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Student Debt: The Growing Epidemic Without a Proactive Cure (open access)

Student Debt: The Growing Epidemic Without a Proactive Cure

Undergraduate thesis studying student debt decision-making skills. The lack of general knowledge among the student demographic is displayed considering several factors such as: confidence of making short and long-term financial decisions, attitude towards debt, categorical socioeconomics, attitude towards money, political self-efficacy, and political ideology. These nine factors are used to understand the metaphysics of debt using PLS and A priori power Data Analysis.
Date: 2013~/2014~
Creator: Olusanya, Suliat
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Student Perception of Feral Cats and Their Effects on Campus Wildlife (open access)

Student Perception of Feral Cats and Their Effects on Campus Wildlife

Undergraduate thesis exploring feral cat management. In many urban areas, feral cat (Felis catus) populations are so large that they have become a nuisance. The goal of this thesis is to understand student perception of the University of North Texas Feral Cat Rescue Group (FCRG) program, a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program on campus. In particular, the author focuses on the role that ecological information has in shaping student opinions about cats and conservation.
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Dombrosky, Jonathan
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Substance Use Disorders Among Patients with Anxiety: Prevalence and Effect on Psychotherapy Outcomes (open access)

Substance Use Disorders Among Patients with Anxiety: Prevalence and Effect on Psychotherapy Outcomes

Undergraduate thesis studying anxiety and substance use disorders (SUD) by examining the prevalence of anxiety-SUD comorbidity in an outpatient psychology training clinic and assessing how it affects psychotherapy outcomes. Results revealed that anxiety and SUD is more highly comorbid compared to when anxiety is paired with another disorder and the presence of a comorbid SUD was associated with worse therapy outcomes at the beginning and end of therapy. However, the comorbid SUD did not affect the rate of recovery in patients. Both groups benefited equally from therapy.
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Grimaldo, Gabriella A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Take, Eat": A Creation Based Perspective on the Eucharist (open access)

"Take, Eat": A Creation Based Perspective on the Eucharist

Undergraduate thesis exploring the Christian tradition of the Eucharist. Throughout the history of the Church, many ideas have been circulated and debated regarding the Eucharist. The author centers on the question "Why a command to eat?" with the goal to provide a supplemental perspective on this ambiguous Christian ritual.
Date: 2014~/2015~
Creator: Puras, Alberto
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Confederated States of Africa: A Framework for Continental Unity (open access)

The Confederated States of Africa: A Framework for Continental Unity

Undergraduate thesis presenting a framework for a united African continent. The current international system has left Africa largely behind and a massive portion of Africa's issues such as territorial disputes are the result of Western influence and intervention. A philosophical normative idea is presented whereby those affected by its implementation can develop the methodologies and intricacies such a program requires and no claim should be made by an outside influence.
Date: 2013~
Creator: Lux, Ryan
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The effects of chronic hypoxic incubation on levels of Nav1.5 in the hearts of the embryonic Alligator mississippiensis (A. mississippiensis) (open access)

The effects of chronic hypoxic incubation on levels of Nav1.5 in the hearts of the embryonic Alligator mississippiensis (A. mississippiensis)

Undergraduate thesis studying the cause of hypoxic induced bradycardia. The author used western blots analysis to determine the concentration of the cardiac sodium channel, Nav1.5 within embryonic American alligators at 70% and 90% development when incubation occurred in hypoxic conditions (10% Oâ‚‚) and normoxic conditions (21% Oâ‚‚).
Date: 2013~
Creator: Pegram, Destiny
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of Self-Esteem and Perceptions of Infidelity on College Students' Relationship Quality (open access)

The Influence of Self-Esteem and Perceptions of Infidelity on College Students' Relationship Quality

Undergraduate thesis studying the relationship between self-esteem and relationship quality in college students, while also investigating the mediational role of perceptions of infidelity on that relation. The study uses three different measures in order to understand college students and the dynamics of their romantic relationships. Results indicate that there are possible associations between self esteem, relationship quality, and perceptions of infidelity.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Ruales, Dahyan Michelle
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide (open access)

The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide

Undergraduate thesis examining the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in the United States and its ethics. The authors' study provides that in states where, by legislation, physicians can aid a patient by prescribing a lethal dose which the patient can choose to ingest, the benefits well surpass any risk feared by opponents of physician-assisted suicide.
Date: May 12, 2014
Creator: Horner, Marjorie
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Voi M'Incendete: Don Carlo Gesualdo (open access)

Voi M'Incendete: Don Carlo Gesualdo

Undergraduate thesis that is a collection of poems inspired by the life of Don Carlo Gesualdo.
Date: 2012~
Creator: Coronado, Sam
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
We Were Once All Gentle Creatures: Modular Stories (open access)

We Were Once All Gentle Creatures: Modular Stories

Undergraduate thesis that is a collection of short stories preceded by critical preface. The preface, which is divided into two sections, contextualizes the function and presence of the modular narrative. The first section explores the criticism of the form and the second section provides contextual examples of contemporary stories which more or less exhibit elements of the modular. This collection entitled "We Were Once All Gentle Creatures" employs the many conventions and elements of the modular story as means to show how the modular replicates the atemporal qualities of human experience.
Date: 2013
Creator: Dash, Jessica
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Writing, Domesticity, and Suicide: A Biographical Comparison of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath (open access)

Writing, Domesticity, and Suicide: A Biographical Comparison of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath

Undergraduate thesis biographically examining the lives, deaths, and works of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, including their roles as daughters, wives, mothers, and female writers. This thesis has implications for the relevancy and pertinence of Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to literary, gender, and even political studies today as evident in their being namesakes of their crafts, hallmarks of the literary periods in which they wrote, and some of the most recognized and referenced literary names in popular culture.
Date: 2013
Creator: Peebles, Emily
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wither the Whip, Strengthen the Sword: Colonial Legacy and Geno-/Politicide in the Post-Colonial World, 1945-2012 (open access)

Wither the Whip, Strengthen the Sword: Colonial Legacy and Geno-/Politicide in the Post-Colonial World, 1945-2012

Undergraduate thesis examining the causes of geno-/politicides and the potential correlation between colonial legacy and the increased likelihood of seeing geno-/politicide across all newly independent states post-WWII from 1945-2012. This study reviews colonialism through an anthropological and sociological lens and applies it to state-structure's impact on political violence.
Date: May 8, 2014
Creator: Wood, Colin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library