Student Perception of Feral Cats and Their Effects on Campus Wildlife (open access)

Student Perception of Feral Cats and Their Effects on Campus Wildlife

Undergraduate thesis exploring feral cat management. In many urban areas, feral cat (Felis catus) populations are so large that they have become a nuisance. The goal of this thesis is to understand student perception of the University of North Texas Feral Cat Rescue Group (FCRG) program, a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program on campus. In particular, the author focuses on the role that ecological information has in shaping student opinions about cats and conservation.
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Dombrosky, Jonathan
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growing local foods movements: Farmers' markets as nodes for products and community in Dallas/Fort Worth (open access)

Growing local foods movements: Farmers' markets as nodes for products and community in Dallas/Fort Worth

Undergraduate thesis building on Feagan's (2007) analysis of ideas of community and place, and Kloppenburg et al.'s (1996) concept of foodsheds, and a modified form of drive-time polygons, termed 'marketsheds' that demarcate the consumer-draw area for farmers' markets. Specifically, the research analyzes the spatial distribution of local food communities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW) in Texas and links the foodshed concept to elements of community and sense of place. Two questions guide this study: 1) What are the characteristics of the DFW local foods movement? 2) How do local food producers create and conceptualize community and place?
Date: 2013~/2014~
Creator: Aucoin, Martin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Size Matters: Strength of Force in Peace Building Missions (open access)

Size Matters: Strength of Force in Peace Building Missions

Paper analyzes the correlation between the size of a peacekeeping force and the likelihood of peacekeeping failures.
Date: 2013
Creator: Fink, Frances Reka
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology Support for Student Behavioral Development (open access)

Technology Support for Student Behavioral Development

Paper analyzes the effectiveness of ClassDoJo in assisting third grade teachers with behavioral management.
Date: 2013
Creator: Pound, Kaitlyn
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Institutional Variety in Latin American Microfinance on Its Borrowers (open access)

The Impact of Institutional Variety in Latin American Microfinance on Its Borrowers

Paper explores the effectiveness of heterogeneous and homogeneous microfinance systems, with a focus on performance in Latin America.
Date: 2013
Creator: Nelson, Jenna
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library