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Oral History Interview with Odd Aarstad, November 4, 2018 transcript

Oral History Interview with Odd Aarstad, November 4, 2018

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Odd Aarstad. Aarstad joined the Navy in August 1944 and trained to be a corpsman. Upon completion of training, Aarstad reported to the Annapolis Naval Hospital where he served and treated wounded and sick patients. Eventually, Aarstad worked on artificial limbs for amputees. He also served at a rehabilitation station in Philadelphia where people were being fitted for prosthetic legs. Aarstad was discharged in October 1946.
Date: November 4, 2018
Creator: Aarstad, Odd
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Odd Aarstad, November 4, 2018 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Odd Aarstad, November 4, 2018

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Odd Aarstad. Aarstad joined the Navy in August 1944 and trained to be a corpsman. Upon completion of training, Aarstad reported to the Annapolis Naval Hospital where he served and treated wounded and sick patients. Eventually, Aarstad worked on artificial limbs for amputees. He also served at a rehabilitation station in Philadelphia where people were being fitted for prosthetic legs. Aarstad was discharged in October 1946.
Date: November 4, 2018
Creator: Aarstad, Odd
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arnold Abbott, January 20, 2018 transcript

Oral History Interview with Arnold Abbott, January 20, 2018

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Arnold Abbott. Abbott was born in 1924. He dropped out of college to join the US Army in 1942. While undergoing basic training at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, Abbott witnessed practiced segregation and consequently became involved in civil rights issues. He recalls that he did not finish basic training, and was sent to Newport News, Virginia where he was assigned to the 34th Infantry Division. He tells of being involved in action in North Africa, and Italy. Abbott returned to the US after the war.
Date: January 20, 2018
Creator: Abbott, Arnold
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Arnold Abbott, January 20, 2018 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Arnold Abbott, January 20, 2018

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Arnold Abbott. Abbott was born in 1924. He dropped out of college to join the US Army in 1942. While undergoing basic training at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, Abbott witnessed practiced segregation and consequently became involved in civil rights issues. He recalls that he did not finish basic training, and was sent to Newport News, Virginia where he was assigned to the 34th Infantry Division. He tells of being involved in action in North Africa, and Italy. Abbott returned to the US after the war.
Date: January 20, 2018
Creator: Abbott, Arnold
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Two Argentine Song Sets: A Comparison of Songs by De Rogatis and Ginastera (open access)

Two Argentine Song Sets: A Comparison of Songs by De Rogatis and Ginastera

Latin American classical vocal repertoire is vast, but in the United States, we only hear a fairly limited part of this literature. Much of this repertoire blends western European classical music traditions and native folk music traditions. One example of such a Latin American vocal work that is well-known in the United States is Alberto Ginastera's frequently performed song set from 1943, Cinco canciones populares argentinas. However, another lesser-known, earlier work, Cinco canciones argentinas (1923), by fellow Argentine composer Pascual De Rogatis (1880-1980) deserves attention as well. As with Ginastera's set, De Rogatis' songs are based on Argentine folk genres, but contain stylistic features of European classical music of its time. De Rogatis' neglected songs are a significant, overlooked part of Argentine classical music history, and a full understanding of well-known works such as Ginastera's song set and of the genre as a whole, must include attention to De Rogatis' Cinco canciones argentinas. Beyond vocal repertoire, De Rogatis' songs are an important part of the development of Argentine classical music. While Western musical trends change rapidly, folk music remains largely unchanged. Both De Rogatis and Ginastera were proud of their Argentine heritage, and incorporated traditional music into their compositions. I …
Date: August 2018
Creator: Abe, Shoko
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

¡Muévete! Integrating physical education and language learning in bilingual classrooms

Presentation sharing strategies for developing academic vocabular in Spanish and English through movement. It was presented at the Texas Association for Bilingual Education Conference held in 2018.
Date: 2018
Creator: Abels, Karen Weiller; Boyd, Rossana R. & González-Carriedo, Ricardo
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Descriptors for Cyclooctasulfur: Estimation of Water−Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities in Solvents, and Physicochemical Properties (open access)

Descriptors for Cyclooctasulfur: Estimation of Water−Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities in Solvents, and Physicochemical Properties

This article uses literature data on the solubility of cyclooctasulfur in a number of solvents to drive Abraham descriptors for cyclooctasulfur.
Date: May 21, 2018
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Partition of Neutral Molecules and Ions from Water to o-Nitrophenyl Octyl Ether and of Neutral Molecules from the Gas Phase to o-Nitrophenyl Octyl Ether (open access)

Partition of Neutral Molecules and Ions from Water to o-Nitrophenyl Octyl Ether and of Neutral Molecules from the Gas Phase to o-Nitrophenyl Octyl Ether

This article sets out an equation for partition of 87 neutral molecules from water to o-nitrophenyl octyl ether, NPOE, an equation for partition of the 87 neutral molecules and 21 ionic species from water to NPOE, and an equation for partition of 87 neutral molecules from the gas phase to NPOE.
Date: February 16, 2018
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.); Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Liu, Xiangli
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

One year down: Taking the Ivy Plus Libraries Web Resources Collection Program from Pilot to Permanent

Presentation for the 2018 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference. This presentation describes the work of the Ivy Plus Libraries Web Resources Collection Program.
Date: November 15, 2018
Creator: Abrams, Samantha
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments Concerning “Measurement of the Solubility of the Salt of 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole With Cyclohexylamine and Tert-Butylamine in Various Solvents at Low Temperatures: Models and Thermodynamic Parameters” (open access)

Comments Concerning “Measurement of the Solubility of the Salt of 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole With Cyclohexylamine and Tert-Butylamine in Various Solvents at Low Temperatures: Models and Thermodynamic Parameters”

This article identifies several errors in the published paper by Wongkaew and coworkers [Fluid Phase Equilibria 434 (2017) 141-151].
Date: February 15, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments Concerning “Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Properties of 1,6-Bis[3-(3,5-Di-Tert-Butyl-4-Hydroxyphenyl) Propionamido]Hexane in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvent Mixtures” (open access)

Comments Concerning “Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Properties of 1,6-Bis[3-(3,5-Di-Tert-Butyl-4-Hydroxyphenyl) Propionamido]Hexane in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvent Mixtures”

This article comments on mathematical errors pertaining to published equation coefficients for the modified Apelblat and for the polynomial equation based on the Combined Jouyban-Acree and modified Apelblat models.
Date: February 16, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments on "Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Data of Cefpiramide in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvents" (open access)

Comments on "Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Data of Cefpiramide in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvents"

Abstract: Errors are found in the mathematical correlation based on the combined Jouyban-Acree and Modified Apelblat model for describing the variation in the mole fraction solubility of cefpiramide with temperature and solvent composition for the binary aqueous-ethanol solvent system. The equation coefficents given by Tang and coworkers, when substituted into the model equation, do not yield the authors' calculated mole fraction solubilities of cefpiramide.
Date: January 24, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments on “Thermodynamic modeling studies of aqueous solubility of caffeine, gallic acid and their cocrystal in the temperature range of 303 Ke363 K” (open access)

Comments on “Thermodynamic modeling studies of aqueous solubility of caffeine, gallic acid and their cocrystal in the temperature range of 303 Ke363 K”

This article comments on activity coefficients based on a thermodynamic relationship that failed to properly take into account the solid phase transition that both caffeine and gallic acid exhibited prior to melting.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalized molecular solvation in non-aqueous solutions by a single parameter implicit solvation scheme (open access)

Generalized molecular solvation in non-aqueous solutions by a single parameter implicit solvation scheme

Article presenting a systematic parametrization protocol for the Self-Consistent Continuum Solvation (SCCS) model resulting in optimized parameters for 67 non-aqueous solvents. The parametrization is based on a collection of ≈6000 experimentally measured partition coefficients, which were collected in the Solv@TUM database presented here. The accuracy of the optimized SCCS model is comparable to the well-known universal continuum solvation model (SMx) family of methods, while relying on only a single fit parameter and thereby largely reducing statistical noise.
Date: August 3, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene); Hille, Christoph; Ringe, Stefan; Deimel, Martin; Kunkel, Christian; Reuter, Karsten et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Contingency Type on Accuracy and Reaction Time (open access)

The Effects of Contingency Type on Accuracy and Reaction Time

Positive and negative reinforcement contingencies have been compared in terms of preference, but the differential effects of positive and negative reinforcement on reaction time and accuracy with other variables controlled remain unclear. Fifteen undergraduate students participated in a sound discrimination task that involved random mixed-trial presentations of positive and negative reinforcement contingencies. The participants' goal was to correctly identify whether the tone was shorter or longer than 600 milliseconds. On positive reinforcement trials, the participants received feedback and money tallies only if they identified the sound length correctly, with each correct response in the positive reinforcement trials earning the participant 10 cents. On negative reinforcement trials, the participants received feedback and money tallies only if they identified the sound length incorrectly, with incorrect trials subtracting 10 cents from the participants' total money (which began at $4.00 to equalize the weights of the positive and negative reinforcement contingencies). Accuracy analyses showed a relatively curvilinear relationship between the number of errors for each participant and the binned duration of the sound stimulus, with no differences across the positive and negative reinforcement conditions. Results also indicated weak linear negative correlations at the single subject level between comparison stimulus duration and reaction time, with …
Date: August 2018
Creator: Adams, Owen James
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Impact and Influence of the Recordings and Pedagogy of David Baldwin (open access)

A Study of the Impact and Influence of the Recordings and Pedagogy of David Baldwin

David Baldwin has been the trumpet professor at the University of Minnesota since 1974. His most celebrated accomplishment is his recording of the Charlier 36 Etudes de Transcendantes and the Marcel Bitsch Vingt Etudes. In addition to this recording Baldwin has made recordings of etude books by Small, St. Jacome, Arban, Caffarelli, Smith, and the 32 Etudes de Perfectionnement also by Charlier. The quality of performance on all of these makes them excellent reference recordings. The back cover of the Etudes 32 de Perfectionnement reveals that the two-CD album, with a total run time of 115:35, was recorded over a span of four days. Endurance is a topic that all brass players confront. Baldwin wrote an etude book titled Lips of Steel that also contains two previously published articles on the topic of endurance. His ideas on endurance reveal a unique approach. This study analyzes the pedagogical concepts in those articles and in Lips of Steel. In addition to his recording projects, Baldwin has had many successful students. Thomas Rolfs and Lynn Erickson are both members of full-time professional orchestras. Larry Griffin, Scott Hagarty, and many others built their careers as professors of trumpet. An investigation of Baldwin's influence on …
Date: August 2018
Creator: Adams, Richard (Richard James)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrically Tunable Absorption and Perfect Absorption Using Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide and Graphene Sandwiched in Oxides (open access)

Electrically Tunable Absorption and Perfect Absorption Using Aluminum-Doped Zinc Oxide and Graphene Sandwiched in Oxides

Understanding the fundamental physics in light absorption and perfect light absorption is vital for device applications in detector, sensor, solar energy harvesting and imaging. In this research study, a large area fabrication of Al-doped ZnO/Al2O3/graphene/Al2O3/gold/silicon device was enabled by a spin-processable hydrophilic mono-layer graphene oxide. In contrast to the optical properties of noble metals, which cannot be tuned or changed, the permittivity of transparent metal oxides, such as Al-doped ZnO and indium tin oxide, are tunable. Their optical properties can be adjusted via doping or tuned electrically through carrier accumulation and depletion, providing great advantages for designing tunable photonic devices or realizing perfect absorption. A significant shift of Raman frequency up to 360 cm-1 was observed from graphene in the fabricated device reported in this work. The absorption from the device was tunable with a negative voltage applied on the Al-doped ZnO side. The generated absorption change was sustainable when the voltage was off and erasable when a positive voltage was applied. The reflection change was explained by the Fermi level change in graphene. The sustainability of tuned optical property in graphene can lead to a design of device with less power consumption.
Date: December 2018
Creator: Adewole, Murthada Oladele
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Content of Non-GAAP Earnings of Cross-Listed Companies (open access)

Information Content of Non-GAAP Earnings of Cross-Listed Companies

To supplement earnings reported under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), public companies often voluntarily report alternative measures of earnings called non-GAAP earnings (NGE). These companies assert that NGE exclude the effect of non-recurring transactions, thereby helping users of financial information to better assess the company's past performance and prospects. Because NGE measures are not well defined, managers can exploit the inherent discretion in calculating NGE to mislead users. Prior studies provide arguments and evidence on the informative as well as opportunistic use of NGE. However, the studies have examined the characteristics and informativeness of NGE with a focus on U.S. companies. The results of studies that consider the NGE disclosure by U.S. companies may not be generalizable to the cross-listed companies because foreign financial reporting standards are different from the U.S. GAAP. Further, prior studies report a difference in earnings quality of U.S. firms and cross-listed firms, which can also result in a difference in the informativeness of their NGE. To fill this gap in literature, I examine whether the informativeness of NGE of cross-listed companies is different from that of U.S. companies. This study contributes to the debate on the informativeness of NGE. It provides evidence that in general, …
Date: May 2018
Creator: Adhikari, Subash
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Northern view of the UNT Administration building with surrounding grounds]

Photograph of the Hurley Administration Building on the UNT campus from the north. There are students walking, riding bikes, and sitting on stone benches in the area in front of the building. There are several trees on either side and grass lawns in the area as well.
Date: 2018-05~
Creator: Adnan, Sahar
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Applications of Metallic Clusters and Nanoparticles via Soft Landing Ion Mobility, from Reduced to Ambient Pressures (open access)

Applications of Metallic Clusters and Nanoparticles via Soft Landing Ion Mobility, from Reduced to Ambient Pressures

Nanoparticles, simple yet groundbreaking objects have led to the discovery of invaluable information due to their physiological, chemical, and physical properties, have become a hot topic in various fields of study including but not limited to chemistry, biology, and physics. In the work presented here, demonstrations of various applications of chemical free nanoparticles are explored, from the determination of a non-invasive method for the study of the exposome via using soft-landing ion mobility (SLIM) deposited nanoparticles as a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI-MS) matrix replacement, to the direct SLIM-exposure of nanoparticles onto living organisms. While there is plenty of published work in soft-landing at operating pressures of 1 Torr, the work presented here shows how this technology can be operated at the less common ambient pressure. The ease of construction of this instrument allows for various modifications to be performed for a wide array of applications, furthermore the flexibility in metallic sample, operating pressure, and deposition time only open doors to many other future applications. The work presented will also show that our ambient SLIM system is also able to be operated for toxicological studies, as the operation at ambient pressure opens the door to new applications where vacuum conditions are …
Date: August 2018
Creator: Aguilar Ayala, Roberto
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alice Rios, November 14, 2018 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Alice Rios, November 14, 2018

Interview with Alice Rios, a former anchor at KRLD radio discussing her childhood in Houston, Texas, education, and highlights from her career in journalism.
Date: November 14, 2018
Creator: Aguilar, Rebecca & Rios, Alice
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Journal of Texas Archeology and History, Volume 4, 2018 (open access)

Journal of Texas Archeology and History, Volume 4, 2018

Annual, peer-reviewed journal containing research articles related to archeology and history in Texas and surrounding areas -- Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and northern Mexico ("Texas Borderlands").
Date: 2018
Creator: Ahlman, Todd M. & Galindo, Mary Jo
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Education of Women in Texas (open access)

Education of Women in Texas

Study of the history of women's education in Texas. This work discusses the foundations of education in Texas and the factors that influenced the growth of women's education within the state. The index begins on page 179.
Date: 2018
Creator: Aiken, Wreathy Price
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hydrophobicity of Magnetite Coating on Low Carbon Steel (open access)

Hydrophobicity of Magnetite Coating on Low Carbon Steel

Superhydrophobic coatings (SHC) with excellent self-cleaning and corrosion resistance property is developed on magnetite coated AISI SAE 1020 steel by using a simple immersion method. Roughness measurement, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), contact angle measurement (CAM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), potentiodynamic polarization test, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and qualitative characterization of self-cleaning behavior, antifouling property and durability of the coatings are assessed. A water contact angle as high as 152o on the coated surface with excellent self-cleaning and resistivity to corrosion and good longevity in atmospheric air is obtained. Self-cleaning test results prove that these surfaces can find applications in large scale production of engineering materials. Potentiodynamic polarization tests and EIS tests confirm that the superhydrophobic low carbon steel surfaces have better resistance to corrosion compared to bare steel and magnetite coated steel in 3.5% NaCl solution. But the longevity of the coated steel surfaces in 3.5% salt solution is limited, which is revealed by the immersion durability test. However, hydrophobic coatings (HC) have better stability in normal tap water, and it can stay unharmed up to 15 days. Finally, hydrophobic coatings on low carbon steel surface retains hydrophobic …
Date: August 2018
Creator: Akhtar, Mst Alpona
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library