COVID-19 has heightened tensions between and exposed threats to core values of emergency medicine (open access)

COVID-19 has heightened tensions between and exposed threats to core values of emergency medicine

The authors of the article conducted a collaborative ethnography at a tertiary care center during the acute phase of the response to the threat of COVID-19. they found that COVID-19 exacerbated pre-existing tensions and threats to the core values of emergency medicine.
Date: September 10, 2022
Creator: Purdy, Eve; Forster, Gillian; Manlove, Hayley; McDonough, Laura; Powell, Meredith; Wood, Krista et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Intersection of Racial and Gender Attitudes, 1977 through 2018 (open access)

The Intersection of Racial and Gender Attitudes, 1977 through 2018

Article applying latent class analysis to a set of racial and gender attitude items from the General Social Survey (1977 to 2018) to identify four configurations of individuals’ simultaneous views on race and gender.
Date: August 18, 2021
Creator: Scarborough, William; Pepin, Joanna R.; Lambouths, Danny L. III; Kwon, Ronald & Monasterio, Ronaldo
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
Psychometric Evaluation of the Posttrauma Risky Behaviors Questionnaire: Item Response Theory Analyses (open access)

Psychometric Evaluation of the Posttrauma Risky Behaviors Questionnaire: Item Response Theory Analyses

This article investigates the psychometric properties of the Posttrauma Risky Behaviors Questionnaire (PRBQ) using item response theory to examine (a) item analysis (b) person fit, and (c) differential item functioning (DIF) across gender-based groups and two different samples.
Date: July 30, 2021
Creator: Batley, Pathiba Natesan; Contractor, Ateka A.; Weiss, Nicole; Compton, Sidonia E. & Price, Matthew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Who Is Purged? Determinants of Elite Purges in North Korea (open access)

Who Is Purged? Determinants of Elite Purges in North Korea

This article argues that elite purges in consolidated dictatorships have a different purpose and logic. Dictators, who have consolidated their position, seek to maximize the efficiency of rule by making the elite obedient through purges. For this purpose, dictators carefully select the purge target by considering various factors. To test this theory, the article examines the pattern of elite purges in North Korea based on an original individual-level dataset, which contains the personal background of 367 North Korean elites and their purge records between 1948 and 2019. Findings suggest that coup-proofing is not the only purpose of elite purges but that ensuring the leader’s political superiority is another purpose of elite purges in consolidated dictatorships.
Date: September 1, 2021
Creator: Kim, Taekbin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Confronting Russia: How Do the Citizens of Countries of the Near Abroad Perceive Their State’s Role? (open access)

Confronting Russia: How Do the Citizens of Countries of the Near Abroad Perceive Their State’s Role?

Article providing an explanation as to why citizens of some states differ from others in their role conceptions, especially those states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. The authors offer a novel theoretical explanation that accounts for variation in roles, based on each country’s historic relationship with Russia, its emerging relationship with the West and China, and domestic ethnopolitical conditions.
Date: September 1, 2021
Creator: Ishiyama, John T. & Breuning, Marijke
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
Are States Created Equal? Moving to a State With More Expensive Childcare Reduces Mothers' Odds of Employment (open access)

Are States Created Equal? Moving to a State With More Expensive Childcare Reduces Mothers' Odds of Employment

This article investigates whether moving to a state with more expensive childcare is associated with lower odds of maternal employment among mothers who had been employed prior to relocation. Results show that moving to states with fewer childcare barriers is associated with higher levels of maternal employment, partly mitigating the negative labor market effects of interstate migration.
Date: March 4, 2021
Creator: Landivar, Liana Christin; Ruppanner, Leah & Scarborough, William
Object Type: Article
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
How Might Indices of Happiness Inform Early Intervention Research and Decision Making? (open access)

How Might Indices of Happiness Inform Early Intervention Research and Decision Making?

Article discusses how the child-caregiver relationship is the foundation for which intervention occurs. The purpose of this study is to explore how researchers and clinicians might collect direct data on IOH to assess the acceptability of an intervention.
Date: October 3, 2022
Creator: Amarie, Carnett; Neely, Leslie; Chen, Meng-Ting; Cantrell, Katherine; Santos, Erin & Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla
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
Amount, distance-dependent and structural effects of forest patches on bees in agricultural landscapes (open access)

Amount, distance-dependent and structural effects of forest patches on bees in agricultural landscapes

This article is a review examining the effects of forest patches on bees and pollination services to determine how to increase pollination service in agricultural landscapes.
Date: January 21, 2022
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A review of diversity of bees, the attractiveness of host plants and the effects of landscape variables on bees in urban gardens (open access)

A review of diversity of bees, the attractiveness of host plants and the effects of landscape variables on bees in urban gardens

Article exploring the ecology of pollinating bees in urban gardens and farms.
Date: January 16, 2022
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil Erosion Vulnerability Mapping in Selected Rural Communities of uThukela Catchment, South Africa, Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (open access)

Soil Erosion Vulnerability Mapping in Selected Rural Communities of uThukela Catchment, South Africa, Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Article presents a study (i) assessing and modeling soil erosion vulnerability based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach in Hoffenthal and KwaMaye communities within the uThukela Catchment, South Africa; and (ii) identifying the relevant sustainable interventions and remedial strategies to combat soil erosion in the study area.
Date: May 13, 2022
Creator: Ebhuoma, Osadolor; Gebreslasie, Michael; Ngetar, Njoya Silas; Phinzi, Kwanele & Bhattacharjee, Shwarnali
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
Estimating landscape structure effects on pollination for management of agricultural landscapes (open access)

Estimating landscape structure effects on pollination for management of agricultural landscapes

Article estimating the effects of different scenarios of forest fragmentation to find an optimized pattern of forest patches for increasing pollination in an agricultural landscape. The authors use simulated agricultural landscapes and landscape metrics to estimate the relationship between pollination and landscape structure.
Date: September 7, 2021
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using the Lonsdorf model for estimating habitat loss and fragmentation effects on pollination service (open access)

Using the Lonsdorf model for estimating habitat loss and fragmentation effects on pollination service

Article examining the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on pollination separately according to the Lonsdorf model. Results show that the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on pollination are completely different at the landscape and farm levels. This article shows that using the Lonsdorf model could lead to confusing results for the landscape ecologists and farmers who want to reduce the adverse effects of fragmentation on their products by creating new forest patches.
Date: March 22, 2021
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
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
The “Malevolent” Benevolence: what happens to perceived immigrant threat when value priorities collide? (open access)

The “Malevolent” Benevolence: what happens to perceived immigrant threat when value priorities collide?

This article examines how self-transcending human values affect perceptions of immigrant threat. Results show that benevolence and universalism tend to affect perceived immigrant threat in opposite directions. A part of individuals’ anti-immigrant bias does not stem from strictly self-interested motivations, as often proposed, but by a sense of loyalty to the interests of our immediate contacts.
Date: February 10, 2021
Creator: Grigoropoulou, Nikolitsa
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
Geomorphic analysis of Xiadian buried fault zone in Eastern Beijing plain based on SPOT image and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data (open access)

Geomorphic analysis of Xiadian buried fault zone in Eastern Beijing plain based on SPOT image and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data

This article presents geomorphic analysis of Xiadian buried fault in eastern Beijing plain (China), based on the analysis of a Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT-5) image, a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) derived from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system, SRTM DEM and field investigation. Results can provide valuable insight into geomorphic analysis of buried and semi-buried active faults in plain areas with increasingly frequent human activities.
Date: January 19, 2021
Creator: Wang, Yanping; Dong, Pinliang; Zhu, Yueqin; Shen, Jun & Liao, Shunbao
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