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Cattle Grazing Does Not Alter Early Season Insect Community Composition in Tallgrass Prairies
Full text linkPrairie ecosystems are known to have cattle that graze on the different grasses, plants, and flowers. This is known to negatively impact insect communities because of the defoliation, or the removal of plants, of the environment. As cattle graze and change the environment of prairie foliage, arthropods lose valuable resources that are essential to mating, predation, and development. The current hypothesis is that insect communities in ungrazed land have greater order-level richness and insect abundance than communities in grazed land. In order to find what communities were present, 10 sites throughout eastern Kansas were sampled using sweep net methods. The sites are divided evenly into 5 grazed and 5 ungrazed land, and sweeps are conducted by moving a sweep net in a serpentine pattern through foliage along 2 50 meter transects. The collected insects are counted and identified to the order level under a microscope, then processed using Microsoft Excel’s data analysis tools. The experiment resulted in a higher insect abundance in grazed sites than in ungrazed sites, and slightly higher order richness in not grazed sites than in grazed sites. However, these results are not significant. There were differences found in community composition with Coleoptera (beetles) numbers differing in grazed (10%) and ungrazed sites (16%), Neuroptera (lacewings) not being present in grazed sites, and Odonata (dragon/damselflies) not being present in ungrazed sites. Further investigation into these differences could give deeper insights to the effects of cattle grazing on these communities.
Fischer’sFur Babies Veterinary Clinic
Full text linkI have wanted to be a veterinarian for as long as I can remember. I was accepted into veterinary school as a senior in high school through Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine’s Early Admittance Program. Throughout my college journey, I’ve focused on Animal Science, Spanish, and Risk Management. For my Honors Project, I decided to combine my future entrepreneurial plans with my desire to help animals by designing my own veterinary practice. Since I am passionate about both private practice and shelter medicine, this plan combines the unique aspects of both. The idea for Fischer’s Fur Babies Veterinary Clinic came from my experience with the Animal Rescue Foundation in Chicago, IL. Seeing the impact that these foster organizations have on the lives of thousands of homeless animals fueled my desire to help make a difference. That is why our clinic is so focused on helping shelters and foster organizations. We are paying homage to the volunteers who dedicate their lives to this neverending work. This report details the key attributes of a veterinary clinic that bridges the gap between private practice and shelter medicine. It will explore different aspects of vertical integration and various activities the veterinary clinic will participate in to help better the lives of animals
Building Better Communitites with Pride
No full textSummary of the 2022-2023 actiivities of the Kansas PRIDE program and affiliated communities
Following all the rules: Intuitionistic completeness for generalized proof-theoretic validity
No full textPrawitz conjectured that the proof-theoretically valid logic is intuitionistic logic. Recent work on proof-theoretic validity has disproven this. In fact, it has been shown that proof-theoretic validity is not even closed under substitution. In this paper, we make a minor modification to the definition of proof-theoretic validity found in Prawitz’s 1973paper ‘Towards a foundation of a general proof theory’ and refined by Schroeder-Heister in ‘Validity concepts in proof-theoretic semantics’ (2006). We will call the new notion generalized proof-theoretic validity and show that the logic of generalized proof-theoretic validity is intuitionistic logic
Pandemic Pivoting: The Use of Home Wi-Fi Accounts and Fast-Food Parking Lots for Teachers’ Internet Connectivity
No full textMany people and organizations worldwide are still trying to gain access to internet services (Buechner, 2020). The quest for the internet is ongoing, just as electricity was once a privilege when it was first invented and made available mainly to only scientists and engineers, then to people of financial means in primarily urban areas (Southern Oral History Program, n.d.), and continues to be a struggle even today in many parts of the world (Odarno, 2017). Thus, the development and implementation of the ever-morphing internet also continually changes. In early 2020, education was caught off guard by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, American education’s need for accessible, reliable internet services for all teachers and students became a prominent concern. In this second part of the National Art Education Association’s Public Policy and Arts Administration Special Interest Group 2020 Device and Internet Accessibility Study, various internet complexities of U.S. school art teachers during hybrid and remote teaching will be discussed
Kansas Forest Service 2022 Annual Report
No full textThis publication is an annual report of the services provided and a summary of the 2022 Kansas Forest Service's operating year
Literary Connections to Yellowstone
No full textKirmser Undergraduate Research Award - Group category, honorable mentionElizabeth DoddIn this project we address connections between the novel Letters from Yellowstone and writer John Muir to historical and modern research occurring within the National Parks system. By examining historical literature as well as modern scientific literature and data, we examined the development of scientific practices and focuses over time. Letters from Yellowstone offered different research focuses through different characters within the novel via letter-writing. John Muir supported the development of national parks and helped to get the public to view these programs favorably. The novel touches upon research that has been going on in the park since its inception and John Muir has been an inspiration to continue the national parks program
Lived and Learned Experience with Accessible and Inclusive Pedagogy
Full text linkI have always walked in two different worlds. Because I am low vision, not blind, I know the joy of seeing and capturing the perfect image in my digital camera’s viewfinder. I know the joy of teaching a dance class. I know what it’s like to be perceived as abled. Because I am low vision, not “normal,” I know the frustration and sometimes humiliation of a teacher caring more about their seating plans or their favorite activity than my ability to participate fully in class. I know the frustration of missing parts of presentations because the presenter did not explain visual content on a slide. I know what it feels like to have an instructor ignore accessibility needs that you have clearly articulated. I know the humiliation of people commenting on the appearance of my eyes. I know what it is to be underestimated or not taken seriously because of preconceived notions about my capabilities
Variant call format (VCF) file corresponding to called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from a set of 454 clone-corrected isolates of Fusarium graminearum (Dhakal et al., submitted)
No full textVCF file (fileformat=VCFv4.2, readable without specialized software) with genotyping-by-sequencing SNPs from set of 454 clone-corrected isolates of Fusarium graminearum, from the US and Uruguay. Produced by GATK software v. 4.1.8.1, only biallelic SNPs retained. SNPs from this file segregated in a larger sample of over 500 isolates (some from closely related species), and what remains in this file were selected after variant quality score recalibration (vqsr)