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    • The Morale of Faculty, Students, and Staff Under a Corporate Model: The case of the University of Kansas 

      Pierotti, Raymond (Institute for Critical Education Studies (ICES), 2002-02)
      In this essay, I describe issues related to morale of faculty, staff and students at the University of Kansas, a major Midwestern research university, after a corporate model was implemented by a new administration in the ...

    • Influence Of Nesting Habitat In The Western/Glaucous-Winged Gull Hybrid Zone: A Preliminary Study 

      Good, Thomas P.; Pierotti, Raymond; Ellis, Julie C. (Pacific Seabird Group, 1996)

    • Alcid Patchiness and Flight Direction Near a Colony in Eastern Newfoundland 

      Schneider, David C.; Pierotti, Raymond; Threlfall, William (The University of New Mexico, 1990)
      Topographic features, including shape of the coastline and shape of the bottom, generate spatially predictable flow gradients that can concentrate seabird prey. We hypothesize that bathymetrically induced flow gradients ...

    • Behavioral Consequences of Habitat Selection in the Herring Gull 

      Pierotti, Raymond (University of New Mexico Press, 1987)
      Data were collected on time budgets, rates of chick provisioning, and patterns of aggressive behavior in Herring Gulls Larus argentatus that nested in three distinct habitats on Great Island, Newfoundland. Exposed marine ...

    • Foraging behavior and prey selection of the leather seastar Dermasterias imbricata 

      Annett, Cynthia; Pierotti, Raymond (Inter Research, 1983-01-02)
      Stomach contents of 243 Dermasterias imbricata (Gmbe) from 2 field sites in Monterey Bay, central California (USA), revealed a diet consisting primarily of the corallimorphian anemone Corynactis califomica. A survey of ...

    • Linking Community Resilience to Health and Wellness 

      Vaziri, Natalie; Bonnett, Michaela; Kennedy, Meaghan; Garstka, Teri A. (2023-06)
      Community Resilience (CR) is a topic on many people’s minds these days, and represents a community’s and an individual’s ability to weather adversity, as well as to adapt and recover. It also represents a community’s ...

    • Using Social Network Analysis to Link Community Health and Network Strength 

      Bonnett, Michaela; Ezeigwe, Chimdi; Kennedy, Meaghan; Garstka, Teri A. (2023-06)
      Social network analysis (SNA) is a technique used to analyze social networks, whether it be composed of people, organizations, physical locations, or objects. It is being increasingly applied across a variety of sectors ...

    • Social Determinants of Health & Racial Equity 

      Mazzetti, Sophia; Brook, Jody; Liming, Kiley (2023-02-27)
      The objective of this assessment was to determine community agency awareness, documentation, and implementation of efforts to address social drivers/determinants of health. Stakeholders were able to identify internal formal ...

    • A Preliminary Look at the Value-Based Payment Initiative 

      Brook, Jody; Liming, Kiley; Mazzetti, Sophia (2023-02-27)
      Value-Based Payment structures were implemented for mental health agencies receiving funding from the Jackson County, MO Community Mental Health Fund. These structures focus on key performance indicators developed based ...

    • Quality of Professional Interaction (Operational Performance) 

      Brook, Jody; Liming, Kiley; Mazzetti, Sophia (2023-02-27)
      This study utilized a mixed methods research design with sequential data collection to assess community stakeholder impressions of the Jackson County, MO Community Mental Health Fund personnel and operations. Survey ...

    • ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING PIANISTS’ MEMORIZATION DURING PERFORMANCE AND METHODS TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF MEMORIZATION 

      Shen, Xiaoyi (University of Kansas, 2022-01-01)
      Pianists can often experience hardships associated with the memorization of musical works intended for the stage. Deficiencies in the efficacy of memorization have always seemed to plague pianists’ performance capabilities. ...

    • Suggestion of coherent radio reflections from an electron-beam induced particle cascade 

      Prohira, S.; de Vries, K. D.; Besson, D.; Connolly, A.; Hast, C.; Latif, U.; Meures, T.; Nozdrina, A.; Ralston, John P.; Riesen, Z.; Saltzberg, D.; Torres, J.; Wissel, S.; Zuo, X. (American Physical Society, 2019-10-14)
      Testbeam experiment 576 at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory sought to make the first measurement of coherent radio reflections from the ionization produced in the wake of a high energy particle shower. The >10  GeV ...

    • Applying Quantum Tomography to Hadronic Interactions 

      Martens, J. C.; Ralston, J. P.; Tapia Takaki, D. (SciPost, 2022-07-14)
      A proper description of inclusive reactions is expressed with density matrices. Quantum tomography reconstructs density matrices from experimental observables. We review recent work that applies quantum tomography to ...

    • The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays 

      Allison, P.; Beatty, J.; Besson, D.; Connolly, A.; Cummings, A.; Deaconu, C.; De Kockere, S.; de Vries, K.; Frikken, D.; Hast, C.; Huesca Santiago, E.; Kuo, C.Y.; Kyriacou, A.; Latif, U.A.; Lukic, V.; Mulrey, K.; Nam, J.; Nivedita, K.; Nozdrina, A.; Oberla, E.; Prohira, S.; Ralston, John P.; Seikh, M.; Stanley, R.S.; Toscano, S.; Van den Broeck, D.; van Eijndhoven, N.; Wissel, S. (Sissa Medialab, 2023-07-26)
      The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays (RET-CR) was deployed in May 2023. RET-CR aims to show the in-nature viability of the radar echo method to probe in-ice particle cascades induced by ultra high energy cosmic rays ...

    • Simulation and Optimisation for the Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays 

      Stanley, R.S.; De Kockere, S.; Allison, P.; Beatty, J.; Besson, D.; Connolly, A.; Dasgupta, P.; Deaconu, C.; de Vries, K.; Frikken, D.; Hast, C.; Huesca Santiago, E.; Kuo, C.Y.; Latif, U.A.; Lukic, V.; Meures, T.; Mulrey, K.; Nam, J.; Nozdrina, A.; Oberla, E.; Prohira, S.; Ralston, John P.; Sbrocco, C.; Torres, J.; Toscano, S.; Van den Broeck, D.; van Eijndhoven, N.; Wissel, S. (Sissa Medialab, 2022-03-18)
      The SLAC T-576 beam test experiment showed the feasibility of the radar detection technique to probe high-energy particle cascades in dense media. Corresponding particle-level simulations indicate that the radar method has ...

    • Investigating signal properties of UHE particles using in-ice radar for the RET experiment 

      Huesca Santiago, E.; Latif, U.A.; Lukic, V.; Van den Broeck, D.; Prohira, S.; de Vries, K.; Allison, P.; Beatty, J.; Besson, D.Z.; Connolly, A.; Dasgupta, P.; Deaconu, C.; De Kockere, S.; Frikken, D.; Hast, C.; Kuo, C.Y.; Meures, T.; Mulrey, K.; Nam, J.; Nozdrina, A.; Oberla, E.; Ralston, John P.; Sbrocco, C.; Stanley, R.S.; Torres, J.; Toscano, S.; van Eijndhoven, N.; Wissel, S. (Sissa Medialab, 2022-03-18)
      The Radar Echo Telescope (RET) experiment plans to use the radar technique to detect Ultra-High Energy (UHE) cosmic rays and neutrinos in the polar ice sheets. Whenever an UHE particle collides with an ice molecule, it ...

    • Application of parabolic equation methods to in-ice radiowave propagation for ultra high energy neutrino detection experiments 

      Prohira, S.; Sbrocco, C.; Allison, P.; Beatty, J.; Besson, D.; Connolly, A.; Dasgupta, P.; Deaconu, C.; De Kockere, S.; de Vries, K.; Frikken, D.; Hast, C.; Huesca Santiago, E.; Kuo, C.Y.; Latif, U.A.; Lukic, V.; Meures, T.; Mulrey, K.; Nam, J.; Nozdrina, A.; Oberla, E.; Ralston, John P.; Stanley, R.S.; Torres, J.; Toscano, S.; Van den Broeck, D.; van Eijndhoven, N.; Wissel, S. (2022-03-18)
      Many ultra-high-energy neutrino-detection experiments seek radio wave signals from neutrino interactions deep within the polar ice, and an understanding of in-ice radio wave propagation is therefore of critical importance. ...

    • The Radar Echo Telescope for Neutrinos (RET-N) 

      de Vries, K.; Prohira, S.; Allison, P.; Beatty, J.; Besson, D.; Connolly, A.; Dasgupta, P.; Deaconu, C.; De Kockere, S.; Frikken, D.; Hast, C.; Huesca Santiago, E.; Kuo, C.Y.; Latif, U.A.; Lukic, V.; Meures, T.; Mulrey, K.; Nam, J.; Nozdrina, A.; Oberla, E.; Ralston, John P.; Sbrocco, C.; Stanley, R.S.; Torres, J.; Toscano, S.; Van den Broeck, D.; van Eijndhoven, N.; Wissel, S. (Sissa Medialab, 2022-03-18)
      We present the Radar Echo Telescope for Neutrinos (RET-N). RET-N focuses on the detection of the cosmic neutrino flux above PeV energies by means of the radar detection technique. This method aims to bridge the energy gap ...

    • Toward High Energy Neutrino Detection with the Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays (RET-CR) 

      Prohira, S.; de Vries, K.; Allison, P.; Beatty, J.; Besson, D.; Connolly, A.; Dasgupta, P.; Deaconu, C.; De Kockere, S.; Frikken, D.; Hast, C.; Huesca Santiago, E.; Kuo, C.Y.; Latif, U.A.; Lukic, V.; Meures, T.; Mulrey, K.; Nam, J.; Nozdrina, A.; Oberla, E.; Ralston, John P.; Sbrocco, C.; Stanley, R.S.; Torres, J.; Toscano, S.; Van den Broeck, D.; van Eijndhoven, N.; Wissel, S. (Sissa Medialab, 2022-03-18)
      The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays (RET-CR) is a pathfinder experiment for the Radar Echo Telescope for Neutrinos (RET-N), a next-generation in-ice detection experiment for ultra high energy neutrinos. RET-CR will ...

    • Coherent radar reflections from an electron-beam induced particle cascade 

      Prohira, S.; Vries, K.D.; Besson, D.; Connolly, A.; Wissel, S.; Saltzberg, D.; Meures, T.; Allison, P.; Zuo, X.; Ralston, John P.; Riesen, Z.; Nam, J.; Latif, U.A.; Torres, J.; Nozdrina, A.; Beatty, J.; Toscano, S.; Eijndhoven, N.V.; Sbrocco, C. (Sissa Medialab, 2021-07-02)
      Experiment T-576 ran at SLAC in 2018, in development of a new radar-based detection scheme for ultra-high energy neutrinos. In this experiment, the electron beam (N∼109e− at ∼10 GeV) was directed into a plastic target ...