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State of Texas Emergency Assistance Registry (STEAR) Usage Among Emergency Managers in Texas (open access)

State of Texas Emergency Assistance Registry (STEAR) Usage Among Emergency Managers in Texas

Paper investigating current and potential uses for the State of Texas Emergency Assistance Registry (STEAR) data to better assist people with disabilities. STEAR is a state-run database designed to assist emergency managers working for city and county governments to prepare for the needs of citizens with disabilities or transportation needs. Disability or special needs registries similar to STEAR have been widely promoted within emergency management as an improvement for inclusive planning and response. However, little research on the use or effectiveness of these registries exists.
Date: July 2023
Creator: Goodwin, Crystal & Schumann, Ronald L., III
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Heart of Librarianship: A Topical Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries (open access)

The Heart of Librarianship: A Topical Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries

This literature review provides an overview of outreach in academic libraries over the last five years. The review aims to centralize the common activities and general purposes of outreach while also bringing emphasis to more strategic outreach efforts such as the incorporation of learning outcomes and assessment into outreach. The review also provides commentary on how outreach can be used to affect information literacy and research.
Date: July 5, 2019
Creator: Henson, Brea
System: The UNT Digital Library
What is a Data Librarian?: A Content Analysis of Job Advertisements for Data Librarians in the United States Academic Libraries (open access)

What is a Data Librarian?: A Content Analysis of Job Advertisements for Data Librarians in the United States Academic Libraries

This paper attempts to understand what is required to be a data librarian by applying a content analysis approach to job advertisements by hiring professionals in academic libraries in the United States.
Date: July 31, 2018
Creator: Khan, Hammad & Du, Yunfei
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Brief History of Insecticides and Quail (open access)

A Brief History of Insecticides and Quail

This paper examines the types of insecticides that have been used in the United States, how quail could be exposed to these substances, and how they may have contributed to declining quail populations.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Gobeli, Amanda; Thompson, Caitlin & Reyna, Kelly S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Northern Bobwhite Conservation Research: A Call for Large-Scale Studies (open access)

An Evaluation of Northern Bobwhite Conservation Research: A Call for Large-Scale Studies

This paper reviews current and historical studies that have facilitated the implementation of management techniques on multiple scales.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Gomez, Lex J. & Reyna, Kelly S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predicting Northern Bobwhite Habitat in Semiarid Rangeland Using LANDSAT Imagery (open access)

Predicting Northern Bobwhite Habitat in Semiarid Rangeland Using LANDSAT Imagery

This paper discusses a classification on 4 LANDSAT scenes of Clay County, Texas, from July and December 2015 to identify bobwhite habitat in subhumid and semiarid rangeland.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Whitt, Jeffrey G. & Reyna, Kelly S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retention and Efficacy of Citizen Scientist Volunteers of the Texas Quail Index (open access)

Retention and Efficacy of Citizen Scientist Volunteers of the Texas Quail Index

This paper discusses volunteer retention and efficacy for the Texas Quail Index.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Reyna, Kelly S. & Rollins, Dale
System: The UNT Digital Library
Translocation as a Population Restoration Technique for Northern Bobwhites: A Review and Synthesis (open access)

Translocation as a Population Restoration Technique for Northern Bobwhites: A Review and Synthesis

This paper includes a review and recommendation by the National Bobwhite Technical Committee Science Subcommittee, along with a discussion of the state of science on key aspects of bobwhite conservation, best management practices for translocation, and ways to reduce uncertainty about implementation.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Martin, James A.; Applegate, Roger D.; Dailey, Thomas V.; Downey, Michelle; Emmerich, Beth; Hernández, Fidel et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit (open access)

Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit

This paper provides an overview of the UNT Libraries' self-audit using criteria from the Trusted Repositories Audit and Certification checklist. It contains an overview of the structure of this self-audit, explores the documents generated and auited, and examines the challenges and solutions as revealed by this process. This paper also contains findings specifically related to the digital newspaper and news video content.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Findings from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives (open access)

Findings from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives

This white paper comprehensively describes the insights that emerged from the Workshop on User-Centered Design of Language Archives. Key topics include a typology of language archives, the perspectives of stakeholder groups, and improving access to language archives.
Date: July 25, 2016
Creator: Wasson, Christina; Holton, Gary & Roth, Heather
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cyber-Physical Systems Can Make Emergency Response Smart (open access)

Cyber-Physical Systems Can Make Emergency Response Smart

This paper from the Humanitarian Technology: Science, Systems and Global Impact 2015 conference proceedings discusses the Smart Emergency Response System prototype built in the context of the SmartAmerica Challenge 2013-2014 by a team of nine organizations led by MathWorks.
Date: July 7, 2015
Creator: Zander, Justyna; Mosterman, Pieter J.; Padir, Taskin; Wan, Yan & Fu, Shengli
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cibolo Creek Watershed Project in Kendall County, Texas (open access)

Cibolo Creek Watershed Project in Kendall County, Texas

Paper about the Cibolo Creek Watershed Project, including a history of Cibolo Creek's activity and its affects on surrounding areas, such as floods and droughts. A record of events surrounding the new Boerne Lake Reed Dam is also included.
Date: July 12, 2014
Creator: Edmonds, Bettie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cibolo Creek Mill Dam (open access)

Cibolo Creek Mill Dam

Paper about a mill dam in Boerne, Texas, built by William Dietert. The paper discusses William Dietert's background and the history of the dam, including its transfer of ownership to the City of Boerne.
Date: July 2014
Creator: Edmonds, Bettie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polo in the United States - The Boerne, Texas Influence (open access)

Polo in the United States - The Boerne, Texas Influence

A short history of polo, and the influence of Boerne, Texas on the game, especially the use of Texas-trained ponies.
Date: July 2014
Creator: Edmonds, Bettie
System: The Portal to Texas History
Understanding Repository Growth at the University of North Texas: A Case Study (open access)

Understanding Repository Growth at the University of North Texas: A Case Study

This paper discusses a case study on understanding repository growth at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: July 2014
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Ko, Lauren
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modular Curation for ETD Repositories (open access)

Modular Curation for ETD Repositories

This paper discusses the Lifecycle Management of ETDs project led by the University of North Texas (UNT) and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This paper explains the research methodology the project took to evaluate these various tools, IRs and related submission systems; share findings; and discuss how these findings have solidified implementation improvements for the above mentioned curation technologies (Clam, AV, JHOVE/JHOVE2, DROID & FITS).
Date: July 11, 2013
Creator: Schultz, Matt; Eisenhauer, Stephen & Krabbenhoeft, Nick
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge in Agriculture: The Case for Africa (open access)

Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge in Agriculture: The Case for Africa

Paper discussing the diffusion of scientific knowledge on agriculture for Africa. Using exploratory research method, this paper set out to investigate existing knowledge diffusion models and their limitations, available best practices, and the potential to infuse translational research as a way to augment extension service programs in SSA agricultural practices.
Date: July 2013
Creator: Assefa, Shimelis; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Rorissa, Abebe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lessons Learned in Implementing the Extended Date/Time Format in a Large Digital Library (open access)

Lessons Learned in Implementing the Extended Date/Time Format in a Large Digital Library

Paper outlining research regarding date formatting in the UNT digital collections.
Date: July 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change Science White Paper (open access)

Climate Change Science White Paper

This is a white paper on climate change science. The white paper seeks to create a consensus around science-based evidence on climate change and increasing overall temperatures.
Date: July 24, 2012
Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture. Research, Education and Economics.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optical imaging of motor cortical activation using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (open access)

Optical imaging of motor cortical activation using functional near-infrared spectroscopy

This paper describes a study from a poster presentation. It discusses optical imaging of motor cortical activation using functional near-infrared spectroscopy.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Tam, Nicoladie D. & Zouridakis, George
System: The UNT Digital Library
SemEval-2010 Task 2: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution (open access)

SemEval-2010 Task 2: Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution

This article describes the SemEval-2010 Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution task.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Mihalcea, Rada, 1974-; Sinha, Ravi & McCarthy, Diana
System: The UNT Digital Library
To Annotate More Accurately or to Annotate More (open access)

To Annotate More Accurately or to Annotate More

This paper demonstrates that the greatest value for annotation lies in single annotating more data.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Dligach, Dmitriy; Nielsen, Rodney D. & Palmer, Martha
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identification of functional information subgraphs in cultured neural networks (open access)

Identification of functional information subgraphs in cultured neural networks

This paper accompanies an oral presentation on the identification of functional information subgraphs in cultured neural networks.
Date: July 13, 2009
Creator: Gintautas, Vadas; Bettencourt, Luis & Ham, Michael I.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Basil Bernstein’s Theory of the Pedagogic Device Applied to Curriculum Construction in Music Education: From the Macro- to a Microview of Instructional Practices (open access)

Basil Bernstein’s Theory of the Pedagogic Device Applied to Curriculum Construction in Music Education: From the Macro- to a Microview of Instructional Practices

Presented at the Sixth International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. This paper explains Basil Bernstein's theories of linguistic codes and pedagogic device, and is based on the premise that both the U.K. and the U.S. experience a cultural inversion.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Wright, Ruth & Froehlich, Hildegard
System: The UNT Digital Library