Toward Sustainable Community: Assessing Progress at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (open access)

Toward Sustainable Community: Assessing Progress at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage

Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, an intentional community of roughly 70 members in Northeastern Missouri, is working to create societal change through radical sustainable living practices and creation of a culture of eco-friendly and feminist norms. Members agree to abide by a set of ecological covenants and sustainability guidelines, committing to practices such as using only sustainably generated electricity, and no use or storage of personally owned vehicles on community property. Situated within the context of a sustainability study, this thesis explores how Dancing Rabbit is creating a more socially and ecologically just culture and how this lifestyle affects happiness and well-being.
Date: August 2014
Creator: Jones, Kayla Brooke
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Death of a Gedanken Creature (open access)

Death of a Gedanken Creature

Paper describing a thought experiment in which a hypothetical creature created by a computer program inhabits a simple universe consisting of itself, food, and predators. As this creature "dies" it "internally" experiences these environmental features independent of their actual presence. More evolved hypothetical creatures generate novel forms of "inner" experiences as they "die." Applying these results to humans suggests an "internal" genesis of near-death experiences.
Date: Spring 1995
Creator: Thaler, Stephen L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Memory Requirement on Schema Learning (open access)

The Effect of Memory Requirement on Schema Learning

A number of previous investigations have suggested that schema learning would be more readily facilitated by a recognition task than a reproduction task due to the increased memory requirement of the reproduction task. Differential memory requirements of 0, 4, 8, 16 and 32 seconds were imposed on 50 Ss in a recognition task to determine if increased memory requirements improved schema learning in the same mode as the reproduction task. The results indicated no significant improvement in schema learning with increased memory requirement. The data does suggest negative transfer from reproduction to recognition task. Recommendations for design and procedural improvements are included.
Date: May 1973
Creator: Buckner, Rose Laminack
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
City Smoke Ordinances and Smoke Abatement (open access)

City Smoke Ordinances and Smoke Abatement

From Introduction: "In connection with the fuel investigations conducted by the Bureau of Mines much information has been accumulated as to the smoke abatement activities in various cities. The essential features of the information are presented in this report, which, it is believed, will be of public interest and benefit, especially to those communities that are just beginning organized effort to abate unnecessary smoke."
Date: 1912
Creator: Flagg, Samuel B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hydrologic Setting of Wetlands in the Cottonwood Lake Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota (open access)

Hydrologic Setting of Wetlands in the Cottonwood Lake Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota

From abstract: This report studies a group of wetlands in the Cottonwood Lake area in Stutsman County to explore "the role of lakes and wetlands in the hydrology of the prairie environment." It contains maps, graphs, and tables.
Date: December 1980
Creator: Winter, Thomas C. & Carr, Mark R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, July 1929 - April, 1930 (open access)

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, July 1929 - April, 1930

The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 327.
Date: 1930
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Leslie W. Bray, Jr., March 3, 1999

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Interview with Army Air Forces veteran Leslie W. Bray, Jr. The interview includes Bray's personal experiences about the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, youth during the Great Depression, flight training, being designated as the commander of the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron, stationing at Sylhet, India as part of his assignment to the CBI Theater, supplying the British 14th Army in Burma, flying difficulties due to weather conditions, various transfers, and flying "The Hump." Bray also talks about his early aspirations to become an aviator, initial failures to pass the Air Forces physical examination, his assignment to Troop Carrier Command, flying C-47s with the 1st Troop Carrier Group, his appointment as assistant group operations officer for the 10th Troop Carrier Group, Air Force School of Applied Tactics, the training of replacement units at various Air Force installations, the deactivation of the 16th Combat Cargo Squadron, and his postwar Air Force career and retirement as a general officer.
Date: March 3, 1999
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Bray, Leslie W., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Content Analysis of Superbowl XVI (open access)

A Content Analysis of Superbowl XVI

The purpose of this research was to describe the content of information surrounding a significant sporting event presented by sportswriters through the printed medium. The event chosen for analysis was Superbowl XVI. Three metropolitan newspapers were selected as the sample representatives of the urban style of sports reporting. Two of these newspapers were chosen because of their geographical representation of a participating team. The third selection was taken because of its large circulation and relative unbiased reporting. From a pilot study conducted on Superbowl XV, content categories were found to fit in either one of two basic domains: cognitive or affective. The sample population for Superbowl XVI yielded 5,759 individual category entries based on 215 articles. The cognitive category comprised 94 percent of all items categorized, thus clearly demonstrating the dominant theme used by sportswriters for this event.
Date: August 1982
Creator: Kuykendall, Francis Marion
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Army - Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, March 1995 Base Visit (open access)

Army - Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, March 1995 Base Visit

Army - Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, March 1995 Base Visit. Box 81, L-003.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 83, July 1979 - April, 1980 (open access)

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 83, July 1979 - April, 1980

The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 437.
Date: 1979/1980
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Groundwater in Alluvium of the Lower Mississippi Valley (Upper and Central Areas): Volume 1 (open access)

Groundwater in Alluvium of the Lower Mississippi Valley (Upper and Central Areas): Volume 1

Summary: "This report provides data on the alluvial aquifer of the Lower Mississippi Valley in the area between Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Port Gibson, Mississippi. Maps are presented of the Tertiary surface on which the alluvial aquifer rests as well as the geology of this surface and the areas where hydrologic recharge to the alluvial aquifer may occur. A set of piezometric-surface maps, together with hydrographs of observation wells, river stages, precipitation rates, and data on the hydrologic properties of the alluvium, makes it possible to calculate changes which take place in the aquifer. Further data are presented on the chemical quality of groundwater. The relevance of these data to engineering problems is discussed" (p. ix).
Date: September 1964
Creator: Krinitzsky, E. L. & Wire, J. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, July 1934 - April, 1935 (open access)

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 38, July 1934 - April, 1935

The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 307.
Date: 1935
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Validity of the Weighted Application Blank as a Predictor of Tenure in the Nursing Home Industry; A Test of Two Models (open access)

The Validity of the Weighted Application Blank as a Predictor of Tenure in the Nursing Home Industry; A Test of Two Models

The first purpose was to develop and validate a quantitative selection tool, the weighted application blank, tailored to the nursing home industry. The second purpose of this study was to determine whether data scaling and increased statistical rigor can reduce the frequency of type I and type II errors in the weighted application.
Date: May 1993
Creator: Kettlitz, Gary Russell
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shorter Contributions to General Geology, 1936 (open access)

Shorter Contributions to General Geology, 1936

From abstract: This report describes four species of Ostreidae from the Upper Cretaceous of the Gulf region. The zones that the species characterize lie either in the upper part of the Austin chalk or in beds of upper Austin age.
Date: 1940
Creator: Loughlin, G. F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Résumé of Producer-Gas Investigations: October 1, 1904-June 30, 1910 (open access)

Résumé of Producer-Gas Investigations: October 1, 1904-June 30, 1910

From Scope of Report: "The purpose of this report is, therefore, to present in convenient form all the more important data accumulated in the course of the tests described, in order that the results may be readily accessible both to the Government officials having charge of the design, purchase, or care of power plants and to all persons interested in the development of the internal-combustion engine and the gas producer as means for utilizing the energy of fuels."
Date: 1911
Creator: Fernald, R. H. & Smith, C. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ft. Leonard Wood Base Permit, Correspondence (open access)

Ft. Leonard Wood Base Permit, Correspondence

Ft. Leonard Wood Base Permit, Correspondence. Tabular data, memos, charts, graphs, maps, articles, and letters to the Commission regarding Ft. Leonard Wood. Box 11, A-013.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library