This study investigates the change in reading comprehension ability of a child who has a distinct type of visual dysfunction, scotopic sensitivity syndrome when treated with spectrally modified lenses, Irlen filters. Recent research has indicated...
A study was conducted in selected hydric and mesic lowland sites in Western Kansas. The objective was to collect as many as possible of the plant species present and give an ecological description of the successional units.
A total of 105 species...
The Ptychodontidae historically have been classified within the Hybondontoidea, a group of chondrichthyans at an intermediate stage of evolution. A s both the most primitive and most advanced forms of Ptychodus possess skeletal and histological...
The purpose of this study was to develop a satisfactory method of mapping plant communities, and to provide data on the vegetation of the communities. The study area was located near Hays, Kansas. Data were collected by using the point transect...
The purpose of the thesis, A Study in Style and Content of the Speeches of John F. Kennedy on Foreign Policy was two-fold. The first purpose was to isolate the techniques of style located in the written copies of Senator Kennedy's
speeches on...
People of the Central Plains tradition (A.D. 900 to 1450) practiced a lifestyle of diversified subsistence while occupying isolated to small clusters of earth lodges, or earthen dwellings. The Albert Bell site, in Sheridan County, Kansas, in 1990,...
A GIS database was constructed for Morton County, extreme southwestern Kansas, on the Fort Hays State University Geographic Information System (GIS) with data layers representing roads, public land-survey system, railroad, pipelines, soil types,...
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...
In 1951 the Bureau of Reclamation completed construction on Cedar Bluff Dam and Reservoir located in Trego County, Kansas. Although the dam was built as a multi-purpose unit, it was built primarily to provide irrigation in a small portion of Trego...
Ecologic and biogeographic techniques were used to evaluate biogeographic patterns of mammals in Kansas. Environmental variables, natural vegetation types, and mammalian distributions were subjected to a detrended reciprocal analysis (DRA) and a...
Black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) towns in western Kansas appeared to be distinct communities scattered among geographically diverse regions. During the summer months of 1975-1977, prairie dog towns in western Kansas were surveyed....
Salt cedar (Tamarix pentandra Pall .) is a phreatophyte which has created a major water conservation problem in the southwestern part of the United States. This plant has the ability to adapt to many different types of habitats. It may be found...
The Codell Sandstone (Upper Cretaceous) in Kansas can be subdivided into three distinct lithofacies, which are referred to as the King Hill, Waldo Hill and Antonino facies. The King HiII facies was deposited during progradation of a regressive,...
This study involved an investigation of the relationships between metamemorial abilities associated with two distinct retrieval processes: direct-accessing versus inferencing. Pas t metamemorial research has dealt almost exclusively with...
The development of informed management practices and insightful research
depends not only on an understanding of species natural history and ecology, but
information regarding the distributions of these species and how they interact with
adjacent...
Vegetation of Pool 3, Cheyenne Bottoms Waterfowl Management Area, was studied from March 15 to September 15, 1969. The objectives of the study were (1) to describe the vegetation in delineated plant communities, (2) to compile a species list for...
"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...
A total of 275 specimens of the meadow vole were collected in six locations in Nebraska and Kansas. Standard skin measurements and 21 skull measurements were taken and treated statistically 'with the aid of an IBM 1620 computer. Mean, range,...
Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) populations have been in steady decline over the past twenty years due to habitat loss, pesticide use, the pet trade, and invasion of the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta). At Aransas National...
ABSTRACT: The Fullerton Gravel Pit, Morton County, Kansas is one of many sites in western Kansas at which the Ogallala Group crops out. The Ogallala Group was deposited primarily by streams flowing from the Rocky Mountains. Evidence of water...
When Europeans first set foot on American soil, the Indian inhabitants of the New World welcomed them. It was as individual nations that these Indian people greeted the newcomers. Relationships that developed between the Indians and the Europeans...
Understanding the role of an organism in an ecosystem involves understanding different aspects of their ecology, which is particularly true for species that are in danger of extinction due to habitat loss and fragmentation. The losses of amphibians...
Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT) posits that communicative responses to individual crises must be customized to each situation. An organization’s response following a crisis event could be to deny any knowledge of the crisis,...
The relationships between induced uncertainty and curiosity and between induced uncertainty and learning were investigated in young, middle-, and older-age adults. Participants were asked to select the most frequently occurring words in the...
Reveille is the yearbook of Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. The Reveille began publication in 1914 shortly after William A. Lewis became President of Fort Hays Kansas Normal School. It was published annually, with the exception of 1918...
Fort Hays State University--Students—Yearbooks ; Fort Hays State University—Periodicals ; College yearbooks--Kansas—Hays ; College students--Kansas—Hays ;Universities and colleges--Kansas--Hays
Reveille is the yearbook of Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. The Reveille began publication in 1914 shortly after William A. Lewis became President of Fort Hays Kansas Normal School. It was published annually, with the exception of 1918...
Fort Hays State University--Students—Yearbooks ; Fort Hays State University—Periodicals ; College yearbooks--Kansas—Hays ; College students--Kansas—Hays ;Universities and colleges--Kansas--Hays
Two experiments using a total of seventy-two undergraduate students from General Psychology courses were performed to test the hypothesis that a sex-role difference in performance occurs during two-person conflict situations in which one of the...
Probation and Parole Officers [*] supervise all types of criminal offenders, often encountering dangerous situations in the course or their employment. The question of whether or not probation and parole officers should carry weapons for protection...
Hardscrabble Hill is a folded, jointed, and highly faulted sequence of Precambrian to Cenozoic age rocks in Custer County, Colorado. The Wet Mountains Thrust bisects the area and the presence of numerous strike-slip faults complicates the geology...
The taxonomic relationship of two supposed species of Geomys in northern Kansas was assessed using morphometric, bacular, karyotypic, and electrophoretic analyses. Only morphometric analysis proved useful in differentiating between the taxa. No...
Geographic variation among populations of Onychomys leucogaster in western North America was investigated using morphometric, karyotypic , and fossil data. Populations previously considered to represent O. l. utahensis, as well as those from the...
Fossilized unassociated teeth and post-cranial elements of three species of tridactyl, grazing equid, Calippus (Calippus) sp., Protohippus gidleyi, and Neohipparion eurystyle, were recovered from the Minium Quarry local biota in Graham County in...
Systematic relationships of southern populations of short-tailed shrews (genus Blarina) are assessed on the basis of karyotypic data and univariate and multivariate analyses. The analyses show that the populations can be separated into two phena. ...
The taxonomic status of the Arizona myotis (Myotis occultus) is uncertain. Although the taxon was described as a distinct species and currently regarded as such by some authors, others have noted what they interpreted as intergradation with the...
The taxonomic significance of two chromosomal races of Geomys bursarius lutescens Merriam was reviewed using morphometric, karyotypic, and electrophoretic methods of analysis. The two chromosomally distinct races were well differentiated both...
The Jurassic Carmel Formation of northeastern Utah was deposited during a major marine transgressive-regressive sequence with numerous alternating lithologies of minor, cyclically varying deposits that can be divided into three facies that...
An exact definition of time has alluded scholars since the era of St . Augustine. Like all "big" questions, however, this has not prevented numerous studies from being undertaken and distinct categories of time from being isolated. Future time...
The Fairport, Kansas 7.5 Minute Quadrangle covers a portion of northeastern Ellis County and northwestern Russell County and lies within the Smoky Hills Physiographic Province. The Quaternary deposits in the quadrangle include Recent (Holocene)...
The purpose of this study was to compare vegetation and soils occurring on breaks-sites overlying three distinct limestone formations. Three limestone formations, Ogallala, Niobrara, and Greenhorn outcrop in Ellis County, Kansas, as the Ash Hollow,...
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