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Oral History of Bonton and Ideal Neighborhoods in Dallas, Texas (open access)

Oral History of Bonton and Ideal Neighborhoods in Dallas, Texas

The Bonton and Ideal neighborhoods in Dallas Texas, developed in the early 1900s, experienced physical and social decay throughout the 1980s. Neighborhood organizations and resident activism were vital to the rebirth of the community in the 1990s. Current revitalization efforts taking place there have been a source of contention as the neighborhood continues to overcome inequalities created by decades of racialized city planning initiatives. This thesis focuses on how the structuring structure of whiteness has historically affected, and continues to affect, the neighborhoods of Ideal and Bonton, as well as acts to identify how black residents have navigated their landscape and increased their collective capital through neighborhood activism.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Payne, Briana
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings of Digital Frontiers 2015 (open access)

Proceedings of Digital Frontiers 2015

Proceedings from the 2015 Digital Frontiers conference held at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas. It includes information about the conference organization and abstracts of the sessions held during the event..
Date: October 2015
Creator: Digital Frontiers Conference Committee
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 68, Number 1, September 2015 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 68, Number 1, September 2015

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: September 2015
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 68, Number 4, December 2015 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 68, Number 4, December 2015

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: December 2015
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 68, Number 2, October 2015 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 68, Number 2, October 2015

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: October 2015
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 68, Number 3, November 2015 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 68, Number 3, November 2015

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 2015
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of the Choice of Disease Mapping Method on Population Characteristics in Areas of High Disease Burdens (open access)

Influence of the Choice of Disease Mapping Method on Population Characteristics in Areas of High Disease Burdens

Disease maps are powerful tools for depicting spatial variations in disease risk and its underlying drivers. However, producing effective disease maps requires careful consideration of the statistical and spatial properties of the disease data. In fact, the choice of mapping method influences the resulting spatial pattern of the disease, as well as the understanding of its underlying population characteristics. New developments in mapping methods and software in addition to continuing improvements in data quality and quantity are requiring map-makers to make a multitude of decisions before a map of disease burdens can be created. The impact of such decisions on a map, including the choice of appropriate mapping method, not been addressed adequately in the literature. This research demonstrates how choice of mapping method and associated parameters influence the spatial pattern of disease. We use four different disease-mapping methods – unsmoothed choropleth maps, smoothed choropleth maps produced using the headbanging method, smoothed kernel density maps, and smoothed choropleth maps produced using spatial empirical Bayes methods and 5-years of zip code level HIV incidence (2007- 2011) data from Dallas and Tarrant Counties, Texas. For each map, the leading population characteristics and their relative importance with regards to HIV incidence is identified …
Date: December 2015
Creator: Desai, Khyati Sanket
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Community-based Participatory Research: HIV in African American Men Who Have Sex with Men (open access)

Community-based Participatory Research: HIV in African American Men Who Have Sex with Men

To date, traditional behavioral interventions have done little to reduce the prevalence and transmission of HIV among African American men who have sex with men (AAMSM), a highly at risk group. Some researchers theorize that the lack of success may be because these interventions do not address contextual factors among AAMSM. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is one approach to research with the potential to lead to effective interventions in the future. CBPR is a collaborative, mixed-methods and multidisciplinary, approach to scientific inquiry, which is conducted with, and within, the community. The current study follows the CBPR approach to engage and develop a relationship with the African American communities in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Contextual issues were discussed in order to identify emerging themes regarding HIV health related issues among AAMSM to provide the groundwork for continued CBPR research and future interventions with AAMSM in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. To accomplish this goal, researchers began the CBPR process by conducting interviews and focus groups with a sample of approximately 62 (34 from key informant interviews, 28 from focus groups [gender balanced]) AIDS service organization leaders and workers, advocates, medical doctors and community members with first-hand knowledge of HIV health issues in …
Date: August 2015
Creator: Miller, James MS
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Needs and Resources of International Torture Survivors Living in the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex: an Investigation of Healing and Assimilation Perceived by Center for Survivors of Torture’s Clients and Staff As Well As the Greater Resettlement Community (open access)

The Needs and Resources of International Torture Survivors Living in the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex: an Investigation of Healing and Assimilation Perceived by Center for Survivors of Torture’s Clients and Staff As Well As the Greater Resettlement Community

Torture survivors find difficulty navigating through an unfamiliar healthcare and social service system. Many survivors who already face Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, and depression also endure a secondary threat which leads to re-traumatization through the struggles of acculturation. The aim of this study is to determine: 1. Identify differences and assumptions between service providers’ and clients’ definitions of self-sufficiency; 2. Examine prominent barriers to self-sufficiency that survivors encounter; 3. Pinpoint the survival strategies that survivors use in order to cope with life in DFW; 4. Determine what resources CST staff, area service providers, and survivors feel need to be improved for CST and the DFW metroplex.
Date: August 2015
Creator: Trubits, Ryan J.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of the Influence of Non-Conventional Sources of Emissions on Ambient Air Pollutant Concentrations in North Texas (open access)

Evaluation of the Influence of Non-Conventional Sources of Emissions on Ambient Air Pollutant Concentrations in North Texas

Emissions of air pollutants from non-conventional sources have been on the rise in the North Texas area over the past decade. These include primary pollutants such as volatile organic compound (VOC) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) which also act as precursors in the formation of ozone. Most of these have been attributed to a significant increase in oil and gas production activities since 2000 within the Barnett Shale region adjacent to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex region. In this study, air quality concentrations measured at the Denton Airport and Dallas Hinton monitoring sites operated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) were evaluated. VOC concentration data from canister-based sampling along with continuous measurement of oxides of nitrogen (NOx), ozone (O3), particulate matter (PM2.5), and meteorological conditions at these two sites spanning from 2000 through 2014 were employed in this study. The Dallas site is located within the urban core of one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, while the Denton site is an exurban site with rural characteristics to it. The Denton Airport site was influenced by natural gas pads surrounding it while there are very few natural gas production facilities within close proximity to the Dallas …
Date: August 2015
Creator: Lim, Guo Quan
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Taking It to the Streets: the History of Gay Pride Parades in Dallas, Texas: 1972-1986 (open access)

Taking It to the Streets: the History of Gay Pride Parades in Dallas, Texas: 1972-1986

This thesis describes the organization of two waves of pride parades in the city of Dallas, Texas. Using more than 40 sources, this work details how LGBT organizers have used pride parades to create a more established place for the LGBT community in greater Dallas culture. This works adds to the study of LGBT history by focusing on an understudied region, the South; as well as focusing on an important symbolic event in LGBT communities, pride parades.
Date: August 2015
Creator: Edelbrock, Kyle
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Happy Kitchen: Community Designed Cooking Classes (open access)

The Happy Kitchen: Community Designed Cooking Classes

Equitable access to healthy food is a multifaceted issue faced by many underserved populations. Intimate understanding of individual communities’ food practices allows for the creation of community-based interventions that elaborate upon specific needs and desires. Through collaborative research and action, this study aims to become better informed of the current eating habits of community members participating in The Happy Kitchen program at Wesley Rankin Community Center in West Dallas, how those habits have changed over time, and the factors that contribute to access and utilization of a healthy diet. This research seeks to develop a dialectical relationship between the participants and GROW North Texas to design relevant cooking classes and interventions in West Dallas; thereby increasing access to and consumption of nutritious food.
Date: August 2015
Creator: Whatley, Amanda L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Patient Family and Hospital Staff Information Needs at a Pediatric Hospital: an Analysis of Information Requests Received by the Family Resource Libraries (open access)

Patient Family and Hospital Staff Information Needs at a Pediatric Hospital: an Analysis of Information Requests Received by the Family Resource Libraries

This research explored the information needs of patient families and hospital staff at a pediatric hospital system in Dallas, Texas. Library statistics recorded in four hospital libraries from 2011 - 2013 were used to analyze the information requests from patient families and hospital staff. Crosstabulations revealed the extent to which patient families and hospital staff used the libraries to satisfy their information needs. The data showed that patient families used the libraries very differently than hospital staff. Chi-square tests for independence were performed to identify the relationships between the Classification (Patient Family, Hospital Staff) and two descriptors of information needs (Request Type, Resources Used). There were a total of 1,406 information requests analyzed. The data showed that patient families and hospital staff information requests differed greatly in the number of information requests, the type of information requested, the resources used and the time the library staff spent on the requests. Chi-square analyses revealed relationships statistically significant at the p < .05 level; however, the strength of the relationships varied.
Date: May 2015
Creator: Rutledge, M. Hannah
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 67, Number 9, May 2015 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 67, Number 9, May 2015

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: May 2015
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 67, Number 6, February 2015 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 67, Number 6, February 2015

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: February 2015
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 67, Number 8, April 2015 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 67, Number 8, April 2015

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: April 2015
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 67, Number 7, March 2015 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 67, Number 7, March 2015

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: March 2015
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 24, Ed. 1, November 2015 (open access)

Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 24, Ed. 1, November 2015

Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Alvarado, Felix
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 25, Ed. 1, December 2015 (open access)

Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 25, Ed. 1, December 2015

Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Alvarado, Felix
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 19, Ed. 1, June 2015 (open access)

Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 19, Ed. 1, June 2015

Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date: June 2015
Creator: Alvarado, Felix
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 20, Ed. 1, July 2015 (open access)

Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 20, Ed. 1, July 2015

Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Alvarado, Felix
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 21, Ed. 1, August 2015 (open access)

Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 21, Ed. 1, August 2015

Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date: August 2015
Creator: Alvarado, Felix
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 15, Ed. 1, February 2015 (open access)

Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 15, Ed. 1, February 2015

Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant and Dallas County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date: February 2015
Creator: Alvarado, Felix
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 18, Ed. 1, May 2015 (open access)

Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 18, Ed. 1, May 2015

Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date: May 2015
Creator: Alvarado, Felix
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History