America Losing its Religion? transcript

America Losing its Religion?

Audio recording of a news segment from News Radio KFB. This episode discusses results from the General Social Survey in relation to religion and spirituality.
Date: April 9, 2019
Creator: Mendonsa, Cristina & Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Art of Non-Violence in a Violent World captions transcript

The Art of Non-Violence in a Violent World

Video recording containing audio of a podcast episode from Grim News. This episode includes a discussion on the principles of non-violence and its relationship with Jainism
Date: April 5, 2019
Creator: Sengupta, Hindol & Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins (open access)

Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins

This article examines the connections between participants in the illicit drug trade and members of state security forces to understand how they impact everyday understandings of the law. The authors used ethnographic fieldwork in a poor, high-crime district in Argentina and information gathered for a court case involving a drug trafficking group active in the same area as the basis for their research.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: Sobering, Katherine & Auyero, Javier
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An ecological measure to screen executive functioning in Multiple Sclerosis: the Picture Interpretation Test (PIT) 360° (open access)

An ecological measure to screen executive functioning in Multiple Sclerosis: the Picture Interpretation Test (PIT) 360°

This article's aim was to compare the efficiency of the Picture Interpretation Test 360° (PIT 360°) with traditional measures on executive dysfunction in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS) and Healthy Controls (HC). Overall, the PIT 360° was concluded to be a quick, sensitive, and ecological tool that captures real-world executive dysfunction in PwMS. This engaging measure is sensitive for the detection of executive deficits since the early phases of the disease.
Date: April 5, 2019
Creator: Realdon, Olivia; Serino, Silvia; Savazzi, Federica; Rossetto, Federica; Cipresso, Pietro; Parsons, Thomas D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fertility knowledge, contraceptive use and unintentional pregnancy in 29 African countries: a cross-sectional study (open access)

Fertility knowledge, contraceptive use and unintentional pregnancy in 29 African countries: a cross-sectional study

Article examines the association between incorrect knowledge of ovulation and unintentional pregnancy/child among young women in sub-Saharan Africa countries.
Date: April 9, 2020
Creator: Oppong, Joseph R.; Iyanda, Ayodeji Emmanuel; Dinkins, Barbara J.; Osayomi, Tolulope; Adeusi, Temitope Joshua & Lu, Yongmei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Field Environmental Philosophy: A Biocultural Ethic Approach to Education and Ecotourism for Sustainability (open access)

Field Environmental Philosophy: A Biocultural Ethic Approach to Education and Ecotourism for Sustainability

This article proposes an educational methodology, called field environmental philosophy (FEP), which orients ecotourism practices to reconnect citizens and nature in order to contribute to local and global sustainability. FEP’s methodology is starting to be adapted in other world regions, such as Germany, Japan, and Mexico, to integrate education and ecotourism for sustainability.
Date: April 19, 2021
Creator: Tauro, Alejandra; Ojeda, Jaime; Caviness, Terrance; Moses, Kelli P.; Moreno-Terrazas, Ren; Wright, Travis et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of Context on the Abstraction Level of Children’s Conversations in the Preschool Classroom (open access)

The Influence of Context on the Abstraction Level of Children’s Conversations in the Preschool Classroom

Article asserts that despite the numerous studies on the linguistic environment of early childhood education settings (ECE), most of this work disregards contextual factors that may influence abstract conversations and omits characteristics of children’s verbal participation in these interactions. The authors of the article examine how preschool classroom contexts influenced the abstraction level of children’s conversations and how the context and conversational partners’ language influenced children’s verbal participation.
Date: April 25, 2022
Creator: Chaparro-Moreno, Leydi Johana; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Justice, Laura M.; Mills, Abigail K. & Uanhoro, James O.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Paper on the Desegregation of Texarkana College] (open access)

[Paper on the Desegregation of Texarkana College]

Paper exploring the desegregation of schools in Texarkana, Texas, including Texarkana College and the Texarkana Independent School District, and it explores how related events are represented in the media.
Date: April 12, 2023
Creator: Graham, Lia
Object Type: Paper
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