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KS11 Ellis County, Kansas
(1981)Wenker sentences recorded in 1981 for the Volga German (West Middle German) dialect of Victoria (Herzog), KS. Female speaker, born in 1912. -
The Plan Is The Program: Thomas Jefferson's Plan for the Rectilinear Survey Of 1784
(1996)This paper studies the plan for the rectilinear survey of 1784 for the Northwest Territory of the United States contained in the Land Ordinance of 1784 authored by Thomas Jefferson in association with Hugh Williamson and ... -
Comparative ecology of Agama tuberculata Gray at different altitudes in the western Himalayas
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Demands for Local and Organic Produce: A Brief Overview of the Literature.
(Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas, 2000-04)Environmentally Identified Products ( EIPs) refers to food products that are described as organic or sustainable, or were grown using Integrated Pest Management (IPM), or in other respects are viewed as having a relatively ... -
Seventh Assessment of the Science, Engineering, and Math Infrastructure at Three Universities in Kansas
(Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas, 1999-07)Kansas received its first NSF EPSCoR grant in 1992. The second NSF EPSCoR grant, received in 1995, is a cooperative agreement, negotiated on a yearly renewal basis. Assessment of the status of science, engineering, and ... -
Retail Preferences Survey Report #2
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Faculty Survey and Administrators' Interview Results: Sixth Assessment of the Science, Math and Engineering Infrastructure at Three Universities in Kansas
(Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas, 1998-12)In 1992 Kansas became a National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) state to improve its ability to compete for federal research and development (R&D) dollars. Annual ... -
Benefits and Costs of the Kansas Comprehensive Highway Program
(Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas, 1999-01)This report analyzes the benefits and costs of the Kansas Comprehensive Highway Program (KCHP). The benefit-cost ratio of the program is conservatively estimated to be at least 3. In other words, the program returned at ... -
MAMTC Regional Market Assessment
(Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas, 1998-04-21)The purpose of this study is to assess the business needs, plans for modernization, and use of outside service providers by the Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Center’s (MAMTC) target clientele--small and mid-size ... -
Employee Benefits Survey Report Lawrence, Kansas 1988
(Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas, 1988-06)The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and the Lawrence City Commission requested this study. Its purpose is to provide area businesses with information about the benefit packages that major employers in Lawrence and Douglas ... -
Economic Scope, Impact and Marketing Study of the Kansas Arts Commission.
(Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas, 1999-07-28)This report presents the results of a study done by the Institute for Public Policy and Business Research for the Kansas Arts Commission (KAC). The purpose of the study was to: delineate the scope of the Kansas Arts ... -
Retail Preferences Report #3
(Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas, 1999-07)The purpose of this survey is to find out how many Lawrence residents intentionally leave Lawrence to shop, what types of goods or services they shop for, and how often they go. The survey was limited to Lawrence ... -
Kaw Valley Focus Groups on Local and Organic Produce
(Institute for Public Policy and Business Research, University of Kansas, 2000-04)Environmentally-Identified Products (EIPs) refers to food products that are described as organic or sustainable, were grown using Integrated Pest Management (IPM), or are in other respects viewed as having a less-negative ... -
Problems in Reconstituting the Traditional Urban Values in Contemporary Cities and the Role of the Boundary
(International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), 1998)Critics would commonly agree that in many contemporary cities wasteful modes of consumption, encouraged and facilitated by fantastic developments in technology, have significantly eroded the values of the traditional urban ... -
On Psychosocial Constructs in Office Settings: A Review of the Empirical Literature
(2005)This paper reviews the empirical literature on the relationships between psychosocial constructs and office settings. The constructs included in the review are face-to face communication and interaction, privacy, territoriality, ... -
Sedentary and Fleeting Activities and Their Spatial Correlates in Offices
(2006-05)In this study of the relationships between knowledge worker activities and office design, two sets of activities - generically termed as fleeting and sedentary activities - are considered. Fleeting activities include walking ... -
The Effects of Physical Design on Users’ Behavior and Perception in University Classrooms: A Pilot Study
(2009-05)Users’ behavior and perception were evaluated in two university classrooms—one had a rigid layout with fixed furniture, and the other had a flexible layout with movable and adjustable furniture. One instructor taught the ... -
Territory, politics of power, and physical spatial networks: The case of Baghdad, Iraq
(Elsevier, 2015-12)Despite our commonsense understanding of territory as a bounded region, some political aspects of territory can be better described as effects of physical spatial networks. To illustrate the point, we study territorial ... -
Space Syntax: A Network-based Configurational Approach for Urban Morphological studies
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2018-01)A methodological study was conducted to test the validity and reliability of the patient safety (PS) scale developed by Rashid (2007) for evaluating nurses' perception of adult intensive care unit (ICU) design features ... -
Perceptual Effects of Physical and Visual Accessibilities in Intensive Care Units: A Quasi-Experimental Study
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2018-04)This article reports the findings of a 2-phase quasi-experimental study looking at the perceptual effects of physical and visual accessibilities on clinical staff in intensive care units (ICUs). In a previous CCNQ article ...
