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Content Analysis of Expressive Writing Narratives About Stressful Relational Events Using Interpersonal Decentering (open access)

Content Analysis of Expressive Writing Narratives About Stressful Relational Events Using Interpersonal Decentering

Article from a study completed using secondary analysis of data from two studies of expressive writing about stressful relational events to first describe the relations of word use to social-cognitive maturity of role-taking using Feffer’s Interpersonal Decentering scoring system and then to test hypotheses about active processing of relational information versus event closure. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published article.
Date: March 4, 2013
Creator: Jenkins, Sharon Rae; Austin, Heather L. & Boals, Adriel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interpersonal Decentering Appendix for Personal Narratives (open access)

Interpersonal Decentering Appendix for Personal Narratives

Appendix used to adapt the Interpersonal Decentering scoring system developed for thematic apperceptive techniques to score expressive writing autobiographical essays that were used for the following publications: Jenkins, S. R., Shamji, J., Straup, M., & Boals, A. (2022). Beyond traits and states: Interpersonal decentering is also activated social information processing. Personality and Individual Differences. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111332. and Jenkins, S. R., Austin, H., & Boals, A. (2013). Content analysis of expressive writing narratives about stressful relational events using Interpersonal Decentering. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 32, 412 – 432. DOI: 10.1177/0261927X13479188
Date: December 20, 2013
Creator: Wilson, Joshua & Beaber, Kristi
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tourist See Tourist Do: The Influence of Hollywood Movies and Television on Tourism Motivation and Activity Behavior (open access)

Tourist See Tourist Do: The Influence of Hollywood Movies and Television on Tourism Motivation and Activity Behavior

Article investigates the influence of Hollywood movies and television (movies/TV) on US viewer’s motivation to travel to and participate in activities featured in Hollywood movies/TV productions. Findings identified a profile of Hollywood movies/TV viewers, sources of information used to determine destination choice, and level of involvement among viewers of Hollywood movies/TV productions. Additionally, this study explored the relationships between Hollywood movies/TV productions, tourist motivations, and the propensity to participate in activities featured.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Spears, Daniel L.; Josiam, Bharath M.; Kinley, Tammy & Pookulangara, Sanjukta
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simulation Of An Antihydrogen Gravity Experiment Utilizing Multiple Apertures (open access)

Simulation Of An Antihydrogen Gravity Experiment Utilizing Multiple Apertures

The article presents an analytical model and a Monte Carlo simulation of an antihydrogen gravity experiment that would employ multiple apertures. The model was developed with the primary goal of reducing the experimental run time necessary to determine the direction of free fall acceleration for antimatter in the gravitational field of the Earth. The experiment would confine cryogenic antihydrogen plasma for producing antihydrogen (e.g., by three-body recombination).
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Hedlof, R. M. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrostatic storage ring with focusing provided by the space charge of an electron plasma (open access)

Electrostatic storage ring with focusing provided by the space charge of an electron plasma

Article describes an electronic storage ring that employs the space charge of an electron plasma for focusing. An advantage of the present concept is that slow ions, or even a stationary ion plasma, can be confined. The concept employs an artificially structured boundary, which is defined at present as one that produces a spatially periodic static field such that the spatial period and range of the field are much smaller than the dimensions of a plasma or charged-particle beam that is confined by the field.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Pacheco, J. L.; Ordonez, Carlos A. & Weathers, Duncan L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerator-based fusion with a low temperature target (open access)

Accelerator-based fusion with a low temperature target

This article reports a study of a cold target with a high Fermi energy in light of recent research that points to a new phase of hydrogen, which is hypothesized to be related to metallic hydrogen. It has been shown that if the energy transfer between injected ions and target electrons is sufficiently small, net energy gain can be achieved. As such, the target is considered to be composed of nuclei and delocalized electrons.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Phillips, R. E. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classical trajectory Monte Carlo code for simulating ion beam focusing or defocusing with magnetic elements modeled as current loops or current lines (open access)

Classical trajectory Monte Carlo code for simulating ion beam focusing or defocusing with magnetic elements modeled as current loops or current lines

Article describes a computational tool that can be used for designing magnetic focusing or defocusing systems. A fully three-dimensional classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulation has been developed.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Lane, Ryan A. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dual levitated coils for antihydrogen production (open access)

Dual levitated coils for antihydrogen production

Article on theoretical and experimental efforts to use dual levitated coils to confine relatively large, cold, dense non-drifting recombining antihydrogen plasmas. The theoretical effort includes the development of a classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulation of confinement. The experimental effort includes levitation of a NdFeB permanent ring magnet, which produces a magnetic field that is qualitatively similar to the field that would be produced by the two coaxial superconducting magnetic coils.
Date: April 19, 2013
Creator: Wofford, Joshua D. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Baker's Yeast Beta Glucan Supplementation Increases Salivary IgA and Decreases Cold/Flu Symptomatic Days After Intense Exercise (open access)

Baker's Yeast Beta Glucan Supplementation Increases Salivary IgA and Decreases Cold/Flu Symptomatic Days After Intense Exercise

Article describes study which sought to determine if baker's yeast β-glucan (BG) could positively affect the immune system of individuals undergoing intense exercise stress.
Date: August 9, 2013
Creator: McFarlin, Brian K.; Carpenter, Katie C.; Davidson, Tiffany & McFarlin, Meredith A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Self-Assembly Techniques for Nanofabrication (open access)

Self-Assembly Techniques for Nanofabrication

Article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Nanomaterials that addresses the research studies on fabrication, processing, and applications of self-assembled nanostructures.
Date: December 24, 2013
Creator: Kajbafvala, Amir; Bahmanpour, Hamed; Maneshian, Mohammad H. & Li, Minghang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distributed Middleware of Large-Scale Wireless Networks (open access)

Distributed Middleware of Large-Scale Wireless Networks

Article introduces a special issue of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.
Date: October 22, 2013
Creator: Xu, Chaonong; Xu, YongJun; Li, Xinrong; Zhu, Hongsong & Han, Guangjie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
What Can We Learn about Dispersion from the Conformer Surface of n-Pentane? (open access)

What Can We Learn about Dispersion from the Conformer Surface of n-Pentane?

Article describes study in which researchers mapped the torsional surface of n-pentane to 10-degree resolution at the CCSD(T)-F12 level near the basis set limit.
Date: March 28, 2013
Creator: Martin, Jan M. L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A neurobiology of learning beyond the declarative non-declarative distinction (open access)

A neurobiology of learning beyond the declarative non-declarative distinction

This article provides a literature review examining declarative and non-declarative forms of learning in neuroscience and psychology. The authors conclude that traditional taxonomy that distinguishes between neural systems supporting declarative and non-declarative forms of learning may be inadequate, as experimental and theoretical work suggests that other criteria may be more useful in categorizing the role of neural structures involved in learning such as the hippocampus and the basal ganglia.
Date: November 14, 2013
Creator: Ortu, Daniele & Vaidya, Manish
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Timescales of learning in the basal ganglia and the hippocampus (open access)

Timescales of learning in the basal ganglia and the hippocampus

This article is a commentary on "A role for the medial temporal lobe in feedback-driven learning: evidence from amnesia" by Foerde, K., Race, E., Verfaellie, M.,and Shohamy, D. (2013). It covers the idea that environmental feedback plays an important role with respect to both basal ganglia and hippocampus based learning. Evidence that both the hippocampus and the striatum are involved in reinforcement learning is given. This article suggests that future research use a more precise measurement of the two structures’ sensitivities to delay. The general picture suggests that the basal ganglia and the hippocampus share overlapping sensitivity to reinforcement signals, although at a different timescale.
Date: August 1, 2013
Creator: Ortu, Daniele; Skavhaug, Ida M. & Vaidya, Manish
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lipid signaling in plants (open access)

Lipid signaling in plants

Article on the publication of a volume of articles of researchers addressing various fundamental questions in lipid signaling in plants.
Date: June 27, 2013
Creator: Wang, Xuemin & Chapman, Kent Dean
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thymoquinone overcomes chemoresistance and enhances the anticancer effects of bortezomib through abrogation of NF-κB regulated gene products in multiple myeloma xenograft mouse model (open access)

Thymoquinone overcomes chemoresistance and enhances the anticancer effects of bortezomib through abrogation of NF-κB regulated gene products in multiple myeloma xenograft mouse model

Article investigates whether thymoquinone (TQ), a bioactive constituent of black seed oil, could suppress the proliferation and induce chemosensitization in human myeloma cells and xenograft mouse model. Overall, the results demonstrate that TQ can enhance the anticancer activity of bortezomib in vitro and in vivo and may have a substantial potential in the treatment of MM.
Date: December 18, 2013
Creator: Siveen, Kodappully Sivaraman; Mustafa, Nurulhuda; Li, Feng; Kannaiyan, Radhamani; Ahn, Kwang Seok; Kumar, Alan Prem et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Energy Conversion During Expansion of a Solid-Particle-Entrained Gas (open access)

Energy Conversion During Expansion of a Solid-Particle-Entrained Gas

This article describes pneumatic energy being converted into solid particle kinetic energy as a solid-particle-entrained gas that flows downward through a vertical nozzle. For the conditions studied, the solid particles serve as a heat exchange medium to enable a gas expansion that is nearly isothermal. Also, the kinetic energy associated with the two-phase fluid is predominantly that associated with subsonic solid-particle motion. The kinetic energy of the solid particles is converted into other forms using a low-speed turbine. A theoretical description of the process is presented, and the initiation of an experimental effort to study the process is described.
Date: January 10, 2013
Creator: Ordonez, Carlos A.; Weathers, Duncan L. & Traum, Matthew J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Potential Role of Nanotechnology in Therapeutic Approaches for Triple Negative Breast Cancer (open access)

The Potential Role of Nanotechnology in Therapeutic Approaches for Triple Negative Breast Cancer

This review is focused on opportunities for developing new approaches for filling the current void in an effective treatment for Triple Negative Breast Cancer, TNBC, patients. Triple Negative Breast Cancer, TNBC, a highly aggressive and metastatic type of breast cancer, is characterized by loss of expression of the estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and a lack of overexpression of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2).
Date: June 18, 2013
Creator: Johnson, Rebecca; Sabnis, Nirupama; McConathy, Walter J. & Lacko, Andras G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships Predicting the Antioxidant Potency of 17β-Estradiol-Related Polycyclic Phenols to Inhibit Lipid Peroxidation (open access)

Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships Predicting the Antioxidant Potency of 17β-Estradiol-Related Polycyclic Phenols to Inhibit Lipid Peroxidation

Paper describes results of quantitative structure-activity relationship studies conducted on 17β-estradiol and related polycyclic phenols to determine their ability to inhibit lipid peroxidation.
Date: January 11, 2013
Creator: Prókai, László, 1958-; Rivera-Portalatin, Nilka M. & Prokai-Tatrai, Katalin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Exploratory Evaluation of Tyrosine Hydroxylase Inhibition in Planaria as a Model for Parkinsonism (open access)

An Exploratory Evaluation of Tyrosine Hydroxylase Inhibition in Planaria as a Model for Parkinsonism

Study examines planaria as potential models of parkinsonism for the purpose of screening potential therapeutic agents.
Date: November 26, 2013
Creator: Prokai, David; Nguyen, Thinh; Kamrowski, Kurt; Chandra, Ashwin; Talamantes, Tatjana; Baxter, Lewis R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design and Exploratory Neuropharmacological Evaluation of Novel Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone Analogs and Their Brain-Targeting Bioprecursor Prodrugs (open access)

Design and Exploratory Neuropharmacological Evaluation of Novel Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone Analogs and Their Brain-Targeting Bioprecursor Prodrugs

Paper describes novel and metabolically stable analogs derived from thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) by replacing its amino-terminal pyroglutamyl (pGlu) residue with pyridinium-containing moieties.
Date: May 22, 2013
Creator: Prokai-Tatrai, Katalin; Nguyen, Vien; Szarka, Szabolcs; Konya, Krisztina & Prókai, László, 1958-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the Joint Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program (open access)

Preface to the Joint Proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program

Introduction to the special section featuring the joint proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program in the 2013 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2013
Creator: Ishiyama, John T. & Greig, J. Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The First Stalin Mass Operation (1927) (open access)

The First Stalin Mass Operation (1927)

This article based on new archival documents introduces a new episode of mass operations, which took place in June and July of 1927 and was directed against the broad group of “anti-Soviet” forces. It preceded many practices of mass terror of the 1930s with judicial and extra-legal mechanisms. The goal of this article is to explain motivations, justifications, and mechanisms of this repressive campaign and to put this episode in the wider context of Soviet terror. Facing the combination of a perceived danger of war and real internal social hostility expressed in broad defeatism, both threatening the perpetuation of their governmental powers, authorities resorted to repressions. The 1927 episode highlights the factor of a perceived threat of war as a crucial motivating element in Soviet repressive tactics.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stress-Softening and Residual Strain Effects in Suture Materials (open access)

Stress-Softening and Residual Strain Effects in Suture Materials

This article focuses on the formulation of a constitutive equation to predict Mullins and residual strain effects of buna-N, silicone, and neoprene rubber strings subjected to small transverse vibrations.
Date: May 27, 2013
Creator: Elías-Zúñiga, Alex; Baylón, Karen; Martínez-Romero, Oscar; Rodríguez, Ciro A. & Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library