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EMPLOYER CONFIDENCE IN SELF-CAPACITY TO SUPPORT EMPLOYEES WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS: PARTNERSHIPS WITH COMMUNITY AGENCIES
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Community employment prospects for people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have improved as a result of decades of federal legislation as well as a growing body of research and employment service delivery options. ... -
Reading Instructional Strategies and Student Achievement: An Analysis of Saudi PIRLS-2016 Data
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)This study explores the relationship between reading instructional strategies and student achievement scores. Specifically, the study investigates the impact of 1) reading aloud to students, 2) asking students to read ... -
Examining Collegiate Athletes’ Psychological Resilience to Their Rehabilitation Beliefs, Effectiveness and Adherence Processes
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)Injury is a commonly experienced competitive stressor collegiate athletes encounter in their athletic careers. many athletes are able to overcome their injury by following a rehabilitation program prescribed to them by ... -
Characterizing Petrophysical Properties of Carbonate Rocks Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Complex Conductivity
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Carbonate rocks are well known for their highly complex petrophysical behaviors due to their intrinsically heterogeneous pore geometry and wide range of pore sizes. As a result, both effective characterization of carbonate ... -
Tracking hydrologic response of tile outlet terraces in agricultural systems to storm events
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Title outlet terrace (TOT) systems have been employed for the last century as a best management practice (BMP) to control surface runoff and associated erosion in agricultural fields. By altering the topography (artificial ... -
Redescription of Wushaichthys exquisitus and phylogenetic revision of Thoracopteridae
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Wushaichthys exquisitus, a small fish from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou Province, China, was named and studied by Xu et al. (2015), and Xu et al. interpreted it as the most primitive species in the family Thoracopteridae ... -
“Weapons of the Weak” in the European Union: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism and its Implications for Domestic Terrorism
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)The European Union (EU) appears nearing the end of a second wave of Islamist-inspired terrorism that peaked in 2015. However, the focus on Islamist terrorism may have diverted attention from a more pressing domestic terrorism ... -
Stable Isotope Geochemistry and Paleohydrology of the Poison Strip Sandstone, Early Cretaceous, Eastern Utah
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)The Poison Strip Sandstone Member is a unique unit in the early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of eastern Utah. A previous chemostratigraphic study of the Poison Strip Sandstone at the Ruby Ranch Road (RRR) section ... -
Mathematical Modeling of Neisseria meningitidis: A Case Study of Nigeria
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Bacterial meningitis remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the African meningitis belt. It is defined as an acute inflammation of the meninges, the protective membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord. ... -
Navigating Ambiguous Negativity: A Case Study of Twitch.tv Live Chats
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)The popular gaming-oriented platform Twitch.tv, which offers video game fans an online space to interact by sharing and viewing gameplay and participating in live chats, is faced with the problem of online negativity ... -
Sex Differences in the Relationship Between Light Physical Activity and Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factors in Older Adults
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Light physical activity (LPA) is associated with improved metabolic syndrome (MetS) risk factors and research has demonstrated sex-associated differences in MetS and LPA. The present study explored differential associations ... -
Black Sound, White Noise: An Autoethnographical Examination of the African American Musician
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Black Sound, White Noise is an autoethnographical examination of the American Music Educational system and the damaging effects its ideologies, practices, and abuses have on the African American student musician. The first ... -
Evaluation of Seismicity Trends in Kansas to Determine Possible Source Mechanisms Using Focal Mechanism Inversion and Spectral Analysis
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)High b-value, proper stress orientation and low stress drop are three factors that support the suggestion that a majority of events in central Kansas are induced as a result of changes in pore pressure. Furthermore, stress ... -
Geochemical Fingerprinting of Yellowstone Hotspot Track (YHT) Eruptions from Ash Beds in the Central United States
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Volcanic ash beds have been shown to be reliable stratigraphic marker beds because they can be radiometrically dated using magmatic minerals: e.g. zircon, sanidine, etc. This can be utilized in any region containing ash ... -
Voces para intentar escribir otra historia: Niños, Cine y Conflicto Armado Colombiano
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)This work focuses on how art, especially cinema, has portrayed the Colombian internal conflict. It is important to notice which stories were chosen to be depicted, and how certain situations, such as the creation of new ... -
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons influence naive CD4+ T cell differentiation
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)CD4+ T cells are essential for the effective functioning and appropriate regulation of the immune system. Antigen-naïve T cells require two distinct costimulatory signals to activate and differentiate into effector and ... -
Violence and Reclamation: Understanding HIV in Tanzania
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)This paper focuses on the dialogue between HIV, various forms of violence, and acts of reclamation based on ethnographic experience in Mufindi, Tanzania. Ethnographic examples in this paper are the product of ethnographic ... -
Measuring actinide partitioning in zircon to improve the 230Th correction for 206Pb/238U dates
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)The element Th, and its isotope 230Th, an intermediate daughter isotope in the 238U decay series, is often excluded relative to U from the mineral zircon during crystallization. Zircon is geochronologically important because ... -
Using Numerical Simulations to Assess Urban Heat Island Mitigation by Converting Vacant Areas into Green Spaces
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Impervious surfaces and buildings in the urban environment alter the radiative balance and energy exchange in the boundary layer, increasing sensible heat flux and decreasing latent heat flux near the surface. This typically ... -
Managing malaria: Selected maps of the twentieth century.
(University of Kansas, 2007-12-31)Understanding malaria's geographic occurrence throughout the world is amazingly complex. Jacques May wrote that "a whole atlas, comprising several dozens of maps, could justifiably be devoted to the cartographical ...
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