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Classification Errors in a Domain-Independent Assessment System (open access)

Classification Errors in a Domain-Independent Assessment System

This paper presents a domain-independent technique for assessing learners' constructed responses.
Date: June 19, 2008
Creator: Nielsen, Rodney D.; Ward, Wayne & Martin, James H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extracting a Representation from Text for Semantic Analysis (open access)

Extracting a Representation from Text for Semantic Analysis

This paper presents a novel fine-grained semantic representation of text and an approach to constructing it.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Nielsen, Rodney D.; Ward, Wayne; Martin, James H. & Palmer, Martha
System: The UNT Digital Library
"The Smoking Gun": Evidence that Vladimir Ussachevsky used Chinese Timbres as the Basis for his Electronic Music (open access)

"The Smoking Gun": Evidence that Vladimir Ussachevsky used Chinese Timbres as the Basis for his Electronic Music

This paper was originally presented by Carl Rahkonen at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) Conference on April 3, 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah. This paper includes details about Vladimir Ussachevsky, a pioneer in the proliferation of electronic music. It also contains biographical information about Ussachevsky, as well as his archival materials. The author attempts to prove that Ussachevsky used Chinese Timbres as the basis for his electronic music.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Rahkonen, Carl John & Hartsock, Ralph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Non-extensive diffusion entropy analysis: non-stationarity in teen birth phenomena (open access)

Non-extensive diffusion entropy analysis: non-stationarity in teen birth phenomena

Paper discussing non-extensive diffusion entropy analysis and non-stationarity in teen birth phenomena.
Date: February 6, 2008
Creator: Scafetta, Nicola; Grigolini, Paolo; Hamilton, P. & West, Bruce J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scaling in Non-Stationary time series I (open access)

Scaling in Non-Stationary time series I

Paper discussing scaling in non-stationary time series.
Date: February 2, 2008
Creator: Ignaccolo, Massimiliano; Allegrini, Paolo; Grigolini, Paolo; Hamilton, P. & West, Bruce J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scaling in Non-stationary Time Series 2: Teen Birth Phenomenon (open access)

Scaling in Non-stationary Time Series 2: Teen Birth Phenomenon

This paper is devoted to the problem of statistical mechanics raised by the analysis of an issue of sociological interest: the teen birth phenomenon.
Date: February 2, 2008
Creator: Ignaccolo, Massimiliano; Allegrini, Paolo; Grigolini, Paolo; Hamilton, P. & West, Bruce J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aging and Rejuvenation with Fractional Derivatives (open access)

Aging and Rejuvenation with Fractional Derivatives

Article on aging and rejuvenation with fractional derivatives.
Date: February 2, 2008
Creator: Aquino, Gerardo; Bologna, Mauro; Grigolini, Paolo & West, Bruce J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renewal aging and linear response (open access)

Renewal aging and linear response

Paper discussing the linear response to an external perturbation of a renewal process, in an aging condition that, with no perturbation, would yield super-diffusion.
Date: February 6, 2008
Creator: Allegrini, Paolo; Ascolani, Gianluca; Bologna, Mauro & Grigolini, Paolo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renewal Aging as Emerging Property of Phase Synchronization (open access)

Renewal Aging as Emerging Property of Phase Synchronization

Paper discussing renewal aging as emerging property of phase synchronization.
Date: February 6, 2008
Creator: Bianco, Simone; Geneston, Elvis L.; Grigolini, Paolo & Ignaccolo, Massimiliano
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhanced UV Light emission from Silicon nanoparticles induced by Au ion implantation (open access)

Enhanced UV Light emission from Silicon nanoparticles induced by Au ion implantation

Paper discussing a study of light emitting silicon fabricated by ion implantation.
Date: November 2, 2008
Creator: Singh, Akhilesh; Grycznski, Karol G.; Rout, Bibhudutta; Li, Jianyou; McDaniel, Floyd Del. (Floyd Delbert), 1942-; Neogi, Arup et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
From Knowledge, Knowability and the Search for Objective Randomness to a New Vision of Complexity (open access)

From Knowledge, Knowability and the Search for Objective Randomness to a New Vision of Complexity

Paper discussing knowledge, knowability, and the search for objective randomness to a new vision of complexity.
Date: February 2, 2008
Creator: Allegrini, Paolo; Giuntoli, Martina; Grigolini, Paolo & West, Bruce J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resource and Resource Sharing in Intelligent Information Access (open access)

Resource and Resource Sharing in Intelligent Information Access

This paper reports an exploratory study on resources and resource sharing among researchers in Intelligent Information Access (IIA).
Date: October 2008
Creator: Chen, Jiangping & Li, Fei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relating Boolean Gate Truth Tables to One-Way Functions (open access)

Relating Boolean Gate Truth Tables to One-Way Functions

In this paper, the authors present a schema to build one way functions from a family of Boolean gates. Moreover, the authors relate characteristics of these Boolean gate truth tables to properties of the derived one-way functions.
Date: March 3, 2008
Creator: Gomathisankaran, Mahadevan & Tyagi, Akhilesh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transformational Paradigm for Engineering and Engineering Technology Education (open access)

Transformational Paradigm for Engineering and Engineering Technology Education

This paper discusses a transformational paradigm for engineering and engineering technology education at the baccalaureate level.
Date: November 2008
Creator: Barbieri, Enrique & Fitzgibbon, William
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata (open access)

Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata

This paper discusses assessing descriptive substance in free-text collection-level metadata. This paper reports on a content analysis of collection records in an aggregation of cultural heritage collections.
Date: September 2008
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Palmer, Carole L.; Jackson, Amy S. & Han, Myung-Ja
System: The UNT Digital Library
High-Throughput Workflow for Computer-Assisted Human Parsing of Biological Specimen Label Data (open access)

High-Throughput Workflow for Computer-Assisted Human Parsing of Biological Specimen Label Data

This two-year project will advance understanding of the workflow and processes best able to increase access to and use of digitized biological collection metadata within the stakeholder communities comprised of biologists, natural history museum collections managers, biodiversity standards groups, and the library and information science community.
Date: 2008
Creator: Moen, William E.; Best, Jason H. & Neill, Amanda K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
TableMaker: An ad hoc Query Tool for Relational Databases (open access)

TableMaker: An ad hoc Query Tool for Relational Databases

This paper discusses an ad hoc query tool for relational databases. Most Web servers hosting biological data limit users to a defined set of search options and output formats that are short of the whole range of options available to users with direct database access. However, to make full use of the wealth of data in the database resource, it is desirable to have an intermediate solution that provides a broad range of flexible query and output options through a Web portal.
Date: July 2008
Creator: Lushbough, Carol; Duvick, Jon; Dong, Qunfeng; Jennewein, Douglas; Reynoldson, Joe & Brendel, Volker
System: The UNT Digital Library
Behavioral Measures of Play (open access)

Behavioral Measures of Play

The purpose of this article is to review the importance of play in a young child's life and to discuss the importance of measuring play when designing interventions for children with autism. Furthermore, this paper will present an example of a consistent and reliable observation system that assesses the complexity and variety of play on children with autism and with typically developing children.
Date: 2008
Creator: Guðmundsdóttir, Kristín & Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preserving Access to Government Websites: Development and Practice in the CyberCemetery (open access)

Preserving Access to Government Websites: Development and Practice in the CyberCemetery

This paper discusses the development and practice in the CyberCemetery. In the late 1990's, online U.S. government information was appearing and disappearing at a rapid pace. In 1999, the University of North Texas Libraries (UNT) formed a partnership with the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) to address this issue by archiving electronic government websites. This archive, known as the CyberCemetery, provides permanent public access to the websites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions. This partnership between UNT and GPO has expanded to include the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This paper covers the CyberCemetery's development and the process of identifying, capturing, and publishing content in the archive.
Date: May 26, 2008
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Issue of Granularity: Decomposing Redesigned Courses on Different Levels of Details (open access)

An Issue of Granularity: Decomposing Redesigned Courses on Different Levels of Details

This paper discusses a project to redesign courses on different levels of details. The Texas Course Redesign Project initiated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) aims to develop and distribute instructional resources to improve student learning outcomes and lower the costs of higher education.
Date: 2008
Creator: Li, Fei; Polyakov, Serhiy; Barnes, Svetlana; Moen, William E. & Xu, Hong
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Repository for Learning Objects: Supporting the Reuse and Repurposing of Redesigned Courses and Their Content (open access)

A Repository for Learning Objects: Supporting the Reuse and Repurposing of Redesigned Courses and Their Content

This paper describes the design and development of a learning object repository for a new statewide higher education initiative.
Date: 2008
Creator: Barnes, Svetlana; Li, Fei; Polyakov, Serhiy & Moen, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defending Design Decisions With Usability Evidence: A Case Study (open access)

Defending Design Decisions With Usability Evidence: A Case Study

This paper discusses a case study on defending design decisions with usability evidence.
Date: 2008
Creator: Friess, Erin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment: We know we should do it but does it have to be so difficult? (open access)

Assessment: We know we should do it but does it have to be so difficult?

This paper discusses assessment in library instruction programs.
Date: August 2008
Creator: Byerly, Gayla & Downey, Annie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simple Ways to Add Active Learning to Your Library Instruction (open access)

Simple Ways to Add Active Learning to Your Library Instruction

This paper discusses library instruction. Assessments are recommended to determine the effectiveness of student learning. This paper also discusses a project by the UNT Libraries' in which they developed software to assess library instruction, called Library Instruction Software for Assessment (LISA) and the outcome of that study.
Date: 2008
Creator: Downey, Annie; Ramin, Lilly & Byerly, Gayla
System: The UNT Digital Library