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Impacts of Fracking on Local Ozone Pollution in DFW Area

Poster for the 2014 University of North Texas (UNT) Graduate Exhibition. This poster discusses the impacts of fracking on local ozone pollution in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Date: 2014
Creator: Ahmadi, Mahdi & John, Kuruvilla
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Knowing and acting: The precautionary and proactionary principles in relation to policy making (open access)

Knowing and acting: The precautionary and proactionary principles in relation to policy making

Article discussing the relationship between knowledge (in the form of scientific risk assessment) and action (in the form of technological innovation) as they come together in policy, which itself is both a kind of knowledge and acting.
Date: 2013
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt & Briggle, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Assessment of Peer Review: Project Outcomes Report (open access)

Comparative Assessment of Peer Review: Project Outcomes Report

This report discusses the Comparative Assessment of Peer Review (CAPR) project outcomes. The authors investigate the review process for agencies that fund scientific research.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Frodeman, Robert; Holbrook, J. Britt; Moen, William E.; Burggren, Warren W. & Mitcham, Carl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

What's Wrong with Processed Food?

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Food We Eat. The topics include what processed food is, genetically-modified foods, functional foods, and the impacts of processed foods.
Date: October 24, 2011
Creator: Kaplan, David M.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Implicaciones éticas de narrativas Yaganes y Mapuches sobre las aves de los bosques templados de Sudamérica austral (open access)

Implicaciones éticas de narrativas Yaganes y Mapuches sobre las aves de los bosques templados de Sudamérica austral

This article discusses the ethical implications of Yahgan and Mapuches narratives of the birds of the temperate forests of southern South America.
Date: 2004
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
First evidence of bryophyte diaspores in the plumage of transequatorial migrant birds (open access)

First evidence of bryophyte diaspores in the plumage of transequatorial migrant birds

Article on the first evidence of bryophyte diaspores in the plumage of transequatorial migrant birds.
Date: April 8, 2014
Creator: Lewis, Lily R.; Behling, Emily; Gousse, Hannah; Qian, Emily; Elphick, Chris S.; Lamarre, Jean-François et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrating Ecology and Environmental Ethics: Earth Stewardship in the Southern End of the Americas (open access)

Integrating Ecology and Environmental Ethics: Earth Stewardship in the Southern End of the Americas

This article discusses integrating ecology and environmental ethics.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Armesto, Juan J., 1953-; Gutiérrez, Julio R., 1953-; Massardo, Francisca; Likens, Gene E., 1935-; Anderson, Christopher B. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Reciprocal Links between Evolutionary-Ecological Sciences and Environmental Ethics (open access)

The Reciprocal Links between Evolutionary-Ecological Sciences and Environmental Ethics

This article discusses the reciprocal links between evolutionary-ecological sciences and environmental ethics.
Date: November 1999
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Infinite Nature (open access)

[Review] Infinite Nature

This article reviews the book "Infinite Nature," by R. Bruce Hull.
Date: March 2007
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broader Impacts 2.0: Seeing- and Seizing- the Opportunity (open access)

Broader Impacts 2.0: Seeing- and Seizing- the Opportunity

Article discussing viewpoints on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Merit Review Broader Impacts Criterion and the emergence of Broader Impacts 2.0.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Frodeman, Robert; Holbrook, J. Britt; Bourexis, Patricia S.; Cook, Susan B.; Diederick, Laura & Tankersley, Richard A.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Black Means??? An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Martin Heidegger's Theory on Language [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2011 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the philosophical connotations of words.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Guyden, Lateesha; Glazebrook, Patricia & Davenport, Beverly
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Philosophy for the 21st Century (open access)

A New Philosophy for the 21st Century

Article discussing a new philosophy in the 21st century and challenges and potential for reform.
Date: December 11, 2011
Creator: Briggle, Adam & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Tempting Fate: The Ethics of Dual-Use Research (open access)

[Review] Tempting Fate: The Ethics of Dual-Use Research

This article reviews the book "Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences," by Seumas Miller and Michael J. Selgelid and published in 2008.
Date: March 20, 2009
Creator: Briggle, Adam
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Game - When Will People Learn: Democracy Just Doesn't Work

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the game of democracy.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Wood, Justin; Eshbaugh-Soha, Matthew, 1972- & Verrill, Diane
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

True Tolerance: Religion in a Global Society - A Work in Progress

Presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on religion in a global society and true tolerance.
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Ferguson, Sarah & Wilkerson, Dale
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Does Maimonides Disagree with Aristotle on the Question Concerning Particular Providence

Presentation for the 2009 University of Scholars Day at the University of North Texas. In this presentation, the authors discuss research on a question: Does Moses Maimonides disagree with Aristotle on the question concerning particular providence?
Date: April 2, 2009
Creator: Moore, Ian Alexander & Yaffe, Martin D.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Role of Moral Realism in the U.S. Legal System: A Work in Progress

Poster presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing the role of moral realism in the U.S. legal system.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Clark, Gilbert Jon & Figueroa, Robert
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Is Time Real? A Work in Progress

Poster presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on time.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: McDaniel, Joel & Gunter, P. A. Y. (Pete Addison Y.), 1936-
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accountable Science: The COMPETES Act Needs to Demonstrate an Accountability Attitude (open access)

Accountable Science: The COMPETES Act Needs to Demonstrate an Accountability Attitude

Article on the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) Broader Impacts Merit Review Criterion in relation to the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010.
Date: September 16, 2010
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Transformations: Ambiguity and the NSF's Experiment with 'Transformative' Research (open access)

Good Transformations: Ambiguity and the NSF's Experiment with 'Transformative' Research

This article discusses a recent workshop on Transformative Research held at the headquarters of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia.
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt; Barr, Kelli R. & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Truth in Context: Nietzsche's Affirmation of Tragic Morality

This paper discusses research on Friedrich Nietzsche's affirmation of tragic morality.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Heister, Luke & Yaffe, Martin D.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use Of Societal Impacts Considerations In Grant Proposal Peer Review: A Comparison Of Five Models (open access)

The Use Of Societal Impacts Considerations In Grant Proposal Peer Review: A Comparison Of Five Models

This article discusses the use of societal impacts considerations in grant proposal peer review in scientific and technical research.
Date: 2010
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Promise and Perils of Transformative Research (open access)

The Promise and Perils of Transformative Research

This report is on the workshop 'Transformative Research: Ethical and Societal Implications'. Workshop conversations cluster under the four headings of the history and definitions, promotion, evaluation, and integration of transformative research.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Frodeman, Robert & Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library