Hidden Markov model-based activity recognition for toddlers (open access)

Hidden Markov model-based activity recognition for toddlers

Article describes study which sought to evaluate methods for activity recognition for toddlers.
Date: March 5, 2020
Creator: Albert, Mark; Sugianto, Albert; Nickele, Katherine; Zavos, Patricia; Sindu, Pinky; Ali, Munazza et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Science and Open Data: Issues and Considerations

Presentation describes how the open access movement is transforming scholarly communication.
Date: March 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Roles of Library for Quality Education and Research: Emerging Trends in the Information Professions

Presentation asserts that in times of information scarcity, libraries provided the most effective way of sharing material.
Date: March 12, 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eficiência de um sistema piloto de dessalinização de água salobra (open access)

Eficiência de um sistema piloto de dessalinização de água salobra

Article describes study which sought to evaluate the efficiency of pilot water desalination system treating brackish water which was obtained mixing fresh water and seawater up to reach 1,500 mg L-1 of total dissolved solids (TDS) concentration.
Date: March 16, 2020
Creator: Almeida, Juliano Penteado de; Kummer, Ana Carolina Barbosa; Carranza, Gabriel; Campos, Luiza Cintra; Széliga, Marcos Rogério; Acevedo, Miguel F. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Tough and Mildew-Proof Soybean-Based Adhesive Inspired by Mussel and Algae (open access)

A Tough and Mildew-Proof Soybean-Based Adhesive Inspired by Mussel and Algae

Describes the development of a strong mold-resistant adhesive by incorporating soybean meal and blood meal.
Date: March 31, 2020
Creator: Bai, Yue; Liu, Xiaorong; Shi, Sheldon & Li, Jianzhang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Identifying Challenges for Information Organization in Language Archives: Preliminary Findings

Conference paper elucidates the issues facing language archive managers and users through two steps: content analysis of information organization in language archives, and semi-structured interviews with language archive managers and users. Primary challenges identified include lacking institutional support and a range of factors which impact authority control in language archives. This version is the author's accepted manuscript.
Date: March 19, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soybean Meal-Based Wood Adhesive Enhanced by Phenol Hydroxymethylated Tannin Oligomer for Exterior Use (open access)

Soybean Meal-Based Wood Adhesive Enhanced by Phenol Hydroxymethylated Tannin Oligomer for Exterior Use

This article highlights a study of a bio adhesive was developed from soybean meal and larch tannin that was designed for exterior use. Phenol hydroxymethylated tannin oligomer (PHTO) was synthesized and then mixed with soybean meal flour in order to obtain a soybean meal-based adhesive (SPA). The results showed that the moisture absorption rate, residual rate, and solid content of SPA with 10 wt % PHTO (mass ratio with respect to the entire adhesive) were improved by 22.8%, 11.6%, and 6.8%, respectively, as compared with that of pure SPA.
Date: March 31, 2020
Creator: Chen, Mingsong; Zhang, Yi; Li, Yue; Shi, Sheldon; Li, Jianzhang; Gao, Qiang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hierarchical Eutectoid Nano-lamellar Decomposition in an Al0.3CoFeNi Complex Concentrated Alloy (open access)

Hierarchical Eutectoid Nano-lamellar Decomposition in an Al0.3CoFeNi Complex Concentrated Alloy

Article discusses a novel eutectoid nano-lamellar (FCC + L12)/(BCC + B2) microstructure that has been discovered in a relatively simple Al0.3CoFeNi high entropy alloy (HEA) or complex concentrated alloy (CCA).
Date: March 16, 2020
Creator: Dasari, Sriswaroop; Gwalani, Bharat; Jagetia, Abhinav; Soni, V.; Gorsse, Stéphane & Banerjee, Rajarshi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relevance Criteria and Online Video (open access)

Relevance Criteria and Online Video

This report documents the Relevance Criteria and Online Video project funded through the Dean's Innovation Grant funded by the UNT Libraries. The final report briefly describes the Relevance Criteria and Online Video project activities, budget, and outcomes.
Date: March 5, 2020
Creator: Dewitt-Miller, Erin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Tackling Toxicity.] Appendix A: Survey questions (open access)

[Tackling Toxicity.] Appendix A: Survey questions

This handout was presented along with a poster that presented the preliminary results from a survey of library employees on their experiences with toxic workplaces in libraries. This handout details the survey questions and the sources used to develop the survey. It was presented at the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2020 conference held in Austin, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2020
Creator: Dewitt-Miller, Erin & Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Tackling Toxicity.] Appendix B: Warning Signs - Looking in from the Outside (open access)

[Tackling Toxicity.] Appendix B: Warning Signs - Looking in from the Outside

This handout was presented along with a poster that presented the preliminary results from a survey of library employees on their experiences with toxic workplaces in libraries. This handout details signs to look for during interviews and suggested questions to ask to determine if their is a toxic workplace environment. It was presented at the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2020 conference held in Austin, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2020
Creator: Dewitt-Miller, Erin & Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tackling Toxicity: Predicting, Surviving, & Preventing Toxic Workplaces

This poster presents preliminary results from a survey of library employees on their experiences with toxic workplaces in libraries. The poster includes the most-reported toxic behaviors, advice for employees and employers on how to manage or avoid a toxic workplace environment. It was presented at the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2020 conference held in Austin, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2020
Creator: Dewitt-Miller, Erin & Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selecting Inter-city Transportation Routes in Complex Terrains Using Quantitative Methods – A Case Study from Northern Yunnan, China (open access)

Selecting Inter-city Transportation Routes in Complex Terrains Using Quantitative Methods – A Case Study from Northern Yunnan, China

Article identifies inter-city transportation routes in complex terrains using quantitative methods in GIS.
Date: March 27, 2020
Creator: Dong, Pinliang; Xia, Jisheng & Zhao, Zhifang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A semi-automated method for extracting channels and channel profiles from lidar-derived digital elevation models (open access)

A semi-automated method for extracting channels and channel profiles from lidar-derived digital elevation models

Article introduces a semi-automated method for extracting stream channels and channel profiles from high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) using image processing techniques. The method is implemented as an ArcGIS Python add-in toolbar named Channel Extraction and demonstrated using a lidar-derived DEM in a study area along the San Andreas fault in California, USA.
Date: March 10, 2020
Creator: Dong, Pinliang; Zhong, Ruofei; Xia, Jisheng & Tan, Shucheng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential Evapotranspiration Reduction and Its Influence on Crop Yield in the North China Plain in 1961–2014 (open access)

Potential Evapotranspiration Reduction and Its Influence on Crop Yield in the North China Plain in 1961–2014

Article examines the spatiotemporal characteristics of climate variables, such as humidity index, precipitation, and potential evapotranspiration (ET0) from 1961 to 2014 in the North China Plain (NCP).
Date: March 16, 2020
Creator: Dong, Wanlin; Li, Chao; Hu, Qi; Pan, Feifei; Bhandari, Jyoti & Sun, Zhigang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Duke Ellington Through the Eyes and Microphone of Willis Conover [Presentation]

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Presentation on the friendship and collaboration between Willis Conover and Duke Ellington for the 26th International Duke Ellington Study Group Conference. Due to the Covid pandemic, this conference was cancelled early in the morning before it was set to begin.
Date: March 11, 2020
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Duke Ellington Through the Eyes and Microphone of Willis Conover [Presentation Notes]

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Notes to accompany a presentation on the friendship and collaboration between Willis Conover and Duke Ellington for the 26th International Duke Ellington Study Group Conference. Due to the Covid pandemic, this conference was cancelled early in the morning before it was set to begin.
Date: March 11, 2020
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Can a simple topological-constraints-based model predict the initial dissolution rate of borosilicate and aluminosilicate glasses? (open access)

Can a simple topological-constraints-based model predict the initial dissolution rate of borosilicate and aluminosilicate glasses?

This article, as an alternative route to empirical models, shows that a structural descriptor based on the number of topological constraints per atom can be used to predict the initial dissolution rate of aluminosilicate and borosilicate glasses after being parameterized on different families of glasses (specific series of borosilicate glasses). Results show that, provided that corrections are made for high alkali content glasses that dissolve incongruently (preferential release of Na), the model gives reasonable predictions, even far from its training domain.
Date: March 16, 2020
Creator: Gin, Stéphane; Wang, Mengyi; Bisbrouck, Nicolas; Taron, Mélanie; Lu, Xiaonan; Deng, Lu et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Making It Local: Developing a Local Usage Collection System

Presentation on the creation of a locally-based system for collecting and displaying electronic resource usage data at the UNT Libraries. The process is discussed in-depth with goals, next steps, and links to tools and documentation. It was presented at the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2020 conference held in Austin, Texas.
Date: March 9, 2020
Creator: Harker, Karen & Hergert, Christopher
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broadening access to books on Texas and Oklahoma: Final report, best practices, and lessons learned (open access)

Broadening access to books on Texas and Oklahoma: Final report, best practices, and lessons learned

This white paper provides a summary of grant activities and provides some best practices and lessons learned for other efforts to make out-of-print humanities books available in ebook format.
Date: March 20, 2020
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Political Science Curriculum Map: Procedural Manual & Codebook (open access)

Political Science Curriculum Map: Procedural Manual & Codebook

This document provides directions and information needed to complete a curriculum map for the Political Science Department at the University of North Texas. Other subject librarians may use this document to guide their own curriculum mapping projects.
Date: March 20, 2020
Creator: Henson, Brea
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of a Need-Supportive Motor Skill Intervention on Children’s Motor Skill Competence and Physical Activity (open access)

Effects of a Need-Supportive Motor Skill Intervention on Children’s Motor Skill Competence and Physical Activity

Study investigates the effect of a need-supportive fundamental movement skill (FMS) program on children’s FMS competence and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), and explores potential gender differences in these effects.
Date: March 17, 2020
Creator: Lee, Joonyoung; Zhang, Tao; Chu, Tsz Lun (Alan) & Gu, Xiangli
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solid State Optical Microlasers Fabrication via Microfluidic Channels (open access)

Solid State Optical Microlasers Fabrication via Microfluidic Channels

Paper proposes the use of a microfluidic channel with flow focusing technique to fabricate solid state polymeric microlasers to precisely control sizes for mass production.
Date: March 1, 2020
Creator: Manzo, Maurizio & Cavazos, Omar
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soft crystal martensites: An in situ resonant soft x-ray scattering study of a liquid crystal martensitic transformation (open access)

Soft crystal martensites: An in situ resonant soft x-ray scattering study of a liquid crystal martensitic transformation

Article presents an in-depth discussion of liquid crystal blue phases (BPs).
Date: March 27, 2020
Creator: Min Jin, Hyeong; Li, Xaio; Dolan, James A.; Kline, R. Joseph; Martínez-González, José A.; Ren, Jiaxing et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library