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Overlapping geographic clusters of food security and health: Where do social determinants and health outcomes converge in the U.S?
This article identifies geographic clusters of food insecurity and health across U.S. counties to identify potential shared mechanisms for geographic disparities in health and food insecurity.
Date:
June 14, 2018
Creator:
Leonard, Tammy; Hughes, Amy; Donegan, Connor; Santillan, Alejandro & Pruitt, Sandi L.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Neighborhood Price Externalities of Foreclosure Rehabilitation: An Examination of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program
This article examines the neighborhood price impacts of Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funded foreclosure rehabilitation undertaken by Habitat for Humanity in Dallas County, Texas using a difference-in-difference framework.
Date:
January 12, 2017
Creator:
Leonard, Tammy; Jha, Nikhil & Zhang, Lei
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Neighborhood Effects on Food Consumption
This article examines the dual role of the social and physical neighborhood environment as they relate to the eating behaviors of residents of a low-income minority urban neighborhood.
Date:
May 12, 2014
Creator:
Leonard, Tammy; McKillop, Caitlin; Carson, Jo Ann & Shuval, Kerem
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Systematic Neighborhood Observations at High Spatial Resolution: Methodology and Assessment of Potential Benefits
This article describes a systematic neighborhood observation instrument for collecting data at very high spatial resolution to collect data in a low-income minority neighborhood in Dallas, TX.
Date:
January 20, 2011
Creator:
Leonard, Tammy; O'Brien Caughy, Margaret; Mays, Judith K. & Murdoch, James
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Property Values as a Measure of Neighborhoods: An Application of Hedonic Price Theory
This article describes a tool kit for understanding how neighborhood characteristics are quantified in appraisal values.
Date:
February 25, 2016
Creator:
Leonard, Tammy; Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.; Ayers, Colby; Murdoch, James; Yin, Wenyuan & Pruitt, Sandi L.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Health Behavior and Behavioral Economics: Economic Preferences and Physical Activity Stages of Change in a Low-Income African American Community
This article examines the relationship between physical activity stages of change and preferences for financial risk and time.
Date:
June 7, 2012
Creator:
Leonard, Tammy; Shuval, Kerem; de Oliveira, Angela; Sugg Skinner, Celette; Eckel, Catherine & Murdoch, James
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Variations in Park Facility Valuations across Neighborhoods
This article assesses the hedonic valuation of different types of park facilities.
Date:
October 23, 2014
Creator:
Leonard, Tammy; Zhang, Lei & Hoehner, Christine M.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Soil Erosion and its Control in the United States with Special Reference to Texas
A study of soil erosion in the United States, especially in Texas, which brings attention to the causes of soil erosion under the existing system of farm management. The material gathered and compiled and arranged under certail main heading. Two chapters deal with present and immediate causes of erosions and their results. One full chapter takes up the history of the conservation movement and attempts to show how slow Texans have been in comparison with some of the other states of the United States. The study calls for further research, teaching of better land-use, raising awareness of soil erosion causes and conditions.
Date:
June 1939
Creator:
Merrell, Jesse Byron
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Mexico Migration
This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Unauthorized Immigration. This presentation discusses immigration, specifically between the United States and Mexico.
Date:
April 13, 2011
Creator:
Molina, David J.
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Institutional Variety in Latin American Microfinance on Its Borrowers
Paper explores the effectiveness of heterogeneous and homogeneous microfinance systems, with a focus on performance in Latin America.
Date:
2013
Creator:
Nelson, Jenna
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Input Substitution in Irrigated Agriculture in the High Plains of Texas, 1970-80
This article discusses input substitution in irrigated agriculture in the high plains of Texas.
Date:
July 1988
Creator:
Nieswiadomy, Michael L.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Urban Water Demand Estimates Under Increasing Block Rates
This article discusses urban water demand estimates under increasing block rates.
Date:
January 1988
Creator:
Nieswiadomy, Michael L. & Molina, David J.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Calculating Changes in Worklife Expectancies and Lost Earnings in Personal Injury Cases
Article discussing research on the estimated effect of an injury on a worker's life expectancy, worklife expectancy and discounted expected income.
Date:
September 1988
Creator:
Nieswiadomy, Michael L. & Silberberg, Eugene
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Defining Neighborhood Boundaries in Studies of Spatial Dependence in Child Behavior Problems
This article extends an analysis of neighborhood effects on child behavioral outcomes.
Date:
May 3, 2013
Creator:
O'Brien Caughy, Margaret; Leonard, Tammy; Beron, Kurt & Murdoch, James
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Income Tax Complexity: A Work in Progress
Poster presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on income tax complexity.
Date:
April 2, 2009
Creator:
Oakes, Trayton & Battaglia, Kari
Object Type:
Poster
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Deprivation Predicts Weight Gain in a Multi-Ethnic Population: Longitudinal Data from the Dallas Heart Study
This article examines the relationship between neighborhood-level socioeconomic deprivation and weight change in a multi-ethnic cohort from Dallas County, Texas, and whether behavioral/psychosocial factors attenuate the relationship.
Date:
May 27, 2014
Creator:
Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.; Ayers, Colby; Agyemang, Priscilla; Leonard, Tammy; Berrigan, David; Ballard Barbash, Rachel et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Change in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Weight Gain: Dallas Heart Study
This article examines the longitudinal relationship between moving to more socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods and weight gain as a cardiovascular risk factor.
Date:
June 17, 2015
Creator:
Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.; Cooper-McCann, Rebecca; Ayers, Colby; Berrigan, David; Lian, Min; McClurkin, Michael et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Neighborhood Effects in a Behavioral Randomized Controlled Trial
This article examines a randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to increase colorectal cancer (CRC) screening.
Date:
May 5, 2014
Creator:
Pruitt, Sandi L.; Leonard, Tammy; Murdoch, James; Hughes, Amy; McQueen, Amy & Gupta, Samir
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Who is Food Insecure? Implications for Targeted Recruitment and Outreach, National health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005-2010
This article characterizes differences in health among people receiving different types of food assistance and summarizes strategies for targeted recruitment and outreach of various food insecure populations.
Date:
October 2016
Creator:
Pruitt, Sandi L.; Leonard, Tammy; Xuan, Lei; Amory, Richard; Higashi, Robin T.; Nguyen, Oanh Kieu et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Physicians, Clinics, and Neighborhoods: Multiple Levels of Influence on Colorectal Cancer Screening
This article describes variability in colorectal cancer (CRC) test use and compares the performance of novel cross-classified and traditional hierarchical models.
Date:
April 14, 2014
Creator:
Pruitt, Sandi L.; Leonard, Tammy; Zhang, Song; Schootman, Mario; Halm, Ethan A. & Gupta, Samir
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Understanding the Health Care Needs of the Medically Indigent of Grayson County
Paper examines the issues faced by residents of Grayson county who lack medical insurance.
Date:
2005
Creator:
Rahman, Rumana
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Importing Change: Canadian Competition and the U.S. Floriculture Industry
This article analyzes the shifting geography of production with respect to the U.S. floriculture industry.
Date:
2008
Creator:
Reid, Neil; Smith, Bruce W.; Gatrell, Jay D. & Carroll, Michael C.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Legal Status of Labor in Great Britain and the United States
An investigation of the legal status of labor in Great Britain and the United States. The basis of labor legislation is considered, and the development of labor legislation traced in both countries. A comparison of the legal status of labor at the present time in both countries is made. - Abstract
Date:
June 1939
Creator:
Richardson, Addran Dee
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The economic and environmental benefits of a renewable energy industry in developing economies
Presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the economic and environmental benefits of renewable energy in developing countries.
Date:
April 2, 2009
Creator:
Roach, Travis & Nieswiadomy, Michael L.
Object Type:
Presentation
System:
The UNT Digital Library