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
Discussing God: The Effect of (Ir)Religious Identities on Topic-Sentiment Polarization in Online Debates (open access)

Discussing God: The Effect of (Ir)Religious Identities on Topic-Sentiment Polarization in Online Debates

Article examining how religious identities, or the lack thereof, affect intergroup biases in the form of identity-specific topic preferences and topic-sentiment polarization.
Date: August 30, 2020
Creator: Grigoropoulou, Nikolitsa
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
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
Blowing the Whistle Is Laden With Risk (open access)

Blowing the Whistle Is Laden With Risk

This book chapter explores perceptions of risk and responses to organizational wrongdoing.
Date: 2021
Creator: McGlynn, Joseph
Object Type: Book Chapter
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 (PMâ‚‚.â‚…).
Date: 2020
Creator: Luce, Brett W.; Barrett, Tate E. & Ponette-González, Alexandra G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Change Characteristics and Interactions of Soil Moisture and Temperature in the Farmland in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia, China (open access)

The Change Characteristics and Interactions of Soil Moisture and Temperature in the Farmland in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia, China

Article studying the change characteristics of soil moisture and temperature under different water level treatments in Wuchuan County, Inner Mongolia, China.
Date: May 14, 2020
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Zhang, Ziyuan; Pan, Zhihua; Zhang, Jun; Han, Guolin; Huang, Na et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Doing our work better, together: a relationship-based approach to defining the quality improvement agenda in trauma care (open access)

Doing our work better, together: a relationship-based approach to defining the quality improvement agenda in trauma care

Article presents a study conducted at Gold Coast University Hospital that aimed to define and improve relational aspects of trauma care and facilitate co-creation of targeted interventions designed to improve team relationships and performance.
Date: February 10, 2020
Creator: Henry, Doug; Purdy, Eve Isabelle; McLean, Darren; Alexander, Charlotte; Scott, Matthew; Donohue, Andrew et al.
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
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
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
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
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
Automatic Extraction of Grasses and Individual Trees in Urban Areas Based on Airborne Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data (open access)

Automatic Extraction of Grasses and Individual Trees in Urban Areas Based on Airborne Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data

This article proposes a three-dimensional (3D) vegetation extraction workflow to extract urban grasses and trees at individual tree level in urban areas using airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data. Results suggest that two- and three-dimensional urban vegetation extraction could play a significant role in spatial layout optimization and scientific management of urban vegetation.
Date: August 23, 2020
Creator: Man, Qixia; Dong, Pinliang; Yang, Xinming; Wu, Quanyuan & Han, Rongqing
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
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
Structural equation modeling of the associations between amygdala activation, personality, and internalizing, externalizing symptoms of psychopathology (open access)

Structural equation modeling of the associations between amygdala activation, personality, and internalizing, externalizing symptoms of psychopathology

Article examining how amygdala activation to facial expressions was linked with self-report of personality traits and clinical interviews of internalizing and externalizing symptoms of psychopathology. Structural equation modeling results revealed direct associations of amygdala activation with personality trait expression, as well as indirect associations (though personality) with symptoms of psychopathology.
Date: July 14, 2020
Creator: Neumann, Craig S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multi-Source Irrigation Status and Type Mapping (open access)

Multi-Source Irrigation Status and Type Mapping

Data management plan for the grant, "Multi-Source Irrigation Status and Type Mapping." This grant will quantify the long-term irrigation status and system type changes in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley for an advanced understanding of irrigation-induced water resource changes by integrating multi-source earth observation data, machine learning techniques, artificial intelligence and cloud computing.
Date: 2022-07-01/2025-06-30
Creator: Liang, Lu
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The North Texas-20 (open access)

The North Texas-20

Data management plan for the grant, "The North Texas-20". The North Texas-20 project builds upon its established work to redress unmet needs of our region, support for underserved communities, and contribute to psychology workforce diversification.
Date: 2022-09-01/2025-06-30
Creator: Callahan, Jennifer L.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
HRSA Center of Excellence (open access)

HRSA Center of Excellence

Data management plan for the grant, "HRSA Center of Excellence". The North Texas Center for Excellence (COE) will serve as an innovative resource for recruitment, training, and retention of health service psychology (HSP) Hispanic students and faculty, will improve clinical education and cultural competence associated with minority health issues and social determinates of health, and will facilitate research on minority health and health care delivery.
Date: 2022-07-01/2027-06-30
Creator: Ruggero, Camilo J.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Piloting Deposit Contracts to Increase Accessibility of a Contingency Management Intervention to Reduce Problematic Drinking (open access)

Piloting Deposit Contracts to Increase Accessibility of a Contingency Management Intervention to Reduce Problematic Drinking

Data management plan for the grant, "Piloting Deposit Contracts to Increase Accessibility of a Contingency Management Intervention to Reduce Problematic Drinking". The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the feasibility and/or effectiveness of deposit contracts as an intervention for problematic drinking.
Date: 2022-06-10/2024-03-31
Creator: Dougherty, Donald M.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research Note: School Reopenings During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Gender and Racial Equity (open access)

Research Note: School Reopenings During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Gender and Racial Equity

Article studying racial and gender disparities among school re-openings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: February 1, 2022
Creator: Landivar, Liana Christin; Ruppanner, Leah; Rouse, Lloyd; Scarborough, William & Collins, Caitlyn
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Beyond Traits and States: Interpersonal Decentering Is Also Activated Social Information Processing

Article drawing on a process-focused model of interpersonal decentering's causal validity, the authors manipulated activation experimentally, comparing decentering scores from expressive writing essays under standard instructions (activation condition) versus control instructions, then correlated decentering scores with use of activated language. With condition controlled, both decentering scores correlated significantly with greater proportions of present-tense verbs, positive emotion words, and cognitive words, showing trait effects.
Date: October 22, 2021
Creator: Jenkins, Sharon Rae; Shamji, Jabeen F.; Straup, Madison L. & Boals, Adriel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library