Adverse Childhood Experiences, Commitment Offense, and Race/Ethnicity: Are the Effects Crime-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Specific? (open access)

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Commitment Offense, and Race/Ethnicity: Are the Effects Crime-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Specific?

This article uses epidemiological tables of odds (both unadjusted and adjusted for onset, total adjudications, and total out of home placements) on a sample of 2520 male confined juvenile delinquents, to evaluate the significance of the number of adverse childhood experiences on commitment for homicide, sexual assault, and serious persons/property offending.
Date: March 22, 2017
Creator: DeLisi, Matt; Alcala, Justin; Kusow, Abdi; Hochstetler, Andy; Heirigs, Mark H.; Caudill, Jonathan W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Africa: Sustainability, Poverty, Education

Presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This presentation discusses sustainability, poverty, and education in Africa.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Ingman, Stanley R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amygdala involvement in human avoidance, escape and approach behavior (open access)

Amygdala involvement in human avoidance, escape and approach behavior

Article on amygdala involvement in human avoidance, escape and approach behavior. The authors examine amygdala reactivity to threatening cues when avoidance responding consistently prevented contact with an upcoming aversive event (money loss).
Date: November 1, 2010
Creator: Schlund, Michael W. & Cataldo, Michael F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bhopal Chemical Disaster (open access)

Bhopal Chemical Disaster

Encyclopedia article describing the devastating effects of a chemical disaster that took place in Bhopal, India in 1984. The author describes the effects of the chemical disaster and the events that followed.
Date: 2011
Creator: Gupta, Kailash
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bollywood and Beyond: Hinduism Changing the World (open access)

Bollywood and Beyond: Hinduism Changing the World

Article discussing research on the ideals of Hinduism, such as pluralism, dharma, ritam, and nonviolence holding important lessons for the future of Hinduism in particular and for humanity in general.
Date: June 28, 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breast Implants for Graduation: A Sociological Examination of Daughter and Mother Narratives (open access)

Breast Implants for Graduation: A Sociological Examination of Daughter and Mother Narratives

Article on a sociological examination of daughter and mother narratives.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Fowler, Lori Ann & Moore, Ami R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cosmic Dance of Obama-Raja on Newsweek (open access)

The Cosmic Dance of Obama-Raja on Newsweek

Article discussing an image that appears on the front cover of Newsweek magazine depicting President Barack Obama.
Date: November 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cultural Memory and Heirloom Seeds: The Foundation of Local Food Systems

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Food We Eat. This presentation discusses heirloom seeds and covers information about the Foundation of Local Food Systems.
Date: October 24, 2011
Creator: Veteto, James R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design of District Emergency Operations Centres, and the Case Study of Indian Oil Corporation Jaipur Depot Explosion (open access)

Design of District Emergency Operations Centres, and the Case Study of Indian Oil Corporation Jaipur Depot Explosion

Article on the design of district emergency operations centres and a case study of Indian Oil Corporation Jaipur depot explosion.
Date: November 22, 2010
Creator: Gupta, Kailash
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Dharmic Method to Save the Planet (open access)

The Dharmic Method to Save the Planet

This article discusses environmentalism and ways in which dharmic methods can help save the planet. While most Americans are familiar with the terms such as "yoga" and "Bollywood," Indian perspectives toward the ecology seem to be largely unknown.
Date: May 12, 2011
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disclosure of Children's Positive Serostatus to Family and Nonfamily Members: Informal Caregivers in Togo, West Africa (open access)

Disclosure of Children's Positive Serostatus to Family and Nonfamily Members: Informal Caregivers in Togo, West Africa

Article on the disclosure of children's positive serostatus to family and nonfamily members.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Moore, Ami R. & Williamson, David Allen
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Down deep in the holler: chasing seeds and stories in southern Appalachia (open access)

Down deep in the holler: chasing seeds and stories in southern Appalachia

This article is the third in a series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field" and is a personal reflection by the researcher on his experience and involvement in kinship and friendship networks while conducting agrobiodiversity research in southern Appalachia, USA.
Date: September 27, 2013
Creator: Veteto, James R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

An Ecological Perspective on Rural, Low-Income Mothers' Health

Article on an ecological perspective on rural, low-income mothers' health.
Date: December 9, 2014
Creator: Bice-Wigington, Tiffany; Simmons, Leigh Ann & Huddleston-Casas, Catherine A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of a Supportive Communication Training Workshop on the Verbal Behavior of Behavior Analysis (open access)

The Effects of a Supportive Communication Training Workshop on the Verbal Behavior of Behavior Analysis

Article on the effects of a supportive communication training workshop on the verbal behavior of behavior analysts.
Date: May 1, 2010
Creator: Blell, Zainab D.; Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla & Rosales-Ruiz, Jesus
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electoral Decentralization in Ghana: What do Ghana's Local Governments Really Need for Economic Development? (open access)

Electoral Decentralization in Ghana: What do Ghana's Local Governments Really Need for Economic Development?

Paper accompanying a presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This paper discusses electoral decentralization in Ghana and what Ghana's local governments really need for economic development.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Nukpezah, Julius A. & Bediako, William Asare
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emerging Opportunities in Higher Education: Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism (open access)

Emerging Opportunities in Higher Education: Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism

This article discusses applying behavior analysis to autism.
Date: January 30, 2017
Creator: Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla; Roll-Pettersson, Lise, 1955-; Pinkelman, Sarah E. & Cihon, Traci M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factor structure of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Figural Form A in Kiswahili speaking children: Multidimensionality and influences on creative behavior (open access)

Factor structure of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Figural Form A in Kiswahili speaking children: Multidimensionality and influences on creative behavior

This article provides evidence for the valid use of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) in sub-Saharan Africa.
Date: November 19, 2016
Creator: Humble, Steve; Dixon, Pauline & Mpofu, Elias
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flood Resilience Building in Thailand: Assessing Progress and the Effect of Leadership (open access)

Flood Resilience Building in Thailand: Assessing Progress and the Effect of Leadership

This article uses the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction 10 Essentials for Making Cities Resilient as guidelines to assess the progress of flood resilience building in Thailand.
Date: March 5, 2018
Creator: Khunwishit, Somporn; Choosuk, Chanisada & Webb, Gary
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Futuro sin Pobreza: Future without Poverty

Presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This presentation discusses the initiatives and groups working to reduce global poverty.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Ingman, Stanley R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalization of socially transmitted and instructed avoidance (open access)

Generalization of socially transmitted and instructed avoidance

This article compares two pathways to avoidance--instructions and social observation--on subsequent generalization of avoidance behavior, fear expectancy and physiological arousal.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Cameron, Gemma; Schlund, Michael W. & Dymond, Simon
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Generalized anxiety modulates frontal and limbic activation in major depression (open access)

Generalized anxiety modulates frontal and limbic activation in major depression

This article explores how generalized anxiety modulates frontal and limbic activation in major depression. The authors' findings highlight frontal and limbic hypoactivation in patients with depression and comorbid anxiety and indicate that anxiety level may modulate frontal and limbic activation depending upon the emotional context.
Date: February 9, 2012
Creator: Schlund, Michael W.; Verduzco, Guillermo; Cataldo, Michael F. & Hoehn-Saric, Rudolf
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geographic Distance, Contact, and Family Perceptions of Quality Nursing Home Care (open access)

Geographic Distance, Contact, and Family Perceptions of Quality Nursing Home Care

Article on the geographic distance, contact and family perceptions of quality nursing home care.
Date: September 5, 2011
Creator: Dillman, Jennifer L.; Yeatts, Dale E., 1952- & Cready, Cynthia M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (open access)

Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

Article describes an estimate of age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality between 1970 and 2016 for 195 countries and territories and at the subnational level for the five countries with a population greater than 200 million in 2016.
Date: September 16, 2017
Creator: GBD 2016 Mortality Collaborators
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (open access)

Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

Article discusses the generation of updated estimates of child mortality by age group (neonatal, post-neonatal, ages 1–4 years, and under 5) for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational geographies, from 1980–2015, using data from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015).
Date: October 8, 2016
Creator: GBD 2015 Child Mortality Collaborators
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library