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HIV/AIDS Morbidity in Youths and Teens, Ages 13-24, in Texas Counties

This paper discusses research on HIV/AIDS morbidity in youth and teens, age 13-24, in Texas counties. Using case data provided by the Texas State Department of Health Services, this paper seeks to understand the spatial distribution of HIV/AIDS morbidity among youths and teens and the variables that are significantly related to the disease.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Hatton, Meagan & Oppong, Joseph R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Slave Cases (open access)

Texas Slave Cases

A document composed of brief descriptions of all cases in Texas where the enslaved served as plaintiffs, victims, property, or criminal defendants. The list was compiled by a criminal defense attorney who wanted to help historians with their research into legal cases involving enslaved people in Texas. The court cases are categorized in sections listed in the Table of Contents on page 2: Slaves under Spanish and Mexican Law, Freeing Slaves, Free Negroes of African Descent who Sold Themselves, Contracting with or Buying from Slaves, Testimony of Slaves, Losing Slaves, Stealing and Enticing Slaves, Loaning Slaves, Miscellaneous Prosecutions, Value of Slaves, Slaves as Gifts, Defective or Worthless Slaves, Title to Slaves, Other Property Disputes, When Civil War Began, Slavery Ended, and Confederate Money.
Date: 2018-08~
Creator: Hampton, Keith S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Keyword Extraction for Learning Object Repositories (open access)

Automatic Keyword Extraction for Learning Object Repositories

This article discusses automatic keyword extraction for learning object repositories.
Date: October 2008
Creator: Coursey, Kino High; Mihalcea, Rada, 1974- & Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
India: It's Been a Miracle (open access)

India: It's Been a Miracle

Paper documenting the life and experiences of India Coffield, wife of Frank Edward Coffield.
Date: 1976
Creator: Merrifield, Suzann
System: The Portal to Texas History
America 2000 and Special Education: Can the Two Be Merged? (open access)

America 2000 and Special Education: Can the Two Be Merged?

This paper uses systems theory and force field analysis to evaluate the potential for combining special education with America 2000 national educational strategy and goals.
Date: April 9, 1993
Creator: Pazey, Barbara L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Philosophy of Founders of Home Economics with Implications for Contemporary Home Economics Education (open access)

Philosophy of Founders of Home Economics with Implications for Contemporary Home Economics Education

Zella Patterson writes an academic paper regarding the history and development of home economics including legislation and projections for the future.
Date: November 21, 1967
Creator: Patterson, Zella
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wizard or Witch (open access)

Wizard or Witch

Research paper written by Laurelle Patricia Dunsavage for an American History Class at Marfa High School on March 3, 1977. It is about different types of healers in the hispanic culture and has a section defining the different herbs and their uses in remedies. Samples of the actual herbs are included in this report.
Date: March 3, 1977
Creator: Dunsavage, Laurelle Patricia
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electoral Decentralization in Ghana: What do Ghana's Local Governments Really Need for Economic Development? (open access)

Electoral Decentralization in Ghana: What do Ghana's Local Governments Really Need for Economic Development?

Paper accompanying a presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This paper discusses electoral decentralization in Ghana and what Ghana's local governments really need for economic development.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Nukpezah, Julius A. & Bediako, William Asare
System: The UNT Digital Library
The First World War: American Ideals and Wilsonian Idealism in Foreign Policy (open access)

The First World War: American Ideals and Wilsonian Idealism in Foreign Policy

This paper discusses research on foreign policy during the First World War.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Durant, Karis & Campbell, Randolph B., 1940-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Re-creating Mankind: The Philosophy and Actualization of the "New Soviet Man"

This paper reports on the author's research, which is fundamentally an exploration into the dynamics of what has been conceptualized as the "New Soviet Man."
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Savage, Jon & Velikanova, Olga V.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metacrisis of Meaning: Seeking Nature through Symbolic Metalanguage (open access)

Metacrisis of Meaning: Seeking Nature through Symbolic Metalanguage

This conference paper explores how what we perceive differs from what we believe. The authors bring three perspectives together with the aim of seeking meaning in our relationship with our natural “arena” through symbolic metalanguage:1) comprehending a gestalt approach to perception and narratives as metaphor; 2) gaining perceptual reciprocity to enhance our relationship with nature; 3) overcoming the obstacles of misinterpretation and unreliable narratives of the simulacra. It was presented at the 2022 Association of Philosophy and Literature Conference held May 25-28, 2022.
Date: May 26, 2022
Creator: Henson, Jim; Henson, Brea; Henson, Adam & Henson, Sue
System: The UNT Digital Library
Poe's Political Satire (open access)

Poe's Political Satire

Paper examining Edgar Allen Poe's political satire and "speculat[ing] on whether Poe attempted political satire before 1839" (p. 81).
Date: 1957
Creator: Whipple, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
The American Pattern (open access)

The American Pattern

An essay titled "The American Pattern," written by Elam J. Anderson, President of the University of Redlands in Redlands, California.
Date: 1941
Creator: Anderson, Elam J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mexican American Folklore: A Bibliography (open access)

Mexican American Folklore: A Bibliography

Paper discussing a course outline for a course in Mexican American Folklore. The course outline is followed by a bibliography of Mexican American Folklore that is divided into sections corresponding to the course outline.
Date: December 17, 1977
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wildllife of the Big Bend (open access)

Wildllife of the Big Bend

Research paper written for an American History Class at Marfa High School, describing a day in the Big Bend area and noting all the wildlife one might see. It includes free-hand drawings of many animals and birds.
Date: 1971
Creator: Slaton, Harvey
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conflict between trajectories and density description: the statistical source of disagreement (open access)

Conflict between trajectories and density description: the statistical source of disagreement

Paper discussing the statistical source of disagreement between trajectories and density description.
Date: December 2002
Creator: Allegrini, Paolo; Grigolini, Paolo; Palatella, Luigi & Rosa, Angelo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Innovations in Home Economics Higher Education (open access)

Innovations in Home Economics Higher Education

Zella Patterson writes an academic paper describing the innovations of home economics.
Date: December 14, 1967
Creator: Patterson, Zella
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
For-Profit Versus Nonprofit Microfinance: How are the poor affected? (open access)

For-Profit Versus Nonprofit Microfinance: How are the poor affected?

This paper discusses research on the microfinance industry, for-profit versus nonprofit models, and the efficacy of microfinance in alleviating poverty.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Weinberg, Brian R.; Cox, Gloria C. & McPherson, Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management (open access)

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management

The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. The conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, and the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Heisig, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library