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(2012-05-24)The black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) is a species in need of conservation that continues to decline throughout the Great Plains. This decline is due to habitat loss, plague, sport hunting, and poisoning ...
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(2012-05-30)Many amphibians experience low temperature conditions associated with hibernation. Decreasing temperature results in increased viscosity, thereby potentially affecting blood flow. Therefore, amphibians might have difficulty ...
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(2012-05-29)Women in 1870s Kansas lived in a time and land long regarded as wild and isolated. It is usually concluded, therefore, that Kansas lagged behind the rest of the nation, particularly in clothing fashions. It is generalized ...
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(2012-05-29)This thesis is an examination of the genre of creative nonfiction. This collection is designed to provide an introductory experience for new readers of creative nonfiction. The introductory essay attempts to define the ...
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(2012-05-24)Digestive physiolo is important because animals can only obtain calories needed for growth, maintenance, and reproduction by feeding. The purpose of my study was to examine the digestive efficiency (DE) and food passage ...
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(2012-05-30)Recidivism of criminal offenders is an important topic with treatment providers as well as the general public. This study was designed investigate whether locus of control may be added to treatment modalities in an effort ...
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(2012-05-24)This study investigated the role of age, type of questions, and temperament characteristics on children's recall. Twenty-eight preschoolers and 28 elementary school children watched a videotape of a bike theft and were ...
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(2012-05-30)Many studies have assessed the effects of large dams on fishes and benthic invertebrates, but few have examined the effects of lowhead dams. I sampled fishes, benthic invertebrates, habitat, and physicochemistry monthly ...
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(2012-05-30)This study examined how three theories of leadership, namely the Substitutes for Leadership theory, the Leadership Behaviors Theory (specifically, Consideration and Initiating Structure), and the Transactional versus ...
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(2012-05-30)The Civil War conjures up images of battles like Gettysburg, emancipation, or soldiers clad in blue and gray. Historians write about great leaders and heroic soldiers, but still some figures go almost unconsidered. A ...
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(2012-05-24)I conducted a landscape level investigation of the associations of topography, land cover, and landscape metrics with greater prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) lek locations in Kansas. I used Kansas Department ...
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(2012-05-24)Meriwether Lewis and William Clark explored the lands from Missouri northward and westward to the Pacific Northwest during the years 1804 to 1806. They kept records of the weather they encountered along their trip. These ...
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(2012-05-30)The female body has been eulogized, idealized, and sanctified throughout history, while being preserved in a state of comfortable muteness, bearing the stigma of materiality. The roles commonly attributed to women, as Luce ...
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(2012-05-30)I compared freshwater mussel assemblages (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in a developing oxbow (old channel) and a newly-cut (new) channel of the Neosho River, Neosho County, Kansas, during 2001. I sampled mussels at approximately ...
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(2012-05-29)In this thesis I present selections from my novel Annie Rose, along with a critical introduction discussing my borrowing, refashioning, and sometimes returning to Sophocles' Antigone as an inspiration for the novel. The ...
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(2012-05-30)The present study investigated the relationship between aggression and self-concept in adolescents seen in mental health centers. The effects of age, gender, and level of pubertal development on aggression and self-concept ...
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(2012-05-30)Noncompliance with treatment requirements severely impacts the delivery of mental health services. This study investigated the relationships between family variables and compliance versus noncompliance with completing ...
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(2012-05-30)Previous studies have shown that the erythrocytes of amphibians are much less likely to lyse in hyposmotic conditions as are the erythrocytes of mammals. Such resistance to lysing may be the result of volume regulating ...
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(2012-05-24)Numerous studies have established the positive impact of using advanced selection methods on individual performance in organizations. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether such selection practices have an ...
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(2012-05-24)I studied spatio-temporal variation in fish assemblages on eight shallow gravel bars along a 34 kIn stretch of the Neosho River in Lyon County, Kansas, from November 2000 to October 2001. Analysis revealed temporal variation ...
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