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Potential Niche Expansion of the American Mink Invading a Remote Island Free of Nativepredatory Mammals (open access)

Potential Niche Expansion of the American Mink Invading a Remote Island Free of Nativepredatory Mammals

This article evaluates whether the lack of potential predators and competitors, together with a more diurnal and terrestrial prey, have resulted in the mink expanding its spatial and temporal niche on Navarino Island as compared to that in its native habitats,
Date: December 16, 2017
Creator: Crego, Ramiro D.; Jiménez, Jaime E. & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Political Mandate and Clarity of Responsibility: Economic Policies under Rightist Governments in Latin America (open access)

Political Mandate and Clarity of Responsibility: Economic Policies under Rightist Governments in Latin America

This article uses panel data for eighteen Latin American countries from 1995 to 2015 to study whether clarity of responsibility can influence presidential decision-making concerning unpopular policies, especially microeconomic policies.
Date: June 13, 2018
Creator: Biglaiser, Glen & McGauvran, Ronald J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The relationship between perseverative cognitions and mental health and physical health complaints among college students (open access)

The relationship between perseverative cognitions and mental health and physical health complaints among college students

This article examines whether perseverative cognitions represent a common risk factor for poor health in college students.
Date: May 24, 2018
Creator: Zawadzki, Matthew J.; Boals, Adriel; Mathews, Nick; Schuler, Keke; Southard-Dobbs, Shana & Smyth, Joshua M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Overlapping geographic clusters of food security and health: Where do social determinants and health outcomes converge in the U.S? (open access)

Overlapping geographic clusters of food security and health: Where do social determinants and health outcomes converge in the U.S?

This article identifies geographic clusters of food insecurity and health across U.S. counties to identify potential shared mechanisms for geographic disparities in health and food insecurity.
Date: June 14, 2018
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; Hughes, Amy; Donegan, Connor; Santillan, Alejandro & Pruitt, Sandi L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI (open access)

Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI

This article uses 41 Landsat images between 1988 and 2016 to calculate the normalized difference vegetation indices (NVDIs) of the wetland vegetation at Xitugou (XTG) and Wowachi (WWC) inside the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in northwest China in order to assess the impacts of climate change on wetland vegetation.
Date: May 10, 2018
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Xie, Jianping; Lin, Juming; Zhao, Tingwei; Ji, Yongyuan; Hu, Qi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A reconsideration of the (non-)uniform syntax of Korean right-dislocation (open access)

A reconsideration of the (non-)uniform syntax of Korean right-dislocation

This article investigates the clausal nature of Korean Right-Dislocation Constructions (RDCs) and reconsiders recent extant (non-uniform analyses of RDCs.
Date: 2018
Creator: Furuya, Kaori
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating Individual Tree Height and Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) from Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data at Plot Level (open access)

Estimating Individual Tree Height and Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) from Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data at Plot Level

This article explores the methods of using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) technology to obtain point cloud data and estimate individual tree height and diameter at breast height (DBH) at plot level in regions with complex terrain.
Date: July 4, 2018
Creator: Liu, Guangjie; Wang, Jinliang; Dong, Pinliang; Chen, Yun & Liu, Zhiyuan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Refugees of Shangri-La by Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter (open access)

Review of Refugees of Shangri-La by Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter

This article reviews the documentary film "Refugees of Shangri-La" by Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter.
Date: June 6, 2018
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal by Mark Pickett (open access)

Review of Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal by Mark Pickett

This article reviews the book "Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal" by Mark Pickett.
Date: June 21, 2018
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
The overkill model and its impact on environmental research (open access)

The overkill model and its impact on environmental research

This article uses a citation analysis of selected works of the main proponent of the overkill model, Paul Martin, to evaluate how different disciplines interpret and use the overkill model.
Date: September 5, 2018
Creator: Nagaoka, Lisa; Rick, Torben & Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ecological model links proto-oncogene to high incidence of metastatic cancers in African-Americans (open access)

Ecological model links proto-oncogene to high incidence of metastatic cancers in African-Americans

This article describes an ecological model that identifies the underlying reasons for the pattern of cancer susceptibility in Americans of African descent.
Date: September 3, 2018
Creator: Hilliard, Constance
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus captions transcript

Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus

Video from the 2018 Constitution Day event, "Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus."
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Major, Rafael
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Rafael Major holding a microphone]

Photograph of Rafael Major speaking at the 2018 Constitution Day event, "Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus."
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Robert Shipley standing at lectern]

Photograph of Robert Shipley speaking at the 2018 Constitution Day event, "Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus."
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Shannon Gilreath standing at lectern]

Photograph of Shannon Gilreath speaking at the 2018 Constitution Day event, "Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus."
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Speakers at 2018 Constitution Day]

Photograph of Rafael Major moderating a discussion between Shannon Gilreath and Robert Shipley at the 2018 Constitution Day event, "Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus."
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Speakers at 2018 Constitution Day]

Photograph of Rafael Major and Glenisson de Oliveira at the 2018 Constitution Day event, "Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus."
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Locative Media and Sociability: Using Location-Based Social Networks to Coordinate Everyday Life (open access)

Locative Media and Sociability: Using Location-Based Social Networks to Coordinate Everyday Life

This article examines the application in the context of social coordination and sociability using a dataset of original qualitative research within a range of Foursquare users.
Date: September 1, 2018
Creator: Saker, Michael & Frith, Jordan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Negotiating local versus global needs in the International Long Term Ecological Research Network’s socio-ecological research agenda (open access)

Negotiating local versus global needs in the International Long Term Ecological Research Network’s socio-ecological research agenda

This article describes the assessment of six long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) platforms through site visits, coupled with reflections and insights of the platform managers.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Holzer, J. M.; Adamescu, M. C.; Bonet-García, F. J.; Díaz-Delgado, R.; Dick, J.; Grove, J. M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bergson, Materialization, and the Peculiar Nature of Space (open access)

Bergson, Materialization, and the Peculiar Nature of Space

This article shows how Bergson's notions of variable lived space and the dynamic character of physical matter could lead to theories of fractal dimension and theories of the creation and expansion of matter.
Date: 2018
Creator: Gunter, P. A. Y. (Pete Addison Y.), 1936-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass and Fossil Fuel Combustion Contributions to Elemental Carbon Across the San Francisco Bay Area (open access)

Biomass and Fossil Fuel Combustion Contributions to Elemental Carbon Across the San Francisco Bay Area

This article provides better understanding in how effective regulations have been/could be across the diverse Bay Area.
Date: September 25, 2018
Creator: Yoon, Subin; Fairley, David; Barrett, Tate E. & Sheesley, Rebecca J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd (open access)

Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd

This chapter critiques the use of student labor on digital humanities projects in and out of the classroom.
Date: November 6, 2018
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimation of technical change and price elasticities: a categorical time–varying coefficient approach (open access)

Estimation of technical change and price elasticities: a categorical time–varying coefficient approach

This article, proposes a categorical time-varying coefficient translog cost function, where each coefficient is expressed as a nonparametric function of a categorical time variable, thereby allowing each time period to have its own set of coefficients.
Date: October 24, 2018
Creator: Feng, Guohua; Gao, Jiti & Zhang, Xiaohui
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differentiating Predators from Protectors: The Role of Psychopathic Traits in the Shooting of Unarmed Black Men captions transcript

Differentiating Predators from Protectors: The Role of Psychopathic Traits in the Shooting of Unarmed Black Men

Video from the Fall 2018 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) Final Competition. In this video, Sandeep Roy presents his research methods, findings, and its significance in non-technical language.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Roy, Sandeep
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library