Describing the Light: Attribution Theory as an Explanation of the Near-Death Experience (open access)

Describing the Light: Attribution Theory as an Explanation of the Near-Death Experience

Article exploring near-death experiences and attribution theory, which focuses on how information is used to create causal inferences and answer causal questions. The finding that near-death experiencers (NDErs) rarely describe unknown events, characters, or objects suggests that NDErs make attributions to answer why these experiences occurred. Examining various descriptions of NDEs demonstrates how attribution theory explains individuals' descriptions of their NDEs.
Date: Spring 1995
Creator: Norton, Max C. & Sahlman, James M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Understanding Affluence through the Lens of Technology: An Ethnographic Study toward Building an Anthropology Practice in Advertising (open access)

Understanding Affluence through the Lens of Technology: An Ethnographic Study toward Building an Anthropology Practice in Advertising

This thesis describes a pilot study for a new cultural anthropology initiative at Team One, a US-based premium and luxury brand advertising agency. In this study, I explore the role and meaning of technology among a population of affluent individuals in Southern California through diaries and ethnographic interviews conducted in their homes. Using schema theory and design anthropology to inform my theoretical approach, I discuss socioeconomic and cultural factors that shape these participants' notions of affluence and influence their presentation of self through an examination of their technology and proudest possessions. I put forward a theory of conspicuous achievement as a way to describe how the affluent use technology to espouse a merit-based model of affluence. Through this model of affluence, participants strive to align themselves to the virtuous middle-class while ascribing moral value to their consumption practices. Lastly, I provide a typology of meaningful technology artifacts in the affluent home that describes the roles of their most used tech devices and how each type supports conspicuous achievement.
Date: December 2017
Creator: Garcia, Steven R.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Accelerator & Fusion Research Division Annual Report: 1979 (open access)

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Accelerator & Fusion Research Division Annual Report: 1979

Topics covered include: Super HILAC and Bevalac operations; high intensity uranium beams line item; advanced high charge state ion source; 184-inch synchrocyclotron; VENUS project; positron-electron project; high field superconducting accelerator magnets; beam cooling; accelerator theory; induction linac drivers; RF linacs and storage rings; theory; neutral beam systems development; experimental atomic physics; neutral beam plasma research; plasma theory; and the Tormac project. (GHT)
Date: March 1980
Creator: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Accelerator & Fusion Research Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homer's Odysseus as an Ecstatic Voyager (open access)

Homer's Odysseus as an Ecstatic Voyager

Article examining the events of Homer's Odyssey chronologically, identifying and analyzing specific instances where Homer's imagery suggests such a multifaceted relationship. In accounting for this relationship, the article introduces a psychospiritual evolutionary theory of symbolism and inspiration based upon the higher dimensional existence of the supernatural.
Date: Summer 1996
Creator: Greene, F. Gordon
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Accelerator & Fusion Research Division Annual Report: 1980 (open access)

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Accelerator & Fusion Research Division Annual Report: 1980

Research during October 1979 to September 1980 is summarized. Areas covered include: accelerator operations; positron-electron project; stochastic beam cooling; high-field superconducting magnets; accelerator theory; neutral beam sources; and heavy ion fusion. (GHT)
Date: March 1981
Creator: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Accelerator & Fusion Research Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Three Decades of Engendering History: Selected Works of Antonia I. Castañeda

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Three Decades of Engendering History collects ten of Antonia I. Castañeda's best articles, including the widely circulated article "Engendering the History of Alta California, 1769-1848," in which Castañeda took a direct and honest look at sex and gender relations in colonial California, exposing stories of violence against women as well as stories of survival and resistance. Other articles included are the prize-winning "Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History," and two recent articles, "Lullabies y Canciones de Cuna" and "La Despedida." The latter two represent Castañeda’s most recent work excavating, mapping, and bringing forth the long and strong post-WWII history of Tejanas. Finally, the volume includes three interviews with Antonia Castañeda that contribute the important narrative of her lived experience—the "theory in the flesh" and politics of necessity that fueled her commitment to transformative scholarship that highlights gender and Chicanas as a legitimate line of inquiry.
Date: 2014
Creator: Heidenreich, Linda; Castañeda, Antonia I.; Gordillo, Luz María & González, Deena J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Convairiety, Volume 13, Number 17, August 17, 1960 (open access)

Convairiety, Volume 13, Number 17, August 17, 1960

Bimonthly newsletter published for employees of the Convair Division in Fort Worth containing work-related information, updates about employees, and other news.
Date: August 17, 1960
Creator: General Dynamics Corporation. Convair Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Naval Postgraduate School Answers to BRAC Questions #1-5 (open access)

Naval Postgraduate School Answers to BRAC Questions #1-5

Base Input - Naval Postgraduate School Answers to BRAC Questions #1-5
Date: August 22, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Base Input - NPS Curriculum Answers to Question #3 - Navy Post Graduate School (open access)

Base Input - NPS Curriculum Answers to Question #3 - Navy Post Graduate School

Base Input - NPS Curriculum Answers to Question #3 - Navy Post Graduate School
Date: August 22, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Toulmin Analysis of Miller v. California (open access)

A Toulmin Analysis of Miller v. California

This study deals with the Supreme Court decision in the case of Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973). The study analyzes the arguments presented in the decision by both the majority and the dissenting justices according to the Toulmin model. This study begins with a review of viewpoints on the First Amendment, and how they will be applied to the question addressed in the thesis. The history of the obscenity controversy is detailed to explain the viewpoints that the Supreme Court has taken dealing with this problem. This study concluded that the arguments presented by the majority were not supported by ample evidence. The arguments presented by Justice Douglas in the dissent were more justified. This study concludes that more study needs to be conducted in the area of obscenity; and that the material should not be suppressed.
Date: August 1987
Creator: DeLoach, Mark B. (Mark Benson)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Activities of Disaster Relief Organizations During the Permanent Housing Phase of Recovery: a Case Study Analysis (open access)

The Activities of Disaster Relief Organizations During the Permanent Housing Phase of Recovery: a Case Study Analysis

This study investigates the recovery efforts provided for low income and ethnic minority populations by organizations during the permanent housing phase of recovery in Watsonville, California, following the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 17, 1989. The case study format is used to discover what activities were performed and why each organization chose to perform them. Dynes and Quarantelli's (1968) typology of organization is used to explain how and why established, expanding, extending and emergent organizations participated in the recovery efforts. The findings indicate that the type of organization dictated the kind of tasks each organization performed. Organizations maintained activities during recovery for which they had experience, expertise and proficiency.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Ephraim, Melinda M. H.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Call - Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test Evaluation Division - San Diego, CA (open access)

Data Call - Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test Evaluation Division - San Diego, CA

Data Call - Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test Evaluation Division - San Diego, CA. Data Call #65. Box 186, L-118.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Call - Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test Evaluation Division - San Diego, CA (open access)

Data Call - Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test Evaluation Division - San Diego, CA

Data Call - Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test Evaluation Division - San Diego, CA. Data Call #12. Box 186, L-118.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Six Studies of Out-of-Body Experiences (open access)

Six Studies of Out-of-Body Experiences

Article reviewing six studies of a basic component of the near-death experience (NDE), the out-of body experience (OBE).
Date: Winter 1998
Creator: Tart, Charles T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Meaning and Intensity of the Near-Death Experience (open access)

The Meaning and Intensity of the Near-Death Experience

Article exploring the hypothesis that near-death experiencers (NDErs) assign the meaning of the NDE by using causal (effect) and semantic (affect) attributions. To test this hypothesis, 32 spontaneous verbal accounts of NDEs were analyzed.
Date: Winter 1998
Creator: Sahlman, James M. & Norton, Max C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adult Christian Education for Baby Boomers: a Descriptive Case Study of Three American Churches (open access)

Adult Christian Education for Baby Boomers: a Descriptive Case Study of Three American Churches

American churches seeking to assimilate baby boomers are struggling to meet the adult educational needs of this group. To determine what models of church-based adult education are used to meet the educational needs of this group, three large, growing American churches known for attracting boomers were identified as sites for research. A qualitative case study research design was used and results were compared using cross-case analysis. Initial data collection included a three-day visit at each church. Data were collected in three phases: Phase One consisted of personal interviews with staff and lay leaders; Phase Two focused on observation of adult education events which took place during the visitation period; Phase Three involved gathering materials that described adult education programs. To optimize the reliability and accuracy of the findings data were subjected to examination by peers, collection methods were applied consistently in each research phase, follow-up contacts were made with each church to verify observations and findings, and case records were created for each site. Eleven categories were selected and the data were presented by category. Within each category, data were delineated and organized into three areas: trends among the churches, noteworthy comments about individual programs, and comparison to the literature …
Date: August 1994
Creator: Donahue, William P. (William Paul)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Military Value and Program Impact Book for NSWC Corona (open access)

Military Value and Program Impact Book for NSWC Corona

State Input - Report submitted to regional hearing by the NSWC Corona Community Partnership Committee regarding Corona's services and facilities and the advantages of keeping it open.
Date: July 26, 2005
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Vivarium Program: An Ethnographic Video Documentary Exploring the Role of the Visual Anthropologist and the Subject at the Open School in Los Angeles (open access)

The Vivarium Program: An Ethnographic Video Documentary Exploring the Role of the Visual Anthropologist and the Subject at the Open School in Los Angeles

This is a reflexive documentary on the Open School in Los Angeles, an elementary school which is a field research site for Apple Computer, Inc. This videotape explores filmmaker/subject relationships, media perception by children, and issues of representation. An accompanying production book describes the grantwriting process, the pre-production, production, and post-production stages, as well as theoretical implications of the documentary.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Levin, Carolyn Melinda
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Calls 1995 - Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (open access)

Data Calls 1995 - Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

Data Calls 1995 - Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. Capacity Analysis, Mission Requirements. Box 190, L-132.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Religious Experience, Religious Worldviews, and Near-Death Studies (open access)

Religious Experience, Religious Worldviews, and Near-Death Studies

Article sketching the place of the themes of meaningfulness of the world, spiritual experience, and salvation in the Great Religions.
Date: Autumn 2000
Creator: Ellwood, Gracia Fay
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Call - Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test Evaluation Division - San Diego, CA (open access)

Data Call - Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test Evaluation Division - San Diego, CA

Data Call - Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test Evaluation Division - San Diego, CA. Data Call #5 Technical Centers. Box 186, L-118.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Science, Spirit, and the Soul (open access)

Guest Editorial: Science, Spirit, and the Soul

Article addressing the relationship between science and the study of near-death experiences.
Date: Summer 1988
Creator: Young, Arthur M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiences of Latinos with Diabetes in the Central San Joaquin Valley (open access)

Experiences of Latinos with Diabetes in the Central San Joaquin Valley

Embarking on a quest to uncover the shared experiences of Latinos with diabetes in the Central San Joaquin Valley is the principal issue discussed in this body of work. Diabetes is estimated to become a serious public health problem, with a current estimate of more than 30 million already afflicted. Engaging in participant-observation at a local clinic serving patients in a Diabetes Education Program and semi-structured interviews with Latinos attending the program, this research explores cultural experiences of diabetes. The primary aim of this research is to answer how health education information is accepted and interpreted based on cultural definitions of diabetes to inform diabetes management strategies.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Cortez, Jacqueline Nicole
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data Call - Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test Evaluation Division - San Diego, CA (open access)

Data Call - Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test Evaluation Division - San Diego, CA

Data Call - Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center, Research Development Test Evaluation Division - San Diego, CA. Data Call #5. Box 186, L-118.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library