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Proximal Causes of Dispersal in Yellow-Bellied Marmots.
(University of Kansas, 1984-10-01)The relative importance of adult-yearling interaction, and individual behavioral phenotypes, on dispersal of yearling yellow-bellied marmots was investigated. Two marmot colonies near Gothic, Colorado were studied; one was ... -
An Investigation of Adult Education Needs and Interests in Topeka
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The Development of Criteria for Music in General Education At the University Level
(University of Kansas, 1952-05-31)The expression "general education" has come into use during the last score of years and largely supersedes the expression "liberal education." The latter, meaning literally an education to "set one free," can be interpreted ... -
The Effects of Life Cycle Therapeutic Dosage Administration of Drugs to Albino Rats
(University of Kansas Department Physiology and Pharmacology, 1940-05-31)In the investigations to be presented herein, dosages comparable to human usage have been administered orally to normal animals which have been kept, as far as possible in a constant normal environment with respect to food, ... -
A Multi-Materials Approach to Teaching The Civil War to Eighth Grade American History Students
(University of Kansas, 1979-05-31)This paper reports the findings of a study designed to offer an effective alternative to a traditional textbook approach to teaching the Civil War to eighth grade students. The research design was a two group pretest-posttest ... -
Effects of Total Internal Water Content on Freeze-Thaw Durability and Scaling Resistance of Internally-Cured Concrete
(University of Kansas, 2023-05-31)The effects of total internal (TI) water, provided by normalweight coarse and fine aggregates and pre-wetted fine lightweight aggregate (LWA), in the range of 6.8 to 17.3%, corresponding to internal curing (IC) water in ... -
A new species of abyssal sea anemone and its symbiotic relationship with a scaphopod
(University of Kansas, 1996-08-31)In this thesis I report the results of the first study of a symbiosis between an abyssal sea anemone and a scaphopod. I describe the sea anemone as Benthactis nomadas n. g., n. sp. The sea anemones and scaphopods were ... -
Palestinians in Israel: New Scholarship on Politics and Religion
(Penn State University Press, 2022-07-01)This article situates these two new books on the Palestinians in Israel in the broader evolution of the existing scholarship. Ghanem and Mustafa provide a comprehensive new model based on the concept of “politics of faith” ... -
Cryptotis nigrescens (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)
(2023-12)The blackish small-eared shrew, Cryptotis nigrescens (Allen, 1895), is a blarinine soricid that occurs in high-elevation premontane wet forests and cloud forest in the Central American countries of Costa Rica and Panama. ... -
DATASET: Test Results from Shake Table Tests of Reinforced Concrete Frames with Grade 60 or 100 (420 or 690) Reinforcement
(University of Kansas, 2023-12-13)This dataset reports the acceleration and displacement data collected during tests of two reinforced concrete frames that differed in one way: the longitudinal bars were Grade 60 (420) in C1 and Grade 100 (690) in H1. The ... -
Décolletage disputes in early modern France
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-08-15)This article looks at moralistic reactions to the fashion of décolletage during the seventeenth century in France. No previous research has focused on this specific movement, the scope of which is larger than has previously ... -
The Treatment of Childhood In Autobiographies Of Twentieth Century American Women
(University of Kansas, 1984-07-20)In order to investigate the perspectives autobiography--a formally shaped first person account of all or part of an individual's own life--brings to the study of female American childhood, over one hundred autobiographies ... -
Adelaide Lukanina's "A Year in America": A Critical View of Nineteenth Century America
(University of Kansas, 1995-05-15)The following text is a translation of Adelaide Lukanina's "A Year in America." First published in 1881-82 as a series of articles in the Russian journal Vestnik Evropy, one of Russia's most progressive journals in the ... -
The informational “cosplay journey” of Star Wars cosplayers in the context of a Facebook group
(Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, Sweden, 2023-09-15)INTRODUCTION. Research on personal information practices has increased in recent decades. Building on this current of thought, the present study explores information practices in the context of serious leisure, looking ... -
The Relation of After-image Duration to Certain Aspects of Personality
(University of Kansas, 1952-05-31)In this study, consequently, to explore the relationship of personality characteristics to after-image duration, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (19) was used. In addition, the Otis Self Administering ... -
Increasing Direct Care Staff Compliance to Program Implementation by Providing Supervisors with Prescriptive Checklists
(University of Kansas, 1982-05-31)Effective treatment programs for multi-handicapped mentally retarded persons may require consistent compliance to program implementation. Traditional methods used to increase direct care staff compliance to treatment ... -
The Use of Smoking and Breaktaking to Reduce Job-related Stress Among Registered Nurses
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)Hospital nursing can produce stress. How nurses cope with that stress can affect patient care and personal health. This study was conducted to describe the coping methods, particularly breaktaking and smoking, used to ... -
Parental Instruction Regarding Appropriate Asthma Management
(University of Kansas, 1984-07-05)The purpose of this study was to determine if those children whose parents received instruction regarding appropriate asthma management actually experienced improvement in terms of fewer asthmatic attacks, fewer emergency ... -
Effects of Vestibular Stimulation on Sitting and Vocal Behaviors Among Preschoolers With Severe and Multiple Handicaps
(University of Kansas, 1984-05-31)A multiple baseline design across subjects was used to assess The effect of vestibular stimulation on the acquisition of erect and symmetrical sitting and vocal behaviors of preschoolers with severe and multiple handicaps. ... -
Cognitive Attitudes of Leveling and Sharpening in Time-Error Assimilation Tendencies
(University of Kansas, 1952-05-01)