Transcription: Elicitation of paradigm of 'give' (open access)

Transcription: Elicitation of paradigm of 'give'

Transcription of an elicitation session of the paradigm for the verb 'give'.
Date: August 25, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Elicitation of optatives (open access)

Transcription: Elicitation of optatives

Transcription of an elicitation of optatives in Lamkang. The purpose of the elicitation was to investigate optative verb forms. All sentences are of the type "[X] should give a book to [Y]". Recorded from Lamkang speaker Sumshot Khular at UNT.
Date: August 10, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Discussion of Laa kthee (open access)

Transcription: Discussion of Laa kthee

Transcription of a discussion of traditional songs by Shetwor Dilbung and Bunghon Suungnem at a storytelling festival funded by the NSF project and organized and implemented by Rex Khullar and Harimohon Thounaojam. The speakers discuss the types of songs they would like to collect and archaic vocabulary used in songs. They also discuss the Totlaang festival in Phaidaam in 2008.
Date: August 27, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of Frog Where Are You? (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of Frog Where Are You?

Transcription of the story of Uitxok tva' thah ptih? (Frog, Where Are You?) as narrated by Sumshot Khular. She translated it from Lamkang to English.
Date: August 19, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P. & Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about the Seven Sons (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Seven Sons

Transcription of a retelling of Chaa paa tkhiiu ki paomin (the Story of Seven Sons), as told by Angtoi Sankhil. A man is killed by a tiger, and as his six sons go to avenge him, he kills them too one by one. The mother is pregnant with a seventh son, who is able to foretell events while still in the womb. After the child learns how his father died, he goes to confront the tiger and his wife. He avoids the tiger's attempt to kill him, takes back his father's head from the tiger's possession, and vanquishes the tiger.
Date: August 31, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Arthluuk and Raangchel (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Arthluuk and Raangchel

Transcription of a retelling of Arthluuk le Raangchel paomin (the Story of Arthluuk and Raangchel), as told by Swamy Tholung Ksen. Two brothers Arthluk and Rangchel fell in love with the same girl, Sombel, who loved Rangchel. There were also a tiger and wildcat who were friends. The tiger asked the wildcat how to catch chickens. The wildcat fools him, and the tiger threatens to eat the wildcat.The wildcat tells the tiger to wait and he will catch a woman for him. He was not able to catch Sombel who was guarded by her dogs, so instead they perform magic on her, making her ill. The tiger turned into a human and offered to heal her in exchange for her hand in marriage. Reversing their spell, he healed her and took her away to a faraway place she had never been, and turned back into a tiger. Arthluk and Rangchel heard her cry of distress, and reported to her parents, who ask the villagers for help. Only Arthluk and Rangchel agreed to go after her. Sombel learned they were coming when she finds a leaf bearing the scent of the brothers. When they arrived, Sombel hid them from the tiger, …
Date: August 30, 2017
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Psalm 23 in Lamkang (open access)

Transcription: Psalm 23 in Lamkang

Transcription of Psalm 23 from the Book of Psalms from the Old Testament in Lamkang.
Date: August 18, 2017
Creator: Utt, Tyler P. & Khular, Sumshot
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A geospatial method for estimating soil moisture variability in prehistoric agricultural landscapes (open access)

A geospatial method for estimating soil moisture variability in prehistoric agricultural landscapes

Article describes study which develops a static geospatial soil moisture model, the Soil Moisture Proxy Model, which uses soil and topographic variables to estimate soil moisture potential across a watershed in order to better understand the quality of farmland in terms of soil moisture.
Date: August 21, 2019
Creator: Gillreath-Brown, Andrew; Nagaoka, Lisa & Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Statistical assumptions of substantive analyses across the general linear model: a mini-review (open access)

Statistical assumptions of substantive analyses across the general linear model: a mini-review

This article seeks to support researchers by concisely reviewing key statistical assumptions associated with substantive statistical tests across the general linear model. Additionally, the article reviews techniques to check for statistical assumptions and identifies remedies and problems if data do not meet the necessary assumptions.
Date: August 28, 2012
Creator: Nimon, Kim F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A test of Generalized Bayesian dating: A new linguistic dating method (open access)

A test of Generalized Bayesian dating: A new linguistic dating method

Article addressing if a new Bayesian framework can be introduced and ways to overcome subjectivity. The authors introduce a new method called Generalized Bayesian Dating (GBD) for inferring dates of language groups from lexical and phonological data. This work has implications for future performance testing in the area of linguistic dating.
Date: August 12, 2020
Creator: Kasicheyanula, Taraka & Søren Wichmann
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Conversation about establishing a literacy school (open access)

Transcription: Conversation about establishing a literacy school

This is a conversation between Rawang speakers discussing establishing a school for teaching Rawang in their area. The classes happen on Sundays or in the evenings. They worry that students feel discouraged when they don't know parts of their language, especially older learners, so they would like to start classes when students are younger. They make a plan to train more teachers and create more books.
Date: August 2008
Creator: LaPolla, Randy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discovering fake news embedded in the opposing hashtag activism networks on Twitter: #Gunreformnow vs. #NRA (open access)

Discovering fake news embedded in the opposing hashtag activism networks on Twitter: #Gunreformnow vs. #NRA

This article is a study investigating fake news included in political discourse of opposing activism hashtags, #Gunreformnow and #NRA (The National Rifle Association) and aims to lay out the process of identifying fake news in the hashtag activism network on Twitter.
Date: October 19, 2018
Creator: Chong, Miyoung
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does Providing a Personalized Educational Game Based on Personality Matter? A Case Study (open access)

Does Providing a Personalized Educational Game Based on Personality Matter? A Case Study

This article presents an educational game which models learner's personality, specifically introvert/extrovert dimension, to serve as a personalized game learning environment. The findings of this study can be used by educators and game designers to adopt and develop personalized game learning environments based on learner's personality.
Date: August 19, 2019
Creator: Kinshuk; Tlili, Ahmed; Denden, Mouna; Essalmi, Fathi; Jemni, Mohamed; Chen, Nian-Shing et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Students Data Literacy Needs in Community Colleges: Perspectives of Libraries, Students and Faculty (open access)

Students Data Literacy Needs in Community Colleges: Perspectives of Libraries, Students and Faculty

Data management plan for the grant, "Students Data Literacy Needs in Community Colleges: Perspectives of Libraries, Students and Faculty." The University of North Texas will conduct an 18-month planning project to examine the current perspectives of community college librarians, faculty, and students regarding data literacy; identify the data literacy competencies needed for community college students; and develop data literacy action plans for community college libraries to assist community college librarians in assessing their capability and creating a road map to incorporate data literacy into their existing literacy programs. The findings of this project will identify the role and position of community college libraries in facilitating and enhancing the development of the data literacy competencies of students.
Date: 2022-08-01/2024-01-31
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians Through Oral Histories (open access)

Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians Through Oral Histories

Data management plan for the grant, "Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians Through Oral Histories." The University of North Texas (UNT) Department of Information Science, partnering with the UNT Oral History Program, will host a series of forums to identify best practices and strategies to respond to challenges around building, implementing, preserving, and accessing community oral history projects. The project team will convene librarians, archivists, oral history practitioners, public historians, community-based memory workers, and others working in oral history to identify good practices, share challenges and lessons learned, and prepare an actionable roadmap for building, implementing, preserving, and sustaining community oral history projects.
Date: 2022-08-01/2023-07-31
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun; Moye, J. Todd & Roeschley, Ana
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 128 (open access)

Akha notebook 128

Handwritten notes and transcriptions about genealogy and death.
Date: August 1985
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 68 (open access)

Akha notebook 68

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about marriage, spirits, thieves, and villages splitting.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Newspaper Clippings from 'Achik Songbad' Volume 4, Number 33, August 31, 1956] (open access)

[Newspaper Clippings from 'Achik Songbad' Volume 4, Number 33, August 31, 1956]

Newspaper clipping covering global events in Europe, East Asia, and North Africa, as well as regional news from India, Myanmar, and Nepal.
Date: August 31, 1956
Creator: Marak, N. N.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Skichengani Kitap (open access)

Skichengani Kitap

Book of 30 lessons on the Garo alphabet, handwriting, and arithmetic. Includes illustrations.
Date: August 15, 1991
Creator: Busolin, B.; Thomas, Phadar K. A. & Joseph, Umbavu Varghese
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 99 (open access)

Akha notebook 99

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha narratives.
Date: August 14, 1978
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 100 (open access)

Akha notebook 100

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of traditional narratives.
Date: August 20, 1978
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 101 (open access)

Akha notebook 101

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about spirits and the natural world.
Date: 1978-08-29/1978-09-04
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 110 (open access)

Akha notebook 110

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of short narratives about creation, proverbs, agriculture, curses, spirits, pregnancy, whispering, smells, and grammar notes on adjectives and verb phrases.
Date: 1978-08-19/1982-03
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Demonstrating Your Data: An Evidence-based Practice Curriculum for School Librarians (open access)

Demonstrating Your Data: An Evidence-based Practice Curriculum for School Librarians

Data management plan for the grant, "Demonstrating Your Data: An Evidence-based Practice Curriculum for School Librarians."
Date: 2023-08-01/2026-07-31
Creator: Moore, Jennifer Elaine
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library