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The Effect of Development Impact Fees on Housing Values (open access)

The Effect of Development Impact Fees on Housing Values

This paper examines the effects of impact fees on housing prices using data from 46,420 properties in 63 Texas cities, 38 of which impose an impact fee.
Date: 2009
Creator: Evans-Cowley, Jennifer; Lockwood, Larry J.; Rutherford, Ronald C. & Springer, Thomas M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perceived Stakeholder Role Relationships and Adoption of Seismic Hazard Adjustments (open access)

Perceived Stakeholder Role Relationships and Adoption of Seismic Hazard Adjustments

This article examines the relationships among perceived stakeholder characteristics, risk perceptions, respondent characteristics, and self-reported adoption of 16 seismic hazard adjustments by residents in areas of high and medium seismic risk.
Date: November 2007
Creator: Arlikatti, Sudha; Lindell, Michael K. & Prater, Carla S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Phases of Disaster as a Relationship Between Structure and Meaning: A Narrative Analysis of the 1947 Texas City Explosion (open access)

The Phases of Disaster as a Relationship Between Structure and Meaning: A Narrative Analysis of the 1947 Texas City Explosion

This article examines phases of disaster response and recovery as a sociological problem.
Date: November 2005
Creator: Richardson, Brian K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is Hazard Mitigation Being Incorporated into Post-Katrina Plans in Mississippi? (open access)

Is Hazard Mitigation Being Incorporated into Post-Katrina Plans in Mississippi?

This article examines the degree to which hazard mitigation has been incorporated into the long-range plans developed in the communities along the coast in Harrison County, Mississippi, 18 months after Katrina.
Date: November 2007
Creator: Evans-Cowley, Jennifer & Zimmerman Gough, Meghan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Citizen Engagement in Post-Hurricane Katrina Planning in Harrison County, Mississippi (open access)

Citizen Engagement in Post-Hurricane Katrina Planning in Harrison County, Mississippi

This article describes the experiences of Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture in facilitating a citizen-engagement process for communitywide planning on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Date: February 26, 2009
Creator: Evans-Cowley, Jennifer & Zimmerman Gough, Meghan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Phenolic Compounds Protect Cultured Hippocampal Neurons against Ethanol-Withdrawal Induced Oxidative Stress (open access)

Phenolic Compounds Protect Cultured Hippocampal Neurons against Ethanol-Withdrawal Induced Oxidative Stress

Paper reports findings on the contribution of phenolic antioxidants (17β-estradiol, p-octyl-phenol and 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenol) to counterbalance sudden ethanol withdrawal-initiated oxidative events in hippocampus-derived cultured HT-22 cells.
Date: April 20, 2009
Creator: Prokai-Tatrai, Katalin; Prókai, László, 1958-; Simpkins, James W. & Jung, Marianna E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Wartime Diary of Sigismund Koperniak

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The personal diary of Sigismund Koperniak, a Navy veteran, detailing his experiences aboard the destroyer USS Spence during World War II. Launching of the Spence and sea trials off Portland, Maine, January, 1943; shakedown cruise to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, February, 1943; escort duty in the Atlantic and Caribbean, March, 1943; convoy duty in the Casablanca, French Morocco, area, April-May, 1943; passage through the Panama Canal, June, 1943; escort duty for the carriers Princeton and Belleau Wood en route to Baker Island, September, 1943; attachment to Destroyer Division 23 in the Solomon Islands, September, 1943; patrols off Kolombangara and Vella Lavella Islands; interdiction of Japanese shipping and the Spence's role in sinking of twenty barges off of Vella Lavella; bombardment of Buka-Bonis airfields, November 1, 1943; Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, November 2, 1943; support for landings on Bougainville, November 3, 1943; capture of a Japanese sailor; continued attacks by Japanese aircraft; gun battles with Japanese cruisers and destroyers in the Buka-Rabaul route, November 24, 1943; shore bombardments of Tiaraka, Bougainville, Kavieng, and New Ireland, January-February, 1944; shore bombardment of Emirau, Aitape, Humboldt Bay, and Caroline Islands, March 1-24, 1944; shore bombardment during the invasions of the Marianas Islands, June 19-27, …
Date: 2002
Creator: Koperniak, Sigismund
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library