noise control systems
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Save them! : the life of Paul Rader, Christian radio pioneer
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Scalable nanomanufacturing processes for metal enhanced fluorescence
(Northern Illinois University, 2016)Metal enhanced fluorescence is a phenomenon in which fluorescent material experiences increased emission intensity when in close proximity to metallic surfaces which contain plasmonic nanostructures. In this study, several ... -
A scale analysis of the Constitutional Convention of 1787
(Northern Illinois University, 1963)The following study concerns the voting behavior of the twelve states attending the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The objective of this study is to ascertain if their votes would scale using a scalogram analysis. The ... -
Scale of production as a factor in nonmetropolitan industrial facility location
(Northern Illinois University, 1981)Structural differences are quantified among nonmetropolitan communities in Illinois. These quantitative differences are found to be generally consistent with locational criteria identified by previous questionnaire studies ... -
Scaler analysis performed for the study of the nuclear dependence of J/? production of Feynman-? near zero
(Northern Illinois University, 1995)This thesis describes the data analysis on beam and apparatus monitors of an experiment performed as part of Fermilab E789. The experiment studied the muclear dependence of J/? production at values of the longitudinal ...
