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Student Use of Interactive Whiteboards in an Academic Library Setting

In January 2011, the University of North Texas Libraries installed two Hitachi StarBoards in the new Collaboration and Learning Commons of the Eagle Commons Library for patrons to use independently. This presentation reports preliminary findings from a web survey on students use of smart technologies and interactive whiteboards at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Elizondo, Yvette & O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Texts Related to Survival of Consciousness (open access)

Book Review: Texts Related to Survival of Consciousness

Review outlining the various range of scholarly and non-scholarly characterizations regarding the survival of human consciousness after death by analyzing four books on the topic: "Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death" (Chris Carter); "The Fun of Dying: Find Out What Really Happens Next!" (Roberta Grimes); "The Science of Life after Death: New Research Shows Human Consciousness Lives On" (Stephen Hawley Martin); and "There is Life after Death: Compelling Reports from Those Who Have Glimpsed the Afterlife" (Roy Abraham Varghese).
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Kinsey, Lee
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of the RDP Classifier Accuracy Using 16S rRNA Gene Variable Regions (open access)

Evaluation of the RDP Classifier Accuracy Using 16S rRNA Gene Variable Regions

This article uses full-length 16S rRNA gene alignments from the SILVA database to simulate the PCR products of the combined variable regions.
Date: March 12, 2012
Creator: Vilo, Claudia A. & Dong, Qunfeng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traditional Personal Names in Klallam (open access)

Traditional Personal Names in Klallam

This paper describes the phonology, morphology, and syntax of personal names in Klallam, and includes a description of the importance of personal names in Klallam.
Date: January 7, 2012
Creator: Montler, Timothy; Smith, Adeline & Charles, Beatrice
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
On Critchfield's Proposal: Student Concerns and Recommendations (open access)

On Critchfield's Proposal: Student Concerns and Recommendations

This article contains a response to the article by Critchfield (2011) entitled "Interesting Times: Practice, Science, and Professional Associations in Behavior Analysis", including a concern about the effect of seprating science and practice on the future of behavior analysis.
Date: 2012
Creator: Bayles, Makenzie W.; Boutain, Ariana R.; Ackerlund Brandt, Julie A.; Call, Nikki; Dracobly, Joseph D.; Greer, Brian D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Was Damaged?: Taking Sacred Ecology into Account in Environmental Impact Assessment (open access)

What Was Damaged?: Taking Sacred Ecology into Account in Environmental Impact Assessment

This article argues that any analysis of environmental impacts on indigenous communities must also consider the ways in which changes in environmental quality have harmed indigenous ways of sacredly connecting to the environment.
Date: 2012
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sacredness and Ski Resorts: Being Human and Being in Conflict (open access)

Sacredness and Ski Resorts: Being Human and Being in Conflict

This paper situates anti-snowmaking sentiments in Navajo concepts of sacredness.
Date: 2012
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Consumers from Emerging Markets: Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Global Sporting Brands (open access)

Consumers from Emerging Markets: Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Global Sporting Brands

This article examines how the transition from emerging market to consumer market has affected consumer perceptions on global sport apparel brands.
Date: 2012
Creator: Kim, Chiyoung & Heere, Bob
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bird watching in China reveals bird distribution changes (open access)

Bird watching in China reveals bird distribution changes

This article describes the development of the China Bird Watching Database and its use to understand bird distribution changes.
Date: September 15, 2012
Creator: Li, Xueyan; Liang, Lu; Gong, Peng; Liu, Yang & Liang, FeiFei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Children’s Use of Comparative Text Signals: The Relationship between Age and Comprehension Ability (open access)

Children’s Use of Comparative Text Signals: The Relationship between Age and Comprehension Ability

This article examines age differences in children and young adolescents' use of comparative text signals in order to gain insights into the development of signaling knowledge.
Date: July 16, 2012
Creator: Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Ray, Melissa N. & Middlemiss, Wendy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prestigious Houses or Provisional Homes? The ghar as a Symbol of Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urbanism (open access)

Prestigious Houses or Provisional Homes? The ghar as a Symbol of Kathmandu Valley Peri-Urbanism

This article considers an alternative formulation of urban planning generated by three-plus decades of economic and governmental liberalization.
Date: July 16, 2012
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Measurement of Group Delay Dispersion in Metamagnetics for Ultrafast Pulse Shaping (open access)

Direct Measurement of Group Delay Dispersion in Metamagnetics for Ultrafast Pulse Shaping

This article explores the use of magnetic resonant metamaterials, so called metamagnetics, as dispersive elements for optical pulse shaping.
Date: September 24, 2012
Creator: Brown, Dean P.; Walker, Mark A.; Urbas, Augustine M.; Kildishev, Alexander V.; Xiao, Shumin & Drachev, Vladimir P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconfigurable Surface Plasmon Polariton Wave Adapter Designed by Transformation Optics (open access)

Reconfigurable Surface Plasmon Polariton Wave Adapter Designed by Transformation Optics

This article proposes a reconfigurable surface plasmon polariton (SPP) wave adapter designed by transformation optics, which can control the propagation of SPP waves on un-even surfaces.
Date: June 18, 2012
Creator: Arigong, Bayaner; Shao, Jin; Ren, Han; Zheng, Geng; Lutkenhaus, Jeffrey; Kim, HyoungSoo et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy transfer in ZnO-anthracene hybrid structure (open access)

Energy transfer in ZnO-anthracene hybrid structure

This article investigates the origin of the modification of the emission properties of the hybrid structure using temperature dependent and time-dependent photoluminescence spectroscopy.
Date: April 4, 2012
Creator: Shimada, Ryoko; Urban, Ben E.; Sharma, Mamta; Singh, Akhilesh; Avrutin, Vitaliy; Morkoç, Hadis et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Origin of Room Temperature Broadband Light Emission and Carrier Dynamics in Ag Ion-Implanted Silicon Nanocrystals (open access)

Origin of Room Temperature Broadband Light Emission and Carrier Dynamics in Ag Ion-Implanted Silicon Nanocrystals

This article studies the origin of broad band light emission in the ultraviolet to the red from silicon nanoparticles fabricated using a single low energy silver ion implantation.
Date: April 2, 2012
Creator: Singh, Akhilesh; Grycznski, Karol G. & Neogi, Arup
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cambio Climático Global en El Contexto De La Ecorregión Subantártica De Magallanes Y La Reserva De Biósfera Cabo De Hornos (open access)

Cambio Climático Global en El Contexto De La Ecorregión Subantártica De Magallanes Y La Reserva De Biósfera Cabo De Hornos

This article presents the main attributes of Magellanic sub-Antarctic ecoregion, and of the Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program coordinated by UMAG, the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity and the University of North Texas, which integrates ecological and ethical dimensions in the analyses of socioecological processes at local, regional, national, and international scales.
Date: May 15, 2012
Creator: Mansilla, Andrés O.; Ojeda, Jaime & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Do beavers improve the habitat quality for Magellanic Woodpeckers? (open access)

Do beavers improve the habitat quality for Magellanic Woodpeckers?

This article determines which attributes of abandoned beaver meadows have a strong impact on habitat selection by the Magellenic woodpecker.
Date: October 10, 2012
Creator: Soto, Gerardo E.; Vergara, Pablo M.; Lizama, Marlene E.; Celis, Cristian; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Duron, Quiterie et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Allelic differences in Medicago truncatula NIP/LATD mutants correlate with their encoded proteins’ transport activities in planta (open access)

Allelic differences in Medicago truncatula NIP/LATD mutants correlate with their encoded proteins’ transport activities in planta

This article examines the hypothesis that MtNIP/LATD may have another biochemical activity.
Date: October 2, 2012
Creator: Salehin, Mohammad; Huang, Ying-Sheng; Bagchi, Rammyani; Sherrier, D. Janine & Dickstein, Rebecca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Particular Emergency Department for Seniors (open access)

Particular Emergency Department for Seniors

Editorial discusses and compares services provided for senior people at emergency departments and geriatric emergency departments.
Date: January 23, 2012
Creator: Amini, Reza
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Housing Market Conditions on Residential Property Upkeep (open access)

The Impact of Housing Market Conditions on Residential Property Upkeep

This article assesses the impact of housing market conditions on the theoretically motivated and empirically observed negative relationship between loan to value ratios and home maintenance expenditures.
Date: July 15, 2011
Creator: Leonard, Tammy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Managing through Failure”: More than an Oxymoron? (open access)

“Managing through Failure”: More than an Oxymoron?

This article includes observations and principles to assist managers in their efforts to lead subordinates and themselves through failure.
Date: August 20, 2012
Creator: Strutton, David
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
What’s a Quail Worth? A Longitudinal Assessment of Quail Hunter Demographics, Attitudes, and Spending Habits in Texas (open access)

What’s a Quail Worth? A Longitudinal Assessment of Quail Hunter Demographics, Attitudes, and Spending Habits in Texas

This paper discusses a survey of quail hunters in Texas in 2000 and 2011 to assess hunter demographics and spending habits.
Date: January 9, 2012
Creator: Johnson, Jason L.; Rollins, Dale & Reyna, Kelly S.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Descriptors for the Prediction of Partition Coefficients and Solubilities of Organophosphorus Compounds (open access)

Descriptors for the Prediction of Partition Coefficients and Solubilities of Organophosphorus Compounds

This article discusses the determination of Abraham descriptors for several series of organophosphorus compounds.
Date: December 19, 2011
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Quail Index: Evaluating Predictors of Northern Bobwhite Productivity and Abundance Using Citizen Science (open access)

The Texas Quail Index: Evaluating Predictors of Northern Bobwhite Productivity and Abundance Using Citizen Science

This paper discusses the Texas Quail Index, a 5-year citizen science project that evaluated several indices as predictors of bobwhite productivity and abundance during the subsequent fall.
Date: January 9, 2012
Creator: Reyna, Kelly S.; Rollins, Dale & Ransom Jr., Dean
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library