Heritage as businesses: COVID-19 disruptions to Texas museum, heritage sites, parks, and protected places, and their responses to evolving guidance (open access)

Heritage as businesses: COVID-19 disruptions to Texas museum, heritage sites, parks, and protected places, and their responses to evolving guidance

Article describes how the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted business services across all industries. In this study, the authors examine the impact during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic on Texas museums, heritage sites, parks, and protected places with a focus on the evolving, and often conflicting, government policies.
Date: November 27, 2023
Creator: Lavy, Brendan L.; Zavar, Elyse & Tamima, Salvesila
System: The UNT Digital Library
A retrospective cross-national examination of COVID-19 outbreak in 175 countries: a multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis (January 11-June 28, 2020) (open access)

A retrospective cross-national examination of COVID-19 outbreak in 175 countries: a multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis (January 11-June 28, 2020)

Article is a study that retrospectively examined the health and social determinants of the COVID-19 outbreak in 175 countries from a spatial epidemiological approach.
Date: September 30, 2020
Creator: Iyanda, Ayodeji Emmanuel; Adeleke, Richard; Lu, Yongmei; Osayomi, Tolulope; Adaralegbe, Adeleye; Lasode, Mayowa et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recovering the urban forest: The role of trees, tree culture, and place attachment before and after Hurricane Harvey (open access)

Recovering the urban forest: The role of trees, tree culture, and place attachment before and after Hurricane Harvey

Article asserts that trees can be powerful symbols that contribute to the production and consumption of places. Drawing from multiple sources and participant observations from repeated site visits, the authors analyzed references to Rockport-Fulton’s trees in news media, organizational communications, and public exhibits before and after Harvey to understand the area’s tree culture and its associated discourses.
Date: April 18, 2023
Creator: Lavy, Brendan L. & Zavar, Elyse
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progenitor cell therapy for acquired pediatric nervous system injury: Traumatic brain injury and acquired sensorineural hearing loss (open access)

Progenitor cell therapy for acquired pediatric nervous system injury: Traumatic brain injury and acquired sensorineural hearing loss

Article suggesting that multipotent stem cell therapies can achieve therapeutic effect by altering the immune response to injury, thereby limiting damage due to inflammation and possibly improving outcomes in patients with neurological conditions such as traumatic brain injury and hearing loss.
Date: October 9, 2020
Creator: Baumgartner, James E.; Baumgartner, Linda S.; Baumgartner, Michael E.; Moore, Ernest J.; Messina, Steven; Seidman, Michael et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library