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Are Smoking Cessation Treatments Associated with Suicidality Risk? An Overview (open access)

Are Smoking Cessation Treatments Associated with Suicidality Risk? An Overview

This article explores the relationship between smoking cessation interventions and suicidality and explore common treatments, their associated risks, and effectiveness in promoting smoking reduction and abstinence.
Date: January 27, 2016
Creator: Penberthy, J. Kim; Penberthy, J. Morgan; Harris, Marcus R.; Nanda, Sonali; Ahn, Jennifer; Martinez, Caridad Ponce et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bayesian Prior Choice in IRT Estimation Using MCMC and Variational Bayes (open access)

Bayesian Prior Choice in IRT Estimation Using MCMC and Variational Bayes

This study investigates the impact of three prior distributions: matched, standard vague, and hierarchical in Bayesian estimation parameter recovery in two and one parameter models.
Date: September 27, 2016
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba; Nandakumar, Ratna; Minka, Tom & Rubright, Jonathan D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit (open access)

Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit

This paper provides an overview of the UNT Libraries' self-audit using criteria from the Trusted Repositories Audit and Certification checklist. It contains an overview of the structure of this self-audit, explores the documents generated and auited, and examines the challenges and solutions as revealed by this process. This paper also contains findings specifically related to the digital newspaper and news video content.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing an Empirically-Based Framework of Metadata Change and Exploring Relation Between Metadata Change and Metadata Quality in Marc Library Metadata (open access)

Developing an Empirically-Based Framework of Metadata Change and Exploring Relation Between Metadata Change and Metadata Quality in Marc Library Metadata

This paper from International Conference on Knowledge Management, ICKM 2016 conference proceedings seeks to test and refine the metadata change framework initially developed for characterizing the change in digital library metadata, in the study of traditional library metadata.
Date: September 27, 2016
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Zavalin, Vyacheslav; Shakeri, Shadi & Kizhakkethil, Priya
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors Influencing Knowledge Management Use in Technology Enterprises in Southern United States (open access)

Factors Influencing Knowledge Management Use in Technology Enterprises in Southern United States

This paper from the International Conference on Knowledge Management, ICKM 2016 conference proceedings investigates the factors influencing with the Knowledge Management use process in Information Technology enterprises in the Southern United States.
Date: September 27, 2016
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding the Target: An Experiment in Benchmarking (open access)

Finding the Target: An Experiment in Benchmarking

This article discusses a new method of evaluating purchasing decisions at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Enoch, Todd & Henley, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hawk Mountain: A Conservation Success Story (open access)

Hawk Mountain: A Conservation Success Story

Book review of "Hawk Mountain: A Conservation Success Story" by James J. Brett and Keith L. Bildstein.
Date: April 27, 2016
Creator: Bednarz, James C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation (open access)

Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation

This paper analyzes the quality and effectiveness of indexing terms – both authorized terms from controlled vocabularies and free-text keywords – used to succinctly describe the content of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Date: December 27, 2016
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Minimization of Childhood Maltreatment Is Common and Consequential: Results from a Large, Multinational Sample Using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (open access)

Minimization of Childhood Maltreatment Is Common and Consequential: Results from a Large, Multinational Sample Using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire

This article discusses a study to investigate 3 aspects of minimization, as defined by the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire's (CTQ) Minimization-Denial (MD) scale: 1) its prevalence; 2) its latent structure; and finally 3) whether minimization moderates the CTQ's discriminative validity in terms of distinguishing between psychiatric patients and community volunteers.
Date: January 27, 2016
Creator: MacDonald, Kai; Thomas, Michael L.; Sciolla, Andres F.; Schneider, Beacher; Pappas, Katherine; Bleijenberg, Gijs et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid identification of causative insertions underlying Medicago truncatula Tnt1 mutants defective in symbiotic nitrogen fixation from a forward genetic screen by whole genome sequencing (open access)

Rapid identification of causative insertions underlying Medicago truncatula Tnt1 mutants defective in symbiotic nitrogen fixation from a forward genetic screen by whole genome sequencing

This article demonstrates that whole genome sequencing is an efficient approach for identification of causative genes underlying symbiotic nitrogen fixation defective phenotypes in Medicago truncatula Tnt1 insertion mutants obtained via forward genetic screens.
Date: February 27, 2016
Creator: Veerappan, Vijaykumar; Jani, Mehul; Kadel, Khem; Troiani, Taylor; Gale, Ronny; Mayes, Tyler et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Symmetric Approach Elucidates Multisensory Information Integration (open access)

A Symmetric Approach Elucidates Multisensory Information Integration

This article shows that the Borsuk-Ulam theorem applies also to multisensory integration: two environmental stimuli from different sensory modalities display similar features when mapped into cortical neurons.
Date: December 27, 2016
Creator: Tozzi, Arturo & Peters, James F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Value and Pricing of MOOCs (open access)

Value and Pricing of MOOCs

This article reviews the potential for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to transform higher education delivery, accessibility, and costs.
Date: May 27, 2016
Creator: Baker, Rose M. & Passmore, David L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library