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Malnutrition And Food Aid Programs: A Case Study From Guatemala (open access)

Malnutrition And Food Aid Programs: A Case Study From Guatemala

This report is on a case study from Guatemala on malnutrition and food aid programs. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of food aid and/or food aid programs on the nutritional status of its recipients in two regions of Guatemala. From this investigation, empirically-based programmatic statements as to the role of food aid and its impact on human society will be presented.
Date: May 1982
Creator: Rodeheaver, Daniel Gilbert, 1954-; Bates, Frederick L. & Murphy, Arthur D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Citing UNT: Scholarly Works that have Utilized UNT Resources (open access)

Citing UNT: Scholarly Works that have Utilized UNT Resources

This document is a citation list of the scholarly works that were found to have utilized University of North Texas (UNT) resources.
Date: 2011
Creator: Wilson, Kristi & LeBlanc, Danielle
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT Speaks Out On Coming Home captions transcript

UNT Speaks Out On Coming Home

This video recording is of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Coming Home. This series features presentations by Dr. Shelley Riggs, Dr. Adriel Boals, and Doctoral Student Cindy Hasio. Dr. Shelley Riggs is a professor of psychology, director of the Family Attachment Lab, and is conducting the Student Veteran Research Project at the University of North Texas (UNT). She discusses the family relationships of veterans after deployment. Dr. Adriel Boals is professor of psychology and has a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to study innovative approaches to understanding and treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other responses to trauma and stress. He discusses what PTSD is and what causes it. Cindy Hasio is a doctoral student in the College of Visual Arts and Design. She discusses methods and findings from a project she participated in related to how veterans narrated their experiences through art. Her component of the study evaluated participants and described what they gained through creating arts and crafts. Stuart Presley, Domingo Rodriguez, and James Rumor are a panel of three student veterans who describe their experiences after deployment.
Date: November 15, 2012
Creator: University of North Texas. Libraries.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

By Popular Demand: Modifying Library Policies to Improve User Experience

Presentation given at the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. This presentation explains the UNT Libraries' policies and modifications that have been made to improve services to users. It emphasizes the importance of asking for input from stakeholders and also argues that updating policies accordingly can show to users that their feedback and comments are taken seriously.
Date: 2018
Creator: Keshmiripour, Setareh; Johnston, Pamela & Cunningham, Chris
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document (open access)

UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document

The UNT Libraries: TRAC Conformance Document is designed to supplement and provide extended reference to the UNT Libraries’ TRAC Audit Checklist (Appendix A), which outlines the requirements of a Trusted Digital Repository. The self assessment of the UNT Libraries and its Digital Collections encompasses an evaluation of its associated policies, procedures, workflows, modelling, and technical infrastructure in the TRAC audit process.
Date: October 2015
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Krahmer, Ana; Tarver, Hannah & Waugh, Laura
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Libraries: Building Collections and Collaborations

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation provides an overview of digital preservation collections in the UNT Digital Library.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Turning Students On To Your Library's Web Site: using web site usability techniques to improve student use of your library's site (open access)

Turning Students On To Your Library's Web Site: using web site usability techniques to improve student use of your library's site

This paper introduces the concept of web site usability, provides a brief introduction to the techniques, offers examples from two “real life” studies that show how the techniques of formal usability studies, focus groups, and card sorts can be used and offers tips and tricks for employing these techniques.
Date: February 5, 2004
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
School counseling prevention programming to address social determinants of mental health (open access)

School counseling prevention programming to address social determinants of mental health

Article describes how school counselors can utilize the Advocating Student-within-Environment (ASE) theoretical lens as a liberation approach to strengthening students' capacity to overcome persistent adversity while addressing root causes of systemic oppression through policy change and advocacy at the school, community, and national levels. This study provides school counselors with an overview of ASE as a theoretical foundation for addressing social determinants of mental health in schools.
Date: May 13, 2023
Creator: Johnson, Kaprea F.; Kim, Hyunhee; Molina, Citlali E.; Thompson, Kaleb A.; Henry, Sarah & Zyromski, Brett
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communication Skills for the 21st Century (open access)

Communication Skills for the 21st Century

Coursebook developed for pre-intermediate to intermediate English language learners. The course focuses on improving students' reading, listening and speaking skills. There is a focus on teaching discreet skills such as main idea, supporting details, making inferences, identifying referents and using context clues while reading. Specific speaking strategies are taught to improve fluency. Academic vocabulary is taught explicitly and implicitly. Book A topics: sleep, fashion, historical figures Ruby Bridges and Harriet Tubman Book B topics: Distractions, family, and the World Cup
Date: 2022
Creator: Geary, Shannon
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
"No More Cakes and Ale?" Discovering Ethical Gray Areas in a Design Anthropology Class (open access)

"No More Cakes and Ale?" Discovering Ethical Gray Areas in a Design Anthropology Class

This article examines how ethics were learned in a design anthropology class.
Date: 2014
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Aiken, Jo & Schlieder, Victoria
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Heart of Librarianship: A Topical Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries (open access)

The Heart of Librarianship: A Topical Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries

This literature review provides an overview of outreach in academic libraries over the last five years. The review aims to centralize the common activities and general purposes of outreach while also bringing emphasis to more strategic outreach efforts such as the incorporation of learning outcomes and assessment into outreach. The review also provides commentary on how outreach can be used to affect information literacy and research.
Date: July 5, 2019
Creator: Henson, Brea
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Statewide Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Texas Woman's University (open access)

The Statewide Economic and Fiscal Impacts of Texas Woman's University

This document reports the findings of an analysis conducted by the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research of the statewide economic and fiscal impacts of Texas Woman's University (TWU) campuses in Denton, Dallas, and Houston.
Date: September 2005
Creator: Clower, Terry L. & Weinstein, Bernard L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature (open access)

Book Review: The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

Book Review of "The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature" written by David George Haskell.
Date: August 16, 2016
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Texas Catholic Missions Travel Guide

This presentation describes the use of The Portal to Texas History in the classroom through a lesson plan creating a journey through Spanish Missions in Texas.
Date: March 30, 2016
Creator: Monahan, Jo
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s (open access)

The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s

This book chapter discusses the peasant union movement and the quest for the political organization of peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s.
Date: 2007
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Pedagogy: Translation for Education that is Multicultural (open access)

Critical Pedagogy: Translation for Education that is Multicultural

Article on a study examining the translation of multicultural learning activities in a college classroom into critical pedagogy in the public school classrooms.
Date: 2001
Creator: Moss, Glenda
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jainism, Dharma, and Environmental Ethics (open access)

Jainism, Dharma, and Environmental Ethics

Article discussing the absence of a formal category of environmental ethics in Jainism and Jainism's historical relationship to environmental ethics.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Student, School, Parent Connectedness, and School Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Saudi Arabia (open access)

Student, School, Parent Connectedness, and School Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Saudi Arabia

This article investigates select school behaviors, including school absenteeism, engaging in fights, and discipline for misconduct at school as well as their association with the school environment, school and home connectedness.
Date: October 31, 2015
Creator: AlMakadma, AbdulKarim S. & Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impacts of sustainable value and business stewardship on lifestyle practices in clothing consumption (open access)

Impacts of sustainable value and business stewardship on lifestyle practices in clothing consumption

This article tests the sustainable Values and Lifestyles Scale (VALS) framework by identifying the sustainable value and lifestyle practices, and examining the impacts of business stewardship on consumer sustainable practices.
Date: October 26, 2015
Creator: Hyun-Nam Lee, Stacy; Kim, Haejung & Yang, Kiseol
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Foundations of Environmental Ethics (open access)

Foundations of Environmental Ethics

This book examines the social and philosophical attitudes in Western culture that relate to the environment including aesthetics, wildlife, and land use. Both the historical significance and a framework for further discussions of environmental ethics are discussed in the book.
Date: 1989
Creator: Hargrove, Eugene C., 1944-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary Report of the Needs Assessment (open access)

Summary Report of the Needs Assessment

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project, one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress.
Date: June 18, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lone Star Ink: Exploring Texas through Historic Newspapers, 1880-1910: Grant Materials (open access)

Lone Star Ink: Exploring Texas through Historic Newspapers, 1880-1910: Grant Materials

These grant materials were prepared for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to provide access to historic American Newspapers. The Library of Congress serves as the technical adviser for the NDNP. NEH designated this proposal a “We the People” grant, and it was provided by NEH as an example grant in the following year’s grant round. The award funded digitization of Texas historical newspapers. For the grant, UNT served as the lead institution with partners at the Center for American History at the University of Texas, and Texas Tech University. This proposal was funded for $397,552.
Date: October 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Need for an Indigent Healthcare Clinic in Irving, Texas (open access)

The Need for an Indigent Healthcare Clinic in Irving, Texas

Report for the Irving City Council Community Development Advisory Committee. This report discusses the need for an indigent healthcare clinic in Irving, Texas.
Date: July 2000
Creator: Weinstein, Bernard L.; Eve, Susan Brown & Fawcett, Beth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
‘Forgotten and Forgiven’? Calvinism and French Society (open access)

‘Forgotten and Forgiven’? Calvinism and French Society

This article identifies and addresses a curious and persisting omission in the sociological literature on Calvinism, as specifically expounded in sociological journals.
Date: February 28, 2014
Creator: Zafirovski, Milan, 1958-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library