Cloud County Research Articles

The Effects of Standardized Remediation on Nursing Pharmacology Evaluations

OBJECTIVE: Identify the correlation between standardized remediation and comprehensive pharmacology evaluations. Participants will see increased Pharmacology II & III cumulative evaluation scores after completing NurseThink™ standardized remediation activities.DESIGN: The research will use quasi-experimental, descriptive studies. Participants will complete the standardized remediation provided by NurseThink™, focusing on needs and opportunities reported from course exams. Scoring will be compared to students not having completed any of the NurseThink™ standardized remediation activities.SETTING: Cloud County Community College, Department of Nursing, in Concordia and Junction City, Kansas, is where research will be completed.PARTICIPANTS: Associate Degree Nursing students in required Pharmacology II & III courses will be evaluated after remediation for improved pharmacology competency.RESULTS: Pending data collection and analysis, expected results will show improvement in participants who completed the NurseThink™ standardized remediation.

Two-year colleges teach physics to widening range of students

Increasingly, partnerships ease the way to transfer to universities.Increasingly, partnerships ease the way to transfer to universities.

Wind Energy Technology: Training a Sustainable Workforce

Through innovative teaching and technology, industry and educational institution partnerships, Cloud County Community College is preparing a qualified workforce for the emerging wind industry estimated to create 80,000 jobs by 2020. The curriculum blends on-campus, on-line and distance learning, land-lab, and field training opportunities for traditional and nontraditional students.

Variation in Ozone Sensitivity Within Indian Hemp and Common Milkweed Selections from the Midwest

Sixteen selections of Apocynum cannabinum (Indian Hemp) and nine of Asclepias syriaca (Common Milkweed) from midwestern USA were exposed to 40 or 80 ppb ozone under controlled conditions within greenhouse continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR) chambers to evaluate their relative ozone sensitivity. The incidence and severity of ozone-induced symptoms on both species were directly related to ozone concentration and duration of exposure. The most common foliar symptom was classic, dark, adaxial stipple, similar to symptoms ascribed to ambient ozone in the field. Indian Hemp was more sensitive to ozone than Common Milkweed. Both species exhibited considerable intraspecific variation in ozone sensitivity. Variability in the data was too great to assign definitive ozone-sensitivity ratings within geographic regions from which seed was selected. However, two locations were identified as possible collection sites for ozone-sensitive selections of both species: Wabaunsee County, KS and Plattsmouth, NE for Indian Hemp; and Cloud County, KS and Swan Creek Lake Wildlife Area, NE for Common Milkweed. Plants derived from seed from these locations may serve as ozone-sensitive bioindicators.

Brief Report: An Introduction to Learning Styles for College Teachers

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid LemireDavid Lemire is the editor of JCRL and has been teaching classes for Cloud County Community College in Junction City, KS. Currently teaching OnLine classes for UCLA. Present address: PO Box 3847, Sonora, CA 95370. Email: davel@networksplus.net or David_Lemire@hotmail.com.

Counterrotating Barsa

Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesVolume 773, Issue 1 p. 231-241 Counterrotating Bars† CHAD L. DAVIES, CHAD L. DAVIES Department of Physics University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611 Current address: Division of Natural Sciences, Cloud County Community College, 2221 Campus Drive, Concordia, Kansas 66901.Search for more papers by this authorJAMES H. HUNTER JR., JAMES H. HUNTER JR. Department of Astronomy University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611Search for more papers by this author CHAD L. DAVIES, CHAD L. DAVIES Department of Physics University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611 Current address: Division of Natural Sciences, Cloud County Community College, 2221 Campus Drive, Concordia, Kansas 66901.Search for more papers by this authorJAMES H. HUNTER JR., JAMES H. HUNTER JR. Department of Astronomy University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1995 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb12172.x † This work was supported in part by National Science Foundation Grant AST9022827. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume773, Issue1Waves in AstrophysicsDecember 1995Pages 231-241 RelatedInformation

Spatial Model for Simulating Changes in Temperature and Insect Population Dynamics in Stored Grain

A spatial model describing insect population dynamics in a grain bin was developed by coupling a model of Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Stephens) with a twodimensional bin temperature model. In the model, the bin is divided into 16 compartments. The insect model is run separately for each compartment. This allows the insect model to simulate different population growth rates based on each compartment's average daily temperature. Field data for a 351-m3 (10,000 bu) bin located in Cloud County, KS, was used to validate the model. The model predicted grain temperatures accurately for each of the nine compartments, except the center top portion of the grain mass. In this region, observed grain temperatures were 8°C higher than predicted during December. This may have been caused by convective air movement. In general, the model accurately predicted insect density for most of the bin compartments. However, the model tended to overestimate insect density in the center of the grain mass during the end of the storage period in December. During this period, actual grain temperatures were still optimal for C. ferrugineus growth. Cephalonomia waters toni (Gahan), a common hostspecific parasitoid of C. ferrugineus, may have been responsible for the pest population decrease.

TWA Internship Leads to New Curriculum at Cloud County Community College

TWA Internship Leads to New Curriculum at Cloud County Community College

Additional Records of the Least Weasel in Kansas

Hall (1955, p. 246) states that the least weasel, Mustela nivalis Linnaeus, almost certainly occurs in north-central Kansas. It has been taken in adjoining counties of Nebraska. This speculation was confirmed when Jones and Cortner (1965) reported a specimen of the least weasel from Marshall County, Kansas. Additional specimens have since been reported by Hesket and Fleharty (1966), Anderson (1971) and Choate and Fleharty (1975). With these discoveries, it has become a matter of conjecture as to whether the least weasel is expanding its range southward in the central plains or simply becoming more abundant. E. Raymond Hall (personal communication, 1975) told me of a least weasel reported to him by Bernard Frazier. This weasel was trapped in 1916 or 1917 by Frazier, but neither skin nor skull saved for further reference. This would indicate that this tiny weasel may have been established in Kansas much earlier than previously thought. However, with the specimen reported from Lincoln County by Choate and Fleharty (1975) and the Jefferson County specimen reported below, it does appear that some southward extensicn of the range is occurring. On July 26, 1974 a least weasel was given to me by Richard Lassiter, Fish and Game Commission employee from Denison, Kansas. Lassiter trapped the animal on December 10, 1973, at the Perry Game Management Area, three and one-half miles northwest of Valley Falls, Jefferson County (SE1/4, Sec. 3, T.8S, R.17E). The trap site was a brome grass terrace, approximately 70 feet from a small stream. The specimen, a juvenile male in brown pelage, was donated to the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History (KU) to be prepared as a study skin. Two other Kansas specimens of the least weasel have not previously been reported. The first, a male in brown pelage, was collected alive on October 9, 1969 by a farmer near Hiawatha, Brown County, and given to Harry Tatum, a biology teacher at Hiawatha High School. The specimen was preserved in formalin and given to Roger L. Boyd who prepared it as a study skin and placed it in the reference museum at Emporia State University (ESU). The second specimen was obtained by a farmer living south of Concordia, Cloud County. The skin was purchased by a fur dealer and subsequently given to Don Hutchinson, then a student at Emporia. Hutchinson later tried to obtain more information about the

Survey of the Plant Population on an Ungrazed Meadow in North Central Kansas

Introduction The number of relatively undisturbed grasslands is rapidly decreasing due to pressures of overgrazing, plowing, road building, and urbanization. Relatively few studies of remnant prairies or undisturbed grasslands have been made in Kansas. Most of them were done in the Central Kansas Rolling Plains Region (Austin, 1965). Tomanek and Albertson (1953, 19S7) reported the effects of different grazing intensities upon mixed prairies near Hays, Atwood, and Ashland. Ankle (1963) investigated an ungrazed breaks range site in the shale-limestone area of Kansas to study the eSectt of mowing and grasing on the native vegetation. Hladek (1967) analyzed the distribtion and xregetative composition of remnant grasslands Gn shale-lsmestone parent materials of the Central Kansas Rolling Plains region in Kansas which included 19 counties. Dodd (1967) studied G5 stands in this same region to determine soil-plant relationships and to develop a system to predict the dominant vegetation of stands that are free from disturbances. Hulett, Sloan, and Tomanek (1968) inventoried and analy7ed the compositional structure of the vegetation of remnant grasslands in the lcessial region of Northwestern Kansas and Southwestern Nebraska. These 44 stands were areas of native vegetation that had not been disturbed by burning, grazing, or mowing for a period of not less than 15 to 20 years. Nicholson and Hulett (1969) made a detailed evaluation of the vegetational characteristics of some grassland remnants in the Central Great Plains Region of North America. The purpose of this present study was to make a survey of the plant population in an ungrazed, relatively undisturbed meadow in the limestone hill region of Cloud County in North Central Kansas. Fraser (1931) surveyed the flora of Cloud County and listed over 600 species. A botanical survey had previously been made by Hitchcock (1898) who listed 240 plants.

Distributional Records of Birds in Eastern Kansas

The purpose of this paper is to report certain distributional records of interest concerning birds in eastern Kansas and to clarify the status, as reported in the literature, of some breeding birds of this area. Some of the facts presented here are well known to students of birds in Kansas-even so, formal correction of existing inaccuracies in the literature seems desirable. All specimens mentioned below are now in the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History. Colymbus caspicus californicus. Eared Grebe. W. S. Long, in his Check-List of Kansas Birds (1940, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 43:433456) said of this species, formerly common; now a rare migrant. none in recent years. Actually, this grebe is a regular migrant, both spring and fall, in small numbers. I have collected two specimens: female (HBT 844), ovary 13 X 7 mm., November 11, 1950, 1 mile west and 5 miles south of Concordia, Cloud County; male (KU 30511, skeleton) in nuptial plumage, April 14, 1952, 3 miles north and 1 mile east of Sharon, Barber County. Anas cyanoptera septentrionalis. Cinnamon Teal. Although local bird students report occasional males in migration in central and eastern Kansas, no specimens from this area have been reported in print. I have taken two: male (KU 30308) with little fat, testes 10 mm. long, March 29, 1951, Cheyenne Bottoms, 4 miles north and 5 miles east of Great Bend, Barton County; male (KU 31297), weight 380 grams, some fat, testes 12 and 15 mm. long, April 26, 1953, 1 mile north of Lawrence, Douglas County. Ictinia misisippiensis. Mississippi Kite. Long (op. cit.:439) reported this species common only in Barber and Comanche counties. Perhaps this was true in 1940; today, however, the species breeds in much of south-central Kansas. I have seen kites in summer in the following counties: Meade, Clark, Comanche, Barber, Harper, Pratt, Kingman, Stafford, and Harvey. In most of these counties the species is at least locally common. Careful search would probably extend further its known breeding range in Kansas. Buteo swainsoni. Swainson's Hawk. Richard Graber (1952, Kansas Ornith. Soc. Bull., 3 (3):24) reported this essentially western species breeding near Topeka in 1952. A few individuals are present in the

Rumex Alluvius, a New Species of Dock from Kansas

Early-in the 1930's a poor specimen of a Rumex from central was brot to the attention of one of us (F. C. Gates) but it could not be satisfactorily placed thru any of the manuals available. Later on, in the thirties, a poor specimen from near Salina was found by John Hancin which did not permit specific identification. Some years later S. V. Fraser, of Aurora, Kans., sent in a specimen which he had grown from seeds given him by John Hancin that had come from the Platte River in Nebraska. John Hancin also sent specimens to R. L. McGregor in September, 1943. Two years later, S. V. Fraser found good specimens along the Republican river in Cloud County, Kansas. In 1948, McGregor gathered good specimens along the Kansas river north of Lawrence and in Kearney County in the Arkansas river system. In 1949, it was collected from other localities along the Kansas river. All these were obviously the same plant but did not fit into the available descriptions. With the appearance of Rechinger's monograph of American Rumex, these specimens still could not be placed. As these plants were being found in several places the entity deserves greater recognition than to pass it off as a mere sport. In all cases the plant has been found in alluvial soil along rivers or oxbows, forming colonies maintaining the distinctive character. Under such circumstances it seems well to give it a name and technical description which follows. The Latin description is made to follow the style of Rechinger in his monograph. (Rechinger, K. H., Jr. The North American species of Rumex. Field Museum Bot. Series, Vol. 17: 1-151, 1937.)

The Flora of Cloud County

The Flora of Cloud County

Development of the Forest Belts in the North-Western Part of Clay County, Kansas

THE development of forest belts in the northwestern part of Clay county is confined to the bottom lands and bluffs along the Republican river and its tributary creeks. The two main creek systems are Mulberry creek and Five creeks, the sources of both being to the west, in the eastern part of Cloud county. These creeks and their branches lie for the most part in Mulberry, Bloom and Five Creeks townships. The rocks in the region belong to the Dakota group, except toward the southeast, where the upper part of the Permian limestone begins to outcrop. The soil is thus decidedly sandy, on account of the great abundance of Dakota sandstone, although clays are also abundant. The character of the soil seems to have some influence on the distribution of certain trees and shrubs, for a number of species flourish across the line in the Permian limestone region which are not found in the Dakota.