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Center for Teaching Excellence Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Affinity Through Instant Messaging
(Northwest Communication Association, 2012)The present manuscript explores affinity seeking, testing, and signaling in initial interactions of opposite-sex strangers using instant messaging. Sixty dyads (N = 120) interacted for 20 minutes and participants identified ... -
Couples Who Laugh Together A Coorientation Approach to Positive Humor Use in Relationships
(2005-11)This investigation of public and private positive humor use in long-term relationships suggests that the value of humor depends upon where it is used and who uses it. For men, relational satisfaction is positively associated ... -
‘We were just a group of guys who liked to have a good time together’: Former fraternity members looking back on fraternity life
(2006-11)The impact on fraternity membership on young men’s friendships is explored through in-depth interviews of 23 former fraternity members. Men’s friendships are explored in relation to the dyadic and structural components of ... -
Beauty and the Flirt: Male Physical Attractiveness and Approaches to Relationship Initiation
(2008-05)This multi-study investigation explored how women evaluate men’s approach strategies. In Study 1, 330 participants generated 546 verbal strategies used in courtship initiation. Strategies were rated on three dimensions ... -
C3 Photosynthesis in the Gametophyte of the Epiphytic CAM Fern Pyrrosia Longifolia (Polypodiaceae)
(Botanical Society of America, 1995)Sporophytes of some epiphytic species in the fern genus Pyrrosia exhibit Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), generally considered to be a derived physiological response to xeric habitats. Because these species alternate ... -
Student Characteristics Associated With Girls' Success in a Single-Sex School
(Springer Verlag, 2011)Given the mixed results of previous studies on the benefits of single-sex schooling, scholars have called for research on differences in the effects of single-sex schooling based on student and school characteristics. We ... -
Charting Future Directions for Reference Service
(2011-10-18)At the University of Kansas Libraries, daily reference interactions have been collected since 2007 via the open source software known as LibStats at the two largest campus libraries: Anschutz and Watson Libraries. Together, ... -
Toward Open Access: it takes a village
(Taylor & Francis, 2011)Academics and librarians have worked in tandem for many years to broaden access to the scholarship they create, scrutinize, collect, and consume. Recent developments have focused on campus faculty advocating for change ... -
Analyzing data in LibStats to reveal trends in academic library usage at the University of Kansas
(2011-03-19)In recent years, academic libraries have been increasingly challenged to offer newer, more sophisticated ways to engage their community of users that keep pace with rapid technological development. Research shows that ... -
Parents’ networks: Egocentric networks and unique and shared sources of social support
(International Network for Social Network Analysis, 2010)Egocentric social network instruments typically require independently sampled respondents to identify up to five social network alters. When collecting egocentric data from dyads (e.g., mothers and fathers), shared and ... -
Instructor Development: A Model for Growth and Success
(2010-10-15)An Instructor Development Programming Task Force was appointed at the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries in the summer of 2010. The group was charged with investigating existing models of professional development programs ... -
A Bold and Fearless Rider: Ed Miller and the Paper Trail
(Santa Fe Trail Association, 2002-11)This article recounts and summarizes the various published reports that discuss the death of 18-year old Ed Miller on the Santa Fe Trail in present-day McPherson County, Kansas, in July, 1864. The author attempts to confirm ... -
The Life of Charles O. Fuller in Central Kansas, 1855-1879.
(Santa Fe Trail Association, 2004-02)The article presents a biography of Charles Oscar Fuller, 1928-1979, who established a ranch on Running Turkey Creek along the Santa Fe Trail n what is now McPherson County, Kansas. Fuller went on to other pursuits later ... -
When personal identities confirm versus conflict with group identities: Evidence from an intergroup paradigm
(Wiley, 2010)This study provides an experimental investigation of the consequences of conflict between children's personal identities and experimentally manipulated group identities. Elementary-school-aged children (N = 82, ages 5-11) ... -
Objective Rejection?: The Effects of Agreement and Involvement on Message Quality Evaluation
(Department of Communication at the University of Utah, 2007)To extend argument quality research, this article explores the effects of agreement and issue im- portance on argument quality assessment for eight different topic areas to explore whether there is systematic bias in the ... -
Adolescent smoking networks: The effects of influence and selection on future smoking
(Elsevier, 2007)Peer influence and peer selection have both been linked to the smoking behavior of adolescents. The present investigation uses social network analysis methodology to explore the simultaneous effects of both processes on ... -
Clonality as a taxonomic character of Actinian species
(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, 1997)Sea anemones of some species have been considered to exist both clonally and as solitary individuals. In two temperate taxa, these alternative forms have been demonstrated through molecular techniques actually to belong ... -
Grappling with Changing Realities
(2009-11-03)Imbued with the sense of mission to serve as cultural and intellectual bastions, research libraries have continued to build collections to meet both immediate and anticipated future scholarly needs across a broad range of ... -
Comparing Approval and Librarian-selected Monographs: An Analysis of Use
(2009-03-09)This chapter will demonstrate that monographic material acquired at the University of Kansas (KU) through the approval plan and firm orders are, in some cases, being used for research more extensively than originally ...