States

The Political Economy of Political Survival: External Debt Accumulation and Default during Civil Conflict (open access)

The Political Economy of Political Survival: External Debt Accumulation and Default during Civil Conflict

Paper explores the consequences of the aggregation of national debt by states during and immediately after a civil conflict.
Date: 2014
Creator: Alley, Josh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship of Purpose in Life and Autonomy on Depression in College Students (open access)

Relationship of Purpose in Life and Autonomy on Depression in College Students

Paper explores the relationship between purpose of life, autonomy, and depression among college students.
Date: 2014
Creator: Anderson, Sarah
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impacts of Parental Health on the Psychosocial Functioning of University Students (open access)

Impacts of Parental Health on the Psychosocial Functioning of University Students

Undergraduate thesis exploring the effects of growing up with parental chronic illness on emerging adults. The current study utilizes self-reported questionnaire data on the psychosocial functioning of 635 students from UNT to increase understanding of how parental chronic illness affects university students' life satisfaction, psychological distress, and compulsive self-reliance. In an attempt to identify potential protective factors, the moderating effects of attachment and resiliency on the link between parental chronic illness and the psychosocial wellness variables were examined.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Askings, Diana Christine
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contemporary Family Structures and Sexual Victimization (open access)

Contemporary Family Structures and Sexual Victimization

Paper examines the link between contemporary family structures and verbal and forced sexual victimization.
Date: 2014
Creator: Beach, Katie & Jackson, Madison
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNTrees: We Mean Green Fund Project Grant Proposal (open access)

UNTrees: We Mean Green Fund Project Grant Proposal

Grant materials were sent to the We Mean Green Fund Committee in order to propose the funding of a project called UNTrees that planted 50 trees on UNT's main campus. This was accomplished with student organizational help, faculty support and alumni engagement. The event was held on Arbor Day, April 24th, 2014. The budget for this project was $55,000.
Date: 2014
Creator: Bielamowicz, Mary
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps (open access)

Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps

This paper explores the relationship between the locations of conflict zones and refugee camps in African nations.
Date: 2014
Creator: Bolte, Brandon L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pilgrimage (open access)

Pilgrimage

A collection of poems by Caleb Braun following his experiences with spirituality.
Date: 2014
Creator: Braun, Caleb
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Antimicrobial and Synergistic Efficiency of Antibiotic and Bacteriophage for the Treatment of Tuberculosis (open access)

The Antimicrobial and Synergistic Efficiency of Antibiotic and Bacteriophage for the Treatment of Tuberculosis

Paper describes a study exploring bacteriophages and antibiotics as a potential treatment for tuberculosis.
Date: 2014
Creator: Cai, Lucy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lessons from the Past: Possible Courses of Action for the Conflict in Syria (open access)

Lessons from the Past: Possible Courses of Action for the Conflict in Syria

Undergraduate thesis examining the Syrian conflict and the international community's struggle to find an appropriate response. This thesis reviews the conflicts that occurred in Bosnia and Rwanda, the interventions that took place within these states, and how a resolution to these conflicts was created. From this information, the author determines what conflict management strategies had the most success and what types of outside interventions were failures and the similarities of these instances to the Syrian conflict. Further intervention strategies and reasonings are presented that could be applied in Syria.
Date: June 8, 2014
Creator: Carter, Rachel
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metonymy, Metaphor, and Meaning in Inflected Phrasal Verbs: A Corpus Analysis (open access)

Metonymy, Metaphor, and Meaning in Inflected Phrasal Verbs: A Corpus Analysis

Paper examines the relationship of metaphor and metonymy with the linguistic environment of words.
Date: 2014
Creator: Cline, Ashley
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perspective and Language in Percy Shelley’s Signification of Liberty (open access)

Perspective and Language in Percy Shelley’s Signification of Liberty

Paper closely examines the thematic and linguistic content of Percy Shelley's poem "Ode to Liberty".
Date: 2014
Creator: Cowles, Matthew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Support and Type II Diabetes in Older Married Hispanic Americans (open access)

Social Support and Type II Diabetes in Older Married Hispanic Americans

Undergraduate thesis exploring psychosocial factors of type II diabetes in older married adults of the Hispanic American population. It is proposed that social support mitigates the effect of psychosocial problems on self-care behavior and posited that greater social support in the form of familial and spousal relationships is related to better health outcomes, specifically better self-reported disease self-management of type II diabetes in married Hispanics.
Date: April 22, 2014
Creator: Delk, Jenna
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
I-Station Reading Intervention (open access)

I-Station Reading Intervention

Paper discusses study designed to determine if using the Imagination Station computer software, or I-station, as a reading intervention employed during direct instruction Special Education sessions would improve the overall reading skills of these students.
Date: 2014
Creator: Dever, Lauren Nicole
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
You Like That, Pledge? Displays of Normalizing Sexual Rhetoric in Haze Him (open access)

You Like That, Pledge? Displays of Normalizing Sexual Rhetoric in Haze Him

Paper critically examines the rhetorical construction and implications of the gay pornography franchise, Haze Him, on queer bodies.
Date: 2014
Creator: Dionne, Terrell Jake
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feared or Family: Portrayal of Native Americans in Redeemed and Unredeemed Captivity Narratives (open access)

Feared or Family: Portrayal of Native Americans in Redeemed and Unredeemed Captivity Narratives

Paper explores the difference in the portrayal of Native Americans in captivity narratives that did result in acculturation and those that did not.
Date: 2014
Creator: Dismukes, Emily
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding Powers, Gender Dynamics and Militarized Interstate Disputes: The Impact of National Material Capability and Gender on Onset and Escalation (open access)

Expanding Powers, Gender Dynamics and Militarized Interstate Disputes: The Impact of National Material Capability and Gender on Onset and Escalation

Paper explores the relationship between national capabilities and the likelihood of conflict, and in particular the impact of gender on this relationship.
Date: 2014
Creator: Ferris, Rachel Elizabeth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Electronic Books in the Primary Classroom (open access)

The Effectiveness of Electronic Books in the Primary Classroom

Paper describes study exploring the effectiveness of using electronic books in an elementary school classroom to teach reading skills.
Date: 2014
Creator: Hendrickson, Bethany
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide (open access)

The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide

Undergraduate thesis examining the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in the United States and its ethics. The authors' study provides that in states where, by legislation, physicians can aid a patient by prescribing a lethal dose which the patient can choose to ingest, the benefits well surpass any risk feared by opponents of physician-assisted suicide.
Date: May 12, 2014
Creator: Horner, Marjorie
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Schizophrenia: Biology, Korean Culture, and Joe’s Story (open access)

Schizophrenia: Biology, Korean Culture, and Joe’s Story

Paper explores a case study of a schizophrenia patient, the writer's uncle, and discusses perspectives on his case through a biological and cultural lens.
Date: 2014
Creator: Kim, Mikayla
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
“You Tryna Grammaticalize?” An Analysis of “Tryna” as a Grammaticalized Semi-Auxiliary (open access)

“You Tryna Grammaticalize?” An Analysis of “Tryna” as a Grammaticalized Semi-Auxiliary

Paper analyzes the grammar and the meaning of the word tryna, semi-auxiliary expressing want or desire, originating from African American Vernacular English (AAVE).
Date: 2014
Creator: Lane, Austin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engendering Violence: The Acceptability of Domestic Violence as a Determinant of Intrastate Conflict (open access)

Engendering Violence: The Acceptability of Domestic Violence as a Determinant of Intrastate Conflict

Paper analyzes the influence of attitudes regarding domestic violence upon the likelihood of civil conflict.
Date: 2014
Creator: Leban, Lucy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communication through Mathematics: The Effects on Mathematic Reasonableness (open access)

Communication through Mathematics: The Effects on Mathematic Reasonableness

Paper describes a study focused on the efficiency of using prescribed tools to aid in justification and reasonableness in solving mathematical problems.
Date: 2014
Creator: Lopez, Lorraine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Awareness: A Survey of UNT Students’ Knowledge and Opinions (open access)

Environmental Awareness: A Survey of UNT Students’ Knowledge and Opinions

Paper discusses study examining awareness and opinions of environmental issues among students at the University of North Texas.
Date: 2014
Creator: McClinchie, Elizabeth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does the Truth Really Set You Free? Examining the Effect of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions on Social and Political Trust (open access)

Does the Truth Really Set You Free? Examining the Effect of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions on Social and Political Trust

Paper investigates the effect that truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs) have on social and political trust in Africa, utilizing the Afrobarometer and World Values Survey.
Date: 2014
Creator: Mendez, Nicole
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library