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A neurobiology of learning beyond the declarative non-declarative distinction (open access)

A neurobiology of learning beyond the declarative non-declarative distinction

This article provides a literature review examining declarative and non-declarative forms of learning in neuroscience and psychology. The authors conclude that traditional taxonomy that distinguishes between neural systems supporting declarative and non-declarative forms of learning may be inadequate, as experimental and theoretical work suggests that other criteria may be more useful in categorizing the role of neural structures involved in learning such as the hippocampus and the basal ganglia.
Date: November 14, 2013
Creator: Ortu, Daniele & Vaidya, Manish
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Timescales of learning in the basal ganglia and the hippocampus (open access)

Timescales of learning in the basal ganglia and the hippocampus

This article is a commentary on "A role for the medial temporal lobe in feedback-driven learning: evidence from amnesia" by Foerde, K., Race, E., Verfaellie, M.,and Shohamy, D. (2013). It covers the idea that environmental feedback plays an important role with respect to both basal ganglia and hippocampus based learning. Evidence that both the hippocampus and the striatum are involved in reinforcement learning is given. This article suggests that future research use a more precise measurement of the two structures’ sensitivities to delay. The general picture suggests that the basal ganglia and the hippocampus share overlapping sensitivity to reinforcement signals, although at a different timescale.
Date: August 1, 2013
Creator: Ortu, Daniele; Skavhaug, Ida M. & Vaidya, Manish
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toward an Expanded Operationalization of the Verbal Expression of Affective Meanings (open access)

Toward an Expanded Operationalization of the Verbal Expression of Affective Meanings

This article in the special issue Academy of Aphasia 2011 provides a short background for evaluating and critiquing frameworks for systematically accounting naturally occurring verbal emotional expression. It is assessed for its potential to enhance research and clinical operationalization of the verbal expression of emotion.
Date: October 5, 2011
Creator: Olness, Gloria Streit & Muñoz, Maria
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
District Reliance by Service Function: A Study of Public Financing of American Special Districts (open access)

District Reliance by Service Function: A Study of Public Financing of American Special Districts

This article provides an exploratory investigation of special district finance reliance from expenditure reliance of general–purpose governments on special districts’ service delivery and financing mode of special districts. The study shows that special districts have replaced the role of general-purpose governments and which revenue sources districts rely on the most.
Date: April 1, 2021
Creator: Park, HyungGun & Shi, Yu
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pathways to sexual decision making by Pentecostal church youths in Botswana (open access)

Pathways to sexual decision making by Pentecostal church youths in Botswana

Article examining the influences of personal religiosity and personal agency on sexual decisions by church youth form the country of Botswana.
Date: April 6, 2021
Creator: Mpofu, Elias; Ntinda, Kayi; Lopez Levers, Lisa; van Rensberg, Angelique & Nkomazana, Fidelis
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Non‑steroidal Anti‑infammatory Drug Use and Risk of Age‑Related Macular Degeneration in the California Teachers Study (open access)

Non‑steroidal Anti‑infammatory Drug Use and Risk of Age‑Related Macular Degeneration in the California Teachers Study

This article examines whether use of regular aspirin and/or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is associated with the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Date: July 26, 2021
Creator: Xu, Xiaoqing; Ritz, Beate; Coleman, Anne L.; Liew, Zeyan; Deapen, Dennis; Lee, Eunjung et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parental occupation and childhood germ cell tumors: a case–control study in Denmark, 1968–2016 (open access)

Parental occupation and childhood germ cell tumors: a case–control study in Denmark, 1968–2016

This article examines associations between parental occupation and childhood germ cell tumors (GCTs) in offspring while distinguishing by common histologic subtype (i.e., yolk sac tumor and teratoma).
Date: April 28, 2021
Creator: Hall, Clinton; Hansen, Johnni; Olsen, Jørn; He, Di; von Ehrenstein, Ondine S.; Ritz, Beate et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustainable Harm Reduction Needle and Syringe Programs for People Who Inject Drugs: A Scoping Review of Their Implementation Qualities (open access)

Sustainable Harm Reduction Needle and Syringe Programs for People Who Inject Drugs: A Scoping Review of Their Implementation Qualities

This article is a review mapping the evidence on implementation qualities of sustainable harm reduction needle and syringe programs (NSPs). The emerging evidence suggests that sustainable NSP programs for people who inject drugs (PWID) require provider, consumer, and community engagement, supported by enabling health policies.
Date: March 5, 2021
Creator: Resiak, Danielle; Mpofu, Elias & Rothwell, Rodd
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
RAPID: Collaborative Research: Examining Household Movements and Evacuation Decision-Making in a Compounding Risk Event (open access)

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Examining Household Movements and Evacuation Decision-Making in a Compounding Risk Event

Data management plan for the grant "RAPID: Collaborative Research: Examining Household Movements and Evacuation Decision-Making in a Compounding Risk Event." The purpose of this Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) collaborative project is to examine household protective action decisions during two simultaneous events: Hurricane Ida and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Time-sensitive data gathered through online, phone, and mail surveys and supplemented with GPS/mobile phone data will be used to examine household protective action decision-making and mobility patterns before, during, and after Hurricane Ida. The findings from this project are expected to save lives and minimize stress during evacuations and return trips. Additionally, the findings of the research will benefit the emergency management community and society as new knowledge related to protective action decisions during simultaneous hazard events can help maximize safety and efficiency in coordinating and managing the movements of displaced residents.
Date: 2022-01-01/2022-12-31
Creator: Siebeneck, Laura K.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organic Collaborative Research Partnership Building: Researchers, Needle and Syringe Program Providers, and People Who Inject Drugs (open access)

Organic Collaborative Research Partnership Building: Researchers, Needle and Syringe Program Providers, and People Who Inject Drugs

Article reporting on the use of an organic community research partnership-building approach between researchers, needle and syringe program (NSP) providers, and people who inject drugs (PWID) in Canberra ACT, Australia. Results found engaging in relationship building around partner priority activities created mutual understanding and trust premised in authenticity of the evolving partnership. The organic approach, which included a partner audit of the research tools for relevance, resulted in high acceptance and enrollment into the research by NSP providers and PWID. The results of this study provide evidence for the benefits of organic collaborative research partnership building with NSP providers and PWID for authentic service program implementation.
Date: October 21, 2021
Creator: Resiak, Danielle; Mpofu, Elias & Rothwell, Roderick
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Forensic Typologies: Getting Specific about Trauma among Institutionalized Youth (open access)

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Forensic Typologies: Getting Specific about Trauma among Institutionalized Youth

Article on Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Utilizing data from 3382 institutionalized delinquents in Texas, logistic regression models indicated multiple associations between ACEs and forensic typologies in both adjusted and unadjusted models, with sexual abuse and physical abuse emerging as the most consistent and robust predictors. Supplemental sensitivity models confirmed the associations between sexual abuse and physical abuse among youth who fit multiple forensic typologies. Models fared poorly at identifying youth who are engaged in fire setting. Implications for total and singular ACEs are discussed, along with how those relate to more clinically meaningful, forensic forms of juvenile delinquency.
Date: October 28, 2021
Creator: Jahic, Ilma; Trulson, Chad R.; Caudill, Jonathan W.; Bonner, Taea; Slemaker, Alexandra & DeLisi, Matt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborative Research: Place Attachment in Mitigation and Recovery: A Mixed Methods Study of Residential Adjustment Following Wildfires (open access)

Collaborative Research: Place Attachment in Mitigation and Recovery: A Mixed Methods Study of Residential Adjustment Following Wildfires

Data management plan for the grant, "Collaborative Research: Place Attachment in Mitigation and Recovery: A Mixed Methods Study of Residential Adjustment Following Wildfires." This study focuses on understanding how place attachment influences the decisions people make after disasters, specifically residential decisions about where they live and whether they invest in measures that reduce their risk to future disasters. Using three California counties as study sites, and building on a pilot study in these same, wildfire-affected communities, the research team uses photovoice method and phenomenological analyses to develop a deep, contextually grounded understanding of the role of place attachment in residential decisions.
Date: 2022-06-01/2024-05-31
Creator: Schumann, Ronald L., III
Object Type: Text
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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organizational Determinants of Political Involvement in Trade and Professional Membership Associations (open access)

Organizational Determinants of Political Involvement in Trade and Professional Membership Associations

Article studying the elements that underlie political action strategies and tactics of trade and professional associations.
Date: November 7, 2019
Creator: Dicke, Lisa A.; Saitgalina, Marina & Birungi, Patricia
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library