Applying Rasch Methodology to Examine and Enhance Precision of the Baby Care Questionnaire (open access)

Applying Rasch Methodology to Examine and Enhance Precision of the Baby Care Questionnaire

Article describes how the Baby Care Questionnaire (BCQ) is an established ordinal measure of parenting beliefs about infant care, which includes structure and attunement scales. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties and improve precision of the structure and attunement scales of the BCQ using Rasch methodology.
Date: January 12, 2024
Creator: Truong, Quoc Cuong; Gattis, Merideth; Barber, Carol Cornsweet; Middlemess, Wendy; Au, Terry & Medvedev, Oleg N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Constrained Stochastic Weather Generator for Daily Mean Air Temperature and Precipitation (open access)

A Constrained Stochastic Weather Generator for Daily Mean Air Temperature and Precipitation

This article develops and tests a constrained stochastic weather generator (CSWG) for producing daily mean air temperature and precipitation based on annual mean air temperature and precipitation from tree-ring records. It presents a unique method that can be used to explore historic (e.g., archeological questions) or future (e.g., climate change) daily weather conditions based upon specified annual values.
Date: January 21, 2021
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Nagaoka, Lisa; Wolverton, Steven J.; Atkinson, Samuel F.; Kohler, Timothy A. & O'Neill, Marty
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correction to: Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism: Third Generation (open access)

Correction to: Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism: Third Generation

Correction to the article "Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism: Third Generation Review." The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1007/ s10803-020-04844-2.Autism Spectrum Disorder
Date: January 20, 2022
Creator: Hume, Kara; Steinbrenner, Jessica R.; Odom, Samuel L.; Morin, Kristi L.; Nowell, Sallie W.; Tomaszewski, Brianne et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crystallographic texture dependent bulk anisotropic elastic response of additively manufactured Ti6Al4V (open access)

Crystallographic texture dependent bulk anisotropic elastic response of additively manufactured Ti6Al4V

This article identifies a bulk texture effect on elastic anisotropy in laser powder bed fused Ti6Al4V by employing an effective bulk modulus elastography technique coupled with ultrasound shear wave velocity measurement at a frequency of 20 MHz inside the material.
Date: January 12, 2021
Creator: Pantawane, Mangesh V.; Yang, Teng; Jin, Yuqi; Joshi, Sameehan; Dasari, Sriswaroop; Sharma, Abhishek et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Current Status of AMOEBA–IL: A Multipolar/Polarizable Force Field for Ionic Liquids (open access)

Current Status of AMOEBA–IL: A Multipolar/Polarizable Force Field for Ionic Liquids

Paper reviews the development and application of the multipolar and polarizable force field AMOEBA for ionic liquid systems, termed AMOEBA–IL.
Date: January 21, 2020
Creator: Vázquez-Montelongo, Erik Antonio; Vázquez-Cervantes, José Enrique & Cisneros, Gerardo Andrés
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Multi-mode Stimuli of Feedforward and Eye Tracking on Metacognition— An Exploratory Study Using Digital Dictionaries (open access)

The Effect of Multi-mode Stimuli of Feedforward and Eye Tracking on Metacognition— An Exploratory Study Using Digital Dictionaries

Article presents a study employing multi-mode stimuli of learners’ eye movements and feedforward that aims to develop the effect of Stimulated Recall (SR) on activating learners’ metacognition in remote settings.
Date: January 2022
Creator: Zhai, Xuesong; Chu, Xiaoyan; Wang, Minjuan; Spector, J. Michael; Tsai, Chin-Chung & Liu, Hui
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of a Fundamental Motor Skill-Based Afterschool Program on Children’s Physical and Cognitive Health Outcomes (open access)

Effects of a Fundamental Motor Skill-Based Afterschool Program on Children’s Physical and Cognitive Health Outcomes

Paper describes study examining the effects of an 8-week fundamental motor skills-based afterschool program on physical and cognitive health outcomes among elementary children.
Date: January 23, 2020
Creator: Lee, Joonyoung; Zhang, Tao; Chu, Tsz Lun (Alan); Gu, Xiangli & Zhu, Ping
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring Chemistry Professors’ Methods of Highlighting the Relevancy of Chemistry: Opportunities, Obstacles, and Suggestions to Improve Students’ Motivation in Science Classrooms (open access)

Exploring Chemistry Professors’ Methods of Highlighting the Relevancy of Chemistry: Opportunities, Obstacles, and Suggestions to Improve Students’ Motivation in Science Classrooms

This article focuses on inquiring into undergraduate chemistry professors’ efforts in North America to increase student motivation and interest in the subject and the feasibility of methods that connect students to real world applications and societal issues related to chemistry. A survey was distributed to chemistry instructors at post-secondary institutions across the United States and Canada.
Date: January 1, 2021
Creator: George, Anna; Zowada, Christian; Eilks, Ingo & Gulacar, Ozcan
System: The UNT Digital Library
The extreme rainfall gradient of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve and its impact on forest bird richness (open access)

The extreme rainfall gradient of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve and its impact on forest bird richness

Article studying the effects of extreme rainfall variations on forest bird communities by monitoring the bird species richness in the different forest types present in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve (CHBR).
Date: January 20, 2022
Creator: Quilodrán, Claudio S.; Sandvig, Erik M.; Aguirre, Francisco; de Aguilar, Juan Rivero; Barroso, Omar; Vásquez, Rodrigo A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lightweight, Anisotropic, Compressible, and Thermally-Insulating Wood Aerogels with Aligned Cellulose Fibers (open access)

Lightweight, Anisotropic, Compressible, and Thermally-Insulating Wood Aerogels with Aligned Cellulose Fibers

Proposes a fabrication method for making a lightweight, anisotropic, and compressible wood aerogel with aligned cellulose fibers by a simple chemical treatment.
Date: January 8, 2020
Creator: Sun, Hao; Bi, Hongjie; Lin, Xin; Cai, Liping & Xu, Min
System: The UNT Digital Library