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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"southeastern Kentucky"”.
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Space Use And Habitat Selection By Bobcats In Southeastern Kentucky
… plays important ecological and economic roles in Kentucky as a furbearer and mesopredator. I conducted a study of the bobcat in southeastern Kentucky as a twenty year follow-up to research conducted in the same study area. I radio-collared five (4F, 1M) bobcats and assessed space and habitat use …
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Examining the Impacts of Valley Fills in Stream Ecosystems on Amphibian and Aquatic Insect Communities in Southeastern Kentucky
… of these communities across natural areas of southeastern Kentucky and understand what factors impact their abundances and distributions. To address this, we sampled eight reference quality streams across the region, March–June 2014. Salamander sampling consisted of three sampling periods on a …
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Barefoot and Bindi-ed
… a biracial child in the extremely conservative southeastern Kentucky, it’s evident that there are lessons to be learned, but at the core, my hope is that my thesis brings together an understanding of both cultures and how they relate to me. </p>
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The Importance Of Surface Mining As A Landscape Variable In Shaping Wild Bee Communities In Central Appalachian Forests
… disturbance. Eleven sites were established in Southeastern Kentucky, U.S.A. where surface mining for coal is common. Data was analyzed using generalized linear mixed-effect models to detect the most important landscape scale variables, including mining, in shaping bee communities. Bee species …
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Perceptions of play-based curricula as an effective model of instruction for children with special needs
… representative of preschool teachers in rural southeastern Kentucky. The study employed qualitative methods. Semi structured interviews were used to collect data from the participants to elicit rich responses based on real-life experiences using play-based curricula. No earlier studies had been …
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Barriers To Access And Success For Rural Community College Students At Rural Community And Technical College: Understanding The Effect Of A Mandatory First-Year Experience Course On Retention And Persistence
… at one rural community and technical college in Southeastern Kentucky. Existing data about in-semester retention and semester-to-semester retention rates was used for students who took a mandatory first-year experience course as well as for students who did not take the mandatory first-year …
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Distributions, Assemblage Structure, and Habitat Associations of Fishes in Two Streams of the Red Bird River Watershed, Kentucky
… located within the Red Bird River watershed in southeastern Kentucky. A total of 7,662 individuals were captured; 3,038 from Gilbert's Big Creek (21 species) and 4,624 from Elisha Creek (19 species). The most prevalent species overall in both streams was the creek chub (Semotilus atromaculatus). …
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Graduating Associate Degree Nursing Students: Keeping Students on Track
… were recruited from a community college in rural Southeastern Kentucky and shared valuable insight through their lived experiences as a nursing student. This information shared by the participants may be useful to future associate degree nursing students in achieving the goal of becoming a …
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Dual Credit in Southeast Kentucky: Accelerating Appalachian Success or a Mode to Regress
… programming in the rural Appalachian setting of Southeastern Kentucky. The research region is comprised of resource extraction based communities and the coal markets have plummeted. Void the once robust coal industry, Southeast Kentucky will have to reconstruct a new economy. Today’s students in …
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Everything Broken is Waiting to Be Fixed
… book attempts to challenge readers to reexamine Southeastern Kentucky. It presents readers with enough of what they expect of the region that it feels accurate to their preconceived notions, but it should also subvert the stereotypes enough that readers realize Appalachia isn't just a haven for …
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Natural Environmental Gradients Predict The Microhabitat Use, Fine-Scale Distribution, And Abundance Of Three Woodland Salamanders In An Old-Growth Forest
… forest in the Cumberland Plateau region of southeastern Kentucky. This study finds that patterns of microhabitat use, occupancy, and abundance of P. richmondi and kentucki reflected physiological restraints associated with desiccation vulnerability and thermo‐osmoregulatory requirements of …
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The spatial and temporal anatomy of seasonal influenza in the United States, 1968-2008
… Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma), Southeastern (Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia) and Northeastern States (New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut) at every phase of an epidemic. Finally, influenza waves that directly followed seasons that introduced or reintroduced …
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Red Trees and Why
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Red Trees and Why
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