Extracting "Documents" from Web Archives

This presentation describes the process of using machine-learning algorithms to identify and extract publications from web archives.
Date: December 13, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reclaiming Female Virtue: Social Hygiene, Venereal Disease and Texas Reclamation Centers during World War I (open access)

Reclaiming Female Virtue: Social Hygiene, Venereal Disease and Texas Reclamation Centers during World War I

During the Progressive Era in the United States, social hygiene reformers underwent a fundamental change in their stance toward women accused of prostitution or promiscuous behavior. Rather than viewing such women as unfortunate victims of circumstance who were worthy of compassion, many Progressives deemed them as predatory villains who instead deserved incarceration, forced rehabilitation, and non-consenting medical interference. Texas, due to the many military bases within its borders, became a key battleground in this moral crusade against women as the carriers and proliferators of VD. "Promiscuous" women were seen as not only dangerous to the soldiers but also as a threat to the nation's security, creating an environment that led Texas Progressives to suppress women's civil liberties in the name of protecting soldiers. The catalyst for this change in attitude was World War I. The Great War brought to the forefront an unpleasant reality facing a significant percentage of America's fighting men: venereal disease. While combating sexually transmitted diseases was a serious medical and manpower concern for the military in the era before penicillin, the sole focus on women as the carriers and proliferators of VD led to a nationwide campaign against the "social evil" that demonized women and led …
Date: December 2018
Creator: Bridges, Jennifer
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forging Their Legacy: Cooperation and Accommodation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1848-1870 (open access)

Forging Their Legacy: Cooperation and Accommodation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, 1848-1870

Forging Their Legacy: Cooperation and Accommodation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley is an examination of the relationships created during the mid-nineteenth century between Anglo and Tejano elites in the five counties that make up the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Conducted through a quantitative lens, the five-chapter study seeks to demonstrate that, although the period between 1848 and 1870 was fraught with conflict and violence, the Anglo and Tejano elite of the Lower Rio Grande Valley came together in cooperation in order not only to survive these troubling times but to prosper. The thesis begins by identifying and analyzing the economic and political elite in the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the 1850s. A new crop of Anglo immigrants arrived with the Mexican-American War, but only a small number willing to assimilate to local Tejano culture were able to leave their mark on the Lower Valley. Chapter 4 relates the effect of the Civil War on the elite of the Lower Valley. It explores the profitable cotton trade during the war and the struggle that both Anglo and Tejano elites faced during Reconstruction. The thesis concludes with a macro-analysis of the twenty-two-year period from 1848-1870. It summarizes overall trends found …
Date: December 2018
Creator: Ballesteros, Nicholas A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dis/Appearance, In/Visibility and the Transitioning Body on Social Media: A Post-Qualitative and Multimodal Inquiry (open access)

Dis/Appearance, In/Visibility and the Transitioning Body on Social Media: A Post-Qualitative and Multimodal Inquiry

Text component of a doctoral dissertation, which references the full dissertation content in a multi-media web-based format. It includes a background statement, acknowledgements section, printed navigation guide and site map for the website, and a full list of references.
Date: December 2018
Creator: Jenkins, Kevin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 72, No. 4, Ed. 1, December 2018 (open access)

Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 72, No. 4, Ed. 1, December 2018

Monthly newsletter published by the 12th Armored Division Association, discussing news related to the activities of the U.S. Army unit and updates on previous members of the division.
Date: December 2018
Creator: Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garber-Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 119, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 2018 (open access)

Garber-Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 119, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 2018

Weekly newspaper from Garber, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 27, 2018
Creator: Deeds, Lacey
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

The San Saba Treasure: Legends of Silver Creek

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In 1868, four treasure hunters from San Marcos, Texas, searched for a lost mine on the San Saba River, near today’s Menard. It was popularized as folklore in J. Frank Dobie’s treasure legend classic Coronado’s Children. One hundred and fifty years later, a descendant of one of those four men set out to discover the history behind the legend. This book recounts that search, from the founding of the ill-fated 1757 mission on the San Saba River up to the last attempt, in 1990, to find the treasure in this particular legend. It describes Jim Bowie, a fake treasure map industry, murder trials, a rattlesnake dancer, fortunes lost, a very long Texas cave, and surprising twists to the story popularized by Dobie. The book will not lead anyone to the legendary ten-thousand pounds of silver, but it will open a treasure trove of Texas history and the unique characters who hunted the fabulous riches.
Date: December 2018
Creator: Lewis, David C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Episode 3: Annette Becker transcript

Episode 3: Annette Becker

Interview with Annette Becker for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) podcast. In this episode, Susan speaks with Annette Becker about her work as director of the Texas Fashion Collection at UNT.
Date: December 27, 2018
Creator: Supak, Susan & Becker, Annette
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes of Dallas Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, December 8, 2018] (open access)

[Minutes of Dallas Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution, December 8, 2018]

December 8, 2018 minutes for the Dallas Chapter of the Texas Sons of the American Revolution.
Date: December 8, 2018
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Dallas Chapter 2
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 2018 (open access)

The Express-Star (Chickasha, Okla.), Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 2018

Triweekly newspaper from Chickasha, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 6, 2018
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Shaping Hagiography through Liturgy: Music for the Patron Saints of Three Cathedrals in Medieval Aquitaine (open access)

Shaping Hagiography through Liturgy: Music for the Patron Saints of Three Cathedrals in Medieval Aquitaine

While the development of hagiography over time has long attracted the attention of medievalists, scholars have not fully explored the critical role of the liturgy in prompting and transmitting these changes. This dissertation examines the liturgies for the patron saints of three musical and ecclesiastical centers in medieval Aquitaine: the cathedrals of Saint-Trophime in Arles, Saint-Just-et-Saint-Pasteur in Narbonne, and Saint-Étienne in Toulouse. Through the music, texts, and ritual actions of the liturgy, the clerical communities of these three institutions reinforced some aspects of their patron saint's legendary biography and modified others. Yet the process unfolded differently at each cathedral, revealing the particular preferences of the canons of each community as well as their changing circumstances during the Middle Ages. In Arles, the office for St. Trophime, which was likely composed at the cathedral, shows dramatic changes in the saint's hagiography. The clerics in Narbonne also composed an office for their patron saints but did not substantially change the details of Justus and Pastor's legendary biography. In Toulouse, the canons selected from among the preexisting repertoire of chants and texts available for St. Stephen, crafting liturgies that were particular to Saint-Étienne within a clearly Aquitanian context. By revealing the ways in …
Date: December 2018
Creator: Recek, Andrea
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Compatriot, Winter 2018 (open access)

The Texas Compatriot, Winter 2018

Publication of the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, containing news and events related to the organization and its members.
Date: December 2018
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Main Street Matters, December 2018 (open access)

Main Street Matters, December 2018

Newsletter issued by the Texas Main Street Program discussing news, events, and other information related to the program as well as featuring designated participating communities and providing technical advice regarding conservation and restoration.
Date: December 2018
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 70, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 11, 2018 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 70, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 11, 2018
Creator: Einselen, Sarah
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 119, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2018 (open access)

Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 119, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2018

Weekly newspaper from Garber, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 13, 2018
Creator: Deeds, Lacey
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Model of Treatment Compliance Behavior of Patients with Chronic Disease in the Age of Predictive Medicine: The Role of Normative Beliefs (open access)

A Model of Treatment Compliance Behavior of Patients with Chronic Disease in the Age of Predictive Medicine: The Role of Normative Beliefs

The purposes of this study are: a) to understand the treatments compliance behavior of the patient with chronic disease at the behavioral level, particularly, the relationship between treatments compliance behavior and normative beliefs; b) develop a behavioral model of patient's treatments compliance behavior that could be used for predicting, combating, treating, tracking and controlling the treatments compliance behavior of the patients with chronic disease. Seventy-two patients from senior daycare centers in the Dallas area, who suffer or had suffered from at least, one chronic disease, participated in the study. Data gathering was conducted using paper-based questionnaire. The most significant finding of this study is the relationship between normative beliefs and the treatments compliance behavior of the patient with chronic disease. Normative beliefs were found to have significant impact on the treatments compliance intent and behavior of the patients with chronic disease. Another important finding showed that side-effects of prescribed treatments have little or no influence on the treatments compliance behavior of the patient with chronic disease. A relationship between the effectiveness of medicine, particularly, predictive medicine, and treatments compliance behavior was established. The design of the study was intended to provide coverages for a set of constructs that may be …
Date: December 2018
Creator: Imhonde, Benjamin A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 2018 (open access)

The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 2018

Weekly newspaper from Schulenburg, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 6, 2018
Creator: Prause, Diane & Vyvjala, Darrell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Marketing via E-mail Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency, and Relevance (open access)

Marketing via E-mail Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency, and Relevance

This article studies the marketing practices of predatory journals through the analysis of a a subset of the 1,816 e-mails received by a single university biology faculty member during a 24-month period.
Date: December 3, 2018
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Madasu, Dilip; Hawkins, Kevin S. & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 82, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 2018 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 82, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 2018

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 27, 2018
Creator: Einselen, Sarah
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Effects of an Instructional Package on the Emergence of Novel Intraverbals in Children with Autism (open access)

The Effects of an Instructional Package on the Emergence of Novel Intraverbals in Children with Autism

We evaluated the effects of an instructional package on the emergence of novel intraverbals in children diagnosed with autism. Participants were two boys with a diagnosis of autism who had tact and listener repertoires for common objects and events, some intraverbal responses, and showed an ability to learn new intraverbal responses through direct instruction prior to participating in the study. Tact training, listener training, sorting training, and mixed training (listener and tact training) were conducted with each participant, with a probe to test for emergent intraverbals following each training step. If some emergence was seen during a probe following a training step, probes were conducted with the remaining sets to test for emergence in those sets as well. Multiple-exemplar training was conducted following the training steps if all targets within a set did not meet the criterion for emergence during probes. Results showed that for one participant, all four training steps, in addition to multiple-exemplar training, were needed to see emergence in all targets during probes for two sets, with the last two sets requiring only tact training before all targets had emerged during probes. The second participant required only tact training during three sets, with listener training required for …
Date: December 2018
Creator: Macias, Heather A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Swisher County News (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 2018 (open access)

The Swisher County News (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 2018

Weekly newspaper from Tulia, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 6, 2018
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 66, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 5, 2018 (open access)

Gainesville Daily Register (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 129, No. 66, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Daily newspaper from Gainesville, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 5, 2018
Creator: Einselen, Sarah
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 50, Pages 7969-8186, December 14, 2018 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 50, Pages 7969-8186, December 14, 2018

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: December 14, 2018
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Autonomic Nerve Activity and Cardiovascular Function in the Chicken Embryo (Gallus gallus) (open access)

Autonomic Nerve Activity and Cardiovascular Function in the Chicken Embryo (Gallus gallus)

The goal of this study was to build on the historic use of the avian model of development and also to further the knowledge of autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation of cardiovascular function in vertebrates. Vasoactive drugs sodium nitroprusside, a vasodilator and phenylephrine, a vasoconstrictor were used to study the correlation of cardiovascular function relationship with nerve activity, both sympathetic and parasympathetic (vagal). Additionally, ANG II was used to assess its effects on vagal inhibition. The present study shows that pharmacologically-induced hypertension is associated with a fall in mSNA, indicating that the capacity for sympathetic autonomic cardiovascular regulation is established by late incubation however, late-stage embryonic chickens did not show a significant increase in mSNA during hypotension. The hypotensive response of the embryo was not accompanied by the expected inhibition of vagal discharge; however a slight but insignificant reduction in vagal discharge was noted. When vagal efferent output was isolated, a significant drop in vagal efferent activity was noted in response to hypotension. The present study showed late-stage embryonic chickens lack a vagal response to hypertension in both efferent and sensory limbs. In this study, vagal discharge was reduced from baseline levels in response to Ang II. Collectively, the present …
Date: December 2018
Creator: Onyemaechi, Clinton
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library