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Chasing Clouds

Agbas, Dora (University of Kansas, 2022-05-31)

I investigate my environment by walking, observing, collecting, sorting, organizing, and experimenting with materials which present themselves in the place I inhabit. Many times overlooked or discarded materials peak my ...
Electrokinetic Separation of Nucleic Acids in Thermoplastic Nanochannels

Amarasekara, Charuni Anuradha (University of Kansas, 2020-05-31)

Nucleic acid analysis and separation have recently become an interesting area of research due to their applicability in precision medicine. In precision medicine disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention are tailored to ...
An Investigation of the Effects of Using Plays for Echo Reading on Oral Reading Behavior and Acquisition of Sight Vocabulary for a Group of Disabled Second Grade Readers

Sheridan, Audrey M. (University of Kansas, 1974-08-31)

The purpose of the study was to investigate what effect a reading program using a multi-sensory approach would have on the oral reading behavior of a group of eight second grade children who were reading at least six months ...
DEFINING THE CHARACTERISTICS AND INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT OF NURSE WORKAROUNDS DURING MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION

Savage, Marian (University of Kansas, 2021-05-31)

AbstractBackground. Nurses may use workarounds when they circumvent or eliminate a task during the medication administration process. Environmental, technological, and systemic barriers to following medication administration ...
Cultural and metabolic studies of the colon-aerogenes group of bacteria

Treece, Elbert Lee (University of Kansas, 1926-05-31)
The effects of the middle school advisory program on the self concept of sixth grade students

Rogers, Lynn M. Sordelet (University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)
Results of feeding thyroid glands of various types of vertebrates to tadpoles

Gunthorp, Horace (University of Kansas, 1923-05-31)
Landscape evolution on San Miguel Island, California

Johnson, Donald Lee (University of Kansas, 1972-12-31)

It is the purpose of this thesis to analyze the distinctive landscape of San Miguel Island and to illuminate the intricacies of its evolution. To this end answers to the six following questions will be sought: To what ...
A Study of Spiral Movement in the Ciliate Infusoria

Bullington, W.E. (University of Kansas, 1925-05-31)
The Absolute Value of An Electrode Potential

Barker, John W. (University of Kansas, 1925-05-31)
Comparison of Two Non-IRT Based Multi-Groups DIF Detection Methods’ Performances on their Type I Error, Power and Precision Rates

Esen, Ayse (University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)

Detecting Differential Item Functioning (DIF) is an early step and very critical to investigate any possible bias between groups (e.g., males vs. females). Many early DIF studies only focused on two-group comparison. ...
The return home : experiences of deterritorialization in post-Pinochet Chilean literature

Blair, Laura Senio (University of Kansas, 2002-05-31)

In response to the experiences of exile and the return, the subsequent preoccupation with a sense of belonging, the blurring of the traditional understanding of borders triggered by a permanent sense of displacement, and ...
From disappearing narrators to signs of the author: images of the subject in the short stories of Silvina Ocampo

Díaz de León, Aída (University of Kansas, 2002-12-31)

This study proposes an in-depth study of subjectivity in Silvina Ocampo's short stories. In the first chapter of this study, I investigate the mechanisms by which self-generation paradoxically elicits the disappearance of ...
Voice Of America : an inside look at its Africa Division

Wada, Hadiza I. M. (University of Kansas, 1990-12-31)

Communication is a very intricate phenomenon, especially when there is any amount of "noise" in the channel of communication. The best communication is probably between people who have been in the same place throughout ...
An analysis of the Lawrence High School general English curriculum

Harvey, Bernice Luella (University of Kansas, 1955-05-31)

The purposes of this thesis are, therefore, three-fold: (1) to unite in a formal presentation a. the available material which will give the English faculty and administrators of Lawrence High School a factual description ...
An experimental production of Irwin Shaw’s Bury the Dead

Harvey, Harold A. (University of Kansas, 1950-08-31)

It is the purpose of this thesis to present in simple stage terms a summary of the director's interpretation and its application in an experimental production of Bury the Dead
An investigation of the theory of the dispersion formula for nuclear reactions

Reardon, William A. (University of Kansas, 1949-08-31)

The purpose of this investigation is to gain insight into the theory of nuclear structure and the theory of resonances in scattering processes.
Methodological considerations of microdialysis sampling for determination of cerebral basal glucose concentration in extracellular space of freely moving rat

Tembe, Vrushali (University of Kansas, 1998-05-31)

In the recent past there has been a controversy about the basal glucose levels in the brain of freely moving rats. Kinetic rate constants and transport parameters across the blood brain barrier and in the brain tissue ...
The Catholic Bohemian German dialect of Ellis, Kansas

Lunte, Gabriele M. (University of Kansas, 1998-05-31)

Beginning in the 1880s, many German speaking immigrants left the Austrian settlements in Bukovina for the United States. The Bukovina immigrants to the Ellis area in west central Kansas formed two distinct groups in Ellis. ...
The printing of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, 1594

Haggard, Frank E. (University of Kansas, 1966-05-31)

The University of Kansas prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, ancestry, disability, status as a veteran, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, gender identity, gender expression and genetic information in the University’s programs and activities. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies: Director of the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access, IOA@ku.edu, 1246 W. Campus Road, Room 153A, Lawrence, KS, 66045, (785)864-6414, 711 TTY.