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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
Perceptions of Change after a Trauma and Perceived Posttraumatic Growth: A Prospective Examination (open access)

Perceptions of Change after a Trauma and Perceived Posttraumatic Growth: A Prospective Examination

This article uses a prospective research design to measure both actual and perceived posttraumatic growth in an attempt to replicate and extend previous findings.
Date: January 15, 2019
Creator: Boals, Adriel; Bedford, Lee A. & Callahan, Jennifer L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid Responses to Abiotic Stress: Priming the Landscape for the Signal Transduction Network (open access)

Rapid Responses to Abiotic Stress: Priming the Landscape for the Signal Transduction Network

This article proposes that a plant's ability to engage in many different metabolic and molecular networks as well as alter stomatal aperture in order to adapt to their environment is mediated through pulses of gene expression that are coordinated throughout the plant in a systemic manner by the ROS/Ca+2 waves.
Date: January 2019
Creator: Kollist, Hannes; Zandalinas, Sara I.; Sengupta, Soham; Nuhkat, Maris; Kangasjärvi, Jaakko & Mittler, Ron
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dharmic Ecology for Mother Earth

Presentation for the Dallas Philosophers Forum. This presentation discusses the intertwining of environmentalism in the dharmic practices of traditional grass-roots rural communities such as Bishnois, Bhils, and Swadhyaya.
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental History of Dharmic Communities transcript

Environmental History of Dharmic Communities

Presentation for the Dallas Philosophers Forum. This presentation discusses the intertwining of environmentalism in the dharmic practices of traditional grass-roots rural communities such as Bishnois, Bhils, and Swadhyaya.
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
AT#650 - Travel to Rajasthan, India transcript

AT#650 - Travel to Rajasthan, India

Audio recording of a podcast episode from Amateur Traveler. This episode contains a discussion of travel ito the northern India state of Rajasthan.
Date: March 30, 2019
Creator: Christensen, Chris & Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
America Losing its Religion? transcript

America Losing its Religion?

Audio recording of a news segment from News Radio KFB. This episode discusses results from the General Social Survey in relation to religion and spirituality.
Date: April 9, 2019
Creator: Mendonsa, Cristina & Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Art of Non-Violence in a Violent World captions transcript

The Art of Non-Violence in a Violent World

Video recording containing audio of a podcast episode from Grim News. This episode includes a discussion on the principles of non-violence and its relationship with Jainism
Date: April 5, 2019
Creator: Sengupta, Hindol & Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extraction of Urban Objects in Cloud Shadows on the basis of Fusion of Airborne LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data (open access)

Extraction of Urban Objects in Cloud Shadows on the basis of Fusion of Airborne LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data

This article, fused airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data were used to extract urban objects in cloud shadows.The experimental results confirm that the proposed method is very effective for urban object extraction in cloud shadows and thus improve urban applications such as urban green land management, land use analysis, and impervious surface assessment.
Date: February 1, 2019
Creator: Man, Qixia & Dong, Pinliang
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
An ecological measure to screen executive functioning in Multiple Sclerosis: the Picture Interpretation Test (PIT) 360° (open access)

An ecological measure to screen executive functioning in Multiple Sclerosis: the Picture Interpretation Test (PIT) 360°

This article's aim was to compare the efficiency of the Picture Interpretation Test 360° (PIT 360°) with traditional measures on executive dysfunction in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS) and Healthy Controls (HC). Overall, the PIT 360° was concluded to be a quick, sensitive, and ecological tool that captures real-world executive dysfunction in PwMS. This engaging measure is sensitive for the detection of executive deficits since the early phases of the disease.
Date: April 5, 2019
Creator: Realdon, Olivia; Serino, Silvia; Savazzi, Federica; Rossetto, Federica; Cipresso, Pietro; Parsons, Thomas D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing the Impact of the Built-Up Environment on Nighttime Lights in China (open access)

Assessing the Impact of the Built-Up Environment on Nighttime Lights in China

Article describes study investigating the effects of the built-up environment on artificial light at night, focusing on construction region environments on nighttime brightness and variation with building heights and regional economic development level in China.
Date: July 19, 2019
Creator: Wang, Cheng; Qin, Haiming; Zhao, Kaiguang; Dong, Pinliang; Yang, Xuebo; Zhou, Guoqing et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Warming and Dimming: Interactive Impacts on Potential Summer Maize Yield in North China Plain (open access)

Warming and Dimming: Interactive Impacts on Potential Summer Maize Yield in North China Plain

Discusses study that examines the impacts of climate change associated with climate warming and global dimming/brightening on potential light–temperature productivity (PTP) of summer maize based on daily observation data during 1961–2015 in the North China Plain (NCP).
Date: May 5, 2019
Creator: Hu, Qi; Ma, Xueqing; He, Huayun; Pan, Feifei; He, Qijin; Huang, Binxiang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The value of hydrologic information for watershed management programs: The case of Camboriú, Brazil (open access)

The value of hydrologic information for watershed management programs: The case of Camboriú, Brazil

Article explores the value of hydrologic modeling and monitoring with respect to two dimensions: scientific credibility and use of generated knowledge in the design, implementation, and evaluation of the watershed management program in the Camboriú watershed, Brazil.
Date: December 2, 2019
Creator: Hamel, Perrine; Bremer, Leah L.; Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Acosta, Eileen; Fisher, Jonathan R.B.; Steele, Bethel G. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience (open access)

Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience

Article proposes the concept of "perverse adaptation", where one actor or institution's adaptation to climate change in fact produces aftershocks and secondary impacts upon other groups.
Date: January 4, 2019
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The effect of acute stress on salivary markers of inflammation: a systematic review protocol (open access)

The effect of acute stress on salivary markers of inflammation: a systematic review protocol

Article contains a a systematic review and meta-analysis of the reliability of changes in response to stress to measures of inflammation in saliva.
Date: May 2, 2019
Creator: Slavish, Danica & Szabo, Yevette Z.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Video to Home Delivery of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy to Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (open access)

Video to Home Delivery of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy to Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Article examined the provision of evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) delivered via ideo to home (VTH) at a large Southwestern Veterans Health Administration (VHA) PTSD outpatient clinic.
Date: December 6, 2019
Creator: Boykin, Derrecka M.; Keegan, Fallon; Thompson, Karin E.; Voelkel, Emily & Fletcher, Terri L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Latent Profile Analysis of Violent Offenders Based on PCL-R Factor Scores: Criminogenic Needs and Recidivism Risk (open access)

A Latent Profile Analysis of Violent Offenders Based on PCL-R Factor Scores: Criminogenic Needs and Recidivism Risk

Article describes study where latent profile analysis was used to investigate if homogeneous latent classes of psychopathy exist within a sample of 215 adult male violent offenders from Berlin, Germany.
Date: September 6, 2019
Creator: Lehmann, Robert Johann Bernhard; Neumann, Craig S.; Hare, Robert Douglas; Biedermann, Jürgen; Dahle, Klaus-Peter & Mokros, Andreas
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential effects of heat waves on the population dynamics of the dengue mosquito Aedes albopictus (open access)

Potential effects of heat waves on the population dynamics of the dengue mosquito Aedes albopictus

Article describes study aiming to investigate the potential effects of heat waves on the population dynamics of Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), which is a major vector of dengue and Zika viruses.
Date: July 5, 2019
Creator: Jia, Pengfei; Liang, Lu; Tan, Xiaoyue; Chen, Jin & Chen, Xiang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of personal exposure to particulate air pollution: the first result of City Health Outlook (CHO) project (open access)

Assessment of personal exposure to particulate air pollution: the first result of City Health Outlook (CHO) project

First paper of a series on the City Health Outlook (CHO) project, which aims to establish multi-scale, long-lasting, real-time urban environment and health monitoring networks. This paper is targeted at illustrating the characteristics of the participants and examining the effects of different covariates on personal exposure at various air pollution exposure levels.
Date: June 7, 2019
Creator: Liang, Lu; Gong, Peng; Cong, Na; Li, Zhichao; Zhao, Yu & Chen, Ying
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hemisphere-specific effects of prefrontal theta-burst stimulation on visual recognition memory accuracy and awareness (open access)

Hemisphere-specific effects of prefrontal theta-burst stimulation on visual recognition memory accuracy and awareness

Article describes study seeking to determine if theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation (TBS) to prefrontal cortex modulates visual memory accuracy, visual memory awareness, or both, and whether these effects depend on brain hemisphere.
Date: January 6, 2019
Creator: Carbajal, Ivan; O'Neil, Jonathan T.; Palumbo, Robert T.; Voss, Joel L. & Ryals, Anthony J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Metacognitive Self: The Role of Motivation and an Updated Measurement Tool (open access)

The Metacognitive Self: The Role of Motivation and an Updated Measurement Tool

Article on the theoretical motivational background regarding metacognitive self. Based on this framework, a single-factor structure of metacognitive self is developed from modification of the MCSQ-40 questionnaire and results in a new tool: MCSQ-21.
Date: February 2019
Creator: Brycz, Hannah; Konarski, Roman & Wright, Rex
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Motivational Climates, Mindsets, and Goal Orientations to Grit in Male Adolescent Soccer Players (open access)

The Relationship of Motivational Climates, Mindsets, and Goal Orientations to Grit in Male Adolescent Soccer Players

This article examines the relationships of the perceived motivational climate created by coaches (task-involving vs. ego-involving), athletes’ mindset (growth vs. fixed) and goal orientation (task vs. ego), to their grit. within the framework of achievement motivation theory.
Date: August 8, 2018
Creator: Albert, Erin; Petrie, Trent A. & Moore, Whitney G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atheism, Social Networks and Health: A Review and Theoretical Model (open access)

Atheism, Social Networks and Health: A Review and Theoretical Model

This article operationalizes social network structure within the study of secularism, discusses the available research with a focus on atheism in particular, and integrates this research into a schematic theoretical model of atheist self-identity, network structure and health.
Date: October 16, 2019
Creator: McCaffree, Kevin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library