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.
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.
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
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Three Important Things to Consider When Starting Intervention for a Child Diagnosed with Autism (open access)

Three Important Things to Consider When Starting Intervention for a Child Diagnosed with Autism

Article discussing three important things to consider when starting intervention for a child diagnosed with autism.
Date: June 1, 2017
Creator: Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla & Zeug, Nicole M.
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
System: The UNT Digital Library