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The Dance of Deception
(2022)All women are deeply affected by lying and faking, by silence and pretending, by self-deception, and by brave as well as misguided efforts to tell the truth. This film inspires listeners to confront the many faces of ... -
Women's Art As Political Resistance
(University of Kansas, 1995)Performances at the 23rd anniversary forum for the February Sisters, a group of women who staged a 1972 sit-in to protest conditions for women at the University of Kansas. After a meeting with Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers, ... -
Concordance of in vitro and in vivo measures of non-replicating rotavirus vaccine potency
(Elsevier, 2022-07-22)Rotavirus infections remain a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among infants residing in low- and middle-income countries. To address the large need for protection from this vaccine-preventable disease we are ... -
Spatial release from masking in crocodilians
(Nature Research, 2022-08-25)Ambient noise is a major constraint on acoustic communication in both animals and humans. One mechanism to overcome this problem is Spatial Release from Masking (SRM), the ability to distinguish a target sound signal from ... -
Location-specific psychosocial and environmental correlates of physical activity and sedentary time in young adolescents: preliminary evidence for location-specific approaches from a cross-sectional observational study
(BMC, 2022-08-26)Background A better understanding of the extent to which psychosocial and environmental correlates of physical activity are specific to locations would inform intervention optimization. Purpose To investigate ... -
Estrogen Signaling Dictates Musculoskeletal Stem Cell Behavior: Sex Differences in Tissue Repair
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2022-08-08)Sexual dimorphisms in humans and other species exist in visually evident features such as body size and less apparent characteristics, including disease prevalence. Current research is adding to a growing understanding of ... -
The Perspectives of Cameroonian-Americans on Communication Disorders in Cameroon and the United States
(University of Kansas, 2022-01-01)Cameroon is a West-Central African country on the Gulf of Guinea, comprised of over 200 languages including the country’s national languages, French and English. With limited access to speech-language pathology (SLP) ... -
KS22 Marshall County, Kansas
(1999)KU Questionnaire responses recorded in 1999 for the East Frisian (West Low German) dialect of Marysville, Kansas. Female speaker born in 1918. -
Taxonomy of the American Hebridae and the natural history of selected species
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Is China’s increased diplomatic and economic influence in Oceania a threat to American good governance goals in the region?
(Global and International Studies, University of Kansas, 2020-06-20)This paper examines the impact of investment by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the Pacific Island nations and assesses whether it is a threat to U.S. goals in the region. Specifically, it attempts to find correlation ... -
KS21 Marshall County, Kansas
(1999)KU Questionnaire responses, along with excerpts of a multi-lingual conversation about wedding day shiveree hijinks, recorded in 1999 for the North Low Saxon (West Low German) Plattdüütsch dialect of Bremen, Kansas. Male ... -
Tofu Is Not Cheese: Rethinking Education Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
(SAGE Publications, 2020-06-29)The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the closure of millions of schools around the world. As a result, teachers and education leaders must find new ways to provide education to over one billion students. This is a crisis, but ... -
Photo-Mediated Ultrasound Therapy for the Treatment of Corneal Neovascularization in Rabbit Eyes
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2020-12-09)Purpose: Corneal neovascularization (CNV) is the invasion of new blood vessels into the avascular cornea, leading to reduced corneal transparency and visual acuity, impaired vision, and even blindness. Current treatment ... -
Cavitation induced shear and circumferential stresses on blood vessel walls during photo-mediated ultrasound therapy
(American Institute of Physics, 2020-12-29)Photo-mediated ultrasound therapy (PUT) is a novel technique using combined laser and ultrasound to generate enhanced cavitation activity inside blood vessels. The stresses produced by oscillating bubbles during PUT are ... -
Proper orthogonal decomposition and recurrence map for the identification of spatial–temporal patterns in a low-Re wake downstream of two cylinders
(American Institute of Physics, 2020-03-20)Flow decomposition methods provide systematic ways to extract the flow modes, which can be regarded as the spatial distribution of a coherent structure. They have been successfully used in the study of wake, boundary layer, ... -
‘Outdated and Anachronistic, but That’s Part of the Fun’: Faculty Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding Academic Dress at a Second Land-Grant University
(New Prairie Press, 2020-10-21)This research sought to understand attitudes and behaviours of faculty at Kansas State University and used a previous research study, at Michigan State University, to validate the instrumentation developed while comparing ... -
Effect of Grade III Lumbar Mobilization on Back Muscles in Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
(Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, 2020)BACKGROUND: Lumbar mobilization is a standard intervention for lower back pain (LBP). However, its effect on the activity of back muscles is not well known. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effects of lumbar mobilization on ... -
The Importance of Self-Determination to the Quality of Life of People with Intellectual Disability: A Perspective
(MDPI, 2020-09-29)There is both an intuitive and theoretical link between self-determination and quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Theoretically, definitions of self-determination have framed the ... -
Gtsf1 is essential for proper female sex determination and transposon silencing in the silkworm, Bombyx mori
(Geological Society of America, 2020-11-02)Sex determination pathways are astoundingly diverse in insects. For instance, the silk moth Bombyx mori uniquely use various components of the piRNA pathway to produce the Fem signal for specification of the female fate. ... -
StraboTools: A Mobile App for Quantifying Fabric in Geology
(Geological Society of America, 2020-08)Quantification of field observations is an essential step in making them reproducible and shareable, but field geologists have few tools for quantifying field observations of important features such as foliation intensity, ...