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From Big to Little Data for Natural Disaster Recovery: How Online and On-the-ground Activities are Connected? (open access)

From Big to Little Data for Natural Disaster Recovery: How Online and On-the-ground Activities are Connected?

This article examines how active and influential members of Facebook groups aided in disaster recovery following Hurricane Sandy.
Date: 2014-11-8
Creator: Afzalan, Nader; Evans-Cowley, Jennifer & Mirzazad Barijough, Maziar
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Approaching Native American Communities on Their Own Terms in Microbiome Research captions transcript

Approaching Native American Communities on Their Own Terms in Microbiome Research

Presentation on how Native American communities have been approached for genetic and microbiome research and how these approaches need to be updated as a result of previous experiences and past injustices that make future research difficult. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 20, 2020
Creator: Anderson, Matthew
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perceived Stakeholder Role Relationships and Adoption of Seismic Hazard Adjustments (open access)

Perceived Stakeholder Role Relationships and Adoption of Seismic Hazard Adjustments

This article examines the relationships among perceived stakeholder characteristics, risk perceptions, respondent characteristics, and self-reported adoption of 16 seismic hazard adjustments by residents in areas of high and medium seismic risk.
Date: November 2007
Creator: Arlikatti, Sudha; Lindell, Michael K. & Prater, Carla S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education, Training Opportunities for the Pipeline High School Through Postdoctorate captions transcript

Education, Training Opportunities for the Pipeline High School Through Postdoctorate

Presentation on the National Science Foundation and its career and professional development resources for high school students through individuals starting their careers. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 21, 2020
Creator: Barrett, Kim
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Accounts for Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health captions transcript

What Accounts for Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health

Presentation focusing on racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care that includes historical and modern perspectives, socioecological factors, and challenges to overcoming these disparities. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 21, 2020
Creator: Bigby, JudyAnn
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Further Validation of the Leisure Time Physical Activity Instrument in People with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain (open access)

Further Validation of the Leisure Time Physical Activity Instrument in People with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

Article describes study seeking to to examine the convergent and discriminant validity of the Leisure Time Physical Activity Instrument (LTPAI).
Date: November 22, 2018
Creator: Brooks, Jessica M.; Umucu, Emre; Eagle, Daniel; Morrison, Blaise; Chiu, Chungyi; Moser, Erin et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dysphoric History: A Trans/Historical Approach captions transcript

Dysphoric History: A Trans/Historical Approach

Video recording of a presentation by Dr. Gabrielle M.W. Bychowski which unpacks how dysphoria has been an organizing pattern within trans literature since the premodern period, predating the adoption of the term within the modern medical sciences, and she emphasizes the need for critical trans literary and historical theory to better identify and analyze trans history and narratives that have been silenced in archives. The event was organized for LGBTQ History Month and held virtually on November 14, 2022.
Date: November 14, 2022
Creator: Bychowski, Gabrielle
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genomics: Shaping the Future of Health Equity in Medicine captions transcript

Genomics: Shaping the Future of Health Equity in Medicine

This presentation focuses the impact of genomic research on health equity, in particular mental health treatments in communities of African ancestry. The presenter also highlights the other speakers from the conference. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 20, 2020
Creator: Carey, Chandra Donnell
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Empirical Analysis of Effect of Housing Curb Appeal on Sales Price of Newer Houses (open access)

An Empirical Analysis of Effect of Housing Curb Appeal on Sales Price of Newer Houses

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the effect of housing curb appeal on the sales price of newer houses.
Date: November 2013
Creator: Chen, Jun; Evans-Cowley, Jennifer; Rutherford, Ronald C. & Stanley, Brooke W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genodynamics: Novel Biophysical Metrics for Assessing Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Ancestral Genomics Research captions transcript

Genodynamics: Novel Biophysical Metrics for Assessing Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Ancestral Genomics Research

This presentation highlights the work of the Whole Genome Science Foundation, Inc. which looks at single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) through the lens of biophysics and provides a unique perspective on ancestral genomics. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 20, 2020
Creator: Dunston, Georgia M.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hurricanes, Oil Spills, and Discrimination, Oh My: The Story of the Mississippi Cottage (open access)

Hurricanes, Oil Spills, and Discrimination, Oh My: The Story of the Mississippi Cottage

This article demonstrates how, following Hurricane Katrina, local governments enacted discriminatory housing policies that made it difficult for residents to site permanent Mississippi Cottages.
Date: November 2, 2010
Creator: Evans-Cowley, Jennifer & Canter, Andrew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is Hazard Mitigation Being Incorporated into Post-Katrina Plans in Mississippi? (open access)

Is Hazard Mitigation Being Incorporated into Post-Katrina Plans in Mississippi?

This article examines the degree to which hazard mitigation has been incorporated into the long-range plans developed in the communities along the coast in Harrison County, Mississippi, 18 months after Katrina.
Date: November 2007
Creator: Evans-Cowley, Jennifer & Zimmerman Gough, Meghan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
TRPV6: An Actionable Susceptibility Locus in Cancer Disparities? An Examination of Recent Evidence captions transcript

TRPV6: An Actionable Susceptibility Locus in Cancer Disparities? An Examination of Recent Evidence

Presentation on population-biased cancer disparities related to the TRPV6 gene. The presenter discusses the TRPV6 gene from evolutionary biology and structural biology standpoints, the role it plays in cancer, through a evolutionary-ecological model, and provides a synthesis of relevant research. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 21, 2020
Creator: Francis-Lyon, Patricia A.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Why Discoveries in the African Genome Have the Potential to Benefit All Humankind captions transcript

Why Discoveries in the African Genome Have the Potential to Benefit All Humankind

Presentation on the importance of African genomic diversity, the Human Health and Heredity in Africa (H3Africa) program, and an example from research into childhood HIV genetics in Botswana and Uganda. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 20, 2020
Creator: Hanchard, Neil
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Designing teacher professional development programs to support a rapid shift to digital (open access)

Designing teacher professional development programs to support a rapid shift to digital

This article offers a response to the impact, value, and application of a manuscript published by Philipsen et al. (Improving teacher professional development for online and blended learning: A systematic meta-aggregative review. Educational Technology and Research Development, 67, 1145–1174. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-019-09645-8, 2019). and its value and application in light of an emergency shift to digital to address a global pandemic.
Date: November 17, 2020
Creator: Heap, Tania & Fein, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Key Challenges and Some Guidance on Using Strong Quantitative Methodology in Education Research (open access)

Key Challenges and Some Guidance on Using Strong Quantitative Methodology in Education Research

Article reviews several common areas of focus in quantitative methods with the hope of providing guidance on conducting and reporting quantitative analyses. The review addresses causal inferences, measurement issues, handling missing data, testing for assumptions, dealing with nested data, and providing evidence for outcomes.
Date: November 13, 2020
Creator: Henson, Robin K.; Stewart, Genéa & Bedford, Lee A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating a Local Usage Collection System: PySUSHI (open access)

Creating a Local Usage Collection System: PySUSHI

Article discussing the design and implementation of a built-in-house usage collection system for electronic resource usage via release 4 and release 5 of the SUSHI protocol, as well as the design and integration of additional modules for the loading of manually downloaded COUNTER reports.
Date: November 2021
Creator: Hergert, Christopher; Harker, Karen & Byrne, Sephra
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genomics of Cardiometabolic Diseases in Mexican Americans captions transcript

Genomics of Cardiometabolic Diseases in Mexican Americans

Presentation on the importance of studying underrepresented ethnicities in genomics, in particular those Hispanic/Latino ancestry. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 21, 2020
Creator: Hidalgo, Bertha
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Six Overlooked Hurdles to Achieving Diversity in Genomic Research captions transcript

Six Overlooked Hurdles to Achieving Diversity in Genomic Research

This presentation is a broad overview on the challenges to achieving diversity in genomic research. It is also an introduction for the research of the other presenters at the conference. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 20, 2020
Creator: Hilliard, Constance
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
It’s not a Non-Issue: Negation as a Source of Error in Machine Translation (open access)

It’s not a Non-Issue: Negation as a Source of Error in Machine Translation

Article investigates whether translating negation is an issue for modern MT systems using 17 translation directions as test bed and provides a linguistically motivated analysis that explains the majority of the findings. The authors release their annotations and code to replicate analysis here: https://github.com/mosharafhossain/negation-mt.
Date: November 2020
Creator: Hossain, Md Mosharaf; Blanco, Eduardo; Palmer, Alexis & Anastasopoulos, Antonios
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Tiny Zebrafish and Their Surprisingly Human-Like Genome Can Benefit Medical Research captions transcript

How Tiny Zebrafish and Their Surprisingly Human-Like Genome Can Benefit Medical Research

Presentation highlighting the use of zebrafish to identify genes relating to predisposition to thromboembolism and cardiovascular disease in people with African ancestry. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 21, 2020
Creator: Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Were domestic camelids present on the prehispanic South American agricultural frontier? An ancient DNA study (open access)

Were domestic camelids present on the prehispanic South American agricultural frontier? An ancient DNA study

Article testing the hypothesis that domesticated camelids occurred in prehispanic, southern Mendoza through analysis of ancient DNA.
Date: November 5, 2020
Creator: Johnson, Jeff A.; Kim, Tracy; Wolverton, Steven J.; Gil, Adolfo Fabian; Abbona, Cinthia Carolina & Adolfo, Gustavo Neme
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leveraging Genetic Ancestry to Study Health Disparities captions transcript

Leveraging Genetic Ancestry to Study Health Disparities

This presentation delves into genetic ancestry and health disparities, and it highlights the difference between genetic ancestry, local genetic ancestry, and socio-cultural factors in health disparities. It was presented at the UNT Transdisciplinary Conference on Ancestral Genomics Research which was held virtually on November 20-21, 2020.
Date: November 20, 2020
Creator: Kittles, Rick
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broadband light-matter interaction due to resonance cavities in graded photonic super-crystals (open access)

Broadband light-matter interaction due to resonance cavities in graded photonic super-crystals

This article reports the formation of resonance cavities within graded photonic super-crystals (GPSCs) with unit cells formed via a near-uniform central region with eight side graded regions.
Date: August 29, 2019
Creator: Lin, Yuankun; Hassan, Safaa; Sale, Oliver; Alnasser, Khadijah; Hurley, Noah; Zhang, Hualiang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library