Music and Facial Emotion Recognition: An Experimental Approach (open access)

Music and Facial Emotion Recognition: An Experimental Approach

Paper discusses a study that examines the effect of music on the recognition of facial expressions, with the goal of providing insight into how the brain processes emotion.
Date: 2016
Creator: Vu, Vy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Women’s Rights, Education, and the Uncollected Letters of William Ellery Channing in the Christian Inquirer (open access)

Women’s Rights, Education, and the Uncollected Letters of William Ellery Channing in the Christian Inquirer

Paper discusses the content and implications of three previously uncollected letters written by minister William Ellery Channing, a progressive nineteenth century thinker.
Date: 2016
Creator: Riddell, Molly
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hubert Howe Bancroft: Behind the Façade of Professional Historian (open access)

Hubert Howe Bancroft: Behind the Façade of Professional Historian

Paper explores the imagery and text coded with implications of the United States’ social dominance over Mexico in Hubert Howe Bancroft XVI's accounts of Texas history.
Date: 2016
Creator: Wilson, Hannah Joan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Slash Fanfiction and Media Representation of the LGBTQ+ Community (open access)

Slash Fanfiction and Media Representation of the LGBTQ+ Community

Paper analyzes and explores the history and development of the slash fanfiction-writing subculture, and how it relates to the lack of accurate media depictions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
Date: 2016
Creator: Bradley, Allison
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Science and Non-science Major Students’ Awareness of Bacterial Resistance and their Hygiene Practices (open access)

Comparison of Science and Non-science Major Students’ Awareness of Bacterial Resistance and their Hygiene Practices

Paper explores the question of whether differing education provided to a science major and non-science major university students affect their awareness of antibacterial resistance.
Date: 2016
Creator: Bui, Jenny
System: The UNT Digital Library
Honey, Ain’t You Glad We’re Texan: The Mythic Narrative of Texas in the Texas Centennial (open access)

Honey, Ain’t You Glad We’re Texan: The Mythic Narrative of Texas in the Texas Centennial

Paper explores how the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 was used to build the mythology of a unified Texas identity and history.
Date: 2016
Creator: Wilson, Hannah Joan
System: The UNT Digital Library
For Those Who Served the Mission Continues: Veteran Integration Back into Civilian Life via Higher Education after Military Service (open access)

For Those Who Served the Mission Continues: Veteran Integration Back into Civilian Life via Higher Education after Military Service

Paper explores the issues face by veterans attending higher education institutions after their time in service, and what support services are most effective and why.
Date: 2016
Creator: Buchanan, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Image of Mexico in Letters from Mexico: Hegemonic Relations between the U.S. and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century (open access)

The Image of Mexico in Letters from Mexico: Hegemonic Relations between the U.S. and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century

Paper closely examines images and text in Mexico of To-day by Solomon Bulkley Griffin and discusses how the book demonstrates the United States' attitude towards Mexico during the late nineteenth century.
Date: 2016
Creator: Kim, Jungwan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Star Trek and the Non-Binary Gender Individual (open access)

Star Trek and the Non-Binary Gender Individual

Paper investigates the symbolic function of non-binary individuals in Star Trek, positing that characters with easily gendered qualities are portrayed as more benevolent and relatable, while more ambiguous characters are portrayed as more dangerous.
Date: 2016
Creator: Kajihara, Meghan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emerging Market Multinationals and the Effect of Institutional Distance on Equity Participated in Cross Border Acquisition (open access)

Emerging Market Multinationals and the Effect of Institutional Distance on Equity Participated in Cross Border Acquisition

Paper examined the relationship of institutional distance based on an economic freedom index between the acquirer’s nation and host nation with the equity participated in the acquisition of emerging market multinational companies.
Date: 2016
Creator: Al Beayeyz, Sulaiman
System: The UNT Digital Library
Illustrating American Power and Privilege: Images of Mexico as the Other in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70 (open access)

Illustrating American Power and Privilege: Images of Mexico as the Other in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70

Paper argues the images and text in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70 misrepresented Mexico to justify American imperialism.
Date: 2016
Creator: Tuley, Tiffany
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Images in Mexican-American War Literature (open access)

An Analysis of Images in Mexican-American War Literature

Paper argues that John Frost’s pictorial images and narratives of Mexicans were used as historical justifications for the intervention into Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
Date: 2016
Creator: Rudy, Matthew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Erasing Mexico. Notes on the Upper Rio Grande: Documentation for the Sake of Future Exploitation (open access)

Erasing Mexico. Notes on the Upper Rio Grande: Documentation for the Sake of Future Exploitation

Paper examines the text and images in Bryant Tilden’s Notes on the Upper Rio Grande and analyzes how Mexicans are misrepresented in order to justify Manifest Destiny.
Date: 2016
Creator: Reyes, Christianna
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Application of Genetic Engineering in Forestry: Factors That Prevent Its Commercialization (open access)

The Application of Genetic Engineering in Forestry: Factors That Prevent Its Commercialization

Paper discusses factors influencing the lack of adaption of genetic engineering in forestry.
Date: 2016
Creator: Evers, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Other Side: Fifteen Mexicans and an American (open access)

The Other Side: Fifteen Mexicans and an American

Paper argues that Albert C. Ramsey’s The Other Side: or Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the U.S., a translation of a Mexican account of the war, Apuntes para la Historia de la Guerra entre M´ exico y los Estrados-Unidos depicts the Mexican perspective on the Mexican-American war to counter misrepresentations of Mexico by his American peers.
Date: 2016
Creator: Brand, Rebecca
System: The UNT Digital Library