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(2016-07-27)The purpose of this study was to explore the reliability, validity and ultimately the utility of a new personality assessment, the Combined Big Fives (CBF). The CBF is designed to capture extremely high and low levels of ...
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(2016-07-27)The resistance of pathogenic microbes to an increasing number of antimicrobial agents poses a serious threat to human health. Soil-dwelling bacteria have received great attention as a reservoir of new antibiotics because ...
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(2016-12-06)This study examined if coloring activities reduced researcher-induced stress while influencing creativity, flow, and anxiety levels in college students. I utilized the Trier Social Stress Test for Groups (TSST-G) for ...
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(2016-07-18)AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Vanessa M. Hajek for the Master of Science in Psychology presented Title: The Effect of Watching a Large or Small Pseudo Shelter Dog Sit on Command on College Students’ Self-rated Willingness ...
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(2016-05-03)A vertebrate fossil locality in Greenwood County, Kansas, near the town of Toronto, in the Snyderville (Shale) member of the Oread (Limestone) Formation (Late Pennsylvanian, Virgilian) contains an abundance of disarticulated ...
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(2016-12-06)The United States was officially neutral when World War I occurred in Europe between the Allies and Germany in 1914. Advocates of military preparedness pushed for American entry into the war on the side of the Allies, but ...
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(2016-05-03)The thesis “Holding Up Sky: An Original Poetry Manuscript and Analysis of Pastoral and Frontier Tropes in Selected Kansas Poetry” seeks to show Kansas through a pastoral lens, incorporating frontier rhetoric and perspectives: ...
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(2016-05-03)This thesis attempts to exemplify how mass media outlets played an integral role in the creation of the voluntaristic mindset that characterized the American home front during World War I by using the Ladies’ Home Journal ...
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(2016-05-04)This study investigated how people from three different cultures tend to manage conflict with their immediate supervisors. All three groups used problem solving the most followed by compromise. However, the participants ...
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(2016-07-18)Sericea lespedeza is an invasive plant expanding its range through the grasslands of the Great Plains, displacing native grasses and reducing plant diversity. Invasive species cost the US economy billions of dollars each ...
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(2016-05-28)Sericea lespedeza, Lespedeza cuneata, is an invasive species of legume introduced to North America in the 1800s. Since its introduction, it has become wide spread throughout the Midwest, having detrimental effects on ...
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(2016-12-06)Sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata), an invasive plant, displaces native vegetation in North American tallgrass prairie. L. cuneata is allelopathic to some species and able to engage in a mutualistic relationship with ...
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(2016-05-03)During the years 1947 through 1957 significant events on baseball fields directed the path Americans took in the civil rights movement. A significant number of texts have been published on the integration of baseball but ...
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(2016-07-27)Turtles and other sexually reproducing animals require communication between males and females to identify each other. Although chemical signals are widely used by reptiles to communicate beneficial information for both ...
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(2016-12-06)The wealth of previous geological work done in central and eastern Kansas is of immense help in interpreting newly available data such as high-resolution imagery and LiDAR. The surficial geology (easily defined marker ...
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(2016-05-03)Moist-soil management is a form of wetland management where marshes are drawn-down to enhance vegetative production during the growing season and flooded in the fall to accommodate waterfowl. My objectives were to determine ...
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(2016-05-03)I surveyed 69 CEOs from credit unions across the nation. I first examined three antecedents to executive job stress and burnout (lack of coping behaviors, neurotic personality, and lack of organizational support). Coping ...
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(2016-05-03)The thesis “Salted Earth: An Original Fiction Manuscript and Ecofeminist Analysis of the Monstrous Childless Woman Trope” seeks to examine the stigma that surrounds the social construction of barrenness, and explores the ...
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(2016-07-27)Auditory signals are commonly used by vertebrates to communicate with one another. While not all vertebrates communicate in this way, vocal communication is an essential part of defense, courtship, and social cohesion in ...
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(2016-05-28)The thesis, “This America: An Original Fiction Manuscript and Analysis of the Failure of the Cornucopian Vision in Assimilative Immigrant Fiction” is a manuscript of original short fiction foreworded by a critical preface. ...
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