Village Characteristics and Health of Rural Chinese Older Adults: Examining the CHARLS Pilot Study of a Rich and Poor Province (open access)

Village Characteristics and Health of Rural Chinese Older Adults: Examining the CHARLS Pilot Study of a Rich and Poor Province

Article on the village characteristics and health of rural Chinese older adults and an examination of the CHARLS pilot study of a rich and poor province.
Date: December 2013
Creator: Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-; Pei, Xiaomei; Cready, Cynthia M.; Shen, Yuying; Luo, Hao & Tan, Junxin
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
Social Capital and Self-Rated Health among Older Adults in China: A Multilevel Analysis (open access)

Social Capital and Self-Rated Health among Older Adults in China: A Multilevel Analysis

Article on social capital and self-rated health among middle-aged and older adults in China.
Date: October 7, 2013
Creator: Shen, Yuying; Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-; Cai, Tianji; Yang, Philip Q. & Cready, Cynthia M.
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
The Hindu Method to Save the Planet (open access)

The Hindu Method to Save the Planet

This paper discusses the Hindu religion and elements of ecology that relate to this religion. It describes some of the principles of Mahatma Gandhi and describes how these are important spiritually and ecologically.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition (open access)

[Review] Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition

This article reviews the book "Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition," by Bhaskar Sarkar. The book examines the political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library

Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources

This presentation presents a research study conducted at UNT. The UNT Libraries partnered with the Department of Anthropology at UNT to conduct ethnographic research of how UNT students use the electronic library services.
Date: 2010
Creator: Henry, Lisa; Antonovic, Annette; Buete, Sherri; Deardorff, Philip; DoCarmo, Tania; Gutierrez, Paula et al.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources

This presentation presents a research study conducted at UNT. The UNT Libraries partnered with the Department of Anthropology at UNT to conduct ethnographic research of how UNT students use the electronic library services.
Date: 2010
Creator: Henry, Lisa; Carlson, Steve; Cheatham, Dennis; Gorby, Megan; Leach, Matt; McAllister, Guenivere et al.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources (open access)

Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources

This paper presents a research study conducted at UNT. The UNT Libraries partnered with the Department of Anthropology at UNT to conduct ethnographic research of how UNT students use the electronic library services.
Date: December 14, 2010
Creator: Henry, Lisa; Carlson, Steve; Cheatham, Dennis; Gorby, Megan; Leach, Matt; McAllister, Guenivere et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources (open access)

Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources

This paper presents a research study conducted at UNT. The UNT Libraries partnered with the Department of Anthropology at UNT to conduct ethnographic research of how UNT students use the electronic library services.
Date: December 16, 2010
Creator: Henry, Lisa; Antonovic, Annette; Buete, Sherri; Deardorff, Philip; DoCarmo, Tania; Gutierrez, Paula et al.
Object Type: Paper
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
On Critchfield's Proposal: Student Concerns and Recommendations (open access)

On Critchfield's Proposal: Student Concerns and Recommendations

This article contains a response to the article by Critchfield (2011) entitled "Interesting Times: Practice, Science, and Professional Associations in Behavior Analysis", including a concern about the effect of seprating science and practice on the future of behavior analysis.
Date: 2012
Creator: Bayles, Makenzie W.; Boutain, Ariana R.; Ackerlund Brandt, Julie A.; Call, Nikki; Dracobly, Joseph D.; Greer, Brian D. et al.
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

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
Managing for Citizen Satisfaction: Is Good Not Enough? (open access)

Managing for Citizen Satisfaction: Is Good Not Enough?

Article proposes a theory that suggests the quantity of public goods and services is important to citizen satisfaction.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Collins, Brian K.; Kim, Hyun Joon & Tao, Jie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Logic of Uncertainty and Executive Discretion in Decision Making: The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Ebola Response (open access)

The Logic of Uncertainty and Executive Discretion in Decision Making: The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Ebola Response

This article addresses what a highly complex public health situation such as the Dallas-Fort Worth Ebola outbreak tell about the use of discretion by executive level public administrators.
Date: June 2017
Creator: Benavides, Abraham David; Keyes, Laura; McEntire, David & Carlson, Erin K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
New-Student Orientations: Supporting Success and Socialization in Graduate Programs (open access)

New-Student Orientations: Supporting Success and Socialization in Graduate Programs

This article describes the use of an orientation logic model to examine whether certain orientation program characteristics, such as resources and tenets, are associated with student retention, grade achievement, and socialization.
Date: April 18, 2018
Creator: Benavides, Abraham David & Keyes, Laura
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Public Libraries and Democratization in Three Developing Countries: Exploring the Role of Social Capital

This article explores the role of social capital. The authors develop a theoretical framework intended to facilitate systematic investigation of the contributions public libraries may make to democratization.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Ignatow, Gabriel; Webb, Sarah M.; Poulin, Michelle; Parajuli, Ramesh; Fleming, Peter; Batra, Shika et al.
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
Influencing Self-Reported Health Among Rural Low-Income Women Through Health Care and Social Service Utilization: A Structural Equation Model (open access)

Influencing Self-Reported Health Among Rural Low-Income Women Through Health Care and Social Service Utilization: A Structural Equation Model

Article discussing a structural equation model and influencing self-reported health among rural low-income women through health care and social service utilization.
Date: November 2, 2012
Creator: Bice-Wigington, Tiffany & Huddleston-Casas, Catherine A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Increased physical activity, physician recommendation, and senior center participation (open access)

Increased physical activity, physician recommendation, and senior center participation

This article employs the Andersen Behavioral Model to explore increased physical activity and participation in three types of senior center activities: physical fitness, dance/aerobic classes, and chair exercises.
Date: November 25, 2013
Creator: Swan, James H.; Turner, K. Whisnant (Keith Whisnant); Shashidhara, Shilpa & Sanders, David
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
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
Public Health Network Structure and Collaboration Effectiveness during the 2015 MERS Outbreak in South Korea: An Institutional Collective Action Framework (open access)

Public Health Network Structure and Collaboration Effectiveness during the 2015 MERS Outbreak in South Korea: An Institutional Collective Action Framework

This article studies examines the structural effect of public health network explaining collaboration effectiveness.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Kim, KyungWoo; Andrew, Simon A. & Jung, Kyujin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library