Impact of psychosocial factors on academic performance of nursing students in Thailand (open access)

Impact of psychosocial factors on academic performance of nursing students in Thailand

Article investigates psychosocial factors that impact the academic performance of nursing students.
Date: July 4, 2022
Creator: Ratanasiripong, Paul; Wang, Chiachih DC; Ratanasiripong, Nop; Hanklang, Suda; Kathalae, Duangrat & Chumchai, Pornlert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are we centering the adult in youth media education? Decolonizing the reception of youth-produced media texts (open access)

Are we centering the adult in youth media education? Decolonizing the reception of youth-produced media texts

This article explores how the assumptions and values we hold are reflected in our reception and circulation of youth-produced texts in ways that colonize youth interests, sensibilities, and aesthetics. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article.
Date: May 19, 2022
Creator: Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health, Psychological and Demographic Predictors of Depression in People with Fibromyalgia and Osteoarthritis (open access)

Health, Psychological and Demographic Predictors of Depression in People with Fibromyalgia and Osteoarthritis

Article examining the differences in predictors of depression among individuals with fibromyalgia (FM) and osteoarthritis (OA) using a range of health, demographic, and psychological variables.
Date: January 5, 2022
Creator: Van Dyne, Angelina; Moy, Jason; Wash, Kalila; Thompson, Linda; Skow, Taylor; Roesch, Scott C. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
COVID-19 has heightened tensions between and exposed threats to core values of emergency medicine (open access)

COVID-19 has heightened tensions between and exposed threats to core values of emergency medicine

The authors of the article conducted a collaborative ethnography at a tertiary care center during the acute phase of the response to the threat of COVID-19. they found that COVID-19 exacerbated pre-existing tensions and threats to the core values of emergency medicine.
Date: September 10, 2022
Creator: Purdy, Eve; Forster, Gillian; Manlove, Hayley; McDonough, Laura; Powell, Meredith; Wood, Krista et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research Note: School Reopenings During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Gender and Racial Equity (open access)

Research Note: School Reopenings During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Gender and Racial Equity

Article studying racial and gender disparities among school re-openings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: February 1, 2022
Creator: Landivar, Liana Christin; Ruppanner, Leah; Rouse, Lloyd; Scarborough, William & Collins, Caitlyn
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Might Indices of Happiness Inform Early Intervention Research and Decision Making? (open access)

How Might Indices of Happiness Inform Early Intervention Research and Decision Making?

Article discusses how the child-caregiver relationship is the foundation for which intervention occurs. The purpose of this study is to explore how researchers and clinicians might collect direct data on IOH to assess the acceptability of an intervention.
Date: October 3, 2022
Creator: Amarie, Carnett; Neely, Leslie; Chen, Meng-Ting; Cantrell, Katherine; Santos, Erin & Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amount, distance-dependent and structural effects of forest patches on bees in agricultural landscapes (open access)

Amount, distance-dependent and structural effects of forest patches on bees in agricultural landscapes

This article is a review examining the effects of forest patches on bees and pollination services to determine how to increase pollination service in agricultural landscapes.
Date: January 21, 2022
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
System: The UNT Digital Library
A review of diversity of bees, the attractiveness of host plants and the effects of landscape variables on bees in urban gardens (open access)

A review of diversity of bees, the attractiveness of host plants and the effects of landscape variables on bees in urban gardens

Article exploring the ecology of pollinating bees in urban gardens and farms.
Date: January 16, 2022
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil Erosion Vulnerability Mapping in Selected Rural Communities of uThukela Catchment, South Africa, Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (open access)

Soil Erosion Vulnerability Mapping in Selected Rural Communities of uThukela Catchment, South Africa, Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Article presents a study (i) assessing and modeling soil erosion vulnerability based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach in Hoffenthal and KwaMaye communities within the uThukela Catchment, South Africa; and (ii) identifying the relevant sustainable interventions and remedial strategies to combat soil erosion in the study area.
Date: May 13, 2022
Creator: Ebhuoma, Osadolor; Gebreslasie, Michael; Ngetar, Njoya Silas; Phinzi, Kwanele & Bhattacharjee, Shwarnali
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of Context on the Abstraction Level of Children’s Conversations in the Preschool Classroom (open access)

The Influence of Context on the Abstraction Level of Children’s Conversations in the Preschool Classroom

Article asserts that despite the numerous studies on the linguistic environment of early childhood education settings (ECE), most of this work disregards contextual factors that may influence abstract conversations and omits characteristics of children’s verbal participation in these interactions. The authors of the article examine how preschool classroom contexts influenced the abstraction level of children’s conversations and how the context and conversational partners’ language influenced children’s verbal participation.
Date: April 25, 2022
Creator: Chaparro-Moreno, Leydi Johana; Lin, Tzu-Jung; Justice, Laura M.; Mills, Abigail K. & Uanhoro, James O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Urban Expansion Monitoring Based on the Digital Surface Model—A Case Study of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Plain (open access)

Urban Expansion Monitoring Based on the Digital Surface Model—A Case Study of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Plain

This article presents a study of urban expansion in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei plain based on ALOS Global Digital Surface Model “ALOS World 3D-30 m” (AW3D30 DSM), Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) DSM, and Landsat 7 ETM+ images. The method proposed in this paper can provide rapid and large-scale statistics to study urban construction expansion in the world.
Date: May 24, 2022
Creator: Wang, Yanping; Dong, Pinliang; Liao, Shunbao; Zhu, Yueqin; Zhang, Da & Yin, Na
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of COVID-19 Shocks on Business and GDP of Global Economy (open access)

The Impact of COVID-19 Shocks on Business and GDP of Global Economy

Article examines the relationship between COVID-19 shocks and GDP loss of different countries worldwide based on the seven scenarios of the epidemiological DSGE/CGE model. Their results reveal that the most significant GDP loss is associated with Japan, Germany, and the US, respectively, which are industrialized countries with the most prominent automobile manufacturers.
Date: November 16, 2022
Creator: Ahangar, Reza Gharoie & Kim, Myungsup
System: The UNT Digital Library