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
Roles revealed: An examination of the adopted roles of emergency managers in hazard mitigation planning and strategy implementation (open access)

Roles revealed: An examination of the adopted roles of emergency managers in hazard mitigation planning and strategy implementation

Article describes study where thirty emergency management coordinators from the North Central Texas region were interviewed to examine how they define their roles in hazard mitigation planning; then, grounded theory analysis generated six themes regarding the broad roles they practice.
Date: April 11, 2019
Creator: Samuel, Carlos & Siebeneck, Laura K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Why do we need a national address point database to improve wildfire public safety in the U.S.? (open access)

Why do we need a national address point database to improve wildfire public safety in the U.S.?

Article aims to advance understanding of the value of national address point databases in improving wildfire public safety in the U.S.
Date: July 5, 2019
Creator: Li, Dapeng; Cova, Thomas J.; Dennison, Philip E.; Wan, Neng; Nguyen, Quynh C. & Siebeneck, Laura K.
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
Unidentified Bodies and Mass-Fatality Management in haiti: A Case Study of the January 2010 Earthquake with a Cross-Cultural Comparison (open access)

Unidentified Bodies and Mass-Fatality Management in haiti: A Case Study of the January 2010 Earthquake with a Cross-Cultural Comparison

This article examines the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti as a case study to understand what happens to unidentified bodies in mass-fatality management.
Date: November 2012
Creator: McEntire, David; Sadiq, Abdul-Akeem & Gupta, Kailash
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safety of Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood Therapy for Acquired Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children (open access)

Safety of Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood Therapy for Acquired Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children

This article presents the results of a phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the intravenous administration of human umbilical cord blood (hUCB) mononuclear fraction in infants and children with acquired sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).
Date: June 18, 2018
Creator: Baumgartner, Linda S.; Moore, Ernest J.; Shook, David; Messina, Steven; Day, Mary Clare; Green, Jennifer et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progressing From Identification and Functional Analysis of Precursor Behavior to Treatment of Selfinjurious Behavior (open access)

Progressing From Identification and Functional Analysis of Precursor Behavior to Treatment of Selfinjurious Behavior

This article evaluates the utility of assessing and treating severe selfinjurious behavior (SIB) based on the outcomes of a functional analysis of precursor behavior.
Date: September 26, 2011
Creator: Dracobly, Joseph D. & Smith, Richard G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Running Head: Faithful Health Norms (open access)

Running Head: Faithful Health Norms

This article applies a structural theory analysis to understand the ways by which religious adherents adopt and enact health norms.
Date: January 18, 2018
Creator: Mpofu, Elias
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Irony and the 'yoga wars' (open access)

Irony and the 'yoga wars'

Article discussing the debated topic of whether yoga is a Hindu or Secular practice and the potential causes and impacts of how and why this subject is being debated.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jainism, Dharma, and Environmental Ethics (open access)

Jainism, Dharma, and Environmental Ethics

Article discussing the absence of a formal category of environmental ethics in Jainism and Jainism's historical relationship to environmental ethics.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Biodivinity and Biodiversity: The Limits to Religious Environmentalism (open access)

[Review] Biodivinity and Biodiversity: The Limits to Religious Environmentalism

This article reviews the book "Biodivinity and Biodiversity: The Limits to Religious Environmentalism," by Emma Tomalin, a book about religion and ecology.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nurse Aide Decision Making in Nursing Homes: Factors Affecting Empowerment (open access)

Nurse Aide Decision Making in Nursing Homes: Factors Affecting Empowerment

Article on nurse aide decision making in nursing homes and the factors affecting empowerment.
Date: March 27, 2013
Creator: Chaudhuri, Tanni & Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-
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
Planning and Improvisation in Emergency Management (open access)

Planning and Improvisation in Emergency Management

Book chapter from "Critical Issues in Disaster Science and Management: A Dialogue Between Researchers and Practitioners." This chapter includes both a theoretical and practical examination of planning and improvisation in emergency management.
Date: 2014
Creator: McEntire, David
Object Type: Book Chapter
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
Interpol (open access)

Interpol

This encyclopedia entry describes Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization. Interpol facilitates cross-border police cooperation and assists all organizations, authorities, and services with a mission to prevent or combat international crime.
Date: 2011
Creator: Gupta, Kailash
Object Type: Text
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
Not so bad: avoidance and aversive discounting modulate threat appraisal in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex (open access)

Not so bad: avoidance and aversive discounting modulate threat appraisal in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex

This article describes an investigation in which 30 healthy adults underwent functional neuroimaging while completing an avoidance task in which responses to an Avoidable CS+ threat prevented delivery of an aversive stimulus, but not to an Unavoidable CS+ threat.
Date: June 10, 2015
Creator: Schlund, Michael W.; Brewer, Adam T.; Richman, David M.; Magee, Sandy K. & Dymond, Simon
Object Type: Article
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
Inter-organizational digital divide: Civic groups' media strategies in the Trinity River Corridor Project (open access)

Inter-organizational digital divide: Civic groups' media strategies in the Trinity River Corridor Project

Article on inter-organizational digital divides and civic groups' media strategies in the Trinity River Corridor Project.
Date: November 7, 2011
Creator: Ignatow, Gabriel & Schuett, Jessica Lynn
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Teaching and Learning Technologies in Higher Education: Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism: "Necessity is the Mother of Invention" (open access)

Teaching and Learning Technologies in Higher Education: Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism: "Necessity is the Mother of Invention"

Article discussing current thinking about adult education and blended learning technologies, as well as examples of emerging possibilities of multimedia technology in the development of teaching materials.
Date: November 13, 2015
Creator: Roll-Pettersson, Lise, 1955-; Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla; Keenan, Mickey & Dillenburger, Karola
Object Type: Article
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
The Perception of "Training Availability" Among Certified Nurse Aides: Relationship to CNA Performance, Turnover, Attitudes, Burnout, and Empowerment (open access)

The Perception of "Training Availability" Among Certified Nurse Aides: Relationship to CNA Performance, Turnover, Attitudes, Burnout, and Empowerment

Article on the perception of "training availability" among certified nurse aides (CNAs) and the relationship to CNA performance, turnover, attitudes, burnout, and empowerment.
Date: 2010
Creator: Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-; Cready, Cynthia M.; Swan, James H. & Shen, Yuying
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
“I’m Gonna Get Busy Living”: Examining the Trajectories of Affect, Behavioral Health, and Psychological Resilience Among Persons Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus in a Southeastern U.S. Health District (open access)

“I’m Gonna Get Busy Living”: Examining the Trajectories of Affect, Behavioral Health, and Psychological Resilience Among Persons Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus in a Southeastern U.S. Health District

Article describes results of a study seeking to provide further insight into how core affect influences the adaptability of persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) after diagnosis.
Date: April 30, 2019
Creator: Hill, Miranda; Huff, Amber & Chumbler, Neale
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library