Healthcare for Uninsured Children: Where We Are and Where We Are Going (open access)

Healthcare for Uninsured Children: Where We Are and Where We Are Going

Paper examines the state of children's healthcare and explores options for expanding care to more uninsured children.
Date: 2009
Creator: Grant, Scott
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tuberculosis and the Asian Population of Tarrant County, Texas

Presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing tuberculosis (TB) among foreign-born Asians living in Tarrant County, Texas.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: McCallister, Jessica & Oppong, Joseph R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Phenylpropanoid glycosyltransferases from osage orange (Maclura pomifera) fruit (open access)

Phenylpropanoid glycosyltransferases from osage orange (Maclura pomifera) fruit

Article on phenylpropanoid glycosyltransferases from osage orange (Maclura pomifera) fruit.
Date: December 22, 2006
Creator: Tian, Li; Blount, Jack W. & Dixon, R. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tuberculosis and the Asian Population of Tarrant County, Texas (open access)

Tuberculosis and the Asian Population of Tarrant County, Texas

The research in this paper examines the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) among foreign-born Asians living in Tarrant County, Texas.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: McCallister, Jessica & Oppong, Joseph R.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Art therapy and music reminiscence activity in the prevention of cognitive decline: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (open access)

Art therapy and music reminiscence activity in the prevention of cognitive decline: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

This article explores the feasibility of using art therapy and music reminiscence activity to improve the cognition of community living elderly with mild cognitive impairment.
Date: July 12, 2017
Creator: Mahendran, Rathi; Rawtaer, Iris; Fam, Johnson; Wong, Jonathan; Kumar, Alan Prem; Gandhi, Mihir et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Get Up and Move: Independence and Maneuverability Related to Regular Exercise among Non-institutionalized Elderly Adults (open access)

Get Up and Move: Independence and Maneuverability Related to Regular Exercise among Non-institutionalized Elderly Adults

This paper discusses a research study on independence and maneuverability related to regular exercise among non-institutionalized elderly adults.
Date: March 29, 2007
Creator: Swan, James H. & Soltau, Heather
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Tiny Zebrafish and Their Surprisingly Human-Like Genome Can Benefit Medical Research captions transcript

How Tiny Zebrafish and Their Surprisingly Human-Like Genome Can Benefit Medical Research

Presentation highlighting the use of zebrafish to identify genes relating to predisposition to thromboembolism and cardiovascular disease in people with African ancestry. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 21, 2020
Creator: Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Insecurity and Related Health Problems Among Children in Denton, Texas (open access)

Food Insecurity and Related Health Problems Among Children in Denton, Texas

Paper examines the geography and consequences of food insecurity in Denton, TX.
Date: 2013
Creator: Kouchade, Bissilola
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanistic Knowledge and Public Opinion of GMOs (open access)

Mechanistic Knowledge and Public Opinion of GMOs

Paper explores how mechanistic learning affects participants’ knowledge and opinions of GMOs, as well as retention of knowledge and opinions.
Date: 2017
Creator: Haskell, Allison
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Issue of the Well-being of Illegal Immigrant Children

Presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the well-being of illegal immigrant children.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Nachirou, Teskiratou & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of the eSensor® XT-8 System for Determining CYP2C9 and VKORC1 Genotypes to Aid in Correct Warfarin Dosing (open access)

Evaluation of the eSensor® XT-8 System for Determining CYP2C9 and VKORC1 Genotypes to Aid in Correct Warfarin Dosing

Paper discusses the capabilities of the eSensor® XT-8, which is designed to assist doctors in determining the dose and effectiveness of warfarin in patients by detecting polymorphisms in the genes CYP2C9 and VKORC1.
Date: 2009
Creator: Kirk, Jason
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are Tourists Facilitators of the Movement of Free-Ranging Dogs? (open access)

Are Tourists Facilitators of the Movement of Free-Ranging Dogs?

Article discusses how free-ranging dogs are of major conservation concern worldwide as they negatively affect wildlife. Although scientists and governmental agencies are aware of the problem and responsible pet ownership strategies are beginning to be implemented, the tourism sector must be explicitly integrated into wildlife conservation management strategies.
Date: December 16, 2022
Creator: Schüttler, Elke & Jiménez, Jaime E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of the Effect of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Subgingival Plaque Microbiota by High-Throughput 16S rDNA Pyrosequencing (open access)

Investigation of the Effect of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Subgingival Plaque Microbiota by High-Throughput 16S rDNA Pyrosequencing

Article discussing the bacterial composition of subgingival plaque among diabetic and non-diabetic subjects to determine the effect that diabetes mellitus has on dental health.
Date: April 22, 2013
Creator: Zhou, Mi; Rong, Ruichen; Munro, Daniel; Zhu, Chunxia; Gao, Xiang; Zhang, Qi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gray Wolf Exposure to Emerging Vector-Borne Diseases in Wisconsin with Comparison to Domestic Dogs and Humans (open access)

Gray Wolf Exposure to Emerging Vector-Borne Diseases in Wisconsin with Comparison to Domestic Dogs and Humans

This article contains the evaluation of temporal and geographic patterns of exposure to these four vector-borne diseases in Wisconsin as the Gray Wolf population expanded between 1985 and 2011.
Date: November 29, 2016
Creator: Jara Miller, Rocio F.; Wydeven, Adrian P. & Samuel, Michael D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Zebrafish Genetics: Functional Genomics captions transcript

Zebrafish Genetics: Functional Genomics

Video recording of Dr. Pudur Jagadeeswaran's presentation, "Zebrafish Genetics: Functional Genomics." It focuses on blood coagulation pathways in studying functional genomics. It was presented at the Transdisciplinary Ancestral Genomic Research Investigations (TAGRI) II Conference held online November 5-6, 2021.
Date: November 5, 2021
Creator: Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vehicle emissions-exposure alters expression of systemic and tissue-specific components of the renin-angiotensin system and promotes outcomes associated with cardiovascular disease and obesity in wild-type C57BL/6 male mice (open access)

Vehicle emissions-exposure alters expression of systemic and tissue-specific components of the renin-angiotensin system and promotes outcomes associated with cardiovascular disease and obesity in wild-type C57BL/6 male mice

This article investigates the hypothesis that exposure to engine emissions increases systemic and local adipocyte RAS signaling, promoting the expression of factors involved in cardiovascular disease and obesity.
Date: April 15, 2021
Creator: Phipps, Benjamin L.; Suwannasual, Usa; Lucero, JoAnn; Mitchell, Nicholas A. & Lund, Amie K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants (open access)

One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants

Article describes the results of the One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative's efforts to sequence the vegetative transcriptomes of 1,124 species that span the diversity of plants in a broad sense (Archaeplastida), including green plants (Viridiplantae), glaucophytes (Glaucophyta) and red algae (Rhodophyta).
Date: October 23, 2019
Creator: One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library