The Effect of Transformational Leadership on Network Performance: A Study of Continuum of Care Homeless Networks (open access)

The Effect of Transformational Leadership on Network Performance: A Study of Continuum of Care Homeless Networks

This article examines the relationship between transformational leadership and network performance in Continuum of Care homeless service networks.
Date: December 1, 2020
Creator: Jang, Hee Soun & Valero, Jesus N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health information, attitudes and actions at religious venues: Evidence from hajj pilgrims (open access)

Health information, attitudes and actions at religious venues: Evidence from hajj pilgrims

Article presents research using the Health Belief Model (HBM) to evaluate Hajj pilgrims’ perceptions of health risks, their patterns of receiving health information from various traditional and new media channels and their adoptions or intentions to take health-promoting behavior in light of various challenges.
Date: November 9, 2020
Creator: Andrew, Simon A.; Taibah, Hassan; Arlikatti, Sudha; Maghelal, Praveen & DelGrosso, Bill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Higher education and behavior analysis in Europe: creating a unified approach for the training of autism professionals (open access)

Higher education and behavior analysis in Europe: creating a unified approach for the training of autism professionals

Article discussing advances, challenges, and future directions for training of behavior analysts for autism services within the context of higher education in the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Norway, and Sweden.
Date: June 16, 2020
Creator: Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla; Roll-Pettersson, Lise, 1955-; Gena, Angeliki; Eldevik, Sigmund; Moderato, Paolo; Sigurdardottir, Zuilma Gabriela et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Low Self-control on Past and Future Cyber Offending (open access)

The Impact of Low Self-control on Past and Future Cyber Offending

Article presents a study examining the effects of self-control on a variety of self-reported cyber offenses as well as anticipated cyber offending behaviors.
Date: April 6, 2020
Creator: Nodeland, Brooke & Morris, Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Importance of Professional Discourse for the Continual Advancement of Practice Standards: The RBT® as a Case in Point (open access)

The Importance of Professional Discourse for the Continual Advancement of Practice Standards: The RBT® as a Case in Point

This article highlights concerns in recent changes to the Registered Behavior Technician™ certification (RBT®) including the processes of training, supervising, and becoming an RBT®. It then proposes solutions to improve the RBT® certification.
Date: August 6, 2020
Creator: Leaf, Justin B.; Leaf, Ronald; McEachin, John; Bondy, Andy; Cihon, Joseph H.; Detrich, Ronnie et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mental Illness and Youth-Onset Homelessness: A Retrospective Study among Adults Experiencing Homelessness (open access)

Mental Illness and Youth-Onset Homelessness: A Retrospective Study among Adults Experiencing Homelessness

This article retrospectively evaluating the association between the timing of homelessness onset (youth versus adult) and mental illness as a reason for homelessness among homeless adults living in homeless shelters and/or receiving services from homeless-serving agencies in Texas and Oklahoma. A better understanding of these relationships could inform needs for early interventions and/or better prepare agencies that serve at-risk youth to address precursors to youth homelessness.
Date: September 28, 2020
Creator: Iwundu, Chisom N.; Chen, Tzu-An; Edereka-Great, Kirsteen; Businelle, Michael S.; Kendzor, Darla E. & Reitzel, Lorraine R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predictors of Overnight and Emergency Treatment among Homeless Adults (open access)

Predictors of Overnight and Emergency Treatment among Homeless Adults

This article aims to identify the sociodemographic predictors associated with overnight and emergency hospital treatment among a sample of homeless adults.
Date: May 5, 2020
Creator: Iwundu, Chisom N.; Agrawal, Pooja; Businelle, Michael S.; Kendzor, Darla E. & Reitzel, Lorraine R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Private patient rooms and hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A hospital-level analysis of administrative data from the United States (open access)

Private patient rooms and hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A hospital-level analysis of administrative data from the United States

Article presents research using hospital-level data from the US to determine whether private patient rooms (PPRs) are associated with fewer in hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) infections.
Date: July 9, 2020
Creator: O'Neill, Liam; Stockbridge, Erica L.; Miller, Thaddeus L. & Park, Sae-Hwan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progenitor cell therapy for acquired pediatric nervous system injury: Traumatic brain injury and acquired sensorineural hearing loss (open access)

Progenitor cell therapy for acquired pediatric nervous system injury: Traumatic brain injury and acquired sensorineural hearing loss

Article suggesting that multipotent stem cell therapies can achieve therapeutic effect by altering the immune response to injury, thereby limiting damage due to inflammation and possibly improving outcomes in patients with neurological conditions such as traumatic brain injury and hearing loss.
Date: October 9, 2020
Creator: Baumgartner, James E.; Baumgartner, Linda S.; Baumgartner, Michael E.; Moore, Ernest J.; Messina, Steven; Seidman, Michael et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A retrospective cross-national examination of COVID-19 outbreak in 175 countries: a multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis (January 11-June 28, 2020) (open access)

A retrospective cross-national examination of COVID-19 outbreak in 175 countries: a multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis (January 11-June 28, 2020)

Article is a study that retrospectively examined the health and social determinants of the COVID-19 outbreak in 175 countries from a spatial epidemiological approach.
Date: September 30, 2020
Creator: Iyanda, Ayodeji Emmanuel; Adeleke, Richard; Lu, Yongmei; Osayomi, Tolulope; Adaralegbe, Adeleye; Lasode, Mayowa et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sleep duration is associated with vitamin D deficiency in older women living in Macao, China: A pilot cross-sectional study (open access)

Sleep duration is associated with vitamin D deficiency in older women living in Macao, China: A pilot cross-sectional study

Article investigating whether sleep duration was associated with vitamin D status in a population from Macao, China, and whether sleep duration modified the association between MetS and vitamin D deficiency.
Date: March 4, 2020
Creator: Mpofu, Elias; Liu, Xiaoying; Ke, Liang; Ho, Jacky; Abboud, Myriam; Brennan-Speranza, Tara C. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study on the GIS Professional (GISP) Certification Program in the U.S. (open access)

A Study on the GIS Professional (GISP) Certification Program in the U.S.

This article examines the characteristics of the members in the most popular Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Professional (GISP) certification program in the United States as well as the spatial patterns of the certified GISPs. The information presented in this study can help GIS educators and practitioners develop a better understanding of the current state of this certification program in the U.S and shed light on how to further improve the GISP certification program.
Date: July 6, 2020
Creator: Li, Dapeng; Li, Yingru; Nguyen, Quynh C. & Siebeneck, Laura K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trusting Sources of Information on Quality of Physician Care (open access)

Trusting Sources of Information on Quality of Physician Care

Article studying the contextual and personal characteristics that influence patient-consumers’ decisions to trust or ignore information sources about healthcare quality.
Date: August 24, 2020
Creator: Moore, Ami R.; Hudson, Cassie; Chumbler, Neale & Amey, Foster
System: The UNT Digital Library