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Comments of the Auditing Standards Committee of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association on PCAOB Staff Consultation Paper, Auditing Accounting Estimates and Fair Value Measurements (open access)

Comments of the Auditing Standards Committee of the Auditing Section of the American Accounting Association on PCAOB Staff Consultation Paper, Auditing Accounting Estimates and Fair Value Measurements

This commentary summarizes the contributors’ views on the various questions asked in the PCAOB Staff Consultation Paper.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Abernathy, John L.; Hackenbrack, Karl E.; Joe, Jennifer R.; Pevzner, Mikhail & Wu, Yi-Jing
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) Reauthorization (open access)

Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) Reauthorization

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Date: December 23, 2014
Creator: Akhtar, Shayerah Ilias
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Export-Import Bank Reauthorization: Frequently Asked Questions (open access)

Export-Import Bank Reauthorization: Frequently Asked Questions

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Date: December 22, 2014
Creator: Akhtar, Shayerah Ilias; Carpenter, David H.; Levit, Mindy R. & Taylor, Julia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charter Authorizer Accountability Report 2012-13 (open access)

Charter Authorizer Accountability Report 2012-13

Report on charter schools describing data collection methods and analysis of various factors and comparisons among types of schools in Texas.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Alexander, Celeste; Juniper, Cynthia; Farber, Matt & Wilkinson, Cheryl
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1, December 2014/January 2015 (open access)

Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 14, Ed. 1, December 2014/January 2015

Newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant and Dallas County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Alvarado, Felix
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The First Day of a New Congress: A Guide to Proceedings on the Senate Floor (open access)

The First Day of a New Congress: A Guide to Proceedings on the Senate Floor

The Senate follows a well-established routine on the opening day of a new Congress. The proceedings include swearing in new members, administrative business, and the election of the president pro tempore, the constitutionally mandated officer elected to preside over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. This report contains information on what is contained in the well-established routine.
Date: December 5, 2014
Creator: Amer, Mildred L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 67, Number 4, December 2014 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 67, Number 4, December 2014

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: December 2014
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Newsletter of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Volume 40, Number 3, Winter 2014 (open access)

The Newsletter of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Volume 40, Number 3, Winter 2014

Newsletter of the Texas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society containing information about the organization, membership, and field of aquaculture and ecosystem management.
Date: December 2014
Creator: American Fisheries Society. Texas Chapter.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
U.S.-EU Cooperation Against Terrorism (open access)

U.S.-EU Cooperation Against Terrorism

This report examines the evolution of counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and the European Union (EU), particularly since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It includes a discussion of U.S.-EU cooperation progress and ongoing challenges, as well as perspectives and issues for Congress.
Date: December 1, 2014
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guinea: In Brief (open access)

Guinea: In Brief

This report gives an overview of Guinea, its background, economy, and relations with the United States
Date: December 19, 2014
Creator: Arieff, Alexis
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): A Primer on Eligibility and Benefits (open access)

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): A Primer on Eligibility and Benefits

This report focuses on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) eligibility and the form and function of benefits. SNAP, formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily to increase the food purchasing power of eligible low-income households to help them buy a nutritionally adequate low-cost diet.
Date: December 29, 2014
Creator: Aussenberg, Randy A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and Test of High-Temperature Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring (open access)

Development and Test of High-Temperature Piezoelectric Wafer Active Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring

High-temperature piezoelectric wafer active sensors (HT-PWAS) have been developed for structure health monitoring at hazard environments for decades. Different candidates have previously been tested under 270 °C and a new piezoelectric material langasite (LGS) was chosen here for a pilot study up to 700 °C. A preliminary study was performed to develop a high temperature sensor that utilizes langasite material. The Electromechanical impedance (E/M) method was chosen to detect the piezoelectric property. Experiments that verify the basic piezoelectric property of LGS at high temperature environments were carried out. Further validations were conducted by testing structures with attached LGS sensors at elevated temperature. Additionally, a detection system simulating the working process of LGS monitoring system was developed with PZT material at room temperature. This thesis, for the first time, (to the best of author’s knowledge) presents that langasite is ideal for making piezoelectric wafer active sensors for high temperature structure health monitoring applications.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Bao, Yuanye
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Performance Edition of the Alessandro Rolla Concerto in F for Viola and Orchestra, Op 4 (Bi 549) (open access)

A Performance Edition of the Alessandro Rolla Concerto in F for Viola and Orchestra, Op 4 (Bi 549)

The Concerto in F, Op. 4 (BI 549) by Alessandro Rolla (1757-1841) is a relatively unknown work that can serve as a complement for existing standard Classical repertoire for the viola, thus providing the means for greater stylistic education and technical foundation for viola study from this time period. In order to make the music from this lesser-known composer more readily available for future performers, a performance edition has been created from uncirculated sources using the notation software “Finale,” combining separate parts into a conductor’s full score, which did not exist before. This performance edition will provide greater access to Rolla’s music for viola performance and study. In addition to addressing the challenges to creating a performance edition, this lecture secondarily addresses Rolla’s biographical details relevant to the concerto and his stylistic influences.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Beall, Stephen J.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011-12 (open access)

Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, 2011-12

This document contains tables which show the prevalence of transgender adult victims of sexual assault in prisons and jails.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Beck, Allen J.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Colombia: Background and U.S. Relations (open access)

Colombia: Background and U.S. Relations

This report analyzes the political and economic conditions in Colombia and examines major issues in the U.S - Colombian relations that are of interest to Congress.
Date: December 8, 2014
Creator: Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latin America and Climate Change (open access)

Latin America and Climate Change

This report briefly discusses recent policy efforts in Latin America to confront climate change and the Obama Administrations' Energy and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA).
Date: December 11, 2014
Creator: Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11 (open access)

The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11

Congress has approved appropriations for the past 13 years of war that total $1.6 trillion for military operations, base support, weapons maintenance, training of Afghan and Iraq security forces, reconstruction, foreign aid, embassy costs, and veterans' health care for the war operations initiated since the 9/11 attacks. This report discusses the Department of Defense's FY2015 war request and various issues for Congress regarding the funding of the war on terror.
Date: December 8, 2014
Creator: Belasco, Amy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Filibusters and Cloture in the Senate (open access)

Filibusters and Cloture in the Senate

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Date: December 24, 2014
Creator: Beth, Richard S. & Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

An Ecological Perspective on Rural, Low-Income Mothers' Health

Article on an ecological perspective on rural, low-income mothers' health.
Date: December 9, 2014
Creator: Bice-Wigington, Tiffany; Simmons, Leigh Ann & Huddleston-Casas, Catherine A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Under the Influence of Marc Blitzstein: Examining Leonard J Lehrman’s Uses of Serial Techniques for Dramatic Purposes in Karla (open access)

Under the Influence of Marc Blitzstein: Examining Leonard J Lehrman’s Uses of Serial Techniques for Dramatic Purposes in Karla

American composer, author and conductor Leonard J. Lehrman (b. 1949) has spent a majority of his lifetime devoted to the scholarship on the music of Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964). Lehrman completed Blitzstein’s Idiots First in 1973, and finished his own one-act opera Karla in 1974. In an effort to honor Blitzstein, Lehrman included Karla along with Idiots First to begin the set of one-act operas to be titled Tales of Malamud. Lehrman coined the term “selective serialism” in reference to Blitzstein’s use of serial techniques representing something associated with death or something diabolical. Lehrman applies a similar technique in that he uses serialism to reference the presence of a handwritten notes that are tied to the dramatic context of the opera. This study examines Lehrman's use of serialism in Karla as it was directly influenced by Blitzstein’s use of serialism in Idiots First.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Blackwood, Jeremy B
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed Train and Equip Authorities for Syria: In Brief (open access)

Proposed Train and Equip Authorities for Syria: In Brief

This report reviews the authority granted in H.J.Res. 124 and explores similarities and differences among the H.J.Res. 124 authority, the President's requests, and other proposals that may be considered by Congress, including during anticipated consideration of FY2015 full-year appropriations or defense authorization (H.R. 4435/S. 2410) legislation.
Date: December 3, 2014
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M. & Belasco, Amy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Still on the Sidelines: the Female Experience in Sports Media (open access)

Still on the Sidelines: the Female Experience in Sports Media

This qualitative study aims to analyze the lived reality of women working in sports media today. Through systematic analysis of 12 in-depth interviews, the findings of this study suggest that the adoption of technological advancements in news media and all associated outlets have created a leveling effect for women due to the demand for highly skilled individuals who can handle the digital demand of modern news production. This study suggests that longtime gender disparities in sports media are experiencing a bit of a reprieve due to the massive digital audience and the need for professionals who can deliver information quickly and efficiently and with accuracy. However, the persistent symbolic annihilation of women as well as hegemonic hiring practices that emphasize aesthetic appeal have created a difficult path for women to move off the sidelines and into roles with more creative and analytical breadth, even with a rapidly increasing demand for jobs in the media industry.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Blankenship, Sara K.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 231, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 2, 2014 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 231, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 2, 2014
Creator: Bloom, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 232, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 3, 2014 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 232, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: December 3, 2014
Creator: Bloom, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History