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

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Theses/Dissertations from 1992

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Design and implementation of a hands-free telephone for persons with disabilities, Dan Greenwood

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Adaptive linearization for cooperative position control of robotic manipulators, Anteneh Haile

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Periosteal reactions as an indication of health status precontact and contact native populations from northern Spanish Florida, Dawn E. Harn

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Characterization of Mycolaminaran-induced resistance against plant viruses, Christina M. Heinkel

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The Academy Festival Theatre Company : from debut to demise, Paul Joseph Hettich

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Denial of alcohol abuse and belief in a disease versus a social learning model of etiology and treatment, Paul S. Hill

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An evaluation of RAPD markers in a cladistic analysis of pea, Brian K. Hoey

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The effects of aging on nasal resonance, Sharon A. Hollister

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Floristic diversity and the landscape mosiac : an analysis of the vegetation of the island of Newfoundland, André J. Hudson

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A model-dependent B cross section measurement via multiple semi-leptonic decay cascades in 800 GeV proton-nucleon collisions, Anthony C. Jackson

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A comparative study of cumulative Sum charts and Bayesian process control, Zahari Jasmani

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Effectiveness of contrastive stress drill and reauditorization with an adult with apraxia of speech, Donna M. Joerger

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Mixed finite element analysis of composite laminated plates in bending, Deepak Joshi

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Hearing loss among farmers : the effects of farm equipment and firearm noise, Dianna Lynn Kale

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The Laguerre transform in practice, Colin N. Keenan

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Substituent group and conjugation length influences on optical nonlinearity, Tracy A. Kelleher

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Evidence for a termination ritual in the West Court of Copan : archaeology at a classic Maya center in Honduras, David W. Kluth

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Studies of the heat transfer oil flow and improvements for the solar oven system, Xiu Kong

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Morphological characterization of the radiation sensitive cell line, xrs-5, Carol C. Korte

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A study of tennis rackets and their interactions with a tennis ball, Rodney R. Korte

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Young children's understanding of food and nonfood objects : appearance-reality distinctions, Christina M. Krause

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An expert machining system for rotational parts, Anil Kumar

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Smoking status, dietary restraint and weight gain in former participants of stop-smoking programs, Joan D. Lanciotti

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Development of a sensor to record structural displacements, Scott R. Lang

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PID and adaptive controller design for nonlinear systems, Shi Lan

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The impact of causal attributions on performance, emotions, motivation, and expectancies following unsuccessful motor-skill trials, Kerri M. Lehman

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Development and psychometric evaluation of the sex fantasy questionnaire, Elizabeth J. Letourneau

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The energy levels of Mn d-electrons in ZnS : optical properties Zns: Mn, Grace Cheang-Tzee Lim

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The ionic strength dependence of the reduction of cytochrome c peroxidase compound I by horse heart ferrocytochrome c, Jain-Cheng Lin

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Synthesis and characterization of model ladder oligomers with potential enhanced nonlinear optical response, Qishen Lin

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Scissor lift optimum design with finite element analysis, Na Liu

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The educational value of producing Broadway musicals at the secondary-school level, Tim McCrory

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Sizing an automated storage and retrieval system, Elizabeth Miles

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The development and application of a theory for analyzing visual symbols, Shane A. Miller

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Quality circles : an investigation of the Malcolm Baldridge quality award winners and the implications for education, Mary Ann Mings-Tennant

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An evaluation study of adult ESL composition textbooks: : principles and practice, Flor de Maria Molina Sedo

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Joan of Arc in French literature and culture, Mary-Lynette Moore

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A psychometric analysis and practical application of the rape myth acceptance scale, Mark D. Morin

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Implementing the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards through mathematical modeling, Cynthia Jane Snyder Musser

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Knowledge of child development and perceptions of the parental role in younger versus older first-time expectant parents, Madhabika Nayak

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Whole language : inception to implementation, Cecelia M. Nero

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Targeting an HIV-1 sequence in vivo by the hairpin ribozyme, Steven M. Nesbitt

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The impact of a writing process software package on the written language skills of students with learning disabilities, Susan M. Nies

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Culture and the motor performance of preschool children, Lilia LD. Nordwind

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Electron simulated desorption of oxygen and ethylene adsorbed on a Ni[sub0.9]Cu[sub0.1] (111) surface, Jon W. Paggett

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The development and analysis of an adaptive echo cancellation microphone system, Zhibing Pan

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Characterization of a putative human 5-lipoxygenase activating protein sequence encoded in Arabidopsis thaliana, Vandana A. Patwardhan

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The accuracy of mapping derived from the General Land Office surveys: : presettlement wetlands and deepwater habitats within Lake County, Illinois, Lisa M. Paulson

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Detecting land use change on the urban-rural fringe : integrating SPOT satellite data and geographic information systems techniques, Dennis T. Pedersen

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The photon-stimulated desorption studies of Na and K overlayers on silicon surfaces, Jie Peng

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The influence of the apocryphal gospels on selected scenes from the life cycle of the Virgin Mary as represented in the Monastery church of Christ the Saviour at Chora in Constantinople : Evangelical and iconographical implications, Zina Beth Phillips Steen

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A study of the JPEG still image compression standard and its implementation on multi-DSP96002 processor based architectures, Srinath V. Ramaswamy

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Effects of a balance training program on the performance of fundamental motor patterns of preschool students in special education, Judith Redman

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The relationship between the Han TLV mirror design and the rise and fall of the Han Dynasty, Laureen S. Reu

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Service employee-customer dynamics : the impact of expected emotions, expressed emotions and casual attributions on financial outcomes, Marie A. Roman

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Synthesis of bis-ferrocenyl polyenes : models for molecular wires, Michelle L. Sachtleben

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Separation of text from mixed text/graphic and description of graphics, Jianjun Sa

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A new model reference adaptive control approach, Saleh A. Saleh

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The evolution of medial /k/ before /a/ to /č/ and /ğ/ in Francien, Anne Elizabeth Schneider

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Sex ratio manipulation by the parasitoid wasp Muscidifurax raptor in response to host size and female wasp density, Sandra E. Seidl

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Analysis and comparison of the shang tautie and the Olmec "were-jaguar" : research into the proposed diffusion of the Chinese motif into Olmec art, Lydia V. Shalanko

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An analysis of secondary parameters and closure in the Adagio of Mahler's Tenth symphony, Laura Sheldon-Carr

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Physiological responses to accommodating resistance and dynamic constant resistance exercise, Rod T. Singletary

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Walking their own path : a life course analysis of baby boom women's marital decisions, Karen M. Slaughter

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Modern art comes to the Photo-Secession : a turning point, Mary Agnes Sommer

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The maintenance of intraoral pressure in hearing-impaired and normal-hearing speakers, Christine C. Studt

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Applicants' attitudes and intent to apply as a function of procedural justice : a test of the employee responses model, David A. Sujak

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Role of subunit removal in modulating the acid-dependent 430-414 nm conversion in cytochrome c oxidase, Nifta A. Sumera

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Screening for alcohol abuse among women in childbearing years : preventing fetal alcohol syndrome, Jane Thacker

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Regulation of ribulose 1, 5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase by 2-carboxyarabinitdol 1-phosphate, Jaime A. Turner

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Eigenvalue asymptotics for normalized Sturm-Liouville problems, David Vander Meulen

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Environmental testing of improved lipovitellenin salt mannitol agar for the isolation of Staphylococcus aureus from water, Kathlyn L. Van Hoeck

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An investigation of nonaversive techniques to increase performance levels of persons operating within a negative reinforcement paradigm, Toni Van Laarhoven-Keeney

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Restraint, hunger, and emotional effects on dietary disinhibition, Priya Venkatesan

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Frequency domain digital hearing aid, Steven Voepel

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A numerical study of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids flow in rectangular ducts, Chia Wang

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Studies of a moderate power microwave induced plasma with binary supercritical fluid chromatography mobile phases, Yubang Wang

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The young Elizabeth Blackwell : why she became the first woman to graduate from an American medical school, Janeane G. Weprin

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A case study of the process of consolidation in Illinois school districts #20, #35, and #534, 1986 and 1988, Diana Williamson

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Discrete-time model reference adaptive controller design for robotic manipulators, Shiaw-Pyng Yang

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Nutrition knowledge and dietary intakes of university athletes in Taiwan, Tsung-Hsin Yang

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Development of parallel path difference algorithm for active noise cancellation, Yong Yan

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A challenge for Chinese firms : obtaining internationalized human resources, Xinghong Zhou

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Design and implementation of a low pressure chemical vapor deposition system for polysilicon and silicon nitride, Jianwen Zhu

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Development and analysis of delayed-X LMS algorithm for active periodic noise control, Shuihong Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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A Survey of the current status of assessment and remediation of phonological disorders, Karen M. Alexander

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The architecture and symbolic motifs of three Indonesian curved ridgepole housetypes and their relevance to the rituals and beliefs of the groups that built them, Aida Alias

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Adaptive techniques for active cancellation of periodic sounds, Afonso Barbosa

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The relationship between salary increase and the performance of major league baseball players in the 1980s, Melissa A. Beck

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The contribution of selected physiological variables to 10 kilometer run time in trained, heterogeneous adult male runners, Jeffrey B. Bird

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Women's accounts of decision making : what they say and what they do, Sharon L. Boehlefeld

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Wingate test : the effect of load on the power outputs of college-age female athletes and nonathletes, Andrea L. Bradley

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The effect of penta- and hexa-coordination on the reaction between cytochrome c peroxidase and hydrogen peroxide, Cheryl Ann Britton

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Politics and settlement : a survey in the Copan Valley, Honduras, Lisa Marie Cascio

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A dielectric study of YBa₂Cu₃Ox (x=6.07,6.22,6.28,6.34,6.41) superconducting oxides, Jier Chen

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Identification of submil-defects on crystal blanks with digital image processing technique, Pei Chen

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The quest to the minimum of overlapped local minima in the parameter spaces of the steepest descent MRAC robotic manipulator, Tan-Cheng Chou

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Normality verfication and scale factor identification for automated visual inspection, Siang C. Chuang

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The developmental transition men experience during expectant fatherhood and the early post-partum period, Geri A. Condon

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A structural refinement of a (1,6) phase, intergrowth tungsten bronze : KxWO₃, Gary T. Etheridge