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Automatic Extraction of Grasses and Individual Trees in Urban Areas Based on Airborne Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data (open access)

Automatic Extraction of Grasses and Individual Trees in Urban Areas Based on Airborne Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data

This article proposes a three-dimensional (3D) vegetation extraction workflow to extract urban grasses and trees at individual tree level in urban areas using airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data. Results suggest that two- and three-dimensional urban vegetation extraction could play a significant role in spatial layout optimization and scientific management of urban vegetation.
Date: August 23, 2020
Creator: Man, Qixia; Dong, Pinliang; Yang, Xinming; Wu, Quanyuan & Han, Rongqing
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bayesian Time-Series Models in Single Case Experimental Designs: A Tutorial for Trauma Researchers (open access)

Bayesian Time-Series Models in Single Case Experimental Designs: A Tutorial for Trauma Researchers

Article discusses the utility of SCED data for trauma research, provides recommendations for addressing challenges specific to SCED approaches, and introduces a tutorial for two Bayesian models—the Bayesian interrupted time-series (BITS) model and the Bayesian unknown change-point (BUCP) model—that can be used to analyze the typically small sample, autocorrelated, SCED data.
Date: November 17, 2020
Creator: Contractor, Ateka A.; Caldas, Stephanie & Batley, Prathiba Natesan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Change Characteristics and Interactions of Soil Moisture and Temperature in the Farmland in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia, China (open access)

The Change Characteristics and Interactions of Soil Moisture and Temperature in the Farmland in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia, China

Article studying the change characteristics of soil moisture and temperature under different water level treatments in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia, China.
Date: May 14, 2020
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Zhang, Ziyuan; Pan, Zhihua; Zhang, Jun; Han, Guolin; Huang, Na et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Water Indices and Image Classification Algorithms for Mapping Inland Surface Water Bodies Using Landsat Imagery (open access)

A Comparative Study of Water Indices and Image Classification Algorithms for Mapping Inland Surface Water Bodies Using Landsat Imagery

This article presents a comparative study of water indices and image classification algorithms for mapping inland water bodies using Landsat imagery through obtaining 24 high-resolution (≤5 m) and cloud-free images archived in Google Earth with the same (or ±1 day) acquisition dates as the Landsat-8 OLI images over 24 selected lakes across the globe, and developing a method to generate the alternate ground truth data from the Google Earth images for properly evaluating the Landsat image classification results.
Date: May 18, 2020
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Xi, Xiaohuan & Wang, Cheng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

COVID-19 and the gender gap in work hours

Article using panel data from the US Current Population Survey to examine changes in mothers’ and fathers’ work hours from February through April 2020, the period of time prior to the widespread COVID-19 outbreak in the United States and through its first peak. Using person-level fixed effects models, we find that mothers with young children have reduced their work hours four to five times more than fathers.
Date: July 2, 2020
Creator: Collins, Caitlyn; Landivar, Liana Christin; Ruppanner, Leah & Scarborough, William
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discussing God: The Effect of (Ir)Religious Identities on Topic-Sentiment Polarization in Online Debates (open access)

Discussing God: The Effect of (Ir)Religious Identities on Topic-Sentiment Polarization in Online Debates

Article examining how religious identities, or the lack thereof, affect intergroup biases in the form of identity-specific topic preferences and topic-sentiment polarization.
Date: August 30, 2020
Creator: Grigoropoulou, Nikolitsa
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Doing our work better, together: a relationship-based approach to defining the quality improvement agenda in trauma care (open access)

Doing our work better, together: a relationship-based approach to defining the quality improvement agenda in trauma care

Article presents a study conducted at Gold Coast University Hospital that aimed to define and improve relational aspects of trauma care and facilitate co-creation of targeted interventions designed to improve team relationships and performance.
Date: February 10, 2020
Creator: Henry, Doug; Purdy, Eve Isabelle; McLean, Darren; Alexander, Charlotte; Scott, Matthew; Donohue, Andrew et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Educación, Ecoturismo y Conservación Biocultural en los Bosques en Miniatura Del Cabo de Hornos (open access)

Educación, Ecoturismo y Conservación Biocultural en los Bosques en Miniatura Del Cabo de Hornos

Article demonstrates that using Field Environmental Philosophy (FEP) methodology, inconspicuous species can be made visible and their ecological, ethical, aesthetic, and economic values can be recognized by citizens.
Date: September 12, 2020
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Medina, Yanet & Massardo, Francisca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) Scale in Chinese Adolescents (open access)

Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) Scale in Chinese Adolescents

Article examining the psychometric properties of the self-report version of Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) Scale in a sample of community adolescents in mainland China. Findings provide preliminary evidence for the four-factor structure of the PSCD and support for the utility of the self-report PSCD for measuring psychopathic traits and CD in Chinese adolescents.
Date: August 20, 2020
Creator: Luo, Jie; Wang, Meng-Cheng; Neumann, Craig S.; Hare, Robert D. & Salekin, Randall T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fertility knowledge, contraceptive use and unintentional pregnancy in 29 African countries: a cross-sectional study (open access)

Fertility knowledge, contraceptive use and unintentional pregnancy in 29 African countries: a cross-sectional study

Article examines the association between incorrect knowledge of ovulation and unintentional pregnancy/child among young women in sub-Saharan Africa countries.
Date: April 9, 2020
Creator: Oppong, Joseph R.; Iyanda, Ayodeji Emmanuel; Dinkins, Barbara J.; Osayomi, Tolulope; Adeusi, Temitope Joshua & Lu, Yongmei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Head Start and Families' Recovery From Economic Recession: Policy Recommendations for COVID-19

This article examines whether the availability of Head Start during the Great Recession mitigated the impact of this crisis on poverty rates among families with young children. The findings provide clear, evidence-based policy recommendations. Increased federal funding for Head Start is needed to support families during a COVID-19 recession.
Date: December 5, 2020
Creator: Scarborough, William; Collins, Caitlyn; Ruppanner, Leah & Landivar, Liana Christin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Land Use Simulation of Guangzhou Based on Nighttime Light Data and Planning Policies (open access)

Land Use Simulation of Guangzhou Based on Nighttime Light Data and Planning Policies

This article employs nighttime light (NTL) information as a proxy indicator of gross domestic product(GDP), and a future land use simulation model (FLUS) to simulate the land use patterns in Guangzhou from 2015 to 2018 and 2018 to 2035 by incorporating planning policies. This study demonstrates that NTL is a suitable and feasible proxy indicator of GDP for the land use simulations, providing a scientific basis for the development of urban planning and construction policy.
Date: May 23, 2020
Creator: Lao, Jieying; Wang, Cheng; Wang, Jinliang; Pan, Feifei; Xi, Xiaohuan & Liang, Lei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latent Class Analysis Offers Insight into the Complex Food Environments of Native American Communities: Findings from the Randomly Selected OPREVENT2 Trial Baseline Sample (open access)

Latent Class Analysis Offers Insight into the Complex Food Environments of Native American Communities: Findings from the Randomly Selected OPREVENT2 Trial Baseline Sample

The article describes the subgroups and demographic characteristics related to NA household food environments. Surveys collected food getting, food assistance, and sociodemographic variables from randomly selected adults from three NA communities (n = 300) in the Midwest and Southwest. Findings demonstrate that NA household food environments can be described by developing subgroups based on patterns of market and traditional food getting, and food assistance utilization. Understanding NA household food environments could identify tailored individual and community-level approaches to promoting healthy eating for NA Nations.
Date: February 14, 2020
Creator: Jock, Brittany Wenniseí:iostha; Bandeen Roche, Karen; Caldas, Stephanie; Redmond, Leslie; Fleischhacker, Sheila & Gittelsohn, Joel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping Dragon Fruit Croplands from Space Using Remote Sensing of Artificial Light at Night (open access)

Mapping Dragon Fruit Croplands from Space Using Remote Sensing of Artificial Light at Night

Article using National Polar Partnership (NPP)-Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) NTL remote sensing data to observe the seasonal variation of artificial lighting in dragon fruit cropland in Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam. The results suggest that the NTL remotely sensed data could be used to reveal some agricultural productive activities such as dragon fruits production accurately by monitoring the seasonal artificial lighting. This research demonstrates the application potential of NTL remotely sensed data in agriculture.
Date: December 17, 2020
Creator: Wang, Ruirui; Shi, Wei & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping forest height using photon-counting LiDAR data and Landsat 8 OLI data: A case study in Virginia and North Carolina, USA (open access)

Mapping forest height using photon-counting LiDAR data and Landsat 8 OLI data: A case study in Virginia and North Carolina, USA

Article is a study mapping forest height by combining photon-counting LiDAR data and Landsat OLI data.
Date: March 13, 2020
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Zhu, Xiaoxiao; Wang, Cheng; Nie, Sheng; Xi, Xiaohuan & Hu, Zhenyue
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monitoring, Mapping, and Modeling Spatial–Temporal Patterns of PM2.5 for Improved Understanding of Air Pollution Dynamics Using Portable Sensing Technologies (open access)

Monitoring, Mapping, and Modeling Spatial–Temporal Patterns of PM2.5 for Improved Understanding of Air Pollution Dynamics Using Portable Sensing Technologies

This article maps the dynamics of PM2.5 concentrations at high spatio-temporal resolutions using bicycle-based, mobile measures on a university campus.
Date: June 5, 2020
Creator: Hart, Ronan; Liang, Lu & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The morpho-syntax of phrasal proper names in German (open access)

The morpho-syntax of phrasal proper names in German

Article studies the morpho-syntax of proper names in German.
Date: December 30, 2020
Creator: Roehrs, Dorian
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mortality salience, effort, and cardiovascular response to a bar-press challenge: Remarkably nuanced effects of a death prime on heart performance (open access)

Mortality salience, effort, and cardiovascular response to a bar-press challenge: Remarkably nuanced effects of a death prime on heart performance

Article is a study that presented participants with a bar-pressing challenge relevant to their identity after having exposed them to a prime that made their mortality more or less salient. This study adds substantively to a new line of support for terror management theory and documents the predictive utility of a proposed blended analysis of associated effort processes.
Date: July 29, 2020
Creator: Reza, Ariel; Whitted, Melissa; Wright, Rex A. & Mlynski, Christopher
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
North Texas Review, Issue 20, 2020 (open access)

North Texas Review, Issue 20, 2020

Annual literature journal containing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, artworks, and other creative works by UNT students.
Date: Spring 2020
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of English.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Occupational gender segregation and economic growth in United States local labor markets, 1980 through 2010 (open access)

Occupational gender segregation and economic growth in United States local labor markets, 1980 through 2010

This article explores the barrier that gender segregation posses to the exchange of diverse ideas between women and men workers in the United States. The author uses fixed effects regression models to examine the relationship between labor market levels of segregation and economic growth from 1980 and 2010. Results from this study suggest that gender equity is a vital ingredient in the economic development of local United States labor markets.
Date: January 14, 2020
Creator: Scarborough, William J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
People of Color, People of Faith: The Effect of Social Capital and Religion on the Political Participation of Marginalized Communities (open access)

People of Color, People of Faith: The Effect of Social Capital and Religion on the Political Participation of Marginalized Communities

Article exploring how religion, social capital, and nativity intersect in the political mobilization of racial minorities. Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) 2016 data is used to examine the connection between social capital, religion, and political behavior in a novel attempt to systematically identify the unique role of churches in the mobilization of racial minority communities.
Date: May 19, 2020
Creator: Huckle, Kiku & Silva, Andrea
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The perils of untested assumptions in theory testing: A reply to Patrick et al. (2020) (open access)

The perils of untested assumptions in theory testing: A reply to Patrick et al. (2020)

This article is a comment responding to a critique by Patrick et. al (2020) of the authors' recent study that raised questions regarding the three-factor model of the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure (TriPM). The reply demonstrates additional problems with the three-factor TriPM model and shows that the seven-factor model out-performs the three-factor model in predicting correlates of psychopathy.
Date: September 7, 2020
Creator: Roy, Sandeep; Vize, Colin; Uzieblo, Kasia; Van Dongen, Josanne D. M.; Miller, Joshua D.; Lynam, Donald R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential Evapotranspiration Reduction and Its Influence on Crop Yield in the North China Plain in 1961–2014 (open access)

Potential Evapotranspiration Reduction and Its Influence on Crop Yield in the North China Plain in 1961–2014

Article examines the spatiotemporal characteristics of climate variables, such as humidity index, precipitation, and potential evapotranspiration (ET0) from 1961 to 2014 in the North China Plain (NCP).
Date: March 16, 2020
Creator: Dong, Wanlin; Li, Chao; Hu, Qi; Pan, Feifei; Bhandari, Jyoti & Sun, Zhigang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychopathy and emotion dysregulation: More than meets the eye (open access)

Psychopathy and emotion dysregulation: More than meets the eye

Article examines associations between self-reported emotion regulation (ER) and psychopathy.
Date: June 8, 2020
Creator: Neumann, Craig S.; Garofalo, Carlo; Kosson, David S. & Velotti, Patrizia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library