KU ScholarWorks: Recent submissions
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Kansas Early Childhood Transition Task Force Tour: Preliminary Results from Community Engagement Tour
(Center for Published Partnerships and Research, University of Kansas, 2023-08)Kansas Executive Order 23-01 established the Early Childhood Transition Task Force (ECTTF) and tasked the group with holding a series of meetings across the state to generate public feedback and responses to Kansas’ current ... -
Native American perceptions of the prairie-plains environment
(University of Kansas, 1978-12-31)The purpose of this work is to discern Native American initial perceptions of the Prairie Plains by examining and comparing environmental attitudes of various Indian groups asked to accept reservations in the Prairie-Plains ... -
Petrology and stratigraphy of the Kiowa and Dakota Formations (basal Cretaceous), north-central Kansas
(University of Kansas, 1966-05-31)The Kiowa Foundation (formerly Kiowa Shale) of Early Cretaceous age and the Dakota Foundation of Early(?) and Late Cretaceous age have been studied and mapped on a detailed reconnaissance basis in an area encompassing some ... -
Rationality and legitimation : a study of the National Flood Insurance Program
(University of Kansas, 1985-05-31)The dissertation consists in the study of the historical development and present workings of the National Flood Insurance Program. The National Flood Insurance Program is the result of the U.S. government's continued ... -
Analysis of peroxynitrite-mediated post-translational modifications of caveolin-1
(University of Kansas, 2006-05-31)Caveolin-1 is an important protein in caveolae, which plays a role in cholesterol transport, signal transduction, and transcytosis and tumor suppression. Caveolin-1 is found in endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells and ... -
The Auschwitz Report
(Pitt Open Library Publishing, 2023-09-06)The escape of Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler from Auschwitz on April 7, 1944, was extraordinary in its daring, courageous execution, and impact. The challenging task of the two escapees was to inform the world of previously ... -
A study of variation in the Bryozoan Fistulipora decora (Moore and Dudley) from the Beil Limestone Member of the Lecompton Limestone of Kansas
(University of Kansas, 1971-12-31)An increasing number of bryozoan systematists are recognizing the need for a more quantitative treatment of variation in taxonomic studies of Bryozoa. The principal objective of this study was to isolate, as far as possible, ... -
Boundary Work and Transactive Memory Systems in Teams: Moderating Effects of the Visibility Affordance
(Sage, 2023-07-27)Individuals in work teams frequently cross boundaries across teams, often by using information and communication technologies (ICTs). The current study investigates the effects of members’ boundary work and the visibility ... -
“Posts are my own”: effects of social media disclaimers on perceptions of employees and their organizations from tweets and retweets
(Emerald, 2023-05-16)PURPOSE – This study empirically assesses the perceptions the public has of employees and their organization following a [re]tweet, and the additional potential ameliorating effect of a disclaimer distancing the organization ... -
A Test of the Mobile Phone Appropriation Model: A Comparison between Chinese and US Samples
(Korean Society for Journalism and Communication Studies, 2023-08-30)The mobile phone appropriation (MPA; Wirth et al., 2007, 2008) model is an integrative model that seeks to explain attitudes and behaviors related to mobile phone usage from a communication perspective, proposing a dynamic ... -
Intervju: Mark Grinberg, direktor Fakulteta za jezike, književnosti i kulture na Univerzitetu u Kanzasu. Prostor i podrška humanistici nemilosrdno se smanjuju
(Pobjeda, 2018-07-23)Interview in Montenegrin with Marc L. Greenberg on the state of language programs and humanities in the US and Europe -
Get in to Get Out: Peele-ian Horror and Consciousness-Raising
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)One area that has not fully been explored in terms of its ability to engage in Black feminist consciousness-raising (CR) is the horror film genre. This project examines Jordan Peele’s 2017 Black horror film Get Out, arguing ... -
Convergent patterns suggest parallel processes of insular anuran diversification between oceanic archipelagos of the Southwest Pacific and the sky islands of the continental Western Ghats
(University of Kansas, 2020-12-31)The unprecedented surge in frog species descriptions over the last two decades has been attributed to increasing access to remote regions, more advanced technology and techniques, and greater interest in these groups. The ... -
Linguistic Cues Guide Prediction in the Processing of Mandarin Relative Clauses: An ERP Study
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Sentence processing has been increasingly considered as a strongly incremental and grammatically guided process in which the comprehender builds a syntactic structure and computes semantic meanings as the sentence unfolds. ... -
Branching particle systems, stochastic partial differentiable equations and nonlinear rough path analysis
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)In this dissertation, we study some problems related to the stochastic partial differential equations, branching particle systems and rough path analysis. In Chapter 1, we provide a brief introduction and background of the ... -
Who is empathetic to the disaster you are going through? Mining Emotions (Empathy) in government and nonprofit responders’ tweets.
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This project establishes and tests a measure of empathy in Twitter posts. The project intends to find evidence on whether community leaders and decision makers are showing compassion for the vulnerable communities undergoing ... -
Large Scale Structure: Dynamics and Statistics
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)The peculiar velocity of galaxies and galaxy clusters is the only dynamical probe of gravity on cosmic scales, which makes it a crucial tool in studying gravitational instability, mass distributions and density fluctuations ... -
Regional Disparities in Cognitive Functioning of Rural and Urban Older Adults in Costa Rica
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)Prior research examining health disparities by region (urban vs. rural) on dementia and cognition have been studied using screening tools mostly, with conflicting results. Some studies support a rural health disadvantage, ... -
The Gods of the Roman Family: Domestic Religion and Imperial Literature at Rome
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This thesis addresses the deities of domestic Roman religion, i.e. the lares, penates, and genii, and how references to these deities in Latin literature evolved during the first century CE. I chart how domestic religion ... -
“Focus Your Indiscriminate Rage in a Useful Direction”: Understanding Audience Engagement and Participation in the News Satire Genre
(University of Kansas, 2020-08-31)This project aims to study the generic characteristics of current news satire on television, focusing on how audiences interact with this genre in order to learn more about audiences’ expectations and responses to these ...