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Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (open access)

Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

This fact sheet draws information from the Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States report that describes how climate change affects coastal areas in the United States.
Date: June 2009
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (open access)

Regional Highlights from Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States

This fact sheet describes climate change scenarios in the Southeast region of the United States.
Date: unknown
Creator: U.S. Global Change Research Program
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Women and Men in Central Appalachia : A Qualitative Study of Marital Power (open access)

Women and Men in Central Appalachia : A Qualitative Study of Marital Power

Semi-structured interviews were administered to 16 married couples in Central Appalachia. Questions addressed power relations and division of labor in marriage.
Date: August 1994
Creator: Dabbs, Jennifer Mae Burns
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Woman of Texas: Mrs Percy V. Pennybacker (open access)

A Woman of Texas: Mrs Percy V. Pennybacker

Book discussing the role of Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, originally born in Petersburg, Virginia, who worked to expand the woman's place in American society. Index begins on page 359.
Date: 2018
Creator: Richmond, Rebecca
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development (open access)

Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development

This report discusses some vital services that natural ecosystems contribute to human health and development.
Date: 2010
Creator: Nelleman, Christian & Corcoran, Emily
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Taking up Residence with Eighth Blackbird: Teacher Notes

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Consists of notes to be used when teaching the case study entitled Taking up residence with Eighth Blackbird.
Date: 2016
Creator: Anderson, Michael Alan, 1975-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Taking up residence with Eighth Blackbird

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
This case study profiles a pair of contrasting artist residency agreements in the portfolio of a single musical arts organization—the contemporary chamber music sextet Eighth Blackbird. It examines the nature and outcomes of the residencies and assess the merits of the organization’s arrangements with their hosts.
Date: 2016
Creator: Anderson, Michael Alan, 1975-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Papers concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas, Volume 2 (open access)

Papers concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas, Volume 2

"Leftwich's Grant is the second volume in a series that is intended to document the colonization of an area in Central Texas that eventually became known as Robertson's Colony." It covers "the three years that [Robert] Leftwich spent in Mexico City and Saltillo" and includes "a complete account of his official negotiations with both the national government in Mexico City and the state government of Coahuila and Texas. It also includes documents concerning Dr. Felix Robertson, President of the Texas Association, and the group of young men who came to Texas with him in the fall of 1825 to explore the grant and survey land for the stockholders" (p. 11). The index begins on page 667.
Date: 1975
Creator: McLean, Malcolm Dallas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Woman of Texas: Mrs Percy V. Pennybacker (open access)

A Woman of Texas: Mrs Percy V. Pennybacker

Book discussing the role of Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, originally born in Petersburg, Virginia, who worked to expand the woman's place in American society. Index begins on page 359.
Date: 1941
Creator: Richmond, Rebecca
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Beginnings and Endings (open access)

Guest Editorial: Beginnings and Endings

Article asserting that the field of near-death studies needs to embrace other models and groups of professionals if it hopes to understand the near-death phenomenon. According to the author, no one can validate a near-death experience (NDE) except the experiencer; it is the aftereffects that impart real meaning to the experience and give it greater impact, and the "classical NDE model" that guides most near-death research can be limiting and misleading.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Atwater, P. M. H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ernesto Bozzano and the Phenomena of Bilocation (open access)

Ernesto Bozzano and the Phenomena of Bilocation

Italian psychical researcher Ernesto Bozzano was a well-known student of parapsychological phenomena and a strong defender of the concept of survival of bodily death. This paper includes an excerpt of what Bozzano referred to as the phenomena of bilocation.
Date: Summer 2005
Creator: Alvarado, Carlos S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Life Changes Inventory - Revised (open access)

The Life Changes Inventory - Revised

Article presenting the Life Changes Inventory-Revised, a standardized version of the scale that embodies the accumulated knowledge culled from previous drafts of the LCI administered to disparate samples and from qualitative research into attitudinal changes reported by near-death experiencers.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Greyson, Bruce & Ring, Kenneth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Remarks on Ernesto Bozzano's La Psiche Domina la Materia (open access)

Remarks on Ernesto Bozzano's La Psiche Domina la Materia

Article discussing Ernesto Bozzano's study on the subject of physical phenomena around the time of someone's death, including a critique of his dogmatic approach to the interpretation of the cases, and the use of cases lacking relevant information.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Alvarado, Carlos S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cases of the Reincarnation Type with Memories from the Intermission Between Lives (open access)

Cases of the Reincarnation Type with Memories from the Intermission Between Lives

Article analyzing reports from Burmese subjects which indicate that intermission memories can be broken down into three parts, and comparing these reports to reports of near-death experiences (NDEs), indicating that they show features similar to the transcendental component of Western NDEs and have significant areas of overlap with Asian NDEs.
Date: Winter 2004
Creator: Sharma, Poonam & Tucker, Jim B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neglected Near-Death Phenomena (open access)

Neglected Near-Death Phenomena

Article suggesting several topics for further work in the area of near-death phenomena.
Date: Spring 2006
Creator: Alvarado, Carlos S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: Is There a Hell? Surprising Observations About the Near-Death Experience (open access)

Guest Editorial: Is There a Hell? Surprising Observations About the Near-Death Experience

Article discussing current research into what are now termed "distressing" or "unpleasant" near-death experiences (NDEs) and the author's findings from interviews of over a hundred such cases.The article compares this information with earlier reports from Maurice Rawlings, mythological traditions about the concept of hell, and renderings from The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Finally, it details four types of NDEs - initial, hell-like, heaven-like, and transcendental - and what seems to be an attitudinal profile characteristic of each type.
Date: Spring 1992
Creator: Atwater, P. M. H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Response to "A New Perspective on the Afterlife Issue" (open access)

Response to "A New Perspective on the Afterlife Issue"

Article responding to V. Krishnan's argument that the phenomenon of children who claim to remember previous lives indicates that an inanimate recording of a person's mental activity at the time of death persists in the local area after he or she dies. According to the author, several areas of empirical evidence conflict with this hypothesis.
Date: Autumn 2003
Creator: Tucker, Jim B.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guest Editorial: A Call to Reconsider the Field of Near-Death Studies (open access)

Guest Editorial: A Call to Reconsider the Field of Near-Death Studies

Commentary taking remarks previously made about frightening near-death experiences and the possibility of near-death being a kundalini breakthrough as license to ask for a reconsideration of near-death research.
Date: Autumn 1995
Creator: Atwater, Phyllis Marie H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Objectives and Suggested or Illustrative Methods and Materials on the Subject of Reading in the Elementary Schools as Found in Seven State Courses of Study (open access)

An Analysis of the Objectives and Suggested or Illustrative Methods and Materials on the Subject of Reading in the Elementary Schools as Found in Seven State Courses of Study

The problem of this study was to analyze the objectives and methods for teaching reading in the elementary grades as they appeared in the latest available courses of study in certain states for the purpose of determining their uniformity or lack of uniformity. An effort was made to compile data on teaching reading in order to determine certain modern trends as supplementary material for the writer's teaching aids.
Date: 1942
Creator: Bradley, Grace
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The National Pilot. (Petersburg, Va.), Vol. 13, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1900 (open access)

The National Pilot. (Petersburg, Va.), Vol. 13, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1900

Weekly African-American newspaper from Petersburg, Virginia that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 1, 1900
Creator: Gordon, Charles B. W.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Reformer. (Richmond, Va.), Vol. 5, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 27, 1900 (open access)

The Reformer. (Richmond, Va.), Vol. 5, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 27, 1900

Weekly African-American newspaper from Richmond, Virginia that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 27, 1900
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tropical Storm Imelda Twitter Dataset

This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Tropical Storm Imelda and the subsequent flooding in the south Texas region. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/DocNow/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 76,420 Tweets and 4,429 media files make up the combined dataset.
Date: 2019-09-10/2019-09-21
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Hurricane Dorian Twitter Dataset

This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Hurricane Dorian which is the most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the Bahamas, and is regarded as the worst natural disaster in the country's history. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/DocNow/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 3,000,553 Tweets and 84,216 media files make up the combined dataset.
Date: 2019-08-25/2019-09-14
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library