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Unions of Slavery: Slavery, Politics, and Secession in the Valley of Virginia (open access)

Unions of Slavery: Slavery, Politics, and Secession in the Valley of Virginia

Book chapter discussing research on the issues involved in the secession of Virginia around the Civil War, including slavery and politics.
Date: 2006
Creator: Torget, Andrew J., 1978-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metaphoric Analysis of a Shipyard Union Dispute: Theory and Method in the Cultural Analysis of Collective Action (open access)

Metaphoric Analysis of a Shipyard Union Dispute: Theory and Method in the Cultural Analysis of Collective Action

This book chapter discusses the metaphoric analysis of a shipyard union dispute and the theory and method in the cultural analysis of collective action. Rather than treating grievances and political opportunities, given, and exogenous to organized movement groups, cultural analysts of social movements have recently focused on cognitive and linguistic processes by which factors relevant to collective behavior are themselves interpreted collectively.
Date: February 2009
Creator: Ignatow, Gabriel
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

Dear Facebook

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This book chapter is written in the form of a break-up letter from the author to the social networking website, Facebook. It discusses social networking, technological changes, urbanization, globalization, media technology, and philosophical ideas about society.
Date: 2010
Creator: Briggle, Adam
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
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
Prediction of Partition Coeffecients  and Permeability of Drug Molecules in Biological Systems with Abraham Model Solute Descriptors Derived from Measured Solubilities and Water-to-Organic Solvent Partition Coefficients (open access)

Prediction of Partition Coeffecients and Permeability of Drug Molecules in Biological Systems with Abraham Model Solute Descriptors Derived from Measured Solubilities and Water-to-Organic Solvent Partition Coefficients

Book chapter on the prediction of partition coefficients and permeability of drug molecules in biological systems with Abraham model solute descriptors derived from measured solubilities and water-to-organic solvent partition coefficients.
Date: February 10, 2012
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene); Grubbs, Laura M. & Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
Prediction of Toxicity, Sensory Responses and Biological Responses with the Abraham Model (open access)

Prediction of Toxicity, Sensory Responses and Biological Responses with the Abraham Model

This book chapter discusses the prediction of toxicity, sensory responses and biological responses with the Abraham model.
Date: February 10, 2012
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene); Grubbs, Laura M. & Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neural Dynamics: Criticality, Cooperation, Avalanches and Entrainment between Complex Networks (open access)

Neural Dynamics: Criticality, Cooperation, Avalanches and Entrainment between Complex Networks

Book chapter discussing neural dynamics and the criticality, cooperation, avalanches and entrainment between complex networks.
Date: May 22, 2012
Creator: Grigolini, Paolo; Zare, Marzieh; Svenkeson, Adam & West, Bruce J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Frances Brooke's History of Emily Montague (1769) Epistolarity at the Transatlantic Intersection of Public and Private (open access)

Frances Brooke's History of Emily Montague (1769) Epistolarity at the Transatlantic Intersection of Public and Private

Book chapter on Frances Brooke's "History of Emily Montague" and the epistolarity at the transatlantic intersection of public and private.
Date: 2008
Creator: Kaplan, Marijn S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Considering the Impact of the WPA Outcomes Statement on Second Language Writers (open access)

Considering the Impact of the WPA Outcomes Statement on Second Language Writers

Book chapter on considerations on the impact of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) Outcomes Statement (OS) on second language writers. This chapter examines the extent to which the WPA OS reflects (or does not reflect) the presence and needs of second language writers.
Date: 2012
Creator: Matsuda, Paul Kei & Skinnell, Ryan
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
Monolignol Biosynthesis and its Genetic Manipulation: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (open access)

Monolignol Biosynthesis and its Genetic Manipulation: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Book chapter manuscript on monolignol biosynthesis and its genetic manipulation.
Date: 2013
Creator: Dixon, R. A.; Reddy, M. S. Srinivasa & Gallego-Giraldo, Lina
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metabolomics and Gene Identification in Plant Natural Product Pathways (open access)

Metabolomics and Gene Identification in Plant Natural Product Pathways

Book chapter on metabolomics and gene identification in plant natural product pathways.
Date: 2006
Creator: Dixon, R. A.; Achnine, Lahoucine; Deavours, Bettina E. & Naoumkina, Marina A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beyond Structural Genomics for Plant Science (open access)

Beyond Structural Genomics for Plant Science

This book chapter provides an overview of the genomics and postgenomic technologies that are likely to have the greatest impacts on agronomy over the next 10-20 years and describes a number of case studies of their application.
Date: September 14, 2007
Creator: Dixon, R. A.; Bouton, Joseph H. (Joseph Henry), 1948-; Narasimhamoorthy, Brindha; Saha, Malay; Wang, Z.-Y. (Zeng-Yu), 1963- & May, Gregory D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational Studies of the Thermochemistry of the Atmospheric Iodine Reservoirs HOI and IONO₂ (open access)

Computational Studies of the Thermochemistry of the Atmospheric Iodine Reservoirs HOI and IONO₂

Book chapter discussing computational studies of the thermochemistry of the atmospheric iodine reservoirs HOI and IONO₂.
Date: April 26, 2008
Creator: Marshall, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to the Law and the American Legal System (open access)

Introduction to the Law and the American Legal System

This book chapter offers an introduction to the law and the American legal system.
Date: 2015
Creator: King, Kimi L. & Leuzinger, Julie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Disease Resistance in Plants: An Overview (open access)

Engineering Disease Resistance in Plants: An Overview

This book chapter gives an overview of engineering disease resistance in plants.
Date: 1995
Creator: Dixon, R. A.; Paiva, Nancy L. & Bhattacharyya, Madan Kumar
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nachrichten: Electronic News Bulletins and the German Language (open access)

Nachrichten: Electronic News Bulletins and the German Language

Book chapter discussing electronic news bulletins and the German language.
Date: 1995
Creator: Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Initiation and maintenance of callus and cell suspension cultures (open access)

Initiation and maintenance of callus and cell suspension cultures

Book chapter discussing the initiation and maintenance of callus and cell suspension cultures.
Date: 1995
Creator: Franklin, C. I. & Dixon, R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Censorship and Review Processes: The Case of Günter Kunert (open access)

Censorship and Review Processes: The Case of Günter Kunert

Book chapter discussing censorship and review processes and the case of Günter Kunert.
Date: 1997
Creator: Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library

Berlin's History in Context: The Foreign Ministry and the Spreebogen Complex in the Context of the Architectural Debates

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Book chapter discussing Berlin, Germany's history in context and the Foreign Ministry and Spreebogen Complex in the context of the architectural debates.
Date: October 1, 2011
Creator: Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library

Texts and Contexts: GDR Literature during the 1970s

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Book chapter discussing texts and contexts in German Democratic Republic literature during the 1970s.
Date: 1997
Creator: Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library