KU ScholarWorks is the digital repository of the University of Kansas. It contains scholarly work created by KU faculty, staff and students, as well as material from the University Archives. KU ScholarWorks makes important research and historical items available to a wider audience and helps assure their long-term preservation.

On February 11, 2010 the KU Faculty Senate passed a revised Open Access policy granting the University permission to deposit a copy of their scholarly work in an open access repository-- KU ScholarWorks. For more about the policy, "how to" documents, Q&A, addenda and more, please visit Open Access @ KU.

For information about submitting to KU ScholarWorks please contact Marianne Reed, mreed@ku.edu. For information about KU ScholarWorks in general, please email kuscholarworks@ku.edu.

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Center for East Asian Studies [807]
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Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies [809]
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  • Against Partiality 

    Crisp, Roger (University of Kansas, Department of Philosopy, 2018-04-18)
    This is the text of the Lindley Lecture for 2018 given by Roger Crisp, a Professor of Moral Philosophy at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.

  • Import volumes and biosecurity interventions shape the arrival rate of fungal pathogens 

    Sikes, Benjamin A.; Bufford, Jennifer L.; Hulme, Philip E.; Cooper, Jerry A.; Johnston, Peter R.; Duncan, Richard P. (Public Library of Science, 2018-05-31)
    Global trade and the movement of people accelerate biological invasions by spreading species worldwide. Biosecurity measures seek to allow trade and passenger movements while preventing incursions that could lead to the ...

  • Spontaneous gain of susceptibility suggests a novel mechanism of resistance to hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila virilis 

    Funikov, Sergei Y.; Kulikova, Dina A.; Krasnov, George S.; Rezvykh, Alexander P.; Chuvakova, Lubov N.; Shostak, Natalia G.; Zelentsova, Elena S.; Blumenstiel, Justin P.; Evgen'ev, Michael B. (Public Library of Science, 2018-05-29)
    Syndromes of hybrid dysgenesis (HD) have been critical for our understanding of the transgenerational maintenance of genome stability by piRNA. HD in D. virilis represents a special case of HD since it includes simultaneous ...

  • Costs of cold acclimation on survival and reproductive behavior in Drosophila melanogaster 

    Everman, Elizabeth R.; Delzeit, Jennifer L.; Hunter, F. Kate; Gleason, Jennifer M.; Morgan, Theodore J. (Public Library of Science, 2018-05-23)
    Fitness is determined by the ability of an organism to both survive and reproduce; however, the mechanisms that lead to increased survival may not have the same effect on reproductive success. We used nineteen natural ...

  • An account of the Speech-to-Song Illusion using Node Structure Theory 

    Castro, Nichol; Mendoza, Joshua M.; Tampke, Elizabeth C.; Vitevitch, Michael S. (Public Library of Science, 2018-06-08)
    In the Speech-to-Song Illusion, repetition of a spoken phrase results in it being perceived as if it were sung. Although a number of previous studies have examined which characteristics of the stimulus will produce the ...

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