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Creating a Library Publishing Program for Scholarly Books: Your Options Are Limited (open access)

Creating a Library Publishing Program for Scholarly Books: Your Options Are Limited

This commentary article discusses the key questions to be addressed before establishing a library publishing program for scholarly books.
Date: January 10, 2019
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatial characteristics of physical environments for human settlements in Jinsha River watershed (Yunnan section), China (open access)

Spatial characteristics of physical environments for human settlements in Jinsha River watershed (Yunnan section), China

Article examines the land in the Yunnan Jinsha River watershed to conduct an integrated analysis of environmental factors and human settlements and provides recommendations for urban planning, land use, and disaster management.
Date: January 10, 2019
Creator: Xia, Jisheng & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cognitive biases resulting from the representativeness heuristic in operations management: an experimental investigation (open access)

Cognitive biases resulting from the representativeness heuristic in operations management: an experimental investigation

This article investigates the six cognitive biases resulting from the use of the representativeness heuristic, namely, insensitivity to prior probability of outcomes, insensitivity to sample size, misconception of chance, insensitivity to predictability, the illusion of validity, and misconception of regression. Specifically, the authors examine how cognitive reflection and training affect these six cognitive biases in the operations management context.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: AlKhars, Mohammed; Evangelopoulos, Nicholas; Pavur, Robert J. & Kulkarni, Shailesh S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins (open access)

Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins

This article examines the connections between participants in the illicit drug trade and members of state security forces to understand how they impact everyday understandings of the law. The authors used ethnographic fieldwork in a poor, high-crime district in Argentina and information gathered for a court case involving a drug trafficking group active in the same area as the basis for their research.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: Sobering, Katherine & Auyero, Javier
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Composition-dependent apparent activation-energy and sluggish grain-growth in high entropy alloys (open access)

Composition-dependent apparent activation-energy and sluggish grain-growth in high entropy alloys

Article discusses experimental results which reveal that the apparent activation-energy for grain-growth in an fcc-based AlxCoCrFeNi high entropy alloy (HEA) system increases from 179 to 486 kJ/mol when the Al content increases from x = 0.1 to 0.3.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: Gwalani, Bharat; Salloom, Riyadh; Alam, Talukder; Valentin, S.G.; Zhou, X.; Thompson, G. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining Scientific Literacy through New Media (open access)

Examining Scientific Literacy through New Media

Article evaluates the impact of new media on scientific literacy. Content analysis with a coding scheme was performed on 42 filtered websites and 20 microblogs to analyze the role of new media in disseminating scientific knowledge. The results showed that the quality of science-oriented websites was higher than that of microblogs. Suggestions about how to improve the quality of science-oriented new media and how to develop students’ scientific literacy through new media are also discussed.
Date: July 10, 2019
Creator: Gu, Xiaoqing; Wang, Chunli & Lin, Lin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deaf Adults’ Health Literacy and Access to Health Information: Protocol for a Multicenter Mixed Methods Study (open access)

Deaf Adults’ Health Literacy and Access to Health Information: Protocol for a Multicenter Mixed Methods Study

Article where the study aims to elucidate the role of information marginalization on health literacy in Deaf ASL users and to better understand the mechanisms of health literacy in this population for the purpose of identifying viable targets for future health literacy interventions.
Date: September 10, 2019
Creator: McKee, Michael M.; Hauser, Peter C.; Champlin, Sara; Paasche-Orlow, Michael; Wyse, Kelley; Cuculick, Jessica et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Righting the Ship: One library's experience from a front-line librarian's perspective

This presentation explains the process librarians took to make collection cuts. They focused on larger vendors and subscriptions where possible, and they made decisions based on standardized criteria. It was presented at the Texas Council of Academic Libraries in September of 2019.
Date: September 10, 2019
Creator: Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retinal oxygen supply shaped the functional evolution of the vertebrate eye (open access)

Retinal oxygen supply shaped the functional evolution of the vertebrate eye

Article explores the hypothesis that oxygen diffusion limited the evolution of retinal morphology by reconstructing the evolution of retinal thickness and the various mechanisms for retinal oxygen supply, including capillarization and acid-induced haemoglobin oxygen unloading.
Date: December 10, 2019
Creator: Damsgaard, Christian; Lauridsen, Henrik; Funder, Anette MD; Thomsen, Jesper S.; Desvignes, Thomas; Crossley, Dane A., II et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library