Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid". Wrapped in Plastic.

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid". Custom Painted Frame.

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid". Wrapped in Plastic.

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".

Work of art of Inkjet Print by artist Chris Wright Evans, as part of a 2020 MFA Exhibition, entitled "Brachaid".

Transcript of an interview with Don Ferrier, a Certified Green Builder and CEO of Ferrier Companies, discussing the founding and development of the business, particularly green building technologies and high energy efficiency for both residential homes and commercial remodeling.

Presentation on the history of the Star Spangled Banner for the Denton (Benjamin Lyon) chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution on September 6, 2019.

Notes to accompany a presentation on the history of the Star Spangled Banner for the Denton (Benjamin Lyon) chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution on September 6, 2019.

Presentation on Voice of America broadcaster Willis Conover's long association with Polish jazz, given at the meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held in Kraków, Poland July 14-19, 2019.

Notes accompanying a presentation on Voice of America broadcaster Willis Conover's long association with Polish jazz, given at the meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held in Kraków, Poland July 14-19, 2019.

Faculty recital presented at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

Repetitive verbal patterns of speech are a trait associated with high-functioning autism (HFA). For some, this higher-order restricted, repetitive behavior impedes learning, social opportunities, and access to work environments. Despite emerging motivation for establishing social relationships, some individuals with HFA lack the behavioral prerequisites to establish meaningful relationships. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the effectiveness of teaching interaction to decrease higher-order verbal restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) for four adults with HFA. Through a multiple baseline design across participants, individuals were exposed to a function-based intervention (i.e., teaching interaction) that systematically taught and reinforced alternative communicative behaviors while interrupting repetitive speech with specific feedback. Teaching interaction effectively reduced RRBs and increased alternative conversation for all four participants. Three of the four participants elected to participate in post-intervention maintenance sessions that occurred in individualized naturalistic settings. Their conversation behaviors maintained with one participant receiving one booster session.

Current unsupervised approaches for keyphrase extraction compute a single importance score for each candidate word by considering the number and quality of its associated words in the graph and they are not flexible enough to incorporate multiple types of information. For instance, nodes in a network may exhibit diverse connectivity patterns which are not captured by the graph-based ranking methods. To address this, we present a new approach to keyphrase extraction that represents the document as a word graph and exploits its structure in order to reveal underlying explanatory factors hidden in the data that may distinguish keyphrases from non-keyphrases. Experimental results show that our model, which uses phrase graph representations in a supervised probabilistic framework, obtains remarkable improvements in performance over previous supervised and unsupervised keyphrase extraction systems.

Accurate assessment of sleep-wake patterns is important for sleep researchers and clinicians. Actigraphs are low-cost, non-intrusive, wrist-worn activity detectors used to estimate sleep-wake patterns in a natural environment for several nights. Although actigraphy shows good sensitivity (sleep detection), it has consistently demonstrated poor specificity (wakefulness detection while lying in bed relatively motionless). Because insomnia is characterized by wakefulness in bed, actigraphy may not be a valid objective measure of wakefulness for this group. It is possible that refinement of actigraphy software settings for sleep/wake algorithms might improve specificity. The current studies investigated this hypothesis by comparing wake parameters from 48 combinations of actigraphy settings to determine which sleep/wake algorithms best inform insomnia diagnosis and treatment. In the first study, none of the 48 actigraphy setting combinations consistently discriminated between adults with insomnia (n = 69) and non-insomnia (n = 80) on all three wake parameters, and no setting clearly discriminated between groups for the composite variable, total wake time. Similarly, in the second study, no setting combinations consistently discriminated between adults treated for insomnia (n = 18) and controls with untreated insomnia (n = 26) on all three wake parameters. Although two setting combinations discriminated between groups for the composite …

Recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Master of Music (MM) degree.

James L. Freaner was one of America’s first war correspondents covering General Winfield Scott’s campaign during the Mexican War. His letters appeared in newspapers under the byline “Mustang,” and his reports from the front included publication of complete casualty lists (long before official reports became public), detailed battle descriptions, and observations on postwar Mexico. Freaner’s greatest contribution was persuading Nicholas P. Trist, negotiator with Mexico, to ignore his recall and conclude a peace treaty that added California, Nevada, Utah, and other territory to a growing country. From the Halls of the Montezumas is a complete compilation of Freaner’s Mexican War reporting. Editors Alan D. Gaff and Donald H. Gaff annotated the text with footnotes identifying people, places, and events, also adding pictures of key figures and maps.

Senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Lab West in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music (BM) in Performance degree.