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New-Student Orientations: Supporting Success and Socialization in Graduate Programs (open access)

New-Student Orientations: Supporting Success and Socialization in Graduate Programs

This article describes the use of an orientation logic model to examine whether certain orientation program characteristics, such as resources and tenets, are associated with student retention, grade achievement, and socialization.
Date: April 18, 2018
Creator: Benavides, Abraham David & Keyes, Laura
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Panoramic image of the remains of the Jermyn School in Jermyn, Texas.

Photograph of the remains of the Jermyn School in Jermyn, Texas that was built by the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1936. All that remains at this location is the school entrance and the foundation. This photograph is a stitched 360-degree panoramic image.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Panoramic image of the remains of the Jermyn School in Jermyn, Texas.

Photograph of the remains of the Jermyn School in Jermyn, Texas that was built by the Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1936. All that remains at this location is the school entrance and the foundation. This photograph is a stitched 360-degree panoramic image.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of North Texas Libraries Serials Transparency List (open access)

University of North Texas Libraries Serials Transparency List

This document represents contains information regarding subscriptions purchased by UNT Libraries, along with pricing information for the 2013-14, 2014-15, and 2015-16 fiscal years.
Date: April 2018
Creator: University of North Texas. Libraries. Collection Development.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Substrate Support on Dynamic Graphene/Metal Electrical Contacts (open access)

Effect of Substrate Support on Dynamic Graphene/Metal Electrical Contacts

This article investigates the stability of dynamic electrical contacts at a graphene/metal interface using atomic force microscopy (AFM), under static conditions with variable normal loads and under sliding conditions with variable speeds.
Date: March 22, 2018
Creator: Lee, Jihyung; Hu, Xiaoli; Voevodin, Andrey A.; Martini, Ashlie & Berman, Diana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The impact of library instruction on undergraduate student success: A four-year study

Presentation at the 2018 Texas Library Association. This presentation reflects on a four-year study of data from a freshman level English composition course to examine possible correlations between participation in a library instruction session and student success.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Hargis, Carol; Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cataloging for Makerspaces

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference for the Cataloging and Metadata Round Table. This presentation covers descriptive cataloging, subject headings and genre terms for makerspace materials. The presentation refers to two supplemental documents: "Genre Terms for Makerspace Materials" and "LCSH for Makerspace Activities".
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Robson, Diane; Yanowski, Kevin & Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genre Terms for Makerspace Materials (open access)

Genre Terms for Makerspace Materials

Handout for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference for the Cataloging and Metadata Round Table. This document contains genre terms for cataloging makerspace materials within the University of North Texas Libraries. This document was referred to within the presentation "Cataloging for Makerspaces" and is intended to be used alongside an additional document, "Library of Congress Subject Headings for Makerspace Activities".
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Robson, Diane; Yanowski, Kevin; Sassen, Catherine & Hicks, William
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Library of Congress Subject Headings for Makerspace Activities (open access)

Library of Congress Subject Headings for Makerspace Activities

Handout for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference for the Cataloging and Metadata Round Table. This document contains Library of Congress subject headings for cataloging makerspace materials within the University of North Texas Libraries. This document was referred to within the presentation "Cataloging for Makerspaces" and is intended to be used alongside an additional document, "Genre Terms for Makerspace Activities".
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Robson, Diane; Yanowski, Kevin & Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Serenity Now! Overcoming the Fear of Negative Evaluation

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Women in Higher Education Annual Conference. This presentation discusses fear of negative evaluation (FNE), including perceptions of FNE and ways to overcome it.
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Brannon, Sian; Crawford, Laurel & Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Current Models for Transcriptional Regulation of Secondary Cell Wall Biosynthesis in Grasses (open access)

Current Models for Transcriptional Regulation of Secondary Cell Wall Biosynthesis in Grasses

This article reviews current advances in secondary cell wall regulation in grasses, and discusses the commonalities and the differences between grasses and dicots.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Rao, Xiaolan & Dixon, R. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential Niche Expansion of the American Mink Invading a Remote Island Free of Nativepredatory Mammals (open access)

Potential Niche Expansion of the American Mink Invading a Remote Island Free of Nativepredatory Mammals

This article evaluates whether the lack of potential predators and competitors, together with a more diurnal and terrestrial prey, have resulted in the mink expanding its spatial and temporal niche on Navarino Island as compared to that in its native habitats,
Date: December 16, 2017
Creator: Crego, Ramiro D.; Jiménez, Jaime E. & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Waveguide Coupling via Magnetic Gratings with Effective Strips (open access)

Waveguide Coupling via Magnetic Gratings with Effective Strips

This article provides an overview of an approach convenient for describing intermediate gratings for two types of applications: both metafilms and the coupling of incident waves to waveguide modes or diffraction orders.
Date: April 14, 2018
Creator: Roccapriore, Kevin M.; Lyvers, David P.; Brown, Dean P.; Poutrina, Ekaterina; Urbas, Augustine M.; Germer, Thomas A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Running Head: Faithful Health Norms (open access)

Running Head: Faithful Health Norms

This article applies a structural theory analysis to understand the ways by which religious adherents adopt and enact health norms.
Date: January 18, 2018
Creator: Mpofu, Elias
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Notes] The Impact of Library Instruction on Undergraduate Student Success: A Four-Year Study (open access)

[Notes] The Impact of Library Instruction on Undergraduate Student Success: A Four-Year Study

Notes for a presentation at the 2018 Texas Library Association. This text contains speaking notes for a presentation that reflects on a four-year study of data from a freshman level English composition course to examine possible correlations between participation in a library instruction session and student success.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Hargis, Carol; Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of Length, Diameter, Chirality, Deformation, and Strain on Contact Thermal Conductance Between Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (open access)

Effect of Length, Diameter, Chirality, Deformation, and Strain on Contact Thermal Conductance Between Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

This article explores the role of various geometrical and structural (length, diameter, chirality) as well as external (deformation and strain) carbon nanotube (CNT) parameters to estimate total as well as area-normalized thermal conductance across cross-contact interconnects.
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Varshney, Vikas; Lee, Jonghoon; Brown, Joshua S.; Farmer, Barry L.; Voevodin, Andrey A. & Roy, Ajit
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) promoters for green tissue‑specific expression of the MYB4 transcription factor for reduced‑recalcitrance transgenic switchgrass (open access)

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) promoters for green tissue‑specific expression of the MYB4 transcription factor for reduced‑recalcitrance transgenic switchgrass

This article describes the identification and functional characterization of three switchgrass green tissue-specific promoters in endogenous plant tissues as well as in transgenic rice.
Date: December 1, 2017
Creator: Liu, Wusheng; Mazarei, Mitra; Ye, Rongjian; Peng, Yanhui; Shao, Yuanhua; Baxter, Holly L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mimicking the collective intelligence of human groups as an optimization tool for complex problems (open access)

Mimicking the collective intelligence of human groups as an optimization tool for complex problems

This article presents a novel optimization algorithm belonging to the class of swarm intelligence optimization methods.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: De Vincenzo, Ilario; Massari, Giovanni F.; Giannoccaro, Ilaria; Carbone, Giuseppe & Grigolini, Paolo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, April 6, 2018 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, April 6, 2018

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: April 6, 2018
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cross-Border Data Sharing Under the CLOUD Act (open access)

Cross-Border Data Sharing Under the CLOUD Act

This report reviews the development of cross-border data sharing laws in criminal matters in the United States. It begins with an overview of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the Stored Communications Act (SCA). Next, the report discusses the questions raised in the Microsoft litigation and the impact of the CLOUD Act on those issues. Finally, the report examines the new form of international agreements authorized by the CLOUD Act and the commentary on the benefits and drawbacks of the potential new international data sharing agreements.
Date: April 23, 2018
Creator: Mulligan, Stephen P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
When the City Goes Broke: Pensions, Retirees, and Municipal Bankruptcies (open access)

When the City Goes Broke: Pensions, Retirees, and Municipal Bankruptcies

This report first explains how, under current bankruptcy law, Chapter 9 (municipalities) debtors have significant freedom to modify their outstanding pension obligations through the bankruptcy process. The report then explores proposals to alter the legal principles governing the adjustment of municipal pensions in bankruptcy.
Date: April 10, 2018
Creator: Lewis, Kevin M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
China's Retaliatory Tariffs on Selected U.S. Agricultural Products (open access)

China's Retaliatory Tariffs on Selected U.S. Agricultural Products

This report discusses China's retaliatory tariffs on many U.S. agricultural products in response to the U.S. tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminium imports.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Hopkinson, Jenny
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Employee Ownership of Registration-Exempt Company Securities: Proposals to Reform Required Corporate Disclosures (Section 507 of S. 2155, S. 488, H.R. 1343, and Section 406 of H.R. 10) (open access)

Employee Ownership of Registration-Exempt Company Securities: Proposals to Reform Required Corporate Disclosures (Section 507 of S. 2155, S. 488, H.R. 1343, and Section 406 of H.R. 10)

This report discusses SEC registration requirements and the exemption from registration for small and mid-size companies. Recent legislation regarding the rules in the House and Senate is also included.
Date: April 3, 2018
Creator: Shorter, Gary
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NASA Appropriations and Authorizations: A Fact Sheet (open access)

NASA Appropriations and Authorizations: A Fact Sheet

This report provides data on past, current, and proposed appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. No bills have yet been introduced in the 115th Congress proposing future-year authorizations of NASA appropriations.
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Morgan, Daniel
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library