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States

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Perception, Loss, and Rivalry Termination (open access)

Perception, Loss, and Rivalry Termination

Paper examines the impact of the perception of losses and gains on the length of rivalry and conflict between rival states.
Date: 2011
Creator: Carpenter, Craig
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Migration and Healing in a Latino/a Context (open access)

Migration and Healing in a Latino/a Context

Paper examines the history and belief systems of Latin American folk healers in the United States.
Date: 2011
Creator: Diaz, Martha Nuño
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism (open access)

Environmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism

Papers explores the ways in which Texas agritourism operators value their land and construct their relationships with the natural environment.
Date: 2011
Creator: Bonham, MÄ“gan S. Albaugh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology and Our Emotional Selves (open access)

Technology and Our Emotional Selves

Paper discusses studio practice exploring the relationship between technology and the emotional self, and the central role technology can take in our definition of intimacy.
Date: 2011
Creator: Rand, Peter
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998 (open access)

Breast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998

Paper examines effects of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, genes and environment on breast cancer morbidity in Texas counties from 1980-1998.
Date: 2011
Creator: Barry, Djenabou
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Africa (open access)

Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Africa

Paper examines the relationship between independent judiciaries and human rights records in African nations.
Date: 2011
Creator: Longmiles, Leticia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Drugs and Peace Duration (open access)

Drugs and Peace Duration

Paper explores the impact that the production and/or transit of drugs have on the durability of peace following civil war.
Date: 2011
Creator: Adams, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Mediation as a Rhetorical Situation: Connecting Context, Actors, and Strategy for Mediation Success (open access)

International Mediation as a Rhetorical Situation: Connecting Context, Actors, and Strategy for Mediation Success

Paper examines the relationship between characteristics of conflict situations, the participants in mediation processes, and mediation strategies and the influence of these characteristics on mediation success.
Date: 2011
Creator: Harroff, Lindsay
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
YouTube Commentary: Social Interaction in Online Publics (open access)

YouTube Commentary: Social Interaction in Online Publics

Paper explores how conversation, particularly interpretation of meaning and tone, occurs in online communities, specifically in Youtube comments.
Date: 2011
Creator: Lanius, Candice
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Pursuit of Answers: An Investigation of Twenty-First Century Theatre (open access)

The Pursuit of Answers: An Investigation of Twenty-First Century Theatre

Paper analyzes the impact of live theatre on society in the twenty-first century.
Date: 2011
Creator: Fox, Bradley
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Explaining Peace Duration through Foreign Aid and Civil War Outcome (open access)

Explaining Peace Duration through Foreign Aid and Civil War Outcome

Paper explores the relationship between foreign aid and civil war outcome and analyzes the impact these factors have on peace duration in a post-conflict environment.
Date: 2011
Creator: Martinez, Melissa
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education and Civil Unrest (open access)

Education and Civil Unrest

Paper explores the relationship between education and civil unrest, specifically in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Date: 2011
Creator: Smith, Amber
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inca Sí, Indio También: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Conflict in Latin America (open access)

Inca Sí, Indio También: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Conflict in Latin America

Paper investigates the relationship between the granting of indigenous rights and indigenous conflict in Latin America.
Date: 2011
Creator: Coffta, Odilia R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Sabbath: How Orthodox Jews Create Sacred Space (open access)

The Sabbath: How Orthodox Jews Create Sacred Space

Paper examines the ritual and cultural significance of the Sabbath to Orthodox Jews.
Date: 2011
Creator: Hernandez, Carlos
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges, Explanations and Suggestions for the Future (open access)

Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges, Explanations and Suggestions for the Future

Paper explores why democratization has been unsuccessful in the Middle East and North Africa, and the impact of the U.S. and global policy on this failure.
Date: 2011
Creator: Young, Krysten
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Food Price Shocks and Political Unrest (open access)

Food Price Shocks and Political Unrest

Paper explores why some countries experience protests in response to global food price shocks while others do not.
Date: 2011
Creator: Trail, Bobby Joe
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Tangible and Intangible Salience on Conflict (open access)

The Effects of Tangible and Intangible Salience on Conflict

Paper explores the interaction effect of tangible and intangible salience on the management of contentious issues between countries.
Date: 2011
Creator: Barrett, Emily
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Sounds of Identity: A Case Study on Mexican American College Students in Texas (open access)

The Sounds of Identity: A Case Study on Mexican American College Students in Texas

Paper discusses how language use reflects the identity of Mexican-American college students in Texas.
Date: 2011
Creator: Grady, Khalia Nicole
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Partition, Power Sharing, and the Legitimacy of Post-Conflict Arrangements (open access)

Partition, Power Sharing, and the Legitimacy of Post-Conflict Arrangements

Research examines the necessity of legitimacy and enforceability for the effectiveness of power sharing and partition in peace durability.
Date: 2011
Creator: Alford, Conner
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fragments of Familiar Ground (open access)

Fragments of Familiar Ground

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the process of writing a book length collection of poems. Includes a selection of the author's poems.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Heffner, Christopher Daniel
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Secrets Between Selves and The Exchange of Desires: Mirror-Stage Politics and Self-Reflecting Wishes within Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and Under Western Eyes (open access)

Secrets Between Selves and The Exchange of Desires: Mirror-Stage Politics and Self-Reflecting Wishes within Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" and Under Western Eyes

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing author Joseph Conrad's work in relation to self-realization, self-awareness, and the loss of self. Includes psychoanalytic theories, especially those of Jacques Lacan.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Savage, Jon
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wilde's Aesthetics in Consumer Culture and Orientalism (open access)

Wilde's Aesthetics in Consumer Culture and Orientalism

Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing author Oscar Wilde and his philosophy of aesthetics surrounding consumer culture and Orientalism in late Victorian England.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Van der Kuijp, Chouying Katrien
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

HIV/AIDS Morbidity in Youths and Teens, Ages 13-24, in Texas Counties

This paper discusses research on HIV/AIDS morbidity in youth and teens, age 13-24, in Texas counties. Using case data provided by the Texas State Department of Health Services, this paper seeks to understand the spatial distribution of HIV/AIDS morbidity among youths and teens and the variables that are significantly related to the disease.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Hatton, Meagan & Oppong, Joseph R.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Autonomous Robot Localization Using WiFi Fingerprinting

This paper discusses autonomous robot localization using WiFi fingerprinting.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Bunkley, Terrence; Wright, Alex & Namuduri, Kamesh
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library