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On the occasion of the inauguration of Balenciaga and His Legacy: Haute Couture from the Texas Fashion Collection (open access)

On the occasion of the inauguration of Balenciaga and His Legacy: Haute Couture from the Texas Fashion Collection

Article and gallery of photographs from the gala premiere for the "Balenciaga and His Legacy: Haute Couture from the Texas Fashion Collection" exhibit held at the Meadows Museum in Dallas.
Date: March 24, 2007
Creator: Adams, Sharon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Luxury Town, U.S.A.: High-End Brands Expand, And Austin Gets a Makeover --- New Wealth, Galas Draw Tiffany, Louis Vuitton; Nieman's Black Tie Plan (open access)

Luxury Town, U.S.A.: High-End Brands Expand, And Austin Gets a Makeover --- New Wealth, Galas Draw Tiffany, Louis Vuitton; Nieman's Black Tie Plan

Article published in the Wall Street Journal about the growth of high-end retail in Austin, Texas.
Date: September 4, 2007
Creator: Agins, Teri
System: The UNT Digital Library
Remarks on Ernesto Bozzano's La Psiche Domina la Materia (open access)

Remarks on Ernesto Bozzano's La Psiche Domina la Materia

Article discussing Ernesto Bozzano's study on the subject of physical phenomena around the time of someone's death, including a critique of his dogmatic approach to the interpretation of the cases, and the use of cases lacking relevant information.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Alvarado, Carlos S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Will Rogers High School: The Public Works Administration, Progressive Education, and a Modern School (open access)

Will Rogers High School: The Public Works Administration, Progressive Education, and a Modern School

This article details the pedagogical planning and architectural design of Tulsa's Will Rogers High School.
Date: Winter 2007
Creator: Ambler, Cathy
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Reluctant Heir: Carl Albert, Watergate, and the American Presidency (open access)

A Reluctant Heir: Carl Albert, Watergate, and the American Presidency

Article details Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Carl Bert Albert's decision to eschew the ultimate leadership role and recommend Rep. Gerald R. Ford as Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's successor after Agnew resigned in disgrace in 1973.
Date: Autumn 2007
Creator: Anderson, Heath
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Perceptions of Sustainability Among Undergraduates at the University of North Texas: Environmental, Economic, Cultural Sustainability (open access)

Perceptions of Sustainability Among Undergraduates at the University of North Texas: Environmental, Economic, Cultural Sustainability

Paper examines the knowledge, beliefs, values, concerns, and actions of college students at the University of North Texas toward sustainability.
Date: 2007
Creator: Atkinson, Ange
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences? (open access)

Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?

Article that serves as Part 1 of a critique of survivalist interpretations of near-death experiences (NDEs), reviews the quality of the evidence for veridical observations during NDEs, and finds the case for veridical paranormal perception during NDEs wanting.
Date: Summer 2007
Creator: Augustine, Keith
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?" Defended (open access)

"Does Paranormal Perception Occur in Near-Death Experiences?" Defended

Article responding to criticisms of another article concerning paranormal perception in near-death experiences.
Date: Summer 2007
Creator: Augustine, Keith
System: The UNT Digital Library
Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features (open access)

Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features

Article surveying near-death experiences (NDEs) incorporating out-of-body discrepancies, bodily sensations, encounters with living persons and fictional characters, random or insignificant memories, returns from a point of no return, hallucinatory imagery, and unfulfilled predictions. Though attempts to accommodate hallucinatory NDEs within a survivalist framework are possible, they signal a failure to take the empirical evidence against a survivalist interpretation of NDEs seriously.
Date: Autumn 2007
Creator: Augustine, Keith
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features" Defended (open access)

"Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features" Defended

Article purporting that near-death experience (NDE) reports are sometimes open to multiple interpretations, that different kinds of NDEs should be distinguished according to their diverse physiological mechanisms, and that transformations following NDEs but not other hallucinatory experiences require special explanation if NDEs are hallucinations.
Date: Autumn 2007
Creator: Augustine, Keith
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychophysiological and Cultural Correlates Undermining a Survivalist Interpretation of Near-Death Experiences (open access)

Psychophysiological and Cultural Correlates Undermining a Survivalist Interpretation of Near-Death Experiences

Third part of a critique of survivalist interpretations of near-death experiences (NDEs), which considers psychophysiological and cultural correlates of NDEs suggesting that such experiences are solely products of individuals' minds rather than windows into a transcendental realm.
Date: Winter 2007
Creator: Augustine, Keith
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Psychophysiological and Cultural Correlates Undermining a Survivalist Interpretation of Near-Death Experiences" Defended (open access)

"Psychophysiological and Cultural Correlates Undermining a Survivalist Interpretation of Near-Death Experiences" Defended

Article responding to objections raised against another article. The author concedes some of the objections up to a point, but concludes that they neither strengthen the case for a survivalist interpretation of near-death experiences, nor weaken the case against one.
Date: Winter 2007
Creator: Augustine, Keith
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pioneers for the Future: Reform Women in Dallas (open access)

Pioneers for the Future: Reform Women in Dallas

Paper discusses archival research into women in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex who changed society.
Date: 2007
Creator: Blackburn, Renée
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assistive Technology Use by Students with Disabilities at UNT (open access)

Assistive Technology Use by Students with Disabilities at UNT

Paper discusses study on assistive technology use by students with physical disabilities, including visual and hearing impairments, at the University of North Texas.
Date: 2007
Creator: Chabot, Monique
System: The UNT Digital Library
On Your Knees or at the Bar: A Study on Religiosity and Alcohol Use among College Students (open access)

On Your Knees or at the Bar: A Study on Religiosity and Alcohol Use among College Students

Paper examines relationships among religiosity, spirituality, and alcohol use by 186 18- to 25-year-old students at the University of North Texas.
Date: 2007
Creator: Chase, Rebekah
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Scene Article, PinkMemo, October 2007] (open access)

[Scene Article, PinkMemo, October 2007]

Article published in the Scene section of PinkMemo magazine about appearances made by Giorgio Armani and Kiera Knightly in Dallas, the Fashion Group International's Rising Star Awards, and the "Brilliantly You; Women that Soar" gala.
Date: October 2007
Creator: Dillon, Heidi
System: The UNT Digital Library
"With Great Difficulty and Labour": The Emigration of the McIntosh Party of Creek Indians, 1827-1828 (open access)

"With Great Difficulty and Labour": The Emigration of the McIntosh Party of Creek Indians, 1827-1828

Article outlines the travails of the first Creek emigrants to the trans-Mississippi region that is now Oklahoma, whose journey preceded the removal of the Creek Nation.
Date: Winter 2007
Creator: Haveman, Christopher D.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Meeting of Conquerors: Art Goebel and Charles Lindbergh in Tulsa, 1927 (open access)

A Meeting of Conquerors: Art Goebel and Charles Lindbergh in Tulsa, 1927

Article recounts the meeting of Art Gobel and Charles A. Lindbergh in Tulsa in September 1927. Both aviators, Goebel was known as "The Conqueror of the Pacific," while Lindbergh was "The Conqueror of the Atlantic." Their meeting and behavior toward Oklahomans revealed much about each man's character and personality and about the American practice of hero making.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Hedglen, Thomas
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
More Things in Heaven and Earth: A Response to "Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features" (open access)

More Things in Heaven and Earth: A Response to "Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features"

Article offering alternative arguments and conclusions to those Keith Augustine offered regarding discrepancies between some near-death experiencers' (NDErs') reports of events they perceived during their NDEs and objective information available about those events.
Date: Autumn 2007
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of the Appropriation and Commodification of “Art” on the Cultural Identification of American Indians in the States of Texas and New York (open access)

The Impact of the Appropriation and Commodification of “Art” on the Cultural Identification of American Indians in the States of Texas and New York

Paper examines American Indian artists’ self-identities and the factors that affect the way they identify, focusing on two artists that live in Texas and New York.
Date: 2007
Creator: Kuizon, Jaclyn
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Little Buzz Buggies": Midget Auto Racing in Oklahoma City, 1946-1964 (open access)

"Little Buzz Buggies": Midget Auto Racing in Oklahoma City, 1946-1964

Article details the phenomenon of midget auto racing in Oklahoma, which gained popularity after World War II. Midget auto racing, held in Oklahoma City's Taft Stadium drew huge crowds and gave several race-car drivers the experiences that took them onward to the Indianapolis 500 and other major races.
Date: Summer 2007
Creator: Kurth, Galen
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
So That a Nation May Live: The Pawnee Ghost Dance and Cultural Renaissance (open access)

So That a Nation May Live: The Pawnee Ghost Dance and Cultural Renaissance

This article describes the early development of the Ghost Dance among the Pawnees and traces the ceremony's continuance into the twenty-first century.
Date: Autumn 2007
Creator: Leahy, Todd E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Professor Mom: Surviving the World of Academia and Motherhood (open access)

Professor Mom: Surviving the World of Academia and Motherhood

Paper explores the challenges faced by women faculty members with children who work at colleges and universities in North Texas.
Date: 2007
Creator: Lewis, Stephanie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does the Arousal System Contribute to Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences? A Summary and Response (open access)

Does the Arousal System Contribute to Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences? A Summary and Response

Article acknowledging the viability and potential value of the hypothesis underlying articles suggesting a relationship between near-death experiences (NDEs) and the body's arousal system, but also identifying substantial weaknesses in both the presented lines of evidence and the studies.
Date: Spring 2007
Creator: Long, Jeffrey & Holden, Janice Miner
System: The UNT Digital Library