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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
Field Environmental Philosophy: A Biocultural Ethic Approach to Education and Ecotourism for Sustainability (open access)

Field Environmental Philosophy: A Biocultural Ethic Approach to Education and Ecotourism for Sustainability

This article proposes an educational methodology, called field environmental philosophy (FEP), which orients ecotourism practices to reconnect citizens and nature in order to contribute to local and global sustainability. FEP’s methodology is starting to be adapted in other world regions, such as Germany, Japan, and Mexico, to integrate education and ecotourism for sustainability.
Date: April 19, 2021
Creator: Tauro, Alejandra; Ojeda, Jaime; Caviness, Terrance; Moses, Kelli P.; Moreno-Terrazas, Ren; Wright, Travis et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Foreclosed and Sold: An Examination of Community and Property Characteristics Related to the Sale of REO Properties

This article uses foreclosure data from Dallas County, Texas to examine how both housing and neighborhood characteristics are related to the possibility of the sale of a foreclosed property out of real-estate-owned (REO) stock.
Date: September 1, 2017
Creator: Zhang, Lei; Leonard, Tammy & Dias, Resha
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South (open access)

GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South

This article analyzes public points of interconnection of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) in the global North versus the global South to determine the degree to which their location preferences differ.
Date: December 14, 2021
Creator: Rosa, Fernanda R. & Hauge, Janice A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gendered Consequences of a Weak Infrastructure of Care: School Reopening Plans and Parents’ Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic (open access)

The Gendered Consequences of a Weak Infrastructure of Care: School Reopening Plans and Parents’ Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This article collected detailed primary data—the Elementary School Operating Status database (ESOS)—to measure the percentage of school districts offering in-person, remote, and hybrid instruction models for elementary schools by state in September 2020 to understand the nature and magnitude of school closures across states during the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on maternal labor force participation. The article shows that schools are a vital source of care for young children, and that without in-person instruction, mothers have been sidelined from the labor force.
Date: March 12, 2021
Creator: Collins, Caitlyn; Ruppanner, Leah; Landivar, Liana Christin & Scarborough, William
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geomorphic analysis of Xiadian buried fault zone in Eastern Beijing plain based on SPOT image and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data (open access)

Geomorphic analysis of Xiadian buried fault zone in Eastern Beijing plain based on SPOT image and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data

This article presents geomorphic analysis of Xiadian buried fault in eastern Beijing plain (China), based on the analysis of a Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT-5) image, a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) derived from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system, SRTM DEM and field investigation. Results can provide valuable insight into geomorphic analysis of buried and semi-buried active faults in plain areas with increasingly frequent human activities.
Date: January 19, 2021
Creator: Wang, Yanping; Dong, Pinliang; Zhu, Yueqin; Shen, Jun & Liao, Shunbao
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) (open access)

Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

Data management plan for the grant, "Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)."
Date: 2023-09-15/2028-08-31
Creator: Oppong, Joseph R. & Moore, Nicholas
Object Type: Text
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
Health Careers Opportunity Program (open access)

Health Careers Opportunity Program

Data management plan for the grant, "Health Careers Opportunity Program."
Date: 2023-09-01/2028-08-31
Creator: Callahan, Jennifer L.
Object Type: Text
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
Health, Psychological and Demographic Predictors of Depression in People with Fibromyalgia and Osteoarthritis (open access)

Health, Psychological and Demographic Predictors of Depression in People with Fibromyalgia and Osteoarthritis

Article examining the differences in predictors of depression among individuals with fibromyalgia (FM) and osteoarthritis (OA) using a range of health, demographic, and psychological variables.
Date: January 5, 2022
Creator: Van Dyne, Angelina; Moy, Jason; Wash, Kalila; Thompson, Linda; Skow, Taylor; Roesch, Scott C. et al.
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
Hero or “Prince of Darkness”? Locating Peer Jacob Svenkerud in an Attributions-Based Typology of Whistleblowers (open access)

Hero or “Prince of Darkness”? Locating Peer Jacob Svenkerud in an Attributions-Based Typology of Whistleblowers

This book chapter explores how whistleblowers are typified and understood by key stakeholders.
Date: 2021
Creator: Richardson, Brian K.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Might Indices of Happiness Inform Early Intervention Research and Decision Making? (open access)

How Might Indices of Happiness Inform Early Intervention Research and Decision Making?

Article discusses how the child-caregiver relationship is the foundation for which intervention occurs. The purpose of this study is to explore how researchers and clinicians might collect direct data on IOH to assess the acceptability of an intervention.
Date: October 3, 2022
Creator: Amarie, Carnett; Neely, Leslie; Chen, Meng-Ting; Cantrell, Katherine; Santos, Erin & Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
HRSA Center of Excellence (open access)

HRSA Center of Excellence

Data management plan for the grant, "HRSA Center of Excellence". The North Texas Center for Excellence (COE) will serve as an innovative resource for recruitment, training, and retention of health service psychology (HSP) Hispanic students and faculty, will improve clinical education and cultural competence associated with minority health issues and social determinates of health, and will facilitate research on minority health and health care delivery.
Date: 2022-07-01/2027-06-30
Creator: Ruggero, Camilo J.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The impact agenda and the search for a good life (open access)

The impact agenda and the search for a good life

This article is published as part of a collection on the future of research assessment. It explores the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle concerning the impact agenda and how philosophy can assist policy questions. Together, their work suggests that policy-sensitive philosophers can help decision makers be more self-conscious about the assumptions underlying their work.
Date: February 14, 2017
Creator: Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of COVID-19 Shocks on Business and GDP of Global Economy (open access)

The Impact of COVID-19 Shocks on Business and GDP of Global Economy

Article examines the relationship between COVID-19 shocks and GDP loss of different countries worldwide based on the seven scenarios of the epidemiological DSGE/CGE model. Their results reveal that the most significant GDP loss is associated with Japan, Germany, and the US, respectively, which are industrialized countries with the most prominent automobile manufacturers.
Date: November 16, 2022
Creator: Ahangar, Reza Gharoie & Kim, Myungsup
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impact of psychosocial factors on academic performance of nursing students in Thailand (open access)

Impact of psychosocial factors on academic performance of nursing students in Thailand

Article investigates psychosocial factors that impact the academic performance of nursing students.
Date: July 4, 2022
Creator: Ratanasiripong, Paul; Wang, Chiachih DC; Ratanasiripong, Nop; Hanklang, Suda; Kathalae, Duangrat & Chumchai, Pornlert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Remote Breathalyzer Procedures used by Clinicians and Researchers to Remotely Monitor Alcohol Use (open access)

Improving Remote Breathalyzer Procedures used by Clinicians and Researchers to Remotely Monitor Alcohol Use

Data management plan for the grant, "Improving Remote Breathalyzer Procedures used by Clinicians and Researchers to Remotely Monitor Alcohol Use."
Date: 2022-08-01/2024-07-31
Creator: Dougherty, Donald M.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of Context on the Abstraction Level of Children’s Conversations in the Preschool Classroom (open access)

The Influence of Context on the Abstraction Level of Children’s Conversations in the Preschool Classroom

Article asserts that despite the numerous studies on the linguistic environment of early childhood education settings (ECE), most of this work disregards contextual factors that may influence abstract conversations and omits characteristics of children’s verbal participation in these interactions. The authors of the article examine how preschool classroom contexts influenced the abstraction level of children’s conversations and how the context and conversational partners’ language influenced children’s verbal participation.
Date: April 25, 2022
Creator: Chaparro-Moreno, Leydi Johana; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Justice, Laura M.; Mills, Abigail K. & Uanhoro, James O.
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
Interpersonal Decentering Appendix for Oral Stream of Consciousness Personal Narratives (open access)

Interpersonal Decentering Appendix for Oral Stream of Consciousness Personal Narratives

Appendix used to adapt the Interpersonal Decentering scoring system developed for thematic apperceptive techniques to score oral stream of consciousness personal narratives used by Molly Tucker for her master's thesis.
Date: February 10, 2015
Creator: Wilson, Joshua; Jenkins, Sharon Rae & Beaber, Kristi
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interpersonal Decentering Appendix for Personal Narratives (open access)

Interpersonal Decentering Appendix for Personal Narratives

Appendix used to adapt the Interpersonal Decentering scoring system developed for thematic apperceptive techniques to score expressive writing autobiographical essays that were used for the following publications: Jenkins, S. R., Shamji, J., Straup, M., & Boals, A. (2022). Beyond traits and states: Interpersonal decentering is also activated social information processing. Personality and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111332. and Jenkins, S. R., Austin, H., & Boals, A. (2013). Content analysis of expressive writing narratives about stressful relational events using Interpersonal Decentering. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 32, 412 – 432. DOI: 10.1177/0261927X13479188
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Wilson, Joshua & Beaber, Kristi
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interpersonal Decentering Scoring Challenges and Their Resolution for Suzanne Chong's Master's Thesis Data 11/25/2016 (open access)

Interpersonal Decentering Scoring Challenges and Their Resolution for Suzanne Chong's Master's Thesis Data 11/25/2016

Paper outlining challenges and resolutions to maintain interscorer reliability. This work supported Suzanne Chong's Master's Thesis.
Date: November 25, 2016
Creator: Jenkins, Sharon Rae; Adams, Emily; Coleman, James; Cox, Shannon; Dziurzynski, Kristan; Jos, Jibin et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library