Photograph of MFD E-1, a 1990 Pierce pumper.

Photograph of Grady County FD Engine 1, a 1989 E-One pumper. This truck is housed at the Bradley station.

Photograph of MFD Ladder 1, a 2020 Pierce Velocity. 2000 gpm pump, 300 gallon tank, and a 100' midship-mounted platform ladder.

Photograph of MFD E-2, a Pierce pumper.

Brief Artist Statement by Jihye Han as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "11,009km” at the Goldmark Cultural Center in Dallas, TX on April 9-May 7, 2021.

Photograph of NPFD E-604, a 2001 Freightliner/American LaFrance.

Photograph of NPFD E-624, a Pierce pumper.

Photograph of a 3D printer sitting on a table at The Spark Makerspace on the first floor of Willis Library. A desktop computer is on the table to the right of the machine. Other tables with lab equipment and computers can be seen in the background.

The Abraham solvation model (ABSM) is an experimentally derived predictive model used to help predict various solute properties. This work covers various uses for the ABSM including predicting molar enthalpies of vaporization, predicting solvent coefficients for two new solvents (2,2,5,5-tetramethyloxolane and diethyl carbonate), predicting values for multiple new ionic liquids (ILs). This work also introduces a novel method for updating IL ABSM parameters by updating cation- and anion-specific values using linear algebra and binary matrices.

Children with disabilities are three to four times more likely to be abused than their non-disabled peers due to the impact of challenges related to behavior, cognition, language, social skills, and communication skills. In September of 2018, the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) specifically noted the need to establish maltreatment prevention and response curricula and promote research and advocacy surrounding maltreatment of children with disabilities. One common curriculum recommended is Kidpower®. While Kidpower® shows promise in increasing people safety skills and offers some basic accommodations for use with disabled populations, a complete accommodation plan for deaf or hard of hearing students has not been developed. The purpose of this study was to explore how Kidpower® curriculum could be accommodated to meet the unique needs of deaf and hard of hearing students from the perspective of the deaf education community, including deaf adults, deaf education teachers, deaf education teacher preparation faculty, and parents with deaf or hard of hearing children. A combination of focus groups and interviews were utilized to review lessons and homework from the Kidpower® curriculum. Participants gave feedback on obstacles and ideas for accommodations and modifications that would mediate the challenges. Data were inductively coded and analyzed for …

Article preparing highly-symmetrical, thorium and uranium octakis-carbene ‘sandwich’ complexes by ‘sandwiching’ the An(IV) cations between two anionic macrocyclic tetra-NHC ligands. The complexes are characterized by a range of experimental methods and DFT calculations.

This document examines current practices and opportunities in the music performance field related to artistic citizenship, community engagement, and the field of teaching artistry. The relationship of musicians to their audiences and communities has shifted significantly in the twenty-first century, and there is an increasing need to redefine the essential skills of the professional musician. Derived from the field of teaching artistry, the concept of "activating artistry" suggests that our greatest strength and power as artists lies in drawing out individual artistic expression in other people, and it is with this power that artists as a workforce can create meaningful change in society. This intention could be manifested in many different contexts during the course of a given music career, however, developing the tool kit necessary for engaging in such work is not widely emphasized in the training of musicians. What tools can be provided for students and professionals to help them navigate both traditional and evolving career paths in music? How are bassoonists doing as a field in addressing the imperative of community engagement and artistic citizenship? How might we explore more collaborative ways to engage with our diverse communities – ways that value their perspectives? These questions guide …

Photograph of Adriance Rhoades during the Caught Red Handed: True Crime in the Archives hosted by UNT Special Collections, talking about the Darlie Routier case with footage from our NBC 5/KXAS Television News Collection. May 7, 2021.

Adult attachment has been found to play an important role for romantic relationship satisfaction. Specifically, the existent literature generally suggests that attachment anxiety is negatively related to relationship satisfaction. However, the underlying mechanism for this link still needs further exploration. The present study examined the direct and indirect effect of attachment anxiety on relationship satisfaction via two distinct relationship commitment variables: constraint commitment and dedication commitment. The final sample included 146 unmarried participants who were in a romantic relationship for at least three months. Results of multiple regression analyses on the indirect effect model indicated that attachment anxiety had a significant direct effect on relationship satisfaction as well as a significant indirect effect on relationship satisfaction via constraint commitment. However, the hypothesized indirect effect through dedication commitment was not supported. Findings are discussed from the adult attachment perspective. Counseling implications, limitations, and future research directions are outlined.

Photograph of Grady County FD Aerial 1, a 1977 Duplex/Howe ladder truck. This truck is housed at the Alex station.

Photograph of Texas Fashion Collection graduate intern and UNT library science graduate student Ailie Pankonien holding a grey card used for white balance and color correction for collection digitization. Pankonien is standing next to a suit designed by Adrian, in a workspace in Welch Street Complex 1.

This dissertation presents an assortment of research aimed at understanding the composition-dependence of deformation behavior and the response to thermomechanical processing, to enable efficient design and processing of low stacking fault energy (SFE) high entropy alloy (HEAs). The deformation behavior and SFE of four low SFE HEAs were predicted and experimentally verified using electron microscopy and in-situ neutron diffraction. A new approach of employing a minimization function to refine and improve the accuracy of a semi-empirically derived expression relating composition with SFE is demonstrated. Ultimately, by employing the minimization function, the average difference between experimental and predicted SFE was found to be 2.64 mJ m-2. Benchmarking with currently available approaches suggests that integrating minimization functions can substantially improve prediction accuracy and promote efficient HEA design with expansion of databases. Additionally, in-situ neutron diffraction was used to present the first in-situ measurement of the interspacing between stacking faults (SFs) which were correlated with work hardening behavior. Electron transparent specimens (< ~100 nm thick) were used in order to resolve nanoscale planar faults instead of the thicker sub-sized specimens (on the order of millimeters in thickness) which exhibit the classical stages III work hardening behavior characteristic of low SFE metals and alloys. …

Weekly newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Weekly newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Podcast produced by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) that features an interview with UNT Alumnus Jeff Coffin, Grammy-winning saxophonist and member of many notable projects, including the Dave Matthews Band. Susan and Jeff discuss his history with music, inspiration he receives from teaching at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, and his other creative endeavors, such as photography and the creation of children's books. Jeff also plays the tárogató live during the podcast.

Brief Artist Statement by Sean Lopez as part of a 2021 MFA Exhibition, entitled "The Always Girls and Forever Boys” at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park in Dallas, TX on April 17-18, 2021.

This article studies atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition in urban areas on two native prairie grass species, Schizachyrium scoparium and Nasella leucotricha. Findings indicate that while native prairie grasses may exhibit a positive biomass response to increased N deposition up to ~18 kg ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹, total inorganic N deposition is well above the estimated critical load for herbaceous plant species richness in the tallgrass prairie of the Great Plains ecoregion and thus may negatively affect these plant communities.