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Controlling Gully Erosion with Earth Dams in North-Central Texas (open access)

Controlling Gully Erosion with Earth Dams in North-Central Texas

This article describes the use of earth dams for controlling gully erosion in part of the Eastern Cross Timbers of North-Central Texas.
Date: January 2001
Creator: Hudak, Paul F. & Chadbourne, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lightning, Downed Power Line Form Intriguing Rock Structure in Denton, Texas (open access)

Lightning, Downed Power Line Form Intriguing Rock Structure in Denton, Texas

This article describes a vitrified soil structure, formed by atmospheric and human activity, possessing characteristics of igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Date: March 2003
Creator: Hudak, Paul F. & Maxey, George
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spotlight on North Texas: Grant Materials (open access)

Spotlight on North Texas: Grant Materials

These grant materials were prepared for a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage program to digitize, preserve, and provide access to community historical records. The award funded digitization of print and media items related to the motion picture history of Denton County and a lecture highlighting Denton’s film history and materials discovered during the program. For this grant, UNT served as the lead institution and collaborated with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. The grant materials include a history of Denton County’s involvement in film production and distribution, digitization standards, and a work plan for the project. This proposal was funded for $11,840.
Date: June 2015
Creator: Treat, Laura
System: The UNT Digital Library
Habitat Quantity of Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Picoides Borealis (Aves: Piciformes: Picidae) in its Former Historic Landscape Near the Big Thicket Naitonal Preserve, Texas, USA (open access)

Habitat Quantity of Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Picoides Borealis (Aves: Piciformes: Picidae) in its Former Historic Landscape Near the Big Thicket Naitonal Preserve, Texas, USA

This article quantifies pine-forested habitat suitable for Red-cockaded Woodpecker in the former historic range of the species to assess the potential for possible re-colonization.
Date: January 26, 2016
Creator: Thapa, Vivek & Acevedo, Miguel F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Logic of Uncertainty and Executive Discretion in Decision Making: The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Ebola Response (open access)

The Logic of Uncertainty and Executive Discretion in Decision Making: The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Ebola Response

This article addresses what a highly complex public health situation such as the Dallas-Fort Worth Ebola outbreak tell about the use of discretion by executive level public administrators.
Date: June 2017
Creator: Benavides, Abraham David; Keyes, Laura; McEntire, David & Carlson, Erin K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sources Affecting PMâ‚‚Ì£ â‚… Concentrations at a Rural Semi-Arid Coastal Site in South Texas (open access)

Sources Affecting PMâ‚‚Ì£ â‚… Concentrations at a Rural Semi-Arid Coastal Site in South Texas

This article employs an advanced factor analysis technique with principal component analysis/absolute principal component scores and positive matrix factorization to apportion the sources influencing the PMâ‚‚Ì£ â‚… levels measured during 2003 through 2005 at a rural coastal site located within the Corpus Christi urban airshed in South Texas.
Date: November 22, 2012
Creator: Karnae, Saritha & John, Kuruvilla
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unexpected Findings in a Study of Visual Perception During the Naturalistic Near-Death Out-of-Body Experience (open access)

Unexpected Findings in a Study of Visual Perception During the Naturalistic Near-Death Out-of-Body Experience

Study of visual perception during the naturalistic near-death out-of-body experience (nND OBE), that aspect of the NDE in which the experiencer seems to view normal physical surroundings from a vantage point outside the physical body, which yielded some unexpected findings that contradicted or augmented previous research. Each of these findings is discussed relative to previous research and analyzed in light of the limitations of the current study.
Date: Spring 1989
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Verdicality Research in the Hospital Setting: Problems and Promise (open access)

Near-Death Verdicality Research in the Hospital Setting: Problems and Promise

Study of near-death verdicality in the hospital setting. The paper describes problems, both anticipated and unanticipated, that were encountered. Based on the successes and failures of this undertaking, recommendations for future research of this type are presented.
Date: Autumn 1990
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner & Joesten, Leroy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Visual Perception During Naturalistic Near-Death Out-of-Body Experiences (open access)

Visual Perception During Naturalistic Near-Death Out-of-Body Experiences

Study attempting to ascertain the most appropriate content and placement of visual stimuli in a hospital-based study of the veridicality of out-of-body perception in the near-death experience (NDE), and the likelihood that a subject in such a study would notice, clearly perceive, and accurately recall a visual stimulus.
Date: Winter 1988
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electromagnetic Aftereffects of Near-Death Experiences (open access)

Electromagnetic Aftereffects of Near-Death Experiences

Study investigating electromagnetic effects among near-death experiencers (NDErs), people who reported a close brush with death without an NDE, and people who reported never having been close to death but who used their most life-changing event as a past reference point.
Date: Winter 2008
Creator: Mouri, Farnoosh M. & Holden, Janice Miner
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does the Arousal System Contribute to Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences? A Summary and Response (open access)

Does the Arousal System Contribute to Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences? A Summary and Response

Article acknowledging the viability and potential value of the hypothesis underlying articles suggesting a relationship between near-death experiences (NDEs) and the body's arousal system, but also identifying substantial weaknesses in both the presented lines of evidence and the studies.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Long, Jeffrey & Holden, Janice Miner
System: The UNT Digital Library
More Things in Heaven and Earth: A Response to "Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features" (open access)

More Things in Heaven and Earth: A Response to "Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features"

Article offering alternative arguments and conclusions to those Keith Augustine offered regarding discrepancies between some near-death experiencers' (NDErs') reports of events they perceived during their NDEs and objective information available about those events.
Date: Autumn 2007
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Field of Near-Death Studies Through 2001: An Analysis of the Periodical Literature (open access)

The Field of Near-Death Studies Through 2001: An Analysis of the Periodical Literature

Article analyzing literature of the first quarter century of the field of near-death studies.
Date: Autumn 2005
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner & Christian, Rozan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Failure to Elicit Near-Death Experiences in Induced Cardiac Arrest (open access)

Failure to Elicit Near-Death Experiences in Induced Cardiac Arrest

Article exploring the reasons why near-death experiences may not occur during induced cardiac arrest.
Date: Winter 2006
Creator: Greyson, Bruce; Holden, Janice Miner & Mounsey, J. Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library
Out-of-Body Experiences: All in the Brain? (open access)

Out-of-Body Experiences: All in the Brain?

Article presenting arguments supporting the conclusion that the subtitle claims of an article published in "Nature" were not well-founded and that much research remains to be conducted to unravel the mystery of out-of-body experiences.
Date: Winter 2006
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner; Long, Jeffrey & MacLurg, Jason
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect on Emotional Well-Being of Hypnotic Recall of the Near-Death Experience (open access)

Effect on Emotional Well-Being of Hypnotic Recall of the Near-Death Experience

Article reporting the preliminary finding of overwhelming psychological benefit of hypnotic recall of near-death experiences, and discussing implications for future research.
Date: Summer 1996
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Phases of Disaster as a Relationship Between Structure and Meaning: A Narrative Analysis of the 1947 Texas City Explosion (open access)

The Phases of Disaster as a Relationship Between Structure and Meaning: A Narrative Analysis of the 1947 Texas City Explosion

This article examines phases of disaster response and recovery as a sociological problem.
Date: November 2005
Creator: Richardson, Brian K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emergency Medical Workers' Mass Shooting Incident Stress and Psychological Recovery (open access)

Emergency Medical Workers' Mass Shooting Incident Stress and Psychological Recovery

This article identifies 36 emergency medical workers' most common stress reactions and recovery processes after a heavy-fatality mass shooting incident.
Date: August 1998
Creator: Jenkins, Sharon Rae
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geophysical Prospecting for Oil and Gas Well Effluent (open access)

Geophysical Prospecting for Oil and Gas Well Effluent

This article describes the evaluation of the utility of an earth resistivity system for detecting drilling effluent at a site in the Trinity Group outcrop zone.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Hudak, Paul F. & Maxey, George
System: The UNT Digital Library
Change in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Weight Gain: Dallas Heart Study (open access)

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.
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Borrelia, Ehrlichia, and Rickettsia spp. in Ticks Removed from Persons, Texas, USA (open access)

Borrelia, Ehrlichia, and Rickettsia spp. in Ticks Removed from Persons, Texas, USA

This article analyzes the frequency and identity of pathogens and bacterial agents in ticks removed from humans and subsequently submitted to the Texas Department of State Health Services, Zoonosis Control Program, from October 1, 2004, through September 30, 2008.
Date: March 10, 2010
Creator: Williamson, Phillip C.; Billingsley, Peggy M.; Teltow, Glenna J.; Seals, Janel P.; Turnbough, Meredith A. & Atkinson, Samuel F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region (open access)

Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region

This article applies an environmental justice lens to two archaeological research narratives, one centering on chemical analysis of biomolecular artifact residues and the other on paleohydrology and Pueblo farming.
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.; Figueroa, Robert & Swentzell, Porter
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comprehensive Analysis of Groundwater Quality in the Barnett Shale Region (open access)

A Comprehensive Analysis of Groundwater Quality in the Barnett Shale Region

This article presents an analysis of 550 groundwater samples collected from private and public supply water wells drawing from aquifers overlying the Barnett shale formation of Texas.
Date: June 16, 2015
Creator: Hildenbrand, Zacariah Louis; Carlton Jr., Doug D.; Fontenot, Brian; Meik, Jesse M.; Walton, Jayme; Taylor, Josh et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library