Drugs and Peace Duration (open access)

Drugs and Peace Duration

Paper explores the impact that the production and/or transit of drugs have on the durability of peace following civil war.
Date: 2011
Creator: Adams, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Partition, Power Sharing, and the Legitimacy of Post-Conflict Arrangements (open access)

Partition, Power Sharing, and the Legitimacy of Post-Conflict Arrangements

Research examines the necessity of legitimacy and enforceability for the effectiveness of power sharing and partition in peace durability.
Date: 2011
Creator: Alford, Conner
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performing in the Public Sphere: Flash Mobs and Their Participants (open access)

Performing in the Public Sphere: Flash Mobs and Their Participants

Paper explores how the motivations of participants shape the meaning and significance of flash mobs.
Date: 2010
Creator: Atilano, Rodriguez
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Tangible and Intangible Salience on Conflict (open access)

The Effects of Tangible and Intangible Salience on Conflict

Paper explores the interaction effect of tangible and intangible salience on the management of contentious issues between countries.
Date: 2011
Creator: Barrett, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998 (open access)

Breast Cancer in Texas Counties 1980-1998

Paper examines effects of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, genes and environment on breast cancer morbidity in Texas counties from 1980-1998.
Date: 2011
Creator: Barry, Djenabou
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identity Presentation in Facebook “My 25s” (open access)

Identity Presentation in Facebook “My 25s”

Paper discusses how individuals portray their public identity on Facebook by analyzing 100 “My 25s”, which are posts that prompt users to reveal 25 facts about themselves.
Date: 2010
Creator: Beard, Jennifer N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is Development a Myth? The Failure of Capitalist Economic Development in Developing Nations (open access)

Is Development a Myth? The Failure of Capitalist Economic Development in Developing Nations

Paper examines the flaws in the capitalist development paradigm for impoverished nations, and argues that this view of human development inherently encourages inequality, exploitation, environmental destruction, and sociocultural degradation.
Date: 2010
Creator: Bensen, Clara
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Practices among Immigrants to the US: The Intersection of Cosmopolitan Medicine and Traditional Ethnopharmacology (open access)

Health Practices among Immigrants to the US: The Intersection of Cosmopolitan Medicine and Traditional Ethnopharmacology

Paper examines customer and vendor relations and generational transmission of ethnomedicine in a multicultural aspect focusing on the immigrant spectrum of traditional medicine from the angle of the Mexican American community.
Date: 2010
Creator: Bernal, Rubén
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism (open access)

Environmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism

Papers explores the ways in which Texas agritourism operators value their land and construct their relationships with the natural environment.
Date: 2011
Creator: Bonham, Mēgan S. Albaugh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Silencing the Bells: A Statement of Power in Medieval Spain (open access)

Silencing the Bells: A Statement of Power in Medieval Spain

Paper examines the meaning of Christian church bells as a symbol of power in medieval Spain.
Date: 2010
Creator: Butler, Kelly Bevin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Negative Attitudes Toward “Molly” Subculture in Eighteenth Century London: An Analysis of Textual Agencies Regarding the Emerging Gay Community (open access)

Negative Attitudes Toward “Molly” Subculture in Eighteenth Century London: An Analysis of Textual Agencies Regarding the Emerging Gay Community

Paper explores how text and diction used in eighteenth-century British print culture, specifically street ballads and court cases, acted as active agents of negative attitudes towards homosexuals, or "Mollies".
Date: 2012
Creator: Camp, Briana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perception, Loss, and Rivalry Termination (open access)

Perception, Loss, and Rivalry Termination

Paper examines the impact of the perception of losses and gains on the length of rivalry and conflict between rival states.
Date: 2011
Creator: Carpenter, Craig
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Indian Cultural Identity: A Narrative Analysis of Identity in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (open access)

American Indian Cultural Identity: A Narrative Analysis of Identity in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Paper explores how American Indians navigate life and connect to their heritage within the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
Date: 2010
Creator: Cevaal-Moore, Yolonda L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Explanations for Mass Provincial Protest in China (open access)

Explanations for Mass Provincial Protest in China

Paper explores the evolution of mass local protests in China and the factors that contribute to the likelihood of mass protest in a province.
Date: 2010
Creator: Chan, Victor Cheung Yin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Five Experience Rooms of Snuggie in a Social Media (open access)

Five Experience Rooms of Snuggie in a Social Media

Paper explores Snuggie’s use of specific brand experience dimensions based on the Edvardsson and Enquist conceptualization of six experience rooms in hyper-reality contexts and social media.
Date: 2012
Creator: Choi, Yujin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inca Sí, Indio También: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Conflict in Latin America (open access)

Inca Sí, Indio También: Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Conflict in Latin America

Paper investigates the relationship between the granting of indigenous rights and indigenous conflict in Latin America.
Date: 2011
Creator: Coffta, Odilia R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to The Eagle Feather 2012 (open access)

Preface to The Eagle Feather 2012

Introduction to the 2012 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2012
Creator: Cox, Gloria C. & Eve, Susan Brown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reconciliation and Relapse: The Case for the Inclusion of Women (open access)

Reconciliation and Relapse: The Case for the Inclusion of Women

Paper investigates the effect that women’s inclusion in the public sphere has on reconciliation in post-civil conflict countries.
Date: 2012
Creator: Daggett, Jena
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Unheard Voice: The American Muslim Struggle for Political Inclusion (open access)

An Unheard Voice: The American Muslim Struggle for Political Inclusion

Paper explores the effect of discrimination against American Muslims on their political participation.
Date: 2012
Creator: Dean, Tahirah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Migration and Healing in a Latino/a Context (open access)

Migration and Healing in a Latino/a Context

Paper examines the history and belief systems of Latin American folk healers in the United States.
Date: 2011
Creator: Diaz, Martha Nuño
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Pursuit of Answers: An Investigation of Twenty-First Century Theatre (open access)

The Pursuit of Answers: An Investigation of Twenty-First Century Theatre

Paper analyzes the impact of live theatre on society in the twenty-first century.
Date: 2011
Creator: Fox, Bradley
System: The UNT Digital Library
Candy Jernigan’s Rejectamenta: Collage, Photography, and (Discarded) Body Memory (open access)

Candy Jernigan’s Rejectamenta: Collage, Photography, and (Discarded) Body Memory

Paper discusses how Candy Jernigan Blood of a Vagrant uses the mixture of text, photography, and collage to explore remembrance of a subject that could otherwise remain anonymous.
Date: 2012
Creator: Garcia, Jonathan A. Molina
System: The UNT Digital Library
“That One Congenial Friend:” Hawthorne’s Search for a Careful Reader (open access)

“That One Congenial Friend:” Hawthorne’s Search for a Careful Reader

Paper discusses the prefaces to the novels and short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and argues that the author uses this space to describe political views that are clear to only a select audience.
Date: 2012
Creator: Garrido, Alejandro
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stoperators in Cluster A Bacteriophages (open access)

Stoperators in Cluster A Bacteriophages

Paper discusses research which analyzed the genome of Mycobacteriophage ElTiger69, a subcluster A5 phage, to identify stoperator sequences.
Date: 2012
Creator: Gibbs, Zane A. & Salazar, Amanda
System: The UNT Digital Library