Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience (open access)

Victims of "adaptation": climate change, sacred mountains, and perverse resilience

This article proposes the concept of "perverse adaptation", where one actor or institution's adaptation to climate change in fact produces aftershocks and secondary impacts upon other groups. Drawing on ethnographic and sociolinguistic research in northern Arizona regarding artificial snowmaking at a ski resort on a sacred mountain, the author elucidates resort supporters' and others' attempts to frame snowmaking as a sustainable adaptation to drought (and, implicitly, climate change) while counterpoising these framings with narratives from local activists as well as Diné (Navajo) individuals.
Date: January 3, 2019
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dialectical materialism: Marx’s method in human geography? (open access)

Dialectical materialism: Marx’s method in human geography?

Article is a self-critique of human geography that explicates the basic tenets of dialectical materialism in Marx’s work and presents some human geography research that engages with dialectical materialism.
Date: May 29, 2019
Creator: Chatterjee, Ipsita & Ahmed, Waquar
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of personal exposure to particulate air pollution: the first result of City Health Outlook (CHO) project (open access)

Assessment of personal exposure to particulate air pollution: the first result of City Health Outlook (CHO) project

First paper of a series on the City Health Outlook (CHO) project, which aims to establish multi-scale, long-lasting, real-time urban environment and health monitoring networks. This paper is targeted at illustrating the characteristics of the participants and examining the effects of different covariates on personal exposure at various air pollution exposure levels.
Date: June 7, 2019
Creator: Liang, Lu; Gong, Peng; Cong, Na; Li, Zhichao; Zhao, Yu & Chen, Ying
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perceptions of Change after a Trauma and Perceived Posttraumatic Growth: A Prospective Examination (open access)

Perceptions of Change after a Trauma and Perceived Posttraumatic Growth: A Prospective Examination

This article uses a prospective research design to measure both actual and perceived posttraumatic growth in an attempt to replicate and extend previous findings.
Date: January 15, 2019
Creator: Boals, Adriel; Bedford, Lee A. & Callahan, Jennifer L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hemisphere-specific effects of prefrontal theta-burst stimulation on visual recognition memory accuracy and awareness (open access)

Hemisphere-specific effects of prefrontal theta-burst stimulation on visual recognition memory accuracy and awareness

Article describes study seeking to determine if theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation (TBS) to prefrontal cortex modulates visual memory accuracy, visual memory awareness, or both, and whether these effects depend on brain hemisphere.
Date: January 6, 2019
Creator: Carbajal, Ivan; O'Neil, Jonathan T.; Palumbo, Robert T.; Voss, Joel L. & Ryals, Anthony J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Warming and Dimming: Interactive Impacts on Potential Summer Maize Yield in North China Plain (open access)

Warming and Dimming: Interactive Impacts on Potential Summer Maize Yield in North China Plain

Discusses study that examines the impacts of climate change associated with climate warming and global dimming/brightening on potential light–temperature productivity (PTP) of summer maize based on daily observation data during 1961–2015 in the North China Plain (NCP).
Date: May 5, 2019
Creator: Hu, Qi; Ma, Xueqing; He, Huayun; Pan, Feifei; He, Qijin; Huang, Binxiang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atheism, Social Networks and Health: A Review and Theoretical Model (open access)

Atheism, Social Networks and Health: A Review and Theoretical Model

This article operationalizes social network structure within the study of secularism, discusses the available research with a focus on atheism in particular, and integrates this research into a schematic theoretical model of atheist self-identity, network structure and health.
Date: October 16, 2019
Creator: McCaffree, Kevin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Art of Non-Violence in a Violent World captions transcript

The Art of Non-Violence in a Violent World

Video recording containing audio of a podcast episode from Grim News. This episode includes a discussion on the principles of non-violence and its relationship with Jainism
Date: April 5, 2019
Creator: Sengupta, Hindol & Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
An ecological measure to screen executive functioning in Multiple Sclerosis: the Picture Interpretation Test (PIT) 360° (open access)

An ecological measure to screen executive functioning in Multiple Sclerosis: the Picture Interpretation Test (PIT) 360°

This article's aim was to compare the efficiency of the Picture Interpretation Test 360° (PIT 360°) with traditional measures on executive dysfunction in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS) and Healthy Controls (HC). Overall, the PIT 360° was concluded to be a quick, sensitive, and ecological tool that captures real-world executive dysfunction in PwMS. This engaging measure is sensitive for the detection of executive deficits since the early phases of the disease.
Date: April 5, 2019
Creator: Realdon, Olivia; Serino, Silvia; Savazzi, Federica; Rossetto, Federica; Cipresso, Pietro; Parsons, Thomas D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library