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

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Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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Regional osteoarthritis patterns : an examination of late woodland trends in West-Central Illinois, Nicole J. Hitzemann

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Time domain simulations of metal-cutting systems with experimental verification, Brian Hoefler

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The effects of fetal ethanol exposure on the role of IGF-1 in growth hormone feedback in the postnatal rat, Tamara Holtzman

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Jazz in the age of replication : music and the education of the arts, Daniel B. Hudson

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Jane Doe (and other stories), William J. Jablonsky

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Edgar Degas and the monotype print : a private engagement, Caroline Aimée. Jensen

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Understanding selected behaviors of a boy with pervasive developmental disorder while participating in movement programs : a case study, Kevin K. Juhas

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A comparative study of grassland passerines in Whiteside County, Illinois : conservation reserve land vs. conventional no-till cropland, Kevin Milton Jury

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Supraorbital reduction from archaic to modern Homo sapiens in the Near East, Alisa C. Kaylor

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Isamu Noguchi : the early years, or, how to survive as an artist in parlous times : the sculptor struggles with social, creative, patronage and art critical forces during the Great Depression, Sumiko Keay

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The use of physiological and psychophysiological techniques to set exercise intensity in children, Robin D. Koning

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Health consequences of prolonged bottle feeding among low-income preschoolers in the WIC program, Mary P. Krisco

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The use of soil acidification treatments in the correction of interveinal chlorosis in pin oaks, Darian E. Landolt

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Student's and mothers' perceptions of suicide risk and helpfulness of suicide intervention strategies, Alison Lang

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Reforming mathematics education : a defense of Mortimer Adler's Paideia proposal, James E. Little

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Applications of wavelets in digital communications and signal processing, Tianfang Liu

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The Levitron as an energy storage device, John A. Lockwood

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The association between health care professionals' nutrition knowledge and the nutrient intakes of their children, Karri L. Looby

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A comparative analysis of selected Western-European/American and Ukrainian women-centered thinkers : implications for women's education, Antonina Lukenchuk

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The Tala system, percussion instruments and an interview with a mrdangam vidwan of South India, Stephen M. Lurie

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Hydroclimatic influences on sediment delivery : a study of rates of reservoir sedimentation in a Pacific Northwest watershed, Jeffrey S. Luteyn

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Ab initio studies of pericyclic reactions involving phosphorus substituted alkenes and alkynes, Peter Magdalinos

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Improvement in visualization and isolation of staphylococci from environmental and clinical samples, Susan Malekpour

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Tertiary carbonate biostratigraphy of northwestern Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, Jana McClain

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Effect of hand dominance on ear of first report during dichotic listening in children, Yvonne Evans McHugh

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Development of a multimedia computerized test for an anatomy and physiology lab : a pilot study, Lisa M. Mehlig

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Triphenylamine containing LED polymers with variable conjugation lengths for control of color emission, Eva I. Montgomery

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Women's culture and the theme of isolation in Jewett's The Country of the pointed firs, Chopin's The Awakening, and Wharton's Ethan Frome, Karen S. Moreton

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Case study of an ecotourism development project in Celestún, Mexico : houshold and community level investigation, Eileen M. Mueller

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The effect of exercise on body fat and nutrient intake in men with quadriplegia, Hollis Myers

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A finite element analysis of high temperature effect on moisture transport in porous materials, Haiying Niu

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The supraorbital region of early Homo : implications for multiple taxa, Mark Oetjens

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Interaction of infant feeding practices with infant sleep habits : maternal attitudes, beliefs, and influences, Michelle A. Pelkey

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Surface free energies of binary mixtures composed of hydronated and deuterized alkanes, Ted B. Peterson

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Family based treatment as experienced by families and clinicians, Amy M. Pierce

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Characterization of the reaction between cytochrome c peroxidase and potassium fluoride, Sharon L. Pokropinski

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A methodology for dynamic planning of road service during a snow fall, Damodaran Purushothaman

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Variation in body size and relative head dimensions in water snakes : sexual dimorphism, geographical variation, phenotypic plasticity, and performance, Alejandro Queral-Regil

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A multimedia approach to document image processing, Addepalli Padmanabha Rao

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Work-family conflict : a unidimensional construct?, Anne E. Reither

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Vibrational modes of two violins, Mark A. Roberts

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The influence of physical attractiveness on teachers' evaluations of student problem behavior, Jennifer E. Rodemaker

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Understanding prosecutorial decision making involved in the processing of domestic violence cases under a mandatory arrest policy, Cassandra A. Rousonelos

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The nutritional knowledge of Northern Illinois University athletes, Amy E. Sabatino

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Die dominierende Frau in dem Romanwerk von Theodor Fontane, Frieda G. Schultz

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Mood following emotional crying : effects of differential processing, David J. Sells

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Text comprehension during reprocessing : an examination of an ordering hypothesis under differing levels of resource consumption, Joseph T. Serio

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Comparison of speech enhancement techniques, Chinmay Shah

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Divalent cation permeability and block of a Ca[^2+]-permeant nonselective cation channel involved in angiotensin II stimulation of aldosterone secretion, Katherine A. Sheehan

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Effectiveness of the Food guide pyramid, the Nutrition facts food label, and work-site wellness programs in the task of making healthy food choices, Nancy T. Sheehan

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Measurement systems analysis : a study of awareness, use, and effectiveness of methods for compliance to QS-9000 amoung North American suppliers and assessors, Gordon A. Skattum

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The attitudes of registered dietitians toward the titles nutritionist, dietitian, and medical nutrition therapist, Paul A. Skinner

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The use of a food instead of supplement program in a long-term care facility, Teresa B. Smith

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Visual manifestations of kingship during the reign of Akhenaten, Susan Gayle Stelford

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Upper Pleistocene hominid postcrania from Mlade? Cave, Moravia : a descriptive and comparative analysis with respect to current models of modern human emergence, Trent C. Stockton

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Voice characteristics of sustained vowels amoung women of different ethnicities, Zoraida M. Suarez

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The Internet and U.S. national security : cyberspace's technological impact on our national perspective, Donald W. Thomas

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A novel thermal conductivity measurement of fluids with changing and anistropic structure due to shearing flow, Haibo Tong

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An ndh9 mitochondrially based phylogeny of the Oomycota, Chi N. Tran

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Behavioral and electrophysiological effects of exposure to an augmented acoustic environment in adolescent/young adult DBA/2J and C57BL/6J mice, Jeremy G. Turner

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The effects of outcome-based critical pathways in home care on post-home care health resource use and patient satisfaction, Lisa K. Van Dyck

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Predicting attachment quality from maternal reports of stress, parenting, and affect, Robert Weis

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Molecular species of local anesthetics in drug transport across membranes, Taolin Wei

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Dramatic productions at the middle school : meeting the needs of the young adolescent actor, Reddy Royse Wilson

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The influence of teacher gender-type on teacher attributions and expectancy for student success, Jennifer M. Witek

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Analysis of laser heating of materials using Green's function method, Hong Xia

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Determinants of the propensity for trip chaining : a case study in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, Qing-Yu Xiao

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Preparation, crystallization behaviors, and properties of magneto-resistive powders and thin films, Shu-jung Yang

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Financial and operational performance measurement and evaluation for improved decision analysis, Christos T. Zachariades

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A rhetorical criticism of the mythopoetic men's movement, Maureen Zeigler

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Adolescent second-language acquisition from cognitive development to identity formation : a pathway to a psychological developmental perspective, Marianne Levin Zemil

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Fatigue life under random vibration, Minghua Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Test-taking attitude and validity assessment : an empirical study, Robert A. Altmann

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Weaving the tapestry of an unfinished woman : Colette's La Naissance du jour, Cynthia J. Anderson

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Courtroom majesty and defendant frames : a theater of powerlessness, David E. Asma

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The effects of exercise and non-exercise prenatal classes on anxiety and body esteem during pregnancy, Victoria B. Austin

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Application of Chebyshev polynomials for the analysis of rotating Timoshenko beam, Jiang Bai

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Removing performance cue effects in evaluative ratings, Boris B. Baltes

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The QUEST model and the immediacy of the search for answers in expository texts, Gregory P. Barker

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Transfer of children from pediatric intensive care to pediatrics : the effect of an educational video on parental anxiety, Elizabeth O. Barnes

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Characterization of the hydrogeologic framework in the upper Chesapeake Bay estuarine system using marine seismic relection profiling, Matthew A. Benson

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The effects of fetal ethanol exposure on GABA-mediated growth hormone secretion in the postnatal rat, Kelly Blaine

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The defense of fair comment : how well does it work?, Jayita Bose

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Identification of hydraulically significant fractures from geophysical well logs using cluster analysis, Daniel J. Broadway

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The relationship between mass media and selection of apparel fashion by adult women of all ages, Joan G. Broz

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A comparison of ratings of perceived exertion during stairmaster and treadmill exercise, Karen M. Budzinski

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Precious stones : the development of the one-act play, 1851-1916, Steven Dedalus Burch

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Attitudes of registered dietitians toward two weight management approaches : very-low-calorie diets and the non-diet approach, Carrie C. Bushman

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Acoustics of the hammered dulcimer, Gregory H. Canfield

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The use of graphing calculators and students' constructions of connections between multiple representations of quadratic equations and functions, Rick A. Cazzato

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Neural-network-based position control of elastic multi-link manipulators, Wei Chang

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Decorative domestics : the interior paintings of Edouard Vuillard, Julie Anne Charmelo

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Nondestructive evaluation of ceramics using impact-acoustic response measurement, Shaojie Chen

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Synthesis, characterization, and property of Ni and Zn substituted YBa[sub 2]Cu[sub 4]O[sub 8] single crystals and Sr^(57)FeO[sub x] polycrystalline materials, Zheng Chen

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The economic design of Shewhart control chart : a sensitivity study of X-bar control chart under Weibull shock model and variable control limits, Kohsin Chieh

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Documentation of the one-person show of paintings: Epiphany, Michael J. Chlebanowski

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Metal surface phosphatization : a comparison of air-dried and thermal-cured self-phosphating coatings, Yi-yuan Chuang

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Visualizing and finding volumes of solids of revolution : research on the conceptual-based difficulties experienced by calculus students, Melinda S. Connon

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Elías Miguel Muñoz : the Cuban-Americans' adaptation to the North American culture, Patricia M. Cornwell

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The effects of a stair climbing program on leg strength, flexibility and functional mobility in men and women aged 76 to 86 years, Todd A. Creviston