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An ethnographic content analysis of children’s fiction picture books reflecting African American culture published 2001-2005

Nephew, Irene J. (Kansas State University, 2009-11-03)

An ethnographic content analysis was conducted to explore the African American cultural content contained in the text of picture books portraying African Americans published 2001 through 2005. The picture books were limited ...
Ethylene glycol rapid methods of detection

Blevins, Lori A. (Kansas State University, 2015-04-17)

Every year thousands of domestic animals are poisoned by ethylene glycol. Exposure is normally orally, but may be dermal, and poisonings are usually accidental and not malicious. Antifreeze, overwhelmingly the source of ...
Euro-zone debt crisis

Rebstock, Remington James (Kansas State University, 2013-11-22)

The European sovereign debt crisis has had a profound impact on the rest of the world. The “debt crisis” refers to the rapid accumulation of debt within some struggling euro-zone countries. This debt accumulation has ...
The European Union banana market: demand estimation and evaluation of the new import regime

Chacón Cascante, Adriana (Kansas State University, 2006-11-29)

The EU is one of the world’s biggest importers of bananas and, as such, import policies enforced by this trade union are likely to have a great impact on major producers of bananas. Aiming to protect communitarian producers ...
Evalu[t]ation of bond strength at asphalt interfaces

Wheat, Maurice (Kansas State University, 2007-12-14)

The primary objective of this research project was to evaluate the shear behavior of three asphalt-to-asphalt mix interfaces. To accomplish this objective, a special attachment and loading mechanism was designed and built ...
Evaluating and quantifying the feasibility and effectiveness of whole IT system moving target defenses

Bardas, Alexandru Gavril (Kansas State University, )

The Moving Target Defense (MTD) concept has been proposed as an approach to rebalance the security landscape by increasing uncertainty and apparent complexity for attackers, reducing their window of opportunity, and raising ...
Evaluating department chairs’ effectiveness using faculty ratings

Middendorf, B. Jan (Kansas State University, 2009-05-01)

This study examined relationships between faculty perceptions of their academic department chair’s overall effectiveness and their ratings of his/her personal characteristics and administrative methods. The experimenter ...
Evaluating distributions of economic impacts of FMD emergency strategies in the United States

Ajewole, Kayode Martins (Kansas State University, 2013-11-26)

The livestock industry is susceptible to several diseases, of which Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is one. FMD is neither a fatal nor zoonotic animal disease, but most animals less than one year of age are killed in about ...
Evaluating educational value in museum exhibitions: establishing an evaluation process for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Doswell, Raymond (Kansas State University, 2008-05-12)

The role and function of museums in education has been debated along several lines of inquiry. For the majority of museum institutions, the most vital, consistent audience they have comes from the public and private schools ...
Evaluating factors affecting pellet durability and energy consumption in a pilot feed mill and comparing methods for evaluating pellet durability

Fahrenholz, Adam Charles (Kansas State University, 2012-04-24)

A series of experiments was conducted to compare methods used to evaluate the durability of animal feed pellets, as well as to investigate the potential for modeling the effects of formulation and processing factors on ...
Evaluating farm management strategy using sensitivity and stochastic analysis

Long, Sally (Kansas State University, )

The dramatic changes that have taken place in the production agriculture industry in the last decade have the Long Family Partnership wanting to reassess their farm land management strategy. As land owners, they feel as ...
Evaluating financial risk with investment guidelines

Kornmann, Lauren (Kansas State University, )

Cash management practices for corporate treasurers are in a state of instability in recent years. Events during the credit crisis of 2008 have had an impact on how organization’s cash positions are managed. This has led ...
Evaluating flushing procedures to prevent drug carryover during medicated feed manufacturing

Martinez-Kawas, Adrian (Kansas State University, 2008-12-02)

Carryover of medicated feed additives between batches of feed can potentially result in harmful drug residues in the edible tissues of food-animals. Flushing the equipment with an ingredient, such as ground grain, is one ...
Evaluating frozen beef and meat packaging material exposed to low levels of ammonia gas

Hussain, Faris A. Karim (Kansas State University, 2009-08-10)

Ammonia leaks in meat chilling/frozen storage or processing facilities are not uncommon. Often the meat products are packaged in polymer films that theoretically protect the product from contamination. Unfortunately, ...
Evaluating intellectual development of horticultural students: the impact of two teaching approaches using Perry’s scheme of intellectual development as measured by the learning environment preference

Lavis, Catherine Camille (Kansas State UniversityKansas State University, 2005-12-05)

This phenomenological study explored horticultural students’ intellectual development as defined by William Perry’s Scheme. Perry’s theory of intellectual development helps describe the progression in college student ...
Evaluating nutritional and behavioral health and vegetable cultivars as part of a Native American gardening project

Galgamuwe Arachchige, Pabodha Galgamuwa (Kansas State University, 2013-11-22)

Due to health and nutritional disparities, prevalence of obesity and related diseases among American Indians is found to be higher than the U.S. general population. To promote a healthy lifestyle, the long term goal of ...
Evaluating organic and conventional management and nitrogen rate for effects on yield, soil and plant nutrient of tomato and pac choi grown under high tunnel and in the field

Elfar Altamimi, May (Kansas State University, )

The goal of this study is to clarify the influence of organic fertilizer sources on vegetable crop yield under different production systems. This research hypothesized that organic soil amendments will produce healthy and ...
Evaluating soil erodibility parameters with mini-JET under various soil moisture conditions

Nguyen, Gia Huynh Truong (Kansas State University, )

Soil erosion is one of the main reasons for agricultural land degradation in the world. Losses of land because of high soil erosion rates and rapidly expanding population result in significant reduction of cultivated land ...
Evaluating sorghum and maize germplasm for post-anthesis drought tolerance

Groene, Grant Anthony (Kansas State University, 2008-12-22)

Drought is the single most limiting factor in crop production. This study was conducted to investigate if a cell viability assay could serve as an effective, efficient screen to determine post-anthesis drought tolerance ...
Evaluating the aesthetic and amenity performance of vegetated stormwater management systems

Buffington, Jared (Kansas State University, 2012-04-30)

Stormwater management within the urban context has evolved over time. This evolution has been categorized by five paradigm shifts (Novotny, Ahern, & Brown, 2010). The current paradigm of stormwater management utilizes hard ...