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Village Characteristics and Health of Rural Chinese Older Adults: Examining the CHARLS Pilot Study of a Rich and Poor Province (open access)

Village Characteristics and Health of Rural Chinese Older Adults: Examining the CHARLS Pilot Study of a Rich and Poor Province

Article on the village characteristics and health of rural Chinese older adults and an examination of the CHARLS pilot study of a rich and poor province.
Date: December 2013
Creator: Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-; Pei, Xiaomei; Cready, Cynthia M.; Shen, Yuying; Luo, Hao & Tan, Junxin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breast Implants for Graduation: A Sociological Examination of Daughter and Mother Narratives (open access)

Breast Implants for Graduation: A Sociological Examination of Daughter and Mother Narratives

Article on a sociological examination of daughter and mother narratives.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Fowler, Lori Ann & Moore, Ami R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Capital and Self-Rated Health among Older Adults in China: A Multilevel Analysis (open access)

Social Capital and Self-Rated Health among Older Adults in China: A Multilevel Analysis

Article on social capital and self-rated health among middle-aged and older adults in China.
Date: October 7, 2013
Creator: Shen, Yuying; Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-; Cai, Tianji; Yang, Philip Q. & Cready, Cynthia M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Epilepsy: Not a Disease, But a Disorder (open access)

Epilepsy: Not a Disease, But a Disorder

Paper is an in-depth discussion on the causes, symptoms, and treatments for epilepsy and and an examination of data on worldwide death rates related to the disorder.
Date: 2013
Creator: Prasain, Manisha
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
How the Act of Bullying is Transforming in Today’s High Schools (open access)

How the Act of Bullying is Transforming in Today’s High Schools

Paper discusses modern forms of bullying in high schools.
Date: 2014
Creator: Taub, Stephanie; Mlinar, Brenna & Hogue, Joseph
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Revitalizing the Trinity River on Social Environments: The Fluidity of Migrations in Dallas, Texas (open access)

Effects of Revitalizing the Trinity River on Social Environments: The Fluidity of Migrations in Dallas, Texas

Paper explores the effects of the The Trinity River Corridor Project in Dallas on the Latino community in Oak Cliff.
Date: 2013
Creator: Gomez, Corina
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pillars of Society? How Religion May Propagate Male Rape Myths (open access)

Pillars of Society? How Religion May Propagate Male Rape Myths

Paper examines the societal factors that contribute to myths about male rape, as well as the experiences of victims.
Date: 2015
Creator: Hackman, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does Family Matter? Exploring the Relationship between ADHD and Substance Abuse (open access)

Does Family Matter? Exploring the Relationship between ADHD and Substance Abuse

Paper examines the relationship of family structure to alcohol and drug use among people diagnosed with ADHD.
Date: 2014
Creator: Palmer, Renée & Peters, Jessica
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to Special Section on Capstone Projects in Sociology (open access)

Introduction to Special Section on Capstone Projects in Sociology

Introduction to the special section on capstone projects from the Department of Sociology for the 2014 edition of The Eagle Feather, written by Michael Nino.
Date: 2014
Creator: Nino, Michael
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Healthcare/Healthscare: A Study of the U.S. Veterans Administration (open access)

Healthcare/Healthscare: A Study of the U.S. Veterans Administration

Paper analyzes inadequacies in the veteran's healthcare system in the United States.
Date: 2015
Creator: Coco, Maria M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Christian Fundamentalists or Atheists: Who do Progressive Christians Like or Hate More? (open access)

Christian Fundamentalists or Atheists: Who do Progressive Christians Like or Hate More?

This article examines the propensity of theological, political, and/or denominational progressive Christians to have affinity or disaffinity towards Christian fundamentalists and atheists.
Date: 2017
Creator: Yancey, George A., 1962-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Information on the Web and Consumers’ Perspectives on Health Professionals’ Responses to Information Exchange (open access)

Health Information on the Web and Consumers’ Perspectives on Health Professionals’ Responses to Information Exchange

This article provides preliminary information on users' perceptions of the extent to which use of the Internet for health information impacts medical encounters.
Date: July 8, 2017
Creator: Seçkin, Gül
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Public Libraries and Democratization in Three Developing Countries: Exploring the Role of Social Capital

This article explores the role of social capital. The authors develop a theoretical framework intended to facilitate systematic investigation of the contributions public libraries may make to democratization.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Ignatow, Gabriel; Webb, Sarah M.; Poulin, Michelle; Parajuli, Ramesh; Fleming, Peter; Batra, Shika et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins (open access)

Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins

This article examines the connections between participants in the illicit drug trade and members of state security forces to understand how they impact everyday understandings of the law. The authors used ethnographic fieldwork in a poor, high-crime district in Argentina and information gathered for a court case involving a drug trafficking group active in the same area as the basis for their research.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: Sobering, Katherine & Auyero, Javier
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Being an Informed Consumer of Health Information and Assessment of Electronic Health Literacy in a National Sample of Internet Users: Validity and Reliability of the e-HLS Instrument (open access)

Being an Informed Consumer of Health Information and Assessment of Electronic Health Literacy in a National Sample of Internet Users: Validity and Reliability of the e-HLS Instrument

This article examines psychometric properties of a new electronic health literacy measure in a national sample of Internet users with specific attention to older users.
Date: November 7, 2016
Creator: Seçkin, Gül; Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-; Hughes, Susan; Hudson, Cassie & Bell, Valerie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Pathways to Positive Health Perceptions: Does Age Moderate the Relationship Between Medical Satisfaction and Positive Health Perceptions Among Middle-Aged and Older Internet Users? (open access)

Digital Pathways to Positive Health Perceptions: Does Age Moderate the Relationship Between Medical Satisfaction and Positive Health Perceptions Among Middle-Aged and Older Internet Users?

This article explores the influence of e-trust, e-health literacy, e-health information seeking, and e-health information consumerism on medical satisfaction and positive health perceptions.
Date: January 11, 2019
Creator: Seçkin, Gül; Hughes, Susan; Yeatts, Dale E., 1952- & Degreve, Thomas
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
‘Forgotten and Forgiven’? Calvinism and French Society (open access)

‘Forgotten and Forgiven’? Calvinism and French Society

This article identifies and addresses a curious and persisting omission in the sociological literature on Calvinism, as specifically expounded in sociological journals.
Date: February 28, 2014
Creator: Zafirovski, Milan, 1958-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nurse Aide Decision Making in Nursing Homes: Factors Affecting Empowerment (open access)

Nurse Aide Decision Making in Nursing Homes: Factors Affecting Empowerment

Article on nurse aide decision making in nursing homes and the factors affecting empowerment.
Date: March 27, 2013
Creator: Chaudhuri, Tanni & Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geographic Distance, Contact, and Family Perceptions of Quality Nursing Home Care (open access)

Geographic Distance, Contact, and Family Perceptions of Quality Nursing Home Care

Article on the geographic distance, contact and family perceptions of quality nursing home care.
Date: September 5, 2011
Creator: Dillman, Jennifer L.; Yeatts, Dale E., 1952- & Cready, Cynthia M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sexual identity and risk behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Accra, Ghana and Lomẻ, Togo (open access)

Sexual identity and risk behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Accra, Ghana and Lomẻ, Togo

This article studies the impact of homonegativity on risky sexual behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Ghana and Togo (West Africa) using a mixed method approach.
Date: May 22, 2017
Creator: Moore, Ami R.; Driver, Nichola; Owusu, Gertrude Adobea & Amey, Foster
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An inquiry into the uneven distribution of women’s HIV infection in rural Malawi (open access)

An inquiry into the uneven distribution of women’s HIV infection in rural Malawi

Article exploring elevated HIV levels in Malawi's Southern Region and the relationship between HIV levels, male circumcision, and marital histories.
Date: December 21, 2011
Creator: Poulin, Michelle
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disclosure of Children's Positive Serostatus to Family and Nonfamily Members: Informal Caregivers in Togo, West Africa (open access)

Disclosure of Children's Positive Serostatus to Family and Nonfamily Members: Informal Caregivers in Togo, West Africa

Article on the disclosure of children's positive serostatus to family and nonfamily members.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Moore, Ami R. & Williamson, David Allen
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library