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Bayesian Time-Series Models in Single Case Experimental Designs: A Tutorial for Trauma Researchers (open access)

Bayesian Time-Series Models in Single Case Experimental Designs: A Tutorial for Trauma Researchers

Article discusses the utility of SCED data for trauma research, provides recommendations for addressing challenges specific to SCED approaches, and introduces a tutorial for two Bayesian models—the Bayesian interrupted time-series (BITS) model and the Bayesian unknown change-point (BUCP) model—that can be used to analyze the typically small sample, autocorrelated, SCED data.
Date: November 17, 2020
Creator: Contractor, Ateka A.; Caldas, Stephanie & Batley, Prathiba Natesan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Structure and inference in Japanese right dislocation (open access)

Structure and inference in Japanese right dislocation

Article exploring the syntactic nature of Japanese Right Dislocation Constructions (RDCs) by illuminating the ellipsis sites in the postverbal domains of the constructions via pragmatic inference. Although the most prevailing bi-clausal analysis of RDCs adopts the perspective that the repetition of the antecedent clause occurs in collocation, this paper shows that the same surface strings are potentially ambiguous since right dislocation is a heterogeneous phenomenon. It proposes additional types of a bi-clausal structure and discusses evidence that suggests that even when the surface strings are the same the recovery of the ellipsis site is possibly derived in multiple ways through the use of distinct linguistic strategies.
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Furuya, Kaori
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Educación, Ecoturismo y Conservación Biocultural en los Bosques en Miniatura Del Cabo de Hornos (open access)

Educación, Ecoturismo y Conservación Biocultural en los Bosques en Miniatura Del Cabo de Hornos

Article demonstrates that using Field Environmental Philosophy (FEP) methodology, inconspicuous species can be made visible and their ecological, ethical, aesthetic, and economic values can be recognized by citizens.
Date: September 12, 2020
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Medina, Yanet & Massardo, Francisca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using an Adjunctive Treatment to Address Psychological Distress in a National Weight Management Program: Results of an Integrated Pilot Study (open access)

Using an Adjunctive Treatment to Address Psychological Distress in a National Weight Management Program: Results of an Integrated Pilot Study

Article examining weight loss and physical functioning of obese veterans with comorbid psychological symptoms when participating in weight management programs. The MOVE! program aims to increase healthy eating and physical activity to promote weight loss in obese veterans. Adequately addressing psychological barriers is necessary to maximize outcomes in MOVE! for veterans with PTSD, depression, and anxiety. This study examined the preliminary outcomes of administering the Healthy Emotions and Improving Health BehavioR Outcomes (HERO) intervention. HERO is adjunctive cognitive-behavioral therapy to MOVE! that addresses PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptom barriers to engagement in physical activity.
Date: July 30, 2020
Creator: Evans-Hudnall, Gina; Odafe, Mary O.; Johnson, Adrienne; Armenti, Nicholas; O'Neil, Jennifer; Lawson, Evan et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monitoring, Mapping, and Modeling Spatial–Temporal Patterns of PM2.5 for Improved Understanding of Air Pollution Dynamics Using Portable Sensing Technologies (open access)

Monitoring, Mapping, and Modeling Spatial–Temporal Patterns of PM2.5 for Improved Understanding of Air Pollution Dynamics Using Portable Sensing Technologies

This article maps the dynamics of PM2.5 concentrations at high spatio-temporal resolutions using bicycle-based, mobile measures on a university campus.
Date: June 5, 2020
Creator: Hart, Ronan; Liang, Lu & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fertility knowledge, contraceptive use and unintentional pregnancy in 29 African countries: a cross-sectional study (open access)

Fertility knowledge, contraceptive use and unintentional pregnancy in 29 African countries: a cross-sectional study

Article examines the association between incorrect knowledge of ovulation and unintentional pregnancy/child among young women in sub-Saharan Africa countries.
Date: April 9, 2020
Creator: Oppong, Joseph R.; Iyanda, Ayodeji Emmanuel; Dinkins, Barbara J.; Osayomi, Tolulope; Adeusi, Temitope Joshua & Lu, Yongmei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Land Use Simulation of Guangzhou Based on Nighttime Light Data and Planning Policies (open access)

Land Use Simulation of Guangzhou Based on Nighttime Light Data and Planning Policies

This article employs nighttime light (NTL) information as a proxy indicator of gross domestic product(GDP), and a future land use simulation model (FLUS) to simulate the land use patterns in Guangzhou from 2015 to 2018 and 2018 to 2035 by incorporating planning policies. This study demonstrates that NTL is a suitable and feasible proxy indicator of GDP for the land use simulations, providing a scientific basis for the development of urban planning and construction policy.
Date: May 23, 2020
Creator: Lao, Jieying; Wang, Cheng; Wang, Jinliang; Pan, Feifei; Xi, Xiaohuan & Liang, Lei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping Dragon Fruit Croplands from Space Using Remote Sensing of Artificial Light at Night (open access)

Mapping Dragon Fruit Croplands from Space Using Remote Sensing of Artificial Light at Night

Article using National Polar Partnership (NPP)-Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) NTL remote sensing data to observe the seasonal variation of artificial lighting in dragon fruit cropland in Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam. The results suggest that the NTL remotely sensed data could be used to reveal some agricultural productive activities such as dragon fruits production accurately by monitoring the seasonal artificial lighting. This research demonstrates the application potential of NTL remotely sensed data in agriculture.
Date: December 17, 2020
Creator: Wang, Ruirui; Shi, Wei & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) Scale in Chinese Adolescents (open access)

Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) Scale in Chinese Adolescents

Article examining the psychometric properties of the self-report version of Proposed Specifiers for Conduct Disorder (PSCD) Scale in a sample of community adolescents in mainland China. Findings provide preliminary evidence for the four-factor structure of the PSCD and support for the utility of the self-report PSCD for measuring psychopathic traits and CD in Chinese adolescents.
Date: August 20, 2020
Creator: Luo, Jie; Wang, Meng-Cheng; Neumann, Craig S.; Hare, Robert D. & Salekin, Randall T.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The utility of zooarchaeological data to guide listing efforts for an imperiled mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Pleurobema riddellii) (open access)

The utility of zooarchaeological data to guide listing efforts for an imperiled mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Pleurobema riddellii)

Article presents research that demonstrates Pleurobema riddellii, Louisiana Pigtoe, was likely present in the Trinity River basin during the late Holocene, which indicates questions about its taxonomic validity or presence in this basin are unfounded.
Date: July 22, 2020
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.; Randklev, Charles R.; Johnson, Nathan A.; Smith, Chase H.; DuBose, Traci P.; Robertson, Clinton R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential Evapotranspiration Reduction and Its Influence on Crop Yield in the North China Plain in 1961–2014 (open access)

Potential Evapotranspiration Reduction and Its Influence on Crop Yield in the North China Plain in 1961–2014

Article examines the spatiotemporal characteristics of climate variables, such as humidity index, precipitation, and potential evapotranspiration (ET0) from 1961 to 2014 in the North China Plain (NCP).
Date: March 16, 2020
Creator: Dong, Wanlin; Li, Chao; Hu, Qi; Pan, Feifei; Bhandari, Jyoti & Sun, Zhigang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping forest height using photon-counting LiDAR data and Landsat 8 OLI data: A case study in Virginia and North Carolina, USA (open access)

Mapping forest height using photon-counting LiDAR data and Landsat 8 OLI data: A case study in Virginia and North Carolina, USA

Article is a study mapping forest height by combining photon-counting LiDAR data and Landsat OLI data.
Date: March 13, 2020
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Zhu, Xiaoxiao; Wang, Cheng; Nie, Sheng; Xi, Xiaohuan & Hu, Zhenyue
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The world's southernmost tree and the climate and windscapes of the southernmost forests (open access)

The world's southernmost tree and the climate and windscapes of the southernmost forests

Article documenting the world's southernmost tree along with the condition and growth pattern of the world's southernmost forest on Isla Hornos, Chile. This offers an ideal way to test the relationship between the biogeography of individual species and the effects of climate/climate change.
Date: September 9, 2020
Creator: Buma, Brian; Holz, Andrés; Díaz, Iván A. & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Head Start and Families' Recovery From Economic Recession: Policy Recommendations for COVID-19

This article examines whether the availability of Head Start during the Great Recession mitigated the impact of this crisis on poverty rates among families with young children. The findings provide clear, evidence-based policy recommendations. Increased federal funding for Head Start is needed to support families during a COVID-19 recession.
Date: December 5, 2020
Creator: Scarborough, William; Collins, Caitlyn; Ruppanner, Leah & Landivar, Liana Christin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A semi-automated method for extracting channels and channel profiles from lidar-derived digital elevation models (open access)

A semi-automated method for extracting channels and channel profiles from lidar-derived digital elevation models

Article introduces a semi-automated method for extracting stream channels and channel profiles from high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) using image processing techniques. The method is implemented as an ArcGIS Python add-in toolbar named Channel Extraction and demonstrated using a lidar-derived DEM in a study area along the San Andreas fault in California, USA.
Date: March 10, 2020
Creator: Dong, Pinliang; Zhong, Ruofei; Xia, Jisheng & Tan, Shucheng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Student Cyclists Experience PM2.5 Pollution Hotspots around an Urban University Campus (open access)

Student Cyclists Experience PM2.5 Pollution Hotspots around an Urban University Campus

Article examining urban cyclists' risk of exposure to harmful concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM₂.₅).
Date: 2020
Creator: Luce, Brett W.; Barrett, Tate E. & Ponette-González, Alexandra G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The morpho-syntax of phrasal proper names in German (open access)

The morpho-syntax of phrasal proper names in German

Article studies the morpho-syntax of proper names in German.
Date: December 30, 2020
Creator: Roehrs, Dorian
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

COVID-19 and the gender gap in work hours

Article using panel data from the US Current Population Survey to examine changes in mothers’ and fathers’ work hours from February through April 2020, the period of time prior to the widespread COVID-19 outbreak in the United States and through its first peak. Using person-level fixed effects models, we find that mothers with young children have reduced their work hours four to five times more than fathers.
Date: July 2, 2020
Creator: Collins, Caitlyn; Landivar, Liana Christin; Ruppanner, Leah & Scarborough, William
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
People of Color, People of Faith: The Effect of Social Capital and Religion on the Political Participation of Marginalized Communities (open access)

People of Color, People of Faith: The Effect of Social Capital and Religion on the Political Participation of Marginalized Communities

Article exploring how religion, social capital, and nativity intersect in the political mobilization of racial minorities. Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) 2016 data is used to examine the connection between social capital, religion, and political behavior in a novel attempt to systematically identify the unique role of churches in the mobilization of racial minority communities.
Date: May 19, 2020
Creator: Huckle, Kiku & Silva, Andrea
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Latent Class Analysis Offers Insight into the Complex Food Environments of Native American Communities: Findings from the Randomly Selected OPREVENT2 Trial Baseline Sample (open access)

Latent Class Analysis Offers Insight into the Complex Food Environments of Native American Communities: Findings from the Randomly Selected OPREVENT2 Trial Baseline Sample

The article describes the subgroups and demographic characteristics related to NA household food environments. Surveys collected food getting, food assistance, and sociodemographic variables from randomly selected adults from three NA communities (n = 300) in the Midwest and Southwest. Findings demonstrate that NA household food environments can be described by developing subgroups based on patterns of market and traditional food getting, and food assistance utilization. Understanding NA household food environments could identify tailored individual and community-level approaches to promoting healthy eating for NA Nations.
Date: February 14, 2020
Creator: Jock, Brittany Wenniseí:iostha; Bandeen Roche, Karen; Caldas, Stephanie; Redmond, Leslie; Fleischhacker, Sheila & Gittelsohn, Joel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparative Study of Water Indices and Image Classification Algorithms for Mapping Inland Surface Water Bodies Using Landsat Imagery (open access)

A Comparative Study of Water Indices and Image Classification Algorithms for Mapping Inland Surface Water Bodies Using Landsat Imagery

This article presents a comparative study of water indices and image classification algorithms for mapping inland water bodies using Landsat imagery through obtaining 24 high-resolution (≤5 m) and cloud-free images archived in Google Earth with the same (or ±1 day) acquisition dates as the Landsat-8 OLI images over 24 selected lakes across the globe, and developing a method to generate the alternate ground truth data from the Google Earth images for properly evaluating the Landsat image classification results.
Date: May 18, 2020
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Xi, Xiaohuan & Wang, Cheng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selecting Inter-city Transportation Routes in Complex Terrains Using Quantitative Methods – A Case Study from Northern Yunnan, China (open access)

Selecting Inter-city Transportation Routes in Complex Terrains Using Quantitative Methods – A Case Study from Northern Yunnan, China

Article identifies inter-city transportation routes in complex terrains using quantitative methods in GIS.
Date: March 27, 2020
Creator: Dong, Pinliang; Xia, Jisheng & Zhao, Zhifang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mortality salience, effort, and cardiovascular response to a bar-press challenge: Remarkably nuanced effects of a death prime on heart performance (open access)

Mortality salience, effort, and cardiovascular response to a bar-press challenge: Remarkably nuanced effects of a death prime on heart performance

Article is a study that presented participants with a bar-pressing challenge relevant to their identity after having exposed them to a prime that made their mortality more or less salient. This study adds substantively to a new line of support for terror management theory and documents the predictive utility of a proposed blended analysis of associated effort processes.
Date: July 29, 2020
Creator: Reza, Ariel; Whitted, Melissa; Wright, Rex A. & Mlynski, Christopher
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Urban and air pollution: a multi-city study of long-term effects of urban landscape patterns on air quality trends (open access)

Urban and air pollution: a multi-city study of long-term effects of urban landscape patterns on air quality trends

This article identifies the key urban form determinants of decadal-long fine particulate matter (PM2.5) trends in all 626 Chinese cities at the county level and above. As the first study of its kind, this study comprehensively examines the urban form effects on air quality in cities of different population sizes, at different development levels, and in different spatial-autocorrelation positions.
Date: October 29, 2020
Creator: Liang, Lu & Gong, Peng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library