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Ecological model links proto-oncogene to high incidence of metastatic cancers in African-Americans (open access)

Ecological model links proto-oncogene to high incidence of metastatic cancers in African-Americans

This article describes an ecological model that identifies the underlying reasons for the pattern of cancer susceptibility in Americans of African descent.
Date: September 3, 2018
Creator: Hilliard, Constance
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Talkin' to Texans and Other Americans: Music Oral History Project Perspectives: The Founding of the Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association (open access)

Talkin' to Texans and Other Americans: Music Oral History Project Perspectives: The Founding of the Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association

This narrative centers on the start of the Texas chapter of the Music Library Association. The author gives the history and events that led up to the creation of the chapter, highlighting individuals that played a large role. This document played a part in a presentation given on behalf of the Oral History Committee at the national meeting of the Music Library Association in Dallas, Texas in 2012.
Date: 2012
Creator: Arnold, Donna M.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sedentary Behaviors and Obesity in a Low-Income, Ethnic-Minority Population (open access)

Sedentary Behaviors and Obesity in a Low-Income, Ethnic-Minority Population

This article examines sedentary pastimes specifically in low-income, minority communities in the United States.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Shuval, Kerem; Leonard, Tammy; Murdoch, James; O'Brien Caughy, Margaret; Kohl, Harold W. & Sugg Skinner, Celette
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Forgiveness and Loneliness in HIV+ African-American Women: Anxiety's Correlates

Poster examining how forgiveness influences loneliness and anxiety in African-American women living with HIV.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hill, Jonathan & Vosvick, Mark A.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dementia and COVID-19 among Older African American Adults: A Scoping Review of Healthcare Access and Resources (open access)

Dementia and COVID-19 among Older African American Adults: A Scoping Review of Healthcare Access and Resources

Article discusses how African American/Black communities comprise 12.2% of the U.S. population, with a COVID-19 infection rate of more than 18% and marginal access to healthcare services. This scoping review synthesizes the emerging evidence on healthcare accessibility among older African American adult communities with dementia and COVID-19, as well as the resource requirements for this population during the pandemic.
Date: February 16, 2023
Creator: Udoh, Idorenyin Imoh; Mpofu, Elias & Prybutok, Gayle
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lessons from #McKinney: Social Media and the Interactive Construction of Police Brutality (open access)

Lessons from #McKinney: Social Media and the Interactive Construction of Police Brutality

This article explores how users of three social media platforms interpreted the June 2015 incident in which a police officer attempted to apprehend an African-American girl at a pool party in McKinney, Texas.
Date: 2017
Creator: Clark, Meredith D.; Bland, Dorothy & Livingston, Jo Ann
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extension of the Behavioral Model of Healthcare Utilization with Ethnically Diverse, Low-Income Women (open access)

Extension of the Behavioral Model of Healthcare Utilization with Ethnically Diverse, Low-Income Women

Article on the extension of the behavioral model of healthcare utilization with ethnically diverse, low-income women.
Date: February 2002
Creator: Keenan, Lisa A.; Marshall, Linda L. & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trusting Sources of Information on Quality of Physician Care (open access)

Trusting Sources of Information on Quality of Physician Care

Article studying the contextual and personal characteristics that influence patient-consumers’ decisions to trust or ignore information sources about healthcare quality.
Date: August 24, 2020
Creator: Moore, Ami R.; Hudson, Cassie; Chumbler, Neale & Amey, Foster
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creation and Evolution: What Should We Teach? (open access)

Creation and Evolution: What Should We Teach?

Keynote address for the 2005 University of Scholars Day delivered by Dr. Eugenie C. Scott. This keynote speaker discusses an overview of the foundations of the creation/evolution debate in the United States today.
Date: March 31, 2005
Creator: Scott, Eugenie Carol, 1945-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dharmic Method to Save the Planet (open access)

The Dharmic Method to Save the Planet

This article discusses environmentalism and ways in which dharmic methods can help save the planet. While most Americans are familiar with the terms such as "yoga" and "Bollywood," Indian perspectives toward the ecology seem to be largely unknown.
Date: May 12, 2011
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comprehensive comparison of Apple Watch and Fitbit monitors in a free-living setting (open access)

Comprehensive comparison of Apple Watch and Fitbit monitors in a free-living setting

This article evaluates the accuracy of three consumer-based activity monitors, Fitbit Charge 2, Fitbit Alta, and the Apple Watch 2, all worn on the wrist, in estimating step counts, moderate-to-vigorous minutes (MVPA), and heart rate in a free-living setting.
Date: May 26, 2021
Creator: Bai, Yang; Tompkins, Connie; Gell, Nancy; Dione, Dakota; Zhang, Tao & Byun, Wonwoo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Can Regular and Special Education be Integrated into One System? Political Culture Theory May Have the Answer (open access)

Can Regular and Special Education be Integrated into One System? Political Culture Theory May Have the Answer

This paper examines proposals to integrate regular and special education.
Date: October 1993
Creator: Pazey, Barbara L.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technologies to Support End of Life Care (open access)

Technologies to Support End of Life Care

Article discussing the current level of utilization of informatics systems in hospice and palliative care and two projects that highlight the role of informatics applications for hospice informal caregivers.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Demiris, George; Oliver, Debra Parker & Wittenberg-Lyles, Elaine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental History of Dharmic Communities transcript

Environmental History of Dharmic Communities

Presentation for the Dallas Philosophers Forum. This presentation discusses the intertwining of environmentalism in the dharmic practices of traditional grass-roots rural communities such as Bishnois, Bhils, and Swadhyaya.
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
University of North Texas Libraries Grant History: 2000-2015 (open access)

University of North Texas Libraries Grant History: 2000-2015

This document lists all grants given to the University of North Texas Libraries from 2000 to 2015. The projects that were funded by these grants are summarized.
Date: 2015
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Internet and College Students' Motivation to Vote (open access)

The Internet and College Students' Motivation to Vote

This article investigates the impact of the political information available on-line on college students’ motivation to vote. The results illustrate that not only politicians, but educators should be cognizant of this civic engagement process. Schools and teachers of all levels are one the front lines of the battle to create a more informed, more involved citizenry; higher education has a strong influence on motivation to vote.
Date: March 1, 2004
Creator: White, Amy E. & King, Kimi L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The roles of stress, self-distraction and behavioral disengagement: Perceived stigma in HIV-positive individuals

Paper on denial, daily hassles, and health distress in HIV positive individuals. The authors' findings are important from a therapeutic perspective, and suggest that experiencing hassles and choosing to use denial as a coping strategy are associated with more health distress.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Gomez, Brooke; Chng, Chwee-Lye & Vosvick, Mark A.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

We Need Diverse Resources

This was presented at the Brick and Click conference in 2019 at Northwest Missouri State University. It focused on building a diverse collection of resources and creating a welcoming space for all.
Date: November 1, 2019
Creator: Monahan, Jo
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response to Intervention: Perspectives of General and Special Education Professionals (open access)

Response to Intervention: Perspectives of General and Special Education Professionals

This article describes implications for school leadership and the need for preservice and continuing professional development concerning all aspects of response to intervention (RTI).
Date: March 2014
Creator: Bineham, Susan C.; Shelby, Liz; Pazey, Barbara L. & Yates, James R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (open access)

Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

Article describes an estimate of age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality between 1970 and 2016 for 195 countries and territories and at the subnational level for the five countries with a population greater than 200 million in 2016.
Date: September 16, 2017
Creator: GBD 2016 Mortality Collaborators
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Changing Use of Health Care Services Among Unmarried Older Women: 1969 - 1975 (open access)

The Changing Use of Health Care Services Among Unmarried Older Women: 1969 - 1975

Research report proposal presented to the Andrus Foundation on the changing use of health care services among unmarried older women from 1969 to 1975.
Date: June 17, 1980
Creator: Martin, Cora A. & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Training Employees With Disabilities: Strategies from Corporate Training (open access)

Training Employees With Disabilities: Strategies from Corporate Training

Article discussing strategies used by corporate trainers to effectively teach populations with disabilities in their corporate workplace.
Date: 1996
Creator: Allen, Jeff M. & Walker, Michelle
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A World Famous, Yet Unknown, Countertenor: Basile Bolotine of Serge Jaroff’s Don Cossack Choir (open access)

A World Famous, Yet Unknown, Countertenor: Basile Bolotine of Serge Jaroff’s Don Cossack Choir

This article concerns the artistry and career of Basile Bolotine, 1895-1981, a beloved countertenor soloist in Serge Jaroff's Don Cossack Choir. It was a world-famous a cappella Russian emigre ensemble that toured extensively all over the non-Soviet world for nearly sixty years. Bolotine had a long tenure with them, and through his recorded legacy, his music is still cherished. However, his name has remained largely unknown. This essay introduces him by name to those who have and have not yet experienced his music.
Date: March 2022
Creator: Arnold, Donna M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

High-Performing Self-Managed Work Teams: A Comparison of Theory to Practice

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Book discussing high-performing self-managed work teams and a comparison of theory of practice.
Date: 1998
Creator: Yeatts, Dale E., 1952- & Hyten, Cloyd
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library