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Melissa Barron, null null, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Today breastfeeding (BF) is often widely promoted in healthcare settings; however, truly little preparation is provided to women. Studies have also shown many health benefits to women and children, leading to a positive economic effect…
View details →Mia Jang, null null, null null et al. · 2020 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Since yeasts have the most similar way of doing its cellular respiration to humans, we were interested in investigating if yeasts could survive in the Mars-like environment. Preparing for the future life, we thought that if yeast could…
View details →Daniel Huantes, null null, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Chromatic aberration in the eye causes differences in the retinal spot size for different wavelengths of light. This work explores the limiting effect of retinal spot size for wavelengths around 590nm, and implements python code to attempt…
View details →Katy Barbieri, null null, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Ineffective communication among healthcare professionals can result in a decrease in patient safety. It is a leading cause of medical errors and poor patient outcomes. This can be due to the complexity and pace of the interactions,…
View details →Laura Wilson, null null, null null et al. · 2018 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
In modern marine ecosystems, seabirds are considered indicators of ecological hotspots because their biogeographic distribution is correlated with physical, chemical, and biological oceanographic factors. Pursuit diving seabirds – those…
View details →Brendon McCampbell, null null, null null et al. · 2016 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
FHSU students and faculty are committed to addressing food insecurity issues faced by students, faculty and staff. In 2011, the FHSU Victor E. Garden was created to provide greater access to fresh produce for the campus community. In 2012,…
View details →Mark Russell, null null, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) simulation labs have increased in the past few years in nursing programs across the globe. Traditional simulation methods are still being utilized. While VR, MR and traditional simulations have…
View details →Charles Riedel, null null, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Following the economic downturn in 2008, college enrollment numbers increased significantly by 16% between 2007 and 2010 (18.1 million) but decreased by 7% between 2010 and 2017 (Irwin et al., 2021). Research has shown that rural Kansans…
View details →Linda Ganstrom, null null, null null et al. · 2016 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Exploring porcelain claybodies and gold as a surface embellishment as a way of adding value to ceramic art was the focus of our research and creative activity. Researchers visited museums, attended curatorial lectures, and participated in…
View details →Brooke Moore, null null, null null et al. · 2018 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Reading comprehension models implemented in content classrooms boost adolescent reading achievement. Yet, few researchers examine how such models are incorporated into teachers’ daily instruction. We used extended observations and…
View details →Blake Chapman, null null, null null et al. · 2019 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
In the Late Cretaceous, North America was divided by a shallow epicontinental sea known as the Western Interior Seaway. Native life included various marine reptiles, fish, ammonites, and seabirds such as Hesperornis . Previous research has…
View details →Miguel Baca, null null, null null et al. · 2022 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
In this research project we are attempting to prove the 3 pointer is a significant variable to determine a win. The null hypothesis for our project is that the three point statistic is the less significant statistic in determining wins.…
View details →Megan Shepard, null null, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
For decades, women's imprisonment rate has grown twice as high as men's. Enforcement of low-level drug charges and low-level, nonviolent offenses is one of the contributing factors to the increase. Literature indicates that incarcerated…
View details →Erika Balint, null null, null null et al. · 2016 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Every year patients admitted to hospitals all over the nation develop healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) when receiving care. This number decreases with each passing year, but these infections have not been totally eliminated. HAIs…
View details →Corinne Baier, null null, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
In this study, the maternal mortality rate across the world was examined from an external viewpoint. The rate was analyzed against births attended by skilled workers, GDP per capita, secondary school enrollment, and income levels. The…
View details →Nicola Carraro · 2016 · Rhizomata
Abstract Although the view that Anaximander was a Material Monist is not very popular nowadays, it is still widely held that it was embraced by Aristotle at least on some occasions, then adopted by Theophrastus, and later on inherited by…
View details →William Wallace, null null, null null et al. · 2022 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
The purpose of this project was to utilize GIS software to develop a population and daily domestic water resource requirement analysis for Mesa County, Colorado by answering the question of what municipalities within the county have the…
View details →Kelly Foudray, null null, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
During COVID-19 there was a need for consistent and meaningful experiential learning opportunities for students (Pardue et al., 2022). Due to the shortage of nursing faculty, competitive clinical sites, patient safety concerns among other…
View details →Michelle Storey, null null, null null et al. · 2020 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a ubiquitous raw material used in the production of many everyday things such as food packaging and baby bottles. While there have been many studies about the effect that this can have on water and animals, there are…
View details →Katie Nauman, null null, null null et al. · 2019 · Journal of Applied and Educational Research
The number of elementary students in the United States reading at a proficient level is significantly low. Elementary schools in the United States need to increase the number of students reading at the proficient level in order to move…
View details →Bobbie Call, null null, null null et al. · 2020 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Mental health stigma is prevalent and many people are affected all around the world (Watson, 2002). Stigma often prevents individuals with a mental illness from engaging in typical life routines (Corrigan, 2004). Individuals of ethnic…
View details →Shyla Davison, null null, null null et al. · 2022 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
Over the past five years, there has been many improvements to the Sternberg Museum of Natural History that have resulted in a renovated fossil preparation lab and a new database for specimen data storage. To find ways to improve our…
View details →Karmen Porter, null null, null null et al. · 2020 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
The purpose of our research was the process of trying to develop an algorithm that scanned for quantity of a type of object uploaded to a website. The potential algorithm itself was thought of as an instrumental part of a website that…
View details →Jenna Howard, null null, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
The geosciences department at Fort Hays State University and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) determined the extent of mineral contamination in three aquifers in northwest Kansas. The contaminant results from the…
View details →Kobryn Mann, null null, null null et al. · 2023 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
This study examines the relationship between the average precipitation by depth measured in millimeters (mm) per year, and the crop production index for the years 2015 through 2020. The crop production index measures the total agricultural…
View details →Nathan Smith, null null, null null et al. · 2018 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
This project explored the effects of nitrogen fertilizer on droughted corn plants. It aimed to investigate whether the amount of fertilizer would affect the rate at which the plant underwent photosynthesis. The hypothesis was that nitrogen…
View details →Hendratta Ali, null null, null null et al. · 2016 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
A sediment leaching experiment was conducted in a controlled laboratory setting. The sediments were collected from a carbonate-rich waste mine tailings site in MO. Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), major ions, and stable carbon isotope…
View details →Allison Hullinger, null null, null null et al. · 2017 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
The Broad-Headed Skink is a semi-arboreal species that inhabits deciduous forests of the southeastern United States. Eastern Kansas makes up the northwestern periphery of their range and thus serves as an important area for studying the…
View details →Garrett Messenger, null null, null null et al. · 2016 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
This project examines the environmental and socioeconomic variables for why antique car dealerships are located in specific cities of the United States. The project looks at these variables to see if antique car dealerships are located in…
View details →Graidon Nichol, null null, null null et al. · 2022 · John Heinrichs Scholarly & Creative Activities Day
The Electrathon is a competitive electric vehicle endurance race. Each team is given a 1000kWhr battery and one hour to travel the longest distance. Therefore, the vehicles design can have a very large impact on its performance. There is…
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