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W. Frank Barton School of Business

This mission is influenced by the location of the school in the largest economic and cultural center in the state of Kansas. As an integral part of the state’s designated urban university, the faculty of the Barton School of Business are committed to programs and activities that will help sustain the contribution that this urban center makes to the economic, professional and cultural health of ...

Admixture in North America

The history of North America has been marked by the encounter of populations from different continents. The discovery of the New World began a period defined by human migrations at a much larger scale than in previous history. This movement of people, voluntary or forced, changed profoundly the human landscape. As populations came into contact, admixture followed in varying degrees depending on...

Medicine in North America

Hepatitis C Virus in American Indian/Alaskan Native and Aboriginal Peoples of North America

Liver diseases, such as hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, are "broken spirit" diseases. The prevalence of HCV infection for American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) in the United States and Canadian Aboriginals varies; nonetheless, incidence rates of newly diagnosed HCV infection are typically higher relative to non-indigenous people. For AI/AN and Aboriginal peoples risk factors for the diagnos...

Outside North America

ions and first-class procedures We've seen two ways to express the square-root computation as an instance of a more general method, once as a fixed-point search and once using Newton's method. Since Newton's method was itself expressed as a fixed-point process, we actually saw two ways to compute square roots as fixed points. Each method begins with a function and finds a fixed point of some tr...