A study was made of nineteen relict grassland areas scattered throughout the Great Plains. The study was made to determine basal cover, percentage composition and per cent frequency of the grass and sedge species, and also the soil texture present...
This study, based largely on the extensive use of primary source materials, including federal and state census records, state agency reports, state and local election returns, and newspaper accounts, addresses the rise of the populist movement in...
Effective July 1, 1985, Kansas legislative policy will continue to permit the underground burial of toxic substances only as a final alternative in hazardous waste management. Section 2, T.13S., R.39W. is one of several optimal locations in central...
Aphelops was a hornless, cursorial, browsing, rhinoceros that lived in herds and was distinct morphologically and ecologically from the other North American Miocene rhinoceroses, Teleoceras and Peraceras. Measurements of presumptive male and female...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate attitudes of graduating seniors toward high school. The independent variables investigated were the following: gender, cumulative grade point average, post- high school plans, family structure and...
Climate change threatens biodiversity; in particular, species with narrow distributions and specific habitat requirements. The Great Basin provides an excellent model system to evaluate the effects of climate change on species with isolated...
A study was made to determine the average monthly and seasonally yields of seven native grasses as they grew in pure stands in an ungrazed mixed prairie near Hays, Kansas. The study was conducted for two growing seasons (1952-1953) on the upland,...
A study of the factors of climate and their relation to wheat and short grass yields was conducted at Hays, Kansas. Statistical correlations were made between the elements of the climate and wheat and short grass yields, also correlations between...
The Kansas River System currently represents the western range limit for 9 species of freshwater mussel, although 24 species were reported historically. The purpose of this study was to assess the current status of native mussels (Unionidae) and...
"The phenotype of two Andropogon gerardii subspecies, big bluestem and sand bluestem, varies broadly throughout the Great Plains of North America, giving rise to ecotypes within the species. This study sought to discriminate between genetic and...
The principal aquifer for the privately owned water wells in the City of Hays, Kansas, consists of Pleistocene terrace deposits and Quaternary and Recent alluvium. Groundwater samples from 22 privately owned water wells in this 13 square-kilometer...
The Blonquist Rockshelter, Summit County Utah (NE ¼, Sec. 23, T2N, R6E), is a west-facing bedrock alcove formed in the Eocene Wasatch Formation. The shelter is located on the northern flank of the Uinta Mountains, approximately 80 km northeast of...
Detailed field mapping and sedimentary analysis has revealed the physical stratigraphy, depositional environment, and provenance of the sediment in a small, but geologically important area (Sections 16, 17, 20, and 21, T. 33 S., R. 28 W.) in Meade...
Job satisfaction is one of the most often mentioned constructs in the theoretical and descriptive literature related to nurses' burnout, commitment, and turnover. Little of the published research has focused on nurses employed in non-urban,...
This study was a documentary-critical analysis of selected speeches by Mme. Pandit. The speeches analyzed were: "Peace and Freedom Indivisible," given in 1946 before the United Nations General Assembly; "Adventure Awaits," given in 1950 at Vassar...
A six-months microclimatic investigation (November, 1957 to April, 1958) of the various climatic factors (temperature, light intensity, wind velocity, and humidity) was conducted at seven different stations. The area selected for this study was a...
Friedrich Nietzsche's perspective on modem education was formed in reaction against the nineteenth century climate of “modernism”. The forces of modernism were democracy, scholarship, material progress and dilettantism. These forces were...
This descriptive, comparative study examined freshmen and sophomore student perceptions of faculty caring behaviors in an associate degree nursing program. The literature review reflected sparse research studies or student perceptions of caring....
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the attitudes of teachers and parents toward a continuous progress curriculum model. The independent variables were family structure (according to parents in the home), parent's educational...
Over the past 25 years the psychosocial environment of elementary and secondary level classrooms has been the subject o f much research and a number of instruments have been developed for assessing student and teacher perceptions of actual and...
Native to Asia, ring-necked pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) were first introduced into Kansas in 1906 and since that time the population size of this species has varied with factors such as agricultural practices, climate conditions, and wildlife...
Current research indicates that family environment factors can affect a person's psychological well-being. However, there tends to be a paucity of research investigating whether or not these various family environment factors are associated with...
This thesis studied relations hips between social support and the adaptive outcomes of mood, perceived competence, and self-efficacy for individuals who served in a care-giving role for adults with mental retardation. First, the study hypothesized...
Reveille is the yearbook of Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas....
Fort Hays State University--Students—Yearbooks ; Fort Hays State University—Periodicals ; College yearbooks--Kansas—Hays ; College students--Kansas—Hays ;Universities and colleges--Kansas--Hays
Studies of European limestone grasslands have suggested that when relatively small scale is considered, these grasslands are the most floristically rich sites on Earth. This study of shallow limestone communities in western Kansas was designed to...
The purpose of the study was to investigate college students' attitudes toward diversity, perceived campus climate, gender, race/ethnicity, disability, and sexual orientation. The sample consisted of 245 undergraduate students at a small regional...
The Beckerdite local biota, Clark County, Kansas, is the first Miocene fossil locality to be described from southwestern Kansas. This study was undertaken to get an overview of this site, because of the lack of Miocene paleontological data from...
The purpose of this problem was to determine the effect of climate, amount of dusting, and degree of grazing by livestock and grasshoppers upon the quantity and quality of forage produced by various short grass pastures in west-central Kansas.
"Climate change has the potential to alter the size, shape, and location of species’
distributions. As a result, the interactions between species are also likely to be impacted as
novel species encounter each other and historical community...
Fossil vertebrates were collected from the Ogallala Formation in Ellis County. Kansas. The sediments from which the fossils were recovered vary from fine silt and clay to very coarse gravels and represent marginal areas of a large river channel....
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The Cheyenne Sandstone is composed of light brown to dark yellowish - orange, medium-to fine-grained, friable, cross-stratified sandstone, and lenses of sandy shale and conglomerate. These rocks crop out as an irregular narrow band about...
Kirton's Adaption-Innovation Theory of cognitive style and the Kirton Adaption Innovation Inventory (KAI) have been applied to organizational settings, but they have not previously been utilized in clinical psychology. The KAI and...
Two new Pleistocene local faunas, the cedar Bluff and the Lone Tree, are reported from Trego County, Kansas. Twenty- three taxa were collected from the Cedar Bluff l.f. along the Smoky Hill River. The Lone Tree l.f. contains twenty-one taxa which...
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