A Bibliographic and Visual Exploration of the Historic Impact of Soft Systems Methodology on Academic Research and Theory (open access)

A Bibliographic and Visual Exploration of the Historic Impact of Soft Systems Methodology on Academic Research and Theory

This article produced descriptive narrative outcomes and data visualizations including information about top soft system methodology (SSM) authors, author citation impacts, common dissemination outlets for SSM work, and other relevant metrics commonly used to measure academic impact. The goal of this piece is to depict who, what, why, when, and where SSM had the greatest impact on research, systems thinking, and methodology after nearly 40 years of use, as we look towards its future as a methodological approach used to comprehend complex problem situations.
Date: December 12, 2018
Creator: Warren, Scott J.; Sauser, Brian & Nowicki, David
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multiteam systems in an agile environment: a realist systematic review (open access)

Multiteam systems in an agile environment: a realist systematic review

Article describes a collaborate study between University of North Texas and Toyota Connected focusing on how to structure and manage multiteam systems (MTSs).
Date: June 3, 2019
Creator: Turner, John; Thurlow, Nigel; Baker, Rose M.; Northcutt, David & Newman, Kelsey
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Theory of Public Knowledge (open access)

A Theory of Public Knowledge

This article offers a theory of public knowledge for the purposes of defining more clearly its role in information systems and classification schemas.
Date: May 23, 2019
Creator: Miksa, Shawne D., 1969- & McLain, Chinami
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ICT in Higher Education: An Exploration of Practices in Malaysian Universities (open access)

ICT in Higher Education: An Exploration of Practices in Malaysian Universities

Article investigating the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education. To investigate this issue, the technology adoption and gratification (TAG) model was validated and used to examine Malaysian university teachers' adoption and gratification of ICT for teaching and research purposes and then used to investigate the moderating effect of universities in different regions. This paper confirms the utility of the TAG model for comparing teachers' adoption and gratification of ICT.
Date: December 11, 2018
Creator: Spector, J. Michael; Islam, A. Y. M. Atiquil; Mok, Magdalena Mo Ching; Gui, Xiaoqing & Hai-Leng, Chin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does Providing a Personalized Educational Game Based on Personality Matter? A Case Study (open access)

Does Providing a Personalized Educational Game Based on Personality Matter? A Case Study

This article presents an educational game which models learner's personality, specifically introvert/extrovert dimension, to serve as a personalized game learning environment. The findings of this study can be used by educators and game designers to adopt and develop personalized game learning environments based on learner's personality.
Date: August 19, 2019
Creator: Kinshuk; Tlili, Ahmed; Denden, Mouna; Essalmi, Fathi; Jemni, Mohamed; Chen, Nian-Shing et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Turnover Intention of Career and Technical Education Health Science Teachers (open access)

Job Satisfaction, Work Engagement, and Turnover Intention of Career and Technical Education Health Science Teachers

Article describes study which examines the relationships between job satisfaction, work engagement, and turnover intention of Career and Technical Education (CTE) health science teachers in the United States (US).
Date: December 19, 2019
Creator: Park, Kathleen A. & Johnson, Karen R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over time (open access)

Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over time

This paper presents a new corpus of Wikipedia articles annotated with temporally-oriented possession or tracking concrete objects as they change hands over time.
Date: January 2019
Creator: Chinnappa, Dhivya; Palmer, Alexis & Blanco, Eduardo
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications in vocational education and training (open access)

Framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications in vocational education and training

This article introduces and evaluates a framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications.
Date: June 21, 2019
Creator: Bacca, Jorge; Baldiris, Silvia; Fabregat, Ramon & Kinshuk
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Stereoscopic Three-Dimensional Images on Vocabulary Learning (open access)

The Effect of Stereoscopic Three-Dimensional Images on Vocabulary Learning

Article describes study investigating the effect of stereoscopic three-dimensional (S3D) images on recall and retention of foreign language vocabulary.
Date: October 17, 2019
Creator: Kaplan-Rakowski, Regina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Severity of U.S. Construction Worker Injuries, 2015-2017 (open access)

Severity of U.S. Construction Worker Injuries, 2015-2017

Article reports on a case-control study of risks factors associated with 4,845 injured workers and their work environments that led to fatal rather than nonfatal injuries during 2015-2017.
Date: May 29, 2019
Creator: Passmore, David L.; Chae, Chungil; Borkovskaya, Victoria; Baker, Rose M. & Yim, Jeong-Ha
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
Gender Differences in 7th Grade Students' Interest in STEM after Participating in a Solenoid Instructional Unit (open access)

Gender Differences in 7th Grade Students' Interest in STEM after Participating in a Solenoid Instructional Unit

Paper presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The research presented studies achievement scores and affinity towards STEM scores of male and female students after participating in a unit focused on understanding a solenoid.
Date: 2019-06-15/2019-06-19
Creator: Tyler-Wood, Tandra L.; Smith, Daniella & Johnson, Karen R.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Automated Framework for Fast Cognate Detection and Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference in Computational Historical Linguistics (open access)

An Automated Framework for Fast Cognate Detection and Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference in Computational Historical Linguistics

Article presents a fully automated workflow for phylogenetic reconstruction on large datasets, consisting of two novel methods, one for fast detection of cognates and one for fast Bayesian phylogenetic inference.
Date: 2019
Creator: Kasicheyanula, Taraka & List, Johann-Mattis
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Metadata Change in Authority Data Over Time: An Effect of a Standard Evolution (open access)

Evaluation of Metadata Change in Authority Data Over Time: An Effect of a Standard Evolution

This article presents some results of the content analysis study that explores the authority data change over time in response to change in standards. Authority data describes persons, institutions, places, events, and works, as well as relations between them. This study contributes to the understanding of metadata change and its relation to functionality of authority records and improved information access.
Date: February 1, 2019
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Zavalin, Vyacheslav
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploration of Information Organization in Language Archives

Presentation based on the preliminary results of research into information organization in language archives. This looks at the background of language data and archives, their research questions, archives that were analyzed, their findings, and next steps.
Date: October 21, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interview Guide for Archive Managers: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives (open access)

Interview Guide for Archive Managers: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

This is an interview guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: May 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complexity Theory: An Overview with Potential Applications for the Social Sciences (open access)

Complexity Theory: An Overview with Potential Applications for the Social Sciences

This article differentiates between general systems theory (GST) and complexity theory, as well as identifies advantages for the social sciences in incorporating complexity theory as a formal theory. Complexity theory is expanded upon and identified as providing a new perspective and a new method of theorizing that can be practiced by disciplines within the social sciences.
Date: December 22, 2018
Creator: Turner, John R. & Baker, Rose M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploration of Information Organization in Language Archives (open access)

Exploration of Information Organization in Language Archives

This article reports preliminary results of the first stage of a research project that seeks to identify the information organization methods and techniques currently offered in the language data archives and the gaps between the tools and techniques available and the needs of actual and potential users of language data archives.
Date: October 18, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Julia M. Esparza, AHIP, Medical Library Association President, 2019–2020 (open access)

Julia M. Esparza, AHIP, Medical Library Association President, 2019–2020

Article features a profile of Julia M. Esparza, AHIP, Medical Library Association President, 2019–2020.
Date: October 2019
Creator: Philbrick, Jodi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A geospatial method for estimating soil moisture variability in prehistoric agricultural landscapes (open access)

A geospatial method for estimating soil moisture variability in prehistoric agricultural landscapes

Article describes study which develops a static geospatial soil moisture model, the Soil Moisture Proxy Model, which uses soil and topographic variables to estimate soil moisture potential across a watershed in order to better understand the quality of farmland in terms of soil moisture.
Date: August 21, 2019
Creator: Gillreath-Brown, Andrew; Nagaoka, Lisa & Wolverton, Steven J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Information-Seeking Behavior of Speakers of Endangered Languages: An Anthropological Approach

Poster exploring the approach to understand information behavior of communities speaking endangered languages.
Date: May 22, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preparing Linguists’ Field Recordings and Datasets for Ingest into a Digital Library System: Lessons from Creating the Lamkang Language Resource at the University of North Texas Digital Library

Presentation on the long term preservation of and universal access to language data which may tap into typologically rare phenomena and which represents the intangible and irreplaceable heritage of indigenous communities. This language data can be in the form of audio, video, picture, and various digital formats. In order to prepare the source files of a documentation project for ingest to a digital library, linguists and digital librarians must develop a common procedure that takes into consideration (1) provenance and varying formats of materials and (2) necessary metadata specific to linguistic datasets.
Date: May 23, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interview Guide for End Users: Researchers, Depositors, Language Communities: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives (open access)

Interview Guide for End Users: Researchers, Depositors, Language Communities: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

This is an interview guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: May 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Observation Guide: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives (open access)

Observation Guide: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

This is an observation guide used as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: May 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library