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Selection of Ionic Liquid Solvents for Chemical Separations Based on the Abraham Model (open access)

Selection of Ionic Liquid Solvents for Chemical Separations Based on the Abraham Model

Book chapter on the selection of ionic liquid solvents for chemical separations based on the Abraham model.
Date: February 21, 2011
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene); Grubbs, Laura M. & Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork (open access)

Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork

Book chapter defining descriptive linguistic fieldwork, explores tasks that fall under this definition, outlines goals of descriptive linguistic fieldwork, and identifies aspirations and limitations of linguistic fieldworkers.
Date: 2011
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & de Reuse, Willem
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hiring and Training Graduate Assistants for the Academic Library (open access)

Hiring and Training Graduate Assistants for the Academic Library

Book chapter discussing hiring and training graduate assistants for the academic library.
Date: 2011
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
System: The UNT Digital Library
How to Hook a Hottie: Teenage Boys, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Cosmo Girl! Magazine (open access)

How to Hook a Hottie: Teenage Boys, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Cosmo Girl! Magazine

This book chapter discusses different media texts targeted at a different audience, magazines written for an audience of teenaged girls, which also work to naturalize male sexuality as aggressive and predatory. The authors study advice columns and articles in these magazines that depict teenaged boys as sexually forceful and emotionally stunted, and that encourage girl readers to expect and enable such behaviors.
Date: 2011
Creator: Enck-Wanzer, Suzanne M. & Murray, Scott A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mentoring Graduate Assistants in the Academic Library (open access)

Mentoring Graduate Assistants in the Academic Library

Book chapter discussing mentoring graduate assistants in the academic library.
Date: 2011
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Network Theory (open access)

Network Theory

This book chapter discusses network theory, defined as the proposed processes and mechanisms that relate network properties to outcomes of interest.
Date: 2011
Creator: Borgatti, Stephen P. & Lopez-Kidwell, Virginie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Students Collaborate to Develop Educational Green-Clothing Label (open access)

Students Collaborate to Develop Educational Green-Clothing Label

This book chapter describes a project to develop an informative green label that outlines the impact of a product on the environment, to help inform the consumer considering buying the product.
Date: 2011
Creator: Gam, Hae Jin; Ma, Yoon Jin & Ciaccio, Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hybrid Approach for Energy-Aware Synchronization (open access)

Hybrid Approach for Energy-Aware Synchronization

This book chapter discusses a time synchronization scheme for wireless sensor networks that aims to save sensor battery power while maintaining network connectivity for as long as possible.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Akl, Robert G.; Saravanos, Yanos & Haidar, Mohamad
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vanillin Biosynthesis - Not as Simple as it Seem? (open access)

Vanillin Biosynthesis - Not as Simple as it Seem?

Book chapter on vanillin biosynthesis. The author gives an introduction to vanillin biosynthesis, the multiple pathways to vanillin, and the way forward.
Date: November 23, 2010
Creator: Dixon, R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Media and Communication (open access)

Media and Communication

This book chapter discusses media and communication. As core features of humanity, communication and media clearly predate academic disciplines. They are in this sense non-disciplinary. Yet, they have for centuries been the subject of inquiry by those concerned to understand and improve human correspondence. This chapter surveys the historical development and present form of multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary studies of media and communication.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Briggle, Adam & Christians, Clifford G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biocultural conservation in Cape Horn: the Magellanic woodpecker as a charismatic species (open access)

Biocultural conservation in Cape Horn: the Magellanic woodpecker as a charismatic species

This book chapter discusses a research project to promote biocultural conservation in Cape Horn, Chile. In an effort to achieve the goal of transdisciplinary integration, the authors used the strategy of identifying a charismatic species, since doing so serves to motivate people towards biodiversity conservation, to communicate ecological concepts, and to integrate both the ecological and social dimensions of sustainability.
Date: March 11, 2010
Creator: Arango, Ximena; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Massardo, Francisca & Ibarra, J. Tomás
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) Design: Safety, Neutronics, Thermal Hydraulics, Structural Mechanics, Fuel, Core, and Plant Design (open access)

Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) Design: Safety, Neutronics, Thermal Hydraulics, Structural Mechanics, Fuel, Core, and Plant Design

Fifth chapter from "A Compendium of Reactor Technology" discussing the history and design of lead-cooled fast reactors in nine sections: Lead-cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) Development, Design Criteria and General Specifications, Neutronics, Lead Properties, Compatibility of Structural Materials with Lead, Core, Reactor System, Decay Heat Removal System, and Nuclear Island.
Date: February 22, 2010
Creator: Smith, Craig; Cinotti, L.; Artoli, C. & Grasso, G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annotating and Identifying Emotions in Text (open access)

Annotating and Identifying Emotions in Text

This book chapter discusses annotating and identifying emotions in text.
Date: 2010
Creator: Strapparava, Carlo, 1962- & Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preserving Our Collections, Preserving Our Missions (open access)

Preserving Our Collections, Preserving Our Missions

This book chapter discusses digital collection preservation. The authors provide a philosophical base for cultural memory organizations' need to participate in distributed digital preservation solutions as community-owned and community-led initiatives. This chapter will be useful for all readers, particularly those with questions about the value of collaborative engagement in the digital arena for cultural memory organizations.
Date: 2010
Creator: Halbert, Martin & Skinner, Katherine
System: The UNT Digital Library