Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses published by Northern Illinois University through The Graduate School.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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How new business owners learn about employment law(s), Leigh M. Jones

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Asymmetric information, migration, and self-employment, Saibal Kar

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Damage assessment at crack tips in graphite/epoxy composites using ANSYS, Sudhakar Katukam

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Gaining insight and exploring the experiences, perceptions, and contextual aspects that influence students with behavior disorders in the general physical education setting, Kara Anne Knickerbocker

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Community empowerment and social action : an afrocentric perspective of adult learning in community settings, Joy L. Knight

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Diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss in children : as experienced by parents, Jessica A. Knudtson

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Social development at home and school, Donald E. Koelpin

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National Initiatives in alternative teacher certification : advantages and disadvantages of alternative instructional licensure, Julie M. Koller-Morris

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Route optimization for mobile internet protocol, Vijay Kolli

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The association between cigarette smoking and body image satisfaction in high school females, Adrienne N. Kraemer

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Evaluating the city manager's performance : a study of the processes, satisfaction levels, and organizational contexts associated with executive appraisal in local government management, Gregory T. Kuhn

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Clarifying the meaning of computational self-awareness in multisource feedback : investigating measurement equivalence through the application of differential item functioning analyses, John T. Kulas

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Multicultural education as a tool for problematizing racism : theorizing an effective framework, Mary Landeros

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Constructing teaching consciousness : the perceptions of student teachers and their school-based supervisors, John D. Lange

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A study of nominees for the Illinois Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Teaching : perceptions of characteristics of exemplary elementary science teachers and their development, Nancy O. Leifheit

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Students' achievement gap in Illinois : socioeconomic status or school district, Larry J. Lindenmier

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Impact of a brief curriculum on interpreter use for young deaf adults, Lauren B. Litowsky

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Development of a model of applicant reactions to cognitive ability tests : shedding light on racial subgroup test score differences, Jennifer M. Lonergan

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The examination of human performance technology efforts within antagonistic environments, Marnell W. Love

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The rhetoric of evasion in Illinois's underground railroad, James W. Macon

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Exploring the fringes of the world system : ceramics from the cathedral of Comayagua, Honduras, Eva L. Martinez

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Out of dreams deferred : culturally grounded community and adult education : Laurence C. Jones and Piney Woods School, Lee Martin

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A policy analysis of selected public virtual universities in the United States, Douglas Royce McCoy

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Regulated potassium and calcium transport in pancreatic zymogen granules : a potential role in granule osmotic swelling and membrane fusion, Heath Allen McDonald

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Kendang penca : the instruments, music, and recent evolution of a traditional Sudanese musical ensemble, Christopher Allen Miller

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Acousto-optic background correction for inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry, Heather M. Miller

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Adult education and community building in Africa : a critical study of popular theater for development, Samuel Kirk Mills

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Eduard C. Lindeman : beyond The meaning of adult education, toward a view of professionalization in adult education and social work, Sandra Janine Mills

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The ecology of a reptile assemblage in a semiarid community in north-central Chile, Alexandra Minn

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The influence of educational administrators' leadership behaviors on student achievement in reading, Robert C. Mocek

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Tests for misspecification in binary regression using the generalized estimating equations approach, Ayrin Calachan Molefe

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ASEAN, Japan, and the United States in the ASEAN Regional Forum : a constructivist approach to the study of an emerging multilateral security regime in the Asia Pacific, Noel M. Morada

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Critical issues impeding criminal justice continuing professional education, Terry M. Mors

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Education's role in statewide telecommunications network policy development : three models, Sandra Lynn Murphy

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The association of proactive parenting strategies with compliance, impulsivity, and social competence in three-year-olds, Susan B. Myket

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AC-DC boost converter stability analysis based on open loop measurement, Raghuram Narasimhan

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The social value of the GED : how students and teachers make meaning, Adell V. Newman

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Got wasps? : a natural survey of parasitoid wasps on a northern Illinois dairy farm, Debra L. Olbrich

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Contrada pitrazzi : cultural continuity in burial practices in interior western Sicily, Rebecca A. Osborn

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A description of vocabulary learning in at-risk college freshmen cooperatively involved in generative study of self-selected words, Janet L. Pariza

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Resilient African-American high school graduates : individual, familial, and community factors that have contributed to their academic success, Pamela J. Parker

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Sense and sensibility of nineteenth-century Irish women poets : rescuing our poetic grandmothers, Katherine A. Parr

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Functional anatomy of the callitrichine tarsus, Michael S. Pasin

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Intimacy, differentiation, and marital satisfaction, Shawn J. Patrick

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Ray Hicks and the Jack Tales of Appalachia : their origins and significance, Christine L. Pavesic

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Measuring and relating selected variables in DLA simulated watershed networks, Craig T. Perciante

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A comparison of time management behaviors between the physical education setting and the coaching setting of five middle school teachers, Gaile Pigula

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Status and health at the Dallas site (7, 8HA1) : a biocultural study of a late Mississippian population, Amanda L. Pippitt

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The pedagogical desires of an all-girl math class, Jody S. Piro

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Toward group problem-solving guidelines for 21st-century teams : a case study at a global consulting corporation, Kathryn L. Ranieri

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Consequences of the Riemann Hypothesis, Matthew Read

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Manual digits III and IV in thirteen anthropoid genera and implications for the development of hominid bipedalism, Kimberly S. Reed-Deemer

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Effects of supplemental, small-group instruction on at-risk kindergartners' metalinguistic awareness, Teresa L. Reed-Schuster

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Survivor as independent observer : attributions of responsibility for a sexual assault, Laura A. Rhoton

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Cultural identity work among non-traditional Pennsylvania Germans, J. Marc Rittle

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Functional approach and job attitudes : a moderator of job satisfaction relationships, Joanne E. Roberts

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Self-injury in adolescents : an investigation of a non-clinical high school population, Paul J. Rodriguez

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Profiles in success : the leadership role of the principal as initiator, facilitator, and sustainer of change in blue ribbon elementary schools in Illinois, Kenneth E. Rose

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Factors that make outstanding professors successful : a connection to inspiration, Jeanette Rossetti

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A GIS analysis of the paleoclimate of the upper Midwest, Karen Lee Russ

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An adult education comparative study of two experiential education fields : adventure education and popular education, Richard C. Rutschman

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Teaching ethics in business in the community college : a comparative study, Jarvis T. Sanford

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Late Cretaceous theropod teeth from Utah, Christopher Schierup

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El pensamiento anarquista de Pío Baroja : los personajes de Aurora Roja, Marcela Hernández Schmidt

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Pioneer girls : a history of the first thirty years, 1939-1969, Marilyn Justus Schneider

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A new George Eliot notebook : an edition with an introduction and notes, Joann Lea Scholtes

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Quality indicators of optimal inclusive service delivery for students with learning disabilities : attitudes and barriers identified by secondary educators, Kristen Kay School

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Public self-consciousness, impression motivation, and social physique anxiety : a comparison of correlations, Lisa A. Schuler

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The principal's role in developing a culturally sensitive public school environment that promotes the academic achievement of African-American students, Anthony Scott

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A critical case study of police training : implications for professionalism and continuing professional education in law enforcement, Edward W. Shannon

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Selection of optimal batch size to reduce cycle time by setup reduction, Kwangjin Shin

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Relations between parental management of peers and adolescent friendship quality and loneliness, Shelley A. Silvers

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Reconceptualizing the development and maintenance of support services for college students who are deaf or hard of hearing, Steven R. Sligar

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Development of an enthalpy-based finite element model for laser-irradiated metal heating and melting process, Dharani Sowdari

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The industrialization of swine production and local knowledge of the environment : comparison of two Illinois communities, Chaya Rhiannon Spears

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Demography and life history of an urban population of plains garter snakes, Thamnophis Radix, Kristin M. Stanford

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Expanding the small space : Rastafarians as knowledge producers, Cathy S. Stanley

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Attitudes of nurse oncologists toward the usefulness of nutritional supplements for their patients, Darlene Stanton

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The effect of speaking rate on vocal fatigue, Julie A. Staudenmaier

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Community organization in interior western Sicily : defining community through surface survey collections, Leah Stevens-Block

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Principals' perceptions of competence needed for administration of special education : implications for principal preparation programs, Rita A. Stevenson

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The academic success of unmarried African-American female high school students who are parenting, Tracey A. Stuckey

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The influence of psychosocial factors on adolescents' attitudes toward eating, Julie M. Stumpf

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How sexist advertisements hurt victims of rape : information search strategies, attributions, and victim responsibility in an acquaintance rape trial, Donna L. Sweeney

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Human rights committees in organizations serving people with developmental disabilities : are empowerment ratings a function of organizational structure, Amy E. Tabor

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Comparison of organic carbon measurement methods on cultivated and never cultivated soils of northern Illinois, Brandi Jo Talaga

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From wife to woman : a Lithuanian journey, Caryn E. Talty

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An analysis of distance education at the University of Botswana from a systems perspective, Ontiretse Seboneng Tau

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Aesthetics of transformation : the African-American experience of the Chicago community mural movement, 1967-1970, John Edmond Towns

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A study of the connection between Illinois's undergraduate physical education teacher programs and the Illinois learning standards for physical development and health, Paul Frederick Trilling

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The effects of dorsal versus ventral lesions of the hippocampus on cued and contextual fear, Mehul A. Trivedi

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Defining the geographic realities of land use change due to population growth, Raymond G. Ulreich

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Characterization of ZnSe grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition over p-Ge, Ramanujam Vaitheeswaran

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Relationship between level of anger, gender, and visual emotion recognition, Angelina L. Valente

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Level 1 trigger requirement for search of Higgs in ZH [arrow] bb̄ + vv̄ channel in run II at dØ, Vandana Verma

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Finite element-based inverse heat conduction model for the estimation of absorbed surface heat flux, Huiyan Wang

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A case study uncovering the environmental conditions and processes that led to the development of an early childhood system in an Illinois public school district, Jody L. Ware

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Relativity and quantum paradigms in the poetry of William Carlos and Robert Frost, Mark V. Waters

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Womanhouse and The Farm : a comparative analysis of two mainstreams of thought within the feminist art movement of the 1970s, Heather J. Weber

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The relationship between self-esteem and male condom use in the sexual relationships of college-age women, Regina M. Whitmore