Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI (open access)

Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI

This article uses 41 Landsat images between 1988 and 2016 to calculate the normalized difference vegetation indices (NVDIs) of the wetland vegetation at Xitugou (XTG) and Wowachi (WWC) inside the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in northwest China in order to assess the impacts of climate change on wetland vegetation.
Date: May 10, 2018
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Xie, Jianping; Lin, Juming; Zhao, Tingwei; Ji, Yongyuan; Hu, Qi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

ALA Values and LGBT Social Justice

This dataset contains survey results from librarians regarding their stance on American Library Association values and social justice in relation to LGBTQ issues.
Date: May 30, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C. & Elkins, Aaron
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are we centering the adult in youth media education? Decolonizing the reception of youth-produced media texts (open access)

Are we centering the adult in youth media education? Decolonizing the reception of youth-produced media texts

This article explores how the assumptions and values we hold are reflected in our reception and circulation of youth-produced texts in ways that colonize youth interests, sensibilities, and aesthetics. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article.
Date: May 19, 2022
Creator: Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Land Use Simulation of Guangzhou Based on Nighttime Light Data and Planning Policies (open access)

Land Use Simulation of Guangzhou Based on Nighttime Light Data and Planning Policies

This article employs nighttime light (NTL) information as a proxy indicator of gross domestic product(GDP), and a future land use simulation model (FLUS) to simulate the land use patterns in Guangzhou from 2015 to 2018 and 2018 to 2035 by incorporating planning policies. This study demonstrates that NTL is a suitable and feasible proxy indicator of GDP for the land use simulations, providing a scientific basis for the development of urban planning and construction policy.
Date: May 23, 2020
Creator: Lao, Jieying; Wang, Cheng; Wang, Jinliang; Pan, Feifei; Xi, Xiaohuan & Liang, Lei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The effect of acute stress on salivary markers of inflammation: a systematic review protocol (open access)

The effect of acute stress on salivary markers of inflammation: a systematic review protocol

Article contains a a systematic review and meta-analysis of the reliability of changes in response to stress to measures of inflammation in saliva.
Date: May 2, 2019
Creator: Slavish, Danica & Szabo, Yevette Z.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The relationship between perseverative cognitions and mental health and physical health complaints among college students (open access)

The relationship between perseverative cognitions and mental health and physical health complaints among college students

This article examines whether perseverative cognitions represent a common risk factor for poor health in college students.
Date: May 24, 2018
Creator: Zawadzki, Matthew J.; Boals, Adriel; Mathews, Nick; Schuler, Keke; Southard-Dobbs, Shana & Smyth, Joshua M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil Erosion Vulnerability Mapping in Selected Rural Communities of uThukela Catchment, South Africa, Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (open access)

Soil Erosion Vulnerability Mapping in Selected Rural Communities of uThukela Catchment, South Africa, Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Article presents a study (i) assessing and modeling soil erosion vulnerability based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach in Hoffenthal and KwaMaye communities within the uThukela Catchment, South Africa; and (ii) identifying the relevant sustainable interventions and remedial strategies to combat soil erosion in the study area.
Date: May 13, 2022
Creator: Ebhuoma, Osadolor; Gebreslasie, Michael; Ngetar, Njoya Silas; Phinzi, Kwanele & Bhattacharjee, Shwarnali
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medium, Vector, and Connector: Fog and the Maintenance of Ecosystems (open access)

Medium, Vector, and Connector: Fog and the Maintenance of Ecosystems

Article synthesizes recent research advances that reveal the diverse ways that fog shapes ecosystem processes.
Date: May 6, 2019
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Weathers, Kathleen C. & Dawson, Todd E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
People of Color, People of Faith: The Effect of Social Capital and Religion on the Political Participation of Marginalized Communities (open access)

People of Color, People of Faith: The Effect of Social Capital and Religion on the Political Participation of Marginalized Communities

Article exploring how religion, social capital, and nativity intersect in the political mobilization of racial minorities. Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) 2016 data is used to examine the connection between social capital, religion, and political behavior in a novel attempt to systematically identify the unique role of churches in the mobilization of racial minority communities.
Date: May 19, 2020
Creator: Huckle, Kiku & Silva, Andrea
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Water Indices and Image Classification Algorithms for Mapping Inland Surface Water Bodies Using Landsat Imagery (open access)

A Comparative Study of Water Indices and Image Classification Algorithms for Mapping Inland Surface Water Bodies Using Landsat Imagery

This article presents a comparative study of water indices and image classification algorithms for mapping inland water bodies using Landsat imagery through obtaining 24 high-resolution (≤5 m) and cloud-free images archived in Google Earth with the same (or ±1 day) acquisition dates as the Landsat-8 OLI images over 24 selected lakes across the globe, and developing a method to generate the alternate ground truth data from the Google Earth images for properly evaluating the Landsat image classification results.
Date: May 18, 2020
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Xi, Xiaohuan & Wang, Cheng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ambient urban N deposition drives increased biomass and total plant N in two native prairie grass species in the U.S. Southern Great Plains (open access)

Ambient urban N deposition drives increased biomass and total plant N in two native prairie grass species in the U.S. Southern Great Plains

This article studies atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition in urban areas on two native prairie grass species, Schizachyrium scoparium and Nasella leucotricha. Findings indicate that while native prairie grasses may exhibit a positive biomass response to increased N deposition up to ~18 kg ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹, total inorganic N deposition is well above the estimated critical load for herbaceous plant species richness in the tallgrass prairie of the Great Plains ecoregion and thus may negatively affect these plant communities.
Date: May 6, 2021
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Green, Michelle L.; McCullars, Justin & Gough, Laura
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dialectical materialism: Marx’s method in human geography? (open access)

Dialectical materialism: Marx’s method in human geography?

Article is a self-critique of human geography that explicates the basic tenets of dialectical materialism in Marx’s work and presents some human geography research that engages with dialectical materialism.
Date: May 29, 2019
Creator: Chatterjee, Ipsita & Ahmed, Waquar
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Urban Expansion Monitoring Based on the Digital Surface Model—A Case Study of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Plain (open access)

Urban Expansion Monitoring Based on the Digital Surface Model—A Case Study of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Plain

This article presents a study of urban expansion in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei plain based on ALOS Global Digital Surface Model “ALOS World 3D-30 m” (AW3D30 DSM), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) DSM, and Landsat 7 ETM+ images. The method proposed in this paper can provide rapid and large-scale statistics to study urban construction expansion in the world.
Date: May 24, 2022
Creator: Wang, Yanping; Dong, Pinliang; Liao, Shunbao; Zhu, Yueqin; Zhang, Da & Yin, Na
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Change Characteristics and Interactions of Soil Moisture and Temperature in the Farmland in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia, China (open access)

The Change Characteristics and Interactions of Soil Moisture and Temperature in the Farmland in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia, China

Article studying the change characteristics of soil moisture and temperature under different water level treatments in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia, China.
Date: May 14, 2020
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Zhang, Ziyuan; Pan, Zhihua; Zhang, Jun; Han, Guolin; Huang, Na et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comment on ‘Dairy, calcium, vitamin D, and ovarian cancer risk in African-American women’ (open access)

Comment on ‘Dairy, calcium, vitamin D, and ovarian cancer risk in African-American women’

A comment on the article 'Dairy, calcium, vitamin D, and ovarian cancer risk in African-American women'.
Date: May 9, 2018
Creator: Hilliard, Constance
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Toward Development of a Novel Proprioceptive Trail-Making Test Comparing Healthy Dancers and Non-Dancers

Dataset for a potential publication, "Toward Development of a Novel Proprioceptive Trail-Making Test Comparing Healthy Dancers and Non-Dancers."
Date: May 22, 2023
Creator: Card, Madison R. & Ryals, Anthony J.
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Warming and Dimming: Interactive Impacts on Potential Summer Maize Yield in North China Plain (open access)

Warming and Dimming: Interactive Impacts on Potential Summer Maize Yield in North China Plain

Discusses study that examines the impacts of climate change associated with climate warming and global dimming/brightening on potential light–temperature productivity (PTP) of summer maize based on daily observation data during 1961–2015 in the North China Plain (NCP).
Date: May 5, 2019
Creator: Hu, Qi; Ma, Xueqing; He, Huayun; Pan, Feifei; He, Qijin; Huang, Binxiang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aberrant Salience Inventory: A meta-analysis to investigate its psychometric properties and identify screening cutoff scores (open access)

Aberrant Salience Inventory: A meta-analysis to investigate its psychometric properties and identify screening cutoff scores

Article describes how the Aberrant Salience Inventory (ASI) is a useful tool to measure salience abnormalities among the general population. The authors claim that there is strong clinical and scientific evidence that salience alteration is linked to psychosis.
Date: May 26, 2023
Creator: Merola, Giuseppe Pierpaolo; Boy, Ottone Baccaredda; Fascina, Isotta; Pecoraro, Vincenzo; Falone, Andrea; Patti, Andrea et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Systematic review on the current state of disaster preparation Simulation Exercises (open access)

Systematic review on the current state of disaster preparation Simulation Exercises

Article describes how the simulation exercise simulates an emergency in which an elaboration or description of the response is applied. The purpose of the study was to review disaster preparation exercises conducted by various national, non-government, and academic institutions.
Date: May 24, 2023
Creator: Mahdi, Syed Sarosh; Jafri, Hafsa Abrar; Allana, Raheel; Battineni, Gopi; Khawaja, Mariam; Sakina, Syeda et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library