It has long been theorized that self-concept and self-esteem have an affect on achievement in school, especially in children with problems in learning such as those with specific learning disabilities. Many studies have been done looking at the...
This study was designed to compare the effect of different types of extratextual interactions during joint book reading on first-graders’ storybook comprehension abilities. Extratextual interactions are adult utterances incorporated into shared...
Fort Hays State University has never conducted a consumer-oriented self-study of its graduate program in school psychology, but such a study was completed that assessed the clinical program. This study closely followed the method Joseph Guydish...
The King, Sora, and Virginia Rails were studied at the Cheyenne Bottoms Waterfowl Management Area in Barton County, Kansas in 1974. An auditory index of these three rail populations was attempted with the use of tape-recorded calls. It is...
The purpose of the researcher was to investigate the viewpoints of the various populations served by the secondary school counselor concerning the roles and functions of the secondary school counselor. Due to the nature of the study, the...
The purpose of this study was to explore one aspect of self-concept in divorced women. The study was concerned with differences in experienced control between a group of wives, a group of recently divorced women, and a group of women who had been...
Marsha Linehan developed Dialectical Behavior Theory (DBT) for the treatment of borderline personality disorder in 1991. Because of DBT’s success, the treatment has spread to other populations and disorders. Due to the poor ratio of theoretical...
Nesting of the Pine Siskin (Spinus pinus) was studied at Hays, Kansas during the springs of 1978 and 1979. Although Hays represents an isolated outpost beyond the major range of the Pine Siskin, no important differences in breeding biology were...
The small mammal populations in twelve areas in north-central Kansas were sampled to determine the species and numbers of mammals present, the dissimilarities among communities, and the ecological distribution of each species, and to show that the...
King, Sora, and Virginia Rails were studied at 10 different marshes in Kansas in 1975. Populations of these three species were studied by using tape-recorded calls during the period 27 March through 10 June. Dates of first calling and peak calling...
Prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) use alarm calls to warn offspring and other kin of predatory threats. Dialects occur when vocalizations contain consistent differences among populations not isolated by geographic barriers. The Gunnison’s prairie dog...
This study was a factor analytic exploration of responses of psychiatric inpatients to five samples of items taken from a 177-Item Fear Survey Schedule developed by compiling items from all existing fear inventories. The 177-Item FSS was...
This investigation was conducted on Big Creek near Hays, Kansas. The study area, in the mixed-prairie association, is in the post-climax stage of succession. The principal plants of the area were: American eh, green ash, catalpa, Virginia wild rye,...
The purpose of this study was to systematically examine the role of peer reinforcement made contingent on one pupil's behavior. One disruptive pupil was selected from a primary level Learning Disability class and another from a parochial first...
In 1969, nine survey routes were established in Ellis County, Kansas, to assess populations of breeding birds. Surveys were conducted during the year s 1969-81 and 1985, for a total of 207 surveys. The number of surveys was reduced to 114 when...
Little research has been done on the meaning of sexual intercourse experience, and the way that men and women construe the experience, its value (or lack of), and their expectations of the experience. Herold and Goodwin (1981) imposed a three...
Small mammals were trapped on four habitats; cropland, roadside ditch, pasture, and remnant grassland. The small mammal community of each of these habitats were compared on the basis of richness, evenness, diversity, and similarity. The cropland...
"Most walleye Sander vitreus populations in Kansas are supplemented or sustained with stocking. In 2006, gamete collection for hatchery production was initiated at Cedar Bluff Reservoir because the walleye population has a high abundance of...
Research on attitudes about Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) indicates that stigma and stereotyping of AIDS victims, homosexual or not presents a real problem in the delivery of quality, nurturant care. The purpose of this investigation...
Eight riparian sites along the two major rivers in Ellis County, Kansas, were studied during summer of 1978. Studies were designed to elucidate historical intensity of livestock grazing, vegetative cover and structure, and avian...
The purpose of this investigation was to identify thoughts, feelings, and circumstances experienced by diabetics before self-glucose monitoring, after glucose monitoring, and after deciding not to monitor glucose. Monitoring glucose is essential...
This nonexperimental descriptive investigation was conducted on older rural women (N=50) in Northwestern Kansas to detect the barriers that hinder them from seeking mammography. The Neuman Systems Model (1989) provided the foundation for...
Body composition, energy content, basic weight, and lipid cycles were determined for populations of the plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) and the yellow-faced pocket gopher (Pappogeomys castanops) in Kansas. Lipid content calculated as a...
Two subspecies of Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis) occur in the United States, and neither has been studied extensively. Of the two, the Eastern subspecies (L.j. jamaicensis) has a larger range, but has been studied to a lesser degree than the...
ABSTRACT
The most common type of antibiotics prescribed in the U.S. and worldwide for clinical infections are beta lactams. It is estimated that 28 million pounds of antibiotics a year are consumed in the U.S. with approximate equal usage between...
Client outcome measurements obtained from a rural stroke clinic were the focus of this investigation Neuman's ( 1995) System Model and the Stroke Risk Profile Appraisal Function Model (Wolf, D'Agostino, Belanger, & Kannel, 1991) based on the...
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...
The Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT 2) is an instrument designed to measure moral development. It is based on Kohlberg's theory of moral development, who proposed that individuals go through 3 levels. The first level, pre-conventional, includes most...
Analyses of morphological and mensural variation in the molar dentitions of several populations of Microtus pennsylvanicus inhabiting mainland, peninsular, archipelagic, and insular environments in southern New England enabled elucidation of recent...
Studies in recent decades, including some based on mist-net counts, have suggested that populations of certain Neotropical migrants have been declining. Many of these studies utilize total birds per net hour as an index of actual population...
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...
The objectives of this study were (1) to determine the nature of early weed populations on some of the principal cropped soils in Ellis County, Kansas, (2) to determine the presence or absence of any “indicator species” for each sampled soil...
A Sigmodon hispidus population in a relict grassland was studied by live-trapping from April, 1965, to February, 1969. The populations oscillated from high densities in the fall to low densities in the spring. Initial population declines were...
Populations of small mammals from a wheat field were compared with those from an adjoining roadside ditch in Ellis County, Kansas, for a 9-month period in 1988. Indices of diversity, evenness, and richness of small mammals in both habitats were...
Quadrat snap trapping of six pairs of non-grazed and grazed grasslands in Ellis and Trego counties in Kansas during the summer of 1965 yielded information regarding the effect of grazing on species composition and densities of small mammal...
Japanese brome (Bromus japonicas) is common, cool-season, introduced annual on native rangelands in western Kansas. It is usually abundant in valleys, gully basins, and on flat locations; but rare on microridges and tops of the shallow limy range...
I sampled small mammal populations using snap traps in untreated, herbicide treated, and tilled fallow fields in Rooks and Ellis countries, Kansas. The most common small mammals were Peromyscus maniculatus and Reithrodontomys megalotis in 1993 and...
The purpose of this study was to provide insight into the thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations that women experienced following reminiscence therapy. Watson's Human Science and Human Care theory provided the framework for this investigation....
Shiftwork scheduling in nursing can lead to diminished health status, quality of
life and job dissatisfaction, and it can contribute significantly to decreases in the quality
of patient care. In light of the current nursing shortage, and the...
Grazed and ungrazed limy upland range sites of the Mixed Prairie in west-central Kansas were studied from August, 1973 to August, 1974, to estimate litter and cellulose decomposition rates above and below ground. The rate of decomposition of litter...
Foraging activity, local dispersal, and roosting behavior were studied for the Harris Sparrow (Zonotrichia querula), Dark- eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis), and Tree Sparrow (Spizella arborea) in two disturbed habitats in Ellis County, Kansas, from 5...
"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,...
The Hillsdale Reservoir in northwest Miami County, Kansas is used as a source of water, for recreation, and for flood control. An intensive study to determine the effects that geology and culture in the watershed have on water quality in the...
Grief is a reaction to loss and will be experienced to some degree by everyone in his or her life. For most, this is a brief process lasting a few weeks or months, after which they regain their focus and return to their normal lives. For a...
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...
Home- range size, population density, distributions, and territoriality of small mammals were studied from April through August of 1965, in a relict grassland area 1.5 miles southwest of Hays, Ellis County, Kansas. Home ranges were determined from...
Brown - headed Cowbirds were studied in Ellis County, Kansas from February, 1973 to August, 1974. Objectives of the study were to 1) determine the frequency and effect of cowbird parasitism in a prairie habitat 2) determine adaptations of host...
Effects of sodium chloride on red shiners (Cyprinella lutrensis) and sand shiners (Notropis ludibundus) in central Kansas streams were investigated in September and October of 1998. Individuals were collected from four streams; one collection each...
Standard mist-netting procedures were used to assess trends of migratory warbler populations in west-central Kansas. Four species were selected based on their high capture frequency in historical banding records. Orange-crowned Warblers (Vermivora...
Continuous removal trapping in three areas of study yielded information regarding the emigration of small mammals from peripheral areas. Two of the trap lines were operated for 80 consecutive days during the summer months of 1966 and one trap line...
Populations of fossil wood rats (Neotoma) from four geographically separated sites (Cumberland Cave, Conrad Fissure, Java, and Vallecito Creek: of presumed Irvingtonian age and eight species of extant wood rats were studies to determine...
In west- central Kansas, the capture -recapture method was used during summer and fall of 1976 to estimate movements of small rodents a crossroads. The seven species studied were the thirteen- lined ground squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus )...
Native shortgrass prairie ecosystems have undergone drastic changes since European settlement, resulting in fragmentation of native prairie. With this reduction in available native habitat, it has become increasingly important to conserve the...
The distributions and numerical status of the three species of foxes in Kansas have changed appreciably in the past century. Undocumented information suggests the red fox was common in parts of western Kansas, and therefore probably occurred...
The Western Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrines nivosus) is a small (approximately 46 g) shorebird that nests and forages along North American beaches, wetlands, river sandbars, and lake shores. Migratory populations of Western Snowy Plovers are...
Abstract:
Persons considered hardy view change as a challenge, feel deeply committed to and involved in life activities, and believe they can control events in their life. A change that has become increasingly evident in healthcare is the...
I analyzed variation in a portion of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region to determine if montane populations of the red squirrel (tamiasciurus hudsonicus) in Colorado are isolated andto relate genetic variation in the species to glacial...
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...
White perch (Morone americana) is a temperate bass native to the Atlantic Coast of North America from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas. Although once restricted to the Atlantic Coast, white perch recently have been introduced Into the Ninnescah River...
This investigation was conducted in the mixed-prairie association near Hays, Kansas. The principal purpose was to study seasonal movement, activity and species composition of small rodents in four different ecological areas. These four different...
The purpose of this study was to examine selected aspects of the life history and autecology of slimflower scurfpea (Psoralea tenuiflora Pursh.). To measure growth rate and phenology, naturally occurring seedlings were marked after germination in...
Small mammal populations were censused during a seven-month period at five Conservation Reserve Program plots in Rooks County, Kansas. Sites in the Solomon River Valley selected for this study were seeded with grasses in successive years...
Seven habitats were sampled from March through October 1991. Five study sites (alfalfa, grain sorghum, winter wheat, corn, and soybean) represented the principal agricultural crop types of Kansas. The remaining two study sites, a fencerow bordered...
The small mammal populations of fencerows and crop field borders were sampled in an agricultural-grassland mosaic of west-central Kansas. Farming is a dryland, 3-year rotation of wheat, grain sorghum, and fallow. Two sites were sampled, one on the...
Small mammal populations in cropland in Ellis County, Kansas, were studied throughout the three year dry-land farming rotation of winter wheat, grain sorghum, and summer fallow commonly practiced in that area. Small mammal populations in the...
Populations of small mammals were studied in the wheat/grain sorghum rotation agro- system in west-central Kansas. Two areas, each representing a different phase of the crop rotation cycle, were live-trapped. Diversity, evenness, richness, and...
ABSTRACT
Throughout much of its range, Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrines nivosus) numbers have been declining over the past two decades. In fact, the Pacific Coast population has been designated as 'Threatened" under the Endangered Species Act....
Growth rates, population densities, length frequency distributions, body conditions and angler catch rates of largemouth bass were compared in two Ellis County, Kansa s farm ponds. New Pond was three years old and Old Pond was seven years old at...
Preliminary limnological information was obtained from Cedar Bluff Reservoir, Trego County, Kansas. The reservoir is surrounded by limestone deposits with mixed grass prairie. Temperatures, recorded at meter intervals, depicted only a slight...
Research has shown that clients with severe and persistent mental illness often suffer from the effects of stigma (Angermeyer, Link, & Majcher-Angermeyer, 1987; Brockington, Hall, Levings, & Murphy, 1993; Corrigan, 1998; Goodwin & Madell, 2002;...
Non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in the agriculture industry has contributed to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which subsequently have been detected in air, soil, and surface and ground water by other researchers. From these...
The status of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoidea) has declined over the last 30 years such that they are one of the most imperiled taxonomic groups in North America. Mussel populations in Kansas have followed a similar trend of decline. To...
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...
Systematic relationships of populations of the northern grasshopper mouse, Onychomys leucogaster, on the central Great Plains are assessed based on study of molts and pelages and on morphometric analyses. Variation in color of any one population...
Systematic relationships among six chromosomal races of Geomys bursarius on the Central Great Plains were assessed using morphometric and electrophoretic methods. Gross cranial morphology was inadequate as a discriminator among most races and...
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. ...
I investigated geographic and non-geographic variation among populations of the southern bog lemming, Synaptomys cooperi, in Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wisconsin using cranial morphometric data. I also reviewed the...
Taxonomic relationships among populations of Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord inhabiting the Great Plains were examined using morphometric and electrophoretic methods of analysis. Geographic patterns of neither morphometric nor genic variation...
The goal of this research was to norm the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) on a juvenile offender population for use as a pre-screening tool to be used to match individual’s needs with services offered in the juvenile corrections setting. ...
Systematic trapping was conducted along streams in western Kansas, where Peromyscus leucopus had not previously been recorded. Near the Kansas-Colorado border in west central Kansas, tree distribution is restricted to riparian communities and is...
The southern short-tailed shrew (Blarina carolinensis) inhabits the Mississippi
Alluvial Plain, the Gulf Coastal Plain, Florida, and the Atlantic Coastal Plain as far north
as Virginia. Since its description by Bachman in 1837, this species has...
It was the purpose of this study to determine the cover types used by ring- necked pheasants during winter months. Game managers generally acknowledge winter to be the critical season in the life of pheasants, and they realize the importance of...
Raptorial birds were studied in Ellis and Trego Counties, Kansas, during the period October 1 through April 30, of the 1968-1969 and 1969-1970 winter seasons. Objectives of the study were to determine: (1) species over-wintering, (2) actual and...
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