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Explosives and Mass Shooting (open access)

Explosives and Mass Shooting

Bibliography of explosives and mass shooting literature for emergency medical professionals.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: FY1970-FY2017 (open access)

Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills: FY1970-FY2017

This report is a research aid that lists the Department of Defense (DOD) authorization bills (Table 1) and appropriations bills (Table 2) for FY1970-FY2017. This report includes all the pertinent information on the passage of these bills through the legislative process: bill numbers, report numbers, dates reported and passed, recorded vote numbers and vote tallies, dates of passage of the conference reports with their numbers and votes, vetoes, substitutions, dates of final passage, and public law numbers.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: DeBruyne, Nese F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ensemble: 2017-04-18 – UNT Men's and Women's Chorus

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Men's and women's chorus concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.
Date: April 18, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. Women's Chorus. & University of North Texas. Men's Chorus.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Skill Building for Effective Use of Multidimensional Measurements in Collection Assessments

Presentation for the 2017 ALCTS Exchange Virtual Conference. This presentation explores multidimensional measures including percentage of expected use, percentage of expected holdings, and ratio of borrowings to holdings.
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: Harker, Karen & Klein, Janette
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Skill Building for Effective Use of Multidimensional Measurements in Collection Assessments: Discussion Guide

Discussion guide presentation for the 2017 ALCTS Exchange Virtual Conference. This guide explores multidimensional measures including percentage of expected use, percentage of expected holdings, and ratio of borrowings to holdings.
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: Harker, Karen & Klein, Janette
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Life-Changing Magic of OpenRefine: The Open-Source Art of Data Decluttering and Organizing

Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of a workshop on using OpenRefine to make sense of data, standardize, correct, and rearrange data elements, automate tedious editing, and prepare data for export to other platforms for a variety of uses.
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology Enhanced Instruction: An Example of English Language Learning in the Context of Peace (open access)

Technology Enhanced Instruction: An Example of English Language Learning in the Context of Peace

This study reveals the impact of learning through technology in the English language.
Date: April 18, 2017
Creator: Sasi, Sabri; Chang, Maiga; Altinay-Aksal, Fahriye; Kayimbasioglu, Dervis; Haci, Huseyin; Kinshuk et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA): Compensation Related to Exposure to Radiation from Atomic Weapons Testing and Uranium Mining (open access)

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA): Compensation Related to Exposure to Radiation from Atomic Weapons Testing and Uranium Mining

This report discusses the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which provides one-time benefit payments to persons who may have developed cancer or other specified diseases after being exposed to radiation from atomic weapons testing or uranium mining, milling, or transporting.
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: Szymendera, Scott D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Protection of Classified Information: The Legal Framework (open access)

The Protection of Classified Information: The Legal Framework

This report provides an overview of the relationship between executive and legislative authority over national security information, and summarizes the current laws that form the legal framework protecting classified information -- including current executive orders and some agency regulations pertaining to the handling of unauthorized disclosures of classified information by government officers and employees. The report also summarizes criminal laws that pertain specifically to the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, as well as civil and administrative penalties, and some recent developments.
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unaccompanied Alien Children: An Overview (open access)

Unaccompanied Alien Children: An Overview

This report opens with an analysis of recent unaccompanied alien children (UAC) apprehension data. It then discusses current policy on the treatment, care, and custody of the population, with a description of the responsibilities of each federal agency involved with the population. The report also discusses administrative and congressional actions to deal with the UAC surge in FY2014 and ongoing action to address possible future surges.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: Kandel, William A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Mexican Security Cooperation: The MĂ©rida Initiative and Beyond (open access)

U.S.-Mexican Security Cooperation: The MĂ©rida Initiative and Beyond

This report begins with a brief discussion of security challenges in Mexico and Mexico's security strategy. It then provides information on congressional funding and oversight of the MĂ©rida Initiative, with details about each of the program's four pillars. The report concludes by raising policy issues that Congress may wish to consider.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: Ribando Seelke, Clare & Finklea, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Manufacturing in International Perspective (open access)

U.S. Manufacturing in International Perspective

This report is designed to inform the debate over the health of U.S. manufacturing through a series of charts and tables that depict the position of the United States relative to other countries according to various metrics. Understanding which trends in manufacturing reflect factors that may be unique to the United States and which are related to broader changes in technology or consumer preferences may be helpful in formulating policies intended to aid firms or workers engaged in manufacturing activity.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: Levinson, Marc
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fact Sheet: FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) DOD Reform Proposals (open access)

Fact Sheet: FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) DOD Reform Proposals

This report discusses information on extant Department of Defense (DOD) reform proposals being considered during the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act debates. It includes key provisions incorporated in H.R. 4909, the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) reported by the House Armed Services Committee on May 4, 2016 (H.Rept. 114-537), and S. 2943, the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act reported by the Senate Armed Services Committee on May 18, 2016 (S.Rept. 114-255).
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: McInnis, Kathleen J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cuba: Issues and Actions in the 114th Congress (open access)

Cuba: Issues and Actions in the 114th Congress

This report discusses Cuba's political succession in 2006 from the long-ruling Fidel Castro to his brother RaĂşl, human rights, and a number of market-oriented economic policy changes.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: Sullivan, Mark P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Buying American: Protecting U.S. Manufacturing Through the Berry and Kissell Amendments (open access)

Buying American: Protecting U.S. Manufacturing Through the Berry and Kissell Amendments

This report discusses the Berry and Kissell amendments, two separate but closely-related laws requiring that certain goods purchased by national security agencies be produced in the United States.
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: Platzer, Michaela D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Foreign Counterparts of U.S. Army Ground Combat Systems and Implications for Combat Operations and Modernization (open access)

Selected Foreign Counterparts of U.S. Army Ground Combat Systems and Implications for Combat Operations and Modernization

This report discusses the United States' ground combat system development and improvement, which is informed by existing and emerging technologies and budgetary factors as well as observations from current land conflicts.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: Feickert, Andrew
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Islamic State and U.S. Policy (open access)

The Islamic State and U.S. Policy

This report provides background on the Islamic State organization, discusses its goals, operations, and affiliates, reviews U.S. legislative and policy debates, and describes select FY2017 legislative proposals.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M. & Humud, Carla E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reserve Component Personnel Issues: Questions and Answers (open access)

Reserve Component Personnel Issues: Questions and Answers

This report is designed to provide an overview of key reserve component personnel issues through a series of questions and answers.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: Kapp, Lawrence & Torreon, Barbara Salazar
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Concurrent Receipt: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Concurrent Receipt: Background and Issues for Congress

This report addresses the two primary components of the concurrent receipt program: Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC) and Concurrent Retirement and Disability Payments (CRDP). It reviews the possible legislative expansion of the program to additional populations and provide several potential options for Congress to consider.
Date: January 18, 2017
Creator: Kamarck, Kristy N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Graphene Growth on Metal Oxides by Molecular Epitaxy (open access)

Direct Graphene Growth on Metal Oxides by Molecular Epitaxy

Patent relating to the controlled, layer-by-layer growth of graphene on a useful, magnetizable/and or insulating substrate using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).
Date: June 13, 2013
Creator: Kelber, Jeffry A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inadequate thermal refuge constrains landscape habitability for a grassland bird species (open access)

Inadequate thermal refuge constrains landscape habitability for a grassland bird species

This article uses the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) as a model species for studying how microclimates serve as refuge against severe weather conditions.
Date: April 11, 2017
Creator: Tomecek, John M.; Pierce, Brian L.; Reyna, Kelly S. & Peterson, Markus J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 18, 2017 (open access)

The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 18, 2017

Weekly newspaper from Gilmer, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: Parker, Vic
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 42, Number 33, Pages 4031-4186, August 18, 2017 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 42, Number 33, Pages 4031-4186, August 18, 2017

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: August 18, 2017
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hurricane Harvey Twitter Dataset

This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Hurricane Harvey and the subsequent flooding along the Texas gulf region. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 7,041,866 Tweets make up the combined dataset.
Date: 2017-08-18/2017-09-22
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library