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Changes in Endothelial Markers during a Summer Ultra-Endurance Road Cycling Event in the Heat (open access)

Changes in Endothelial Markers during a Summer Ultra-Endurance Road Cycling Event in the Heat

This article assesses the impact of completing a 164 km road cycling event performed in a hot environment (Wichita Falls, Texas in August), on endothelial biomarkers and resultant risk of blood clots in men and women.
Date: August 22, 2016
Creator: Kupchak, B. R.; Kazman, J. B.; Umeda, E. A.; Vingren, Jakob L.; Lee, Elaine C.; Armstrong, Lawrence E. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Naming Her World: A Freirean Analysis of a Young Woman with Asperger Syndrome's Post-High-School Experience (open access)

Naming Her World: A Freirean Analysis of a Young Woman with Asperger Syndrome's Post-High-School Experience

This article seeks to better understand to what extent the Individual Education Plan (IEP) adequately prepared one girl for major life transitions following high-school graduation.
Date: October 2013
Creator: Sayman, Donna M. & Krutka, Daniel G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Access to Geographical Information in Library Catalogs: a Case Study (open access)

Access to Geographical Information in Library Catalogs: a Case Study

Conference paper exploring three case studies on how methods of retrieval of geographic data offered by libraries. The online catalog (Case no. 1) includes various materials available to users. Case no. 2 is Special Collections in general, including the Portal to Texas History. Case no. 3 is a particular collection digitized by UNT: The map collection of the University of Texas at Arlington.
Date: 2015
Creator: Hartsock, Ralph & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Evans and Clark Families: Borderlands Legacies in Western Oklahoma, 1875-1950 (open access)

The Evans and Clark Families: Borderlands Legacies in Western Oklahoma, 1875-1950

Article uses the lives of the Evans and Clark families to demonstrate evolving systems of racial discrimination in the emerging state of Oklahoma.
Date: Summer 2018
Creator: Truden, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Leukocyte Subset Changes in Response to a 164-km Road Cycle Ride in a Hot Environment (open access)

Leukocyte Subset Changes in Response to a 164-km Road Cycle Ride in a Hot Environment

This article determines the circulating leukocyte subset response to completing the 2013 Hotter'N Hell Hundred recreational 164-km road cycle event in a hot and humid environmental condition.
Date: January 15, 2016
Creator: Luk, Hui-Ying; McKenzie, Amy L.; Duplanty, Anthony A.; Budnar, Ronald; Levitt, Danielle; Fernandez, Alex et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
For the Record, Spring 2019 (open access)

For the Record, Spring 2019

For the Record section including the minutes of the quarterly board meeting of the Oklahoma Historical Society that was held on October 24, 2018 as well as the following lists: "New Members, October-November-December 2018" and "Twenty-Year Members, October-November-December 2018."
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Turning to the Right: More Oil Patch Songs from Oklahoma (open access)

Turning to the Right: More Oil Patch Songs from Oklahoma

Article analyzes the music of the oil patch and its impact on the oil industry and society as a whole. This is a continuation of "Boomers and Boomtowns: Oil Patch Songs from Oklahoma," published in Volume 90, Number 3, Fall 2012.
Date: Winter 2015
Creator: Specht, Joe W.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Modelling spatial concordance between Rocky Mountain spotted fever disease incidence and habitat probability of its vector Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick) (open access)

Modelling spatial concordance between Rocky Mountain spotted fever disease incidence and habitat probability of its vector Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick)

This article reports on the development and comparison of two maps of Texas related to Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Date: November 1, 2012
Creator: Atkinson, Samuel F.; Sarkar, Sahotra; Avina, Aldo; Schuermann, Jim A. & Williamson, Phillip C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quanah Parker's Star House: A Comanche Home Along the White Man's Road (open access)

Quanah Parker's Star House: A Comanche Home Along the White Man's Road

Article describes the history of Star House and the influential Comanche leader, Quanah Parker, who established it. Larry C. Floyd provides background details of the difficult times Quanah Parker faced as a youth and his rise to become the shrewd businessman and political intermediary who entertained politicians, generals and wealthy cattlemen within his home.
Date: Summer 2012
Creator: Floyd, Larry C.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Interspecific Differences in Metabolic Rate and Metabolic Temperature Sensitivity Create Distinct Thermal Ecological Niches in Lizards (Plestiodon) (open access)

Interspecific Differences in Metabolic Rate and Metabolic Temperature Sensitivity Create Distinct Thermal Ecological Niches in Lizards (Plestiodon)

This article examines three congeneric lizards from the southeastern United States (Plestiodon fasciatus, P. inexpectatus, and P. laticeps) and hypothesizes that interspecific differences in metabolic temperature sensitivity locally segregates them across their total range.
Date: October 19, 2016
Creator: Watson, Charles M. & Burggren, Warren W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reglamentos De Caza Y Pesca (open access)

Reglamentos De Caza Y Pesca

This book is part of the collection entitled: Texas State Publications and was provided by UNT Libraries Government Documents Department to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Riverboat Frontier: Early-Day Commerce in the Arkansas and Red River Valleys (open access)

The Riverboat Frontier: Early-Day Commerce in the Arkansas and Red River Valleys

Article outlines the history of riverboats and their passengers on the Arkansas and Red River Valleys, from early French fur traders who bartered with neighboring Native American tribes to the merchants and travelers that traversed the rivers on steamboats. Michael J. Hightower touches on the marks left on the land by those seeking its resources, as well as the natural disasters that befell riverboat pioneers.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Hightower, Michael J.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Transcontinental Crossroads: Oklahoma's Lighted Airways in the 1930s (open access)

Transcontinental Crossroads: Oklahoma's Lighted Airways in the 1930s

Article describes how Oklahoma became a crossroads in the coast-to-coast lighted airmail delivery system in the 1930s and the social, technological, and cultural developments that accompanied this advancement.
Date: Summer 2010
Creator: Wikle, Thomas A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Custer's Last Campaign of Sheridan's 1868-69 Winter Offensive (open access)

Custer's Last Campaign of Sheridan's 1868-69 Winter Offensive

Article explores the written accounts of the Sheridan Winter Offensive campaign of 1868-1869 and provides prospective answers to the nearly 150-year-old question of the route the regiment traveled.
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: Beemer, Rod
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Victory Loan Flying Circus in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, May 2-3, 1919 (open access)

The Victory Loan Flying Circus in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, May 2-3, 1919

Article chronicles the two days that the Flying Circus spent in Oklahoma City and Tulsa in 1919 and emphasizes the impact of its exhibitions on the future of aviation in the state.
Date: Summer 2019
Creator: Roesler, Alan L.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
"Getting Our Equipment Soon - I Hope So Anyway": Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, and American Artillery in World War I (open access)

"Getting Our Equipment Soon - I Hope So Anyway": Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, and American Artillery in World War I

Article describes how Camp Doniphan on the Fort Sill Reservation functioned as a training center for American troops in World War I. Due to the large influx of recruits and lack of supplies and equipment, the soldiers were underprepared for actual combat, and their difficulties are reflected in personal accounts.
Date: Spring 2017
Creator: Prince, Justin
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
World War II and the Story of Douglas Aircraft Plants in Tulsa and Midwest City (open access)

World War II and the Story of Douglas Aircraft Plants in Tulsa and Midwest City

Article describes the history of military aircraft construction in Oklahoma during World War II, focusing on two Douglas Aircraft plants in Tulsa and Midwest City and the communities surrounding them.
Date: Winter 2017
Creator: Wikle, Thomas A.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History