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Navy Lasers, Railgun, and Gun-Launched Guided Projectile: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Lasers, Railgun, and Gun-Launched Guided Projectile: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on three new ship-based weapons the Navy is developing that could improve the ability of Navy surface ships to defend themselves against missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and surface craft: the Surface Navy Laser Weapon System (SNLWS), the electromagnetic railgun (EMRG), and the gunlaunched guided projectile (GLGP), previously known as the hypervelocity projectile (HVP). The Navy refers to the initial (i.e., Increment 1) version of SNLWS as HELIOS, an acronym meaning high-energy laser with integrated optical dazzler and surveillance.
Date: July 5, 2018
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
NATO's 2018 Brussels Summit (open access)

NATO's 2018 Brussels Summit

This report discusses the meeting of leaders from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO's) 29 member states, scheduled to take place on hold a summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on July 11-12, 2018. Despite the heightened U.S.-European tensions, NATO officials say they expect the allies to announce new NATO initiatives in six main areas at the summit: enhancing collective defense and deterrence, defense spending and burdensharing, countering terrorism, enhancing NATO cooperation with the European Union, and NATO enlargement.
Date: July 5, 2018
Creator: Belkin, Paul
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Questions Remain, Litigation Continues, over Military Service by Transgender Individuals (open access)

Questions Remain, Litigation Continues, over Military Service by Transgender Individuals

This report discusses the controversy regarding transgender individuals serving in the military, President Trump's memorandums on the subject, and the four lawsuits challenging the President's memorandums.
Date: July 5, 2018
Creator: Back, Christine J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Program: Background and Issues for Congress (open access)

Navy Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Program: Background and Issues for Congress

This report provides background information and issues for Congress on the Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) program, which is carried out by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the Navy, and gives Navy Aegis cruisers and destroyers a capability for conducting BMD operations.
Date: July 5, 2018
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Hurricane Florence Twitter Dataset

This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to Hurricane Florence and the subsequent flooding along the Carolina coastal 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 4,971,575 Tweets and 347,205 media files make up the combined dataset.
Date: 2018-09-05/2018-10-03
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methane and Other Air Pollution Issues in Natural Gas Systems (open access)

Methane and Other Air Pollution Issues in Natural Gas Systems

This report provides information on the natural gas industry and the types of air pollutants in the sector, as well as the role of the federal government in regulating these emissions, such as provisions in the Clean Air Act and other statutes. It concludes with a brief discussion of a number of issues under debate, including 1) defining the roles of industry and local, state, and federal governments; 2) establishing comprehensive emissions data; 3) determining the proper control of pollutants and sources; 4) understanding the human health and environmental impacts of emissions; and 5) estimating the costs of pollution abatement.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Lattanzio, Richard K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Provisions of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (open access)

Agricultural Provisions of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement

This report discusses the agricultural provisions of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Hopkinson, Jenny
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Statutory Canon Aimed at International Organization Immunity (open access)

Statutory Canon Aimed at International Organization Immunity

This report discusses the upcoming Supreme Court case Jam v. International Finance Corp. The petitioners--a group of Indian nationals from Gujarat--seek to hold International Finance Corp. (IFC) liable for extensive environmental damage throughout their community caused by the construction of a power plant financed and overseen by IFC. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (D.C. Circuit) dismissed their lawsuit, holding, in accordance with the circuit's precedent, that the International Organizations Immunities Act (IOIA) grants absolute immunity to IFC in this case.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
21st Century U.S. Energy Sources: A Primer (open access)

21st Century U.S. Energy Sources: A Primer

This report provides an overview of U.S. energy issues, and suggests related information, data, and CRS contacts. It is mainly organized around the major fuels and energy sources: resources on federal lands, oil, natural gas, electric, coal, nuclear power, and renewable energy.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Ratner, Michael; Bracmort, Kelsi; Brown, Phillip; Campbell, Richard J.; Holt, Mark; Humphries, Marc et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proposed U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Trade Agreement (open access)

Proposed U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Trade Agreement

This report discusses the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which is to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Topics include market access, dispute settlement, intellectual property rights (IPR), energy, and labor and environment.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Fergusson, Ian F. & Villarreal, M. Angeles
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guide to Individuals Seated on the House Dais (open access)

Guide to Individuals Seated on the House Dais

This report outlines the members of the House of Representatives who are seated on the dais during meetings in the House chamber of the Capitol.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Heitshusen, Valerie
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Presidential Disability Under the Twenty-fifth Amendment: Constitutional Provisions and Perspectives for Congress (open access)

Presidential Disability Under the Twenty-fifth Amendment: Constitutional Provisions and Perspectives for Congress

This report provides a description and analysis of Sections 3 and 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, which deal with presidential disability or inability. It also reviews the history of presidential disability and earlier proposals to provide for such contingencies, provides a legislative history of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment and examines relevant legislative proposals pending in the 115th Congress.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Neale, Thomas H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deformation induced intermediate metastable lattice structures facilitate ordered B2 nucleation in a fcc-based high entropy alloy (open access)

Deformation induced intermediate metastable lattice structures facilitate ordered B2 nucleation in a fcc-based high entropy alloy

This article reports a novel mixed-mode coupled displacive-diffusional transformation resulting in homogeneously distributed intra-granular B2 precipitates within the fcc matrix.
Date: December 5, 2018
Creator: Choudhuri, Deep; Shukla, Shivakant; Gwalani, Bharat; Banerjee, Rajarshi & Mishra, R. S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 26, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 5, 2018 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 26, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 5, 2018

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 5, 2018
Creator: McGathey, Liz & Roark, Chris
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flood Resilience Building in Thailand: Assessing Progress and the Effect of Leadership (open access)

Flood Resilience Building in Thailand: Assessing Progress and the Effect of Leadership

This article uses the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction 10 Essentials for Making Cities Resilient as guidelines to assess the progress of flood resilience building in Thailand.
Date: March 5, 2018
Creator: Khunwishit, Somporn; Choosuk, Chanisada & Webb, Gary
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Herbert Cavness, March 5, 2018 transcript

Oral History Interview with Herbert Cavness, March 5, 2018

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Herbert Cavness. Cavness was born in Mason County, Texas in 1924. He quit high school in his junior year and joined the Army Air Forces in 1942. After completing basic training at Wichita Falls, Texas he was sent to Las Vegas, Nevada for training in aerial gunnery. He then went to Sioux City, Iowa for additional training and assignment to an air group. He recalls the loss of air crews during training mission. In early 1943 he boarded the RMS Aquitania and sailed to England. Arriving at Sudbury, he was assigned to the 486th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force as a waist gunner on a B-17 bomber. He vividly describes his various actions and observations during various missions. He returned to the US and received his discharge in late 1945.
Date: March 5, 2018
Creator: Cavness, Herbert
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hosting Book History: The 3Dhotbed Project in the University of North Texas Digital Library

This poster describes the development of the 3Dhotbed (3D History of the Book Education) project.
Date: February 5, 2018
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia; Jacobs, Courtney E. & O'Sullivan, Kevin
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data on whole length myosin binding protein C stabilizes myosin S2 as measured by gravitational force spectroscopy (open access)

Data on whole length myosin binding protein C stabilizes myosin S2 as measured by gravitational force spectroscopy

This article relates to the research article entitled "Whole length myosin binding protein C stabilized myosin subfragment-2 (s2) flexibility as measured by gravitational force spectroscopy" (Singh et al., 2018) [1]. The data exhibited the purified skeletal myosin binding protein (MyBPC) from rabbit back muscle was of slow skeletal type confirmed by chromatography and in unphosphorylated state based on its isoelectric point (pI) by chromatofocussing.
Date: December 4, 2017
Creator: Singh, Rohit R.; Dunn, James W.; Qadan, Motamed M.; Hall, Nakiuda; Wang, Kathy K. & Root, Douglas D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Assessing the Success of a Mentoring Program for Academic Librarians

Presentation for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference. This presentation describes the assessment of a mentoring program at an academic library.
Date: December 5, 2018
Creator: Harker, Karen; Keshmiripour, Setareh; McIntosh, Marcia; O'Toole, Erin & Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Our Users, Our Selves: Evaluating user experience on The Portal to Texas History

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the development and results of a usability study to understand how users navigate The Portal to Texas History.
Date: April 5, 2018
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Mangum, Jake
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tableau: Interactive Data Visualizations For Your Library

Presentation delivered at the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This panel presentation provides experiences with Tableau and other visualizations for library assessment purposes.
Date: April 5, 2018
Creator: Harker, Karen; Raborn, Karen; Szentkalyi, Zoltan & Scalf, Heather
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The overkill model and its impact on environmental research (open access)

The overkill model and its impact on environmental research

This article uses a citation analysis of selected works of the main proponent of the overkill model, Paul Martin, to evaluate how different disciplines interpret and use the overkill model.
Date: September 5, 2018
Creator: Nagaoka, Lisa; Rick, Torben & Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Negotiating local versus global needs in the International Long Term Ecological Research Network’s socio-ecological research agenda (open access)

Negotiating local versus global needs in the International Long Term Ecological Research Network’s socio-ecological research agenda

This article describes the assessment of six long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) platforms through site visits, coupled with reflections and insights of the platform managers.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Holzer, J. M.; Adamescu, M. C.; Bonet-García, F. J.; Díaz-Delgado, R.; Dick, J.; Grove, J. M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Junior Recital: 2018-11-05 – Adrienne Leung, violin

Junior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music (BM) in Performance degree.
Date: November 5, 2018
Creator: Leung, Adrienne
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library