Distance learning during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining K-12 students’ and parents’ experiences and perspectives (open access)

Distance learning during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: Examining K-12 students’ and parents’ experiences and perspectives

Article examines K-12 students and parents in the United States’ experiences and challenges during the sudden shift to distance learning during the COVID19 crisis. This article is part of the special issue: Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19.
Date: 2020
Creator: Simpson, Jenna Conan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Strategies for Increasing Findabilitiy of Language Data

Poster discussing practical methods for ensuring the quality of descriptive metadata associated with linguistic datasets in language archive deposits. Digital language archives are valuable tools for facilitating language revitalization, providing data on lesser-known languages, and supporting reproducibility of research and development of linguistic theory, though their potential remains unrealized as the data available in language archives are rarely accessed by linguists or language communities. Reasons for this under-utilization are the issues with data standardization and metadata quality. Including basic grammatical and typological information would allow wider audiences to reach the material.
Date: January 4, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Excrescent vowels in Lamkang prefix sequences (open access)

Excrescent vowels in Lamkang prefix sequences

Article examines the nature of the super-short vowel-like segments between the C- prefixes of the Lamkang language by combining acoustic analysis with speakers' intuitions about syllable structure. The authors argue that an accurate phonetic description of Lamkang vowels must include these super-short vowels, as well as long and short vowels, which are phonemically distinct.
Date: January 14, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Robinson, Melissa
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Information Behavior of Speakers of Endangered Languages (open access)

Health Information Behavior of Speakers of Endangered Languages

This article builds on health information behavior literature and participatory research models with indigenous communities to develop strategies for future work with indigenous communities of speakers of endangered languages, proposing a participatory methodology for future work with communities of endangered language speakers related to health using ethnographic interviews and focus groups.
Date: February 2, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
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
A New Multiteam System (MTS) Effectiveness Model (open access)

A New Multiteam System (MTS) Effectiveness Model

The article focuses on a systematic review of current team effectiveness frameworks and models. A narrative-based method for theorizing was utilized to develop a new MTS team effectiveness framework. This research contributes to the MTS literature by providing a new formula for team effectiveness at both the team level (team effectiveness formula) and the MTS level (MTS team effectiveness formula).
Date: April 19, 2020
Creator: Turner, John R.; Baker, Rose M.; Ali, Zain & Thurlow, Nigel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversations and Medical News Frames on Twitter: Infodemiological Study on COVID-19 in South Korea (open access)

Conversations and Medical News Frames on Twitter: Infodemiological Study on COVID-19 in South Korea

This article investigates information transmission networks and news-sharing behaviors regarding COVID-19 on Twitter in Korea. The real time aggregation of social media data can serve as a starting point for designing strategic messages for health campaigns and establishing an effective communication system during this outbreak.
Date: May 5, 2020
Creator: Park, Han Woo; Park, Sejung & Chong, Miyoung
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
From design to impact: a phenomenological study of HumanMOOC participants’ learning and implementation into practice (open access)

From design to impact: a phenomenological study of HumanMOOC participants’ learning and implementation into practice

Article investigates Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) impact on participants' actual practices.
Date: June 2020
Creator: Robinson, Heather; Kilgore, Whitney; Prusko, Patrice Torcivia & Al-Freih, Maha
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hierarchical Coding Scheme: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives (open access)

Hierarchical Coding Scheme: Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives

This is the hierarchical coding scheme used for qualitative analysis of interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users as part of the 'Exploring Methods and Techniques for Facilitating Access to Digital Language Archives' project (January 2019-August 2020).
Date: June 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Time-Compressed Audio on Attention, Meditation, Cognitive Load, and  Learning (open access)

Time-Compressed Audio on Attention, Meditation, Cognitive Load, and Learning

This article presents a study that examined how three auditory lectures delivered at different speeds – normal (1.0x), fast (1.5x) and very fast (3.0x) speeds – affected graduate students’ attention, cognitive load, and learning.
Date: June 2020
Creator: Lin, Lin; Yang, Xue; An, Yunjo; Yang, Xiaozhe; Wen, Yi & Cheng, Pei-Yu
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hybrid medical simulation – a systematic literature review (open access)

Hybrid medical simulation – a systematic literature review

This article presents a systematic literature review of papers published from 1960 to 2019 that illustrate hybrid simulation can be as effective as high fidelity simulators in certain training scenarios while at the same time providing a superior training context to enhance learners patient to care-giver interactions and to better immerse the trainee in the feelings and emotion of the scenario.
Date: June 12, 2020
Creator: Brown, Wayne J. & Tortorella, Richard A. W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A test of Generalized Bayesian dating: A new linguistic dating method (open access)

A test of Generalized Bayesian dating: A new linguistic dating method

Article addressing if a new Bayesian framework can be introduced and ways to overcome subjectivity. The authors introduce a new method called Generalized Bayesian Dating (GBD) for inferring dates of language groups from lexical and phonological data. This work has implications for future performance testing in the area of linguistic dating.
Date: August 12, 2020
Creator: Kasicheyanula, Taraka & Søren Wichmann
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creativity and Cognition in Extreme Environments: The Space Arts as a Case Study (open access)

Creativity and Cognition in Extreme Environments: The Space Arts as a Case Study

Article uses 4E cognition as a framework to explore creativity in extreme environments. The article examines space arts as a case study through the history, present practices, and future possible arts in the context of humans beyond the Kármán boundary of the Earth’s atmosphere. This article is part of the research topic Creative Performance in Extreme Human Environments: Astronauts and Space
Date: September 29, 2020
Creator: Hays, Kathryn; Kubli, Cris & Malina, Roger F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling and predicting evacuation flows during hurricane Irma (open access)

Modeling and predicting evacuation flows during hurricane Irma

This article proposes a method to model evacuation flows and reveal the patterns of evacuation flows at different spatial scales. First, the authors present a method to characterize evacuation flows at different geographic scales: the state level, considering evacuation flows across southern states affected by Irma; the urban/rural area level, and the county level. Then they demonstrate results on the predictability of evacuation flows in the most affected state, Florida, by using the following environmental factors: the destructive force of the hurricane, the socioeconomic context, and the evacuation policy issued for counties. The results presented in this paper can help decision makers to better understand population evacuation behaviors given certain environmental features, which in turn will aid in the design of efficient and informed preparedness and response strategies.
Date: September 29, 2020
Creator: Hong, Lingzi & Frias-Martinez, Vanessa
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Skill-Building in Online Metadata Instruction: Quality Evaluation of Student-Created Metadata (open access)

Skill-Building in Online Metadata Instruction: Quality Evaluation of Student-Created Metadata

Paper addressing the need for effective training in metadata creation for library and information science students through an overview of the metadata creation skill-building content of the online introductory graduate metadata course at the University of North Texas, results of the analysis of quality in student-created metadata records, and discussion of how the observed common metadata quality issues might inform curriculum development.
Date: October 9, 2020
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Burke, Mary
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Skill-Building in Online Graduate-Level Metadata Instruction through the Prism of Quality Evaluation of Student-Created Metadata

Presentation addressing the need for effective training in metadata creation for library and information science students through an overview of the metadata creation skill-building content of the online introductory graduate metadata course at the University of North Texas, results of the analysis of quality in student-created metadata records, and discussion of how the observed common metadata quality issues might inform curriculum development.
Date: October 21, 2020
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Burke, Mary
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Descriptive richness of free-text metadata: a comparative analysis of three language archives

This article analyzes item‐level metadata in three language archives by focusing on free‐text metadata: the Endangered Language Archive, Pacific Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, and the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. The study identified categories of information included in Description metadata fields and the relative distribution of these categories.
Date: October 22, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A systematic literature review of personalized learning terms (open access)

A systematic literature review of personalized learning terms

Article providing a review of the recent research literature on personalized learning as technology is changing how learning can be effectively personalized. The emphasis is on the terms used to characterize learning as those can suggest a framework for personalized and will eventually be used in meta-analyses of research on personalized learning.
Date: October 23, 2020
Creator: Shemshack, Atikah & Spector, J. Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Amplifying Community Voices in Language Archives Through Participatory Archiving

Presentation from a panel, "Considering Individual and Community Contexts Within Information Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Practice," that was held virtually for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). This portion of the panel focuses on the author's research into community-based language research (CBLR) and the Lamkang language.
Date: October 25, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Investigation of Descriptive Richness of Free-Text Metadata in Language Archives

This presentation introduces language archives and analyzes item‐level metadata in three of them by focusing on free‐text metadata: the Endangered Language Archive, Pacific Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, and the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. The study identified categories of information included in Description metadata fields and the relative distribution of these categories.
Date: October 26, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communicating the risk of contracting Zika virus to low income underserved pregnant Latinas: A clinic-based study (open access)

Communicating the risk of contracting Zika virus to low income underserved pregnant Latinas: A clinic-based study

Article is a study using cross-sectional methodology to investigate information sources and knowledge concerning the ZIKV virus among 300 under-served pregnant Latinas recruited from prenatal care clinics in the North Texas region. Bivariate and multiple logistic regression models are used to investigate associations between the primary outcomes and patient characteristics.
Date: November 20, 2020
Creator: Boyce, LeAnn & Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extended Reality for the Clinical, Affective, and Social Neurosciences (open access)

Extended Reality for the Clinical, Affective, and Social Neurosciences

Article highlighting the promise of extended reality platforms for greater ecological validity in the clinical, affective, and social neurosciences. This article belongs to the Special Issue: A Decade of Brain Sciences.
Date: November 30, 2020
Creator: Parsons, Thomas D.; Gaggioli, Andrea & Riva, Giuseppe
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agile Practices in Data Science and Data Analytics Projects: A Research Agenda (open access)

Agile Practices in Data Science and Data Analytics Projects: A Research Agenda

The digital age comes with transformational activities (also referred to as digital transformation) triggered by emerging fields and technologies, such as data science and analytics, cybersecurity, cloud computing, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and nanotechnology; helping organizations stay current and competitive. This paper focuses on agile frameworks that support the delivery of data science/analytics projects to ensure organizations rapidly deliver analytics products and services to their customers.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Atolagbe-Olaoye, Abidemi
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
COVID19: Mask Misinformation and Social Noise (open access)

COVID19: Mask Misinformation and Social Noise

Disinformation and misinformation are pervasive in unregulated social-media environments, which are used habitually for obtaining news. Fenn et al in 2019 stated that “Given that people tend to share interesting information to maintain social relationships or to manage their impressions, information that receives more likes may subsequently be shared more often” (Fenn, Ramsay, Kantner, Pezdek, & Abed, 2019, p.133) Recent studies also revealed that misinformation from politicians and celebrities has increased in recent years which lead to more engagement on Twitter (Brennen, et al. 2020 ). There has been a lot of misinformation pertaining to COVID-19 masks on Twitter. Due to the misinformation, many people might not believe in the effectiveness of masks. Even though studies have shown the effectiveness of wearing masks in different countries (Lyu and Wehby, 2020). Not wearing masks affects people's health and indirectly increases the spread of COVID-19. Studies of social noise and misinformation cases on social media are needed, specifically focusing on how social noise influences and contributes to the spread of misleading and possibly harmful messages.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Alsaid, Manar; Madali, Nayana Pampapura; Zimmerman, Tara & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library