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Dissertations and Theses: Recent submissions
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The Occurrence and Persistence of Wet and Dry Periods In Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, 1931-1975
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)The occurrence and persistence of wet and dry periods is examined in Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma from January, 1931 to December, 1975. Monthly Palmer Index values are used to measure wet and dry conditions for the ... -
Effects of Multiple Exemplar Training On Generalization of Prevocational Skills
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)This study was designed to increase generalization of severely multiply handicapped students. The intent was to determine the effect of generalization on trained and untrained vocational items. Two severely multiply ... -
Proximal Causes of Dispersal in Yellow-Bellied Marmots.
(University of Kansas, 1984-10-01)The relative importance of adult-yearling interaction, and individual behavioral phenotypes, on dispersal of yearling yellow-bellied marmots was investigated. Two marmot colonies near Gothic, Colorado were studied; one was ... -
An Investigation of Adult Education Needs and Interests in Topeka
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The Development of Criteria for Music in General Education At the University Level
(University of Kansas, 1952-05-31)The expression "general education" has come into use during the last score of years and largely supersedes the expression "liberal education." The latter, meaning literally an education to "set one free," can be interpreted ... -
The Effects of Life Cycle Therapeutic Dosage Administration of Drugs to Albino Rats
(University of Kansas Department Physiology and Pharmacology, 1940-05-31)In the investigations to be presented herein, dosages comparable to human usage have been administered orally to normal animals which have been kept, as far as possible in a constant normal environment with respect to food, ... -
A Multi-Materials Approach to Teaching The Civil War to Eighth Grade American History Students
(University of Kansas, 1979-05-31)This paper reports the findings of a study designed to offer an effective alternative to a traditional textbook approach to teaching the Civil War to eighth grade students. The research design was a two group pretest-posttest ... -
Effects of Total Internal Water Content on Freeze-Thaw Durability and Scaling Resistance of Internally-Cured Concrete
(University of Kansas, 2023-05-31)The effects of total internal (TI) water, provided by normalweight coarse and fine aggregates and pre-wetted fine lightweight aggregate (LWA), in the range of 6.8 to 17.3%, corresponding to internal curing (IC) water in ... -
A new species of abyssal sea anemone and its symbiotic relationship with a scaphopod
(University of Kansas, 1996-08-31)In this thesis I report the results of the first study of a symbiosis between an abyssal sea anemone and a scaphopod. I describe the sea anemone as Benthactis nomadas n. g., n. sp. The sea anemones and scaphopods were ... -
The Treatment of Childhood In Autobiographies Of Twentieth Century American Women
(University of Kansas, 1984-07-20)In order to investigate the perspectives autobiography--a formally shaped first person account of all or part of an individual's own life--brings to the study of female American childhood, over one hundred autobiographies ... -
Adelaide Lukanina's "A Year in America": A Critical View of Nineteenth Century America
(University of Kansas, 1995-05-15)The following text is a translation of Adelaide Lukanina's "A Year in America." First published in 1881-82 as a series of articles in the Russian journal Vestnik Evropy, one of Russia's most progressive journals in the ... -
The Relation of After-image Duration to Certain Aspects of Personality
(University of Kansas, 1952-05-31)In this study, consequently, to explore the relationship of personality characteristics to after-image duration, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (19) was used. In addition, the Otis Self Administering ... -
Increasing Direct Care Staff Compliance to Program Implementation by Providing Supervisors with Prescriptive Checklists
(University of Kansas, 1982-05-31)Effective treatment programs for multi-handicapped mentally retarded persons may require consistent compliance to program implementation. Traditional methods used to increase direct care staff compliance to treatment ... -
The Use of Smoking and Breaktaking to Reduce Job-related Stress Among Registered Nurses
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)Hospital nursing can produce stress. How nurses cope with that stress can affect patient care and personal health. This study was conducted to describe the coping methods, particularly breaktaking and smoking, used to ... -
Parental Instruction Regarding Appropriate Asthma Management
(University of Kansas, 1984-07-05)The purpose of this study was to determine if those children whose parents received instruction regarding appropriate asthma management actually experienced improvement in terms of fewer asthmatic attacks, fewer emergency ... -
Effects of Vestibular Stimulation on Sitting and Vocal Behaviors Among Preschoolers With Severe and Multiple Handicaps
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)A multiple baseline design across subjects was used to assess The effect of vestibular stimulation on the acquisition of erect and symmetrical sitting and vocal behaviors of preschoolers with severe and multiple handicaps. ... -
Cognitive Attitudes of Leveling and Sharpening in Time-Error Assimilation Tendencies
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The Comparison of Sexual Attitudes and Knowledge of Female College Students, Their Mothers, and Their Same-Sexed Best Friend
(University of Kansas, 1983-12-15)This descriptive comparative study was designed to examine the similarities and differences in sexual attitudes and knowledge among female college students, their mothers, and their same-sexed best friend. A convenience ... -
A Study of Adapted Physical Education Programs In Public Schools in the State of Kansas
(University of Kansas, 1979-05-31)The very nature of American society today inevitably seeks to provide adequately for the education of all children. The acceptance of physical education as an integral part of general education is an established fact. ... -
The Effects of the Frequency of Vibration Application on the Acquisition of Head Erect Behavior in Prone
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)This study utilized an alternating treatment design to investigate the effects of the frequency of vibration application on the acquisition of head erect behavior in the prone position in 4 preschool children with multiple ...