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“Beast-Hunts” in Roman Amphitheaters: The Impact of the Venationes on Animal Populations in the Ancient Roman World (open access)

“Beast-Hunts” in Roman Amphitheaters: The Impact of the Venationes on Animal Populations in the Ancient Roman World

Paper explores the impact of ancient Roman venationes, or wild beast hunts, on animal populations around the world.
Date: 2012
Creator: Kidd, Elliott
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
Comparative Immunity Analysis in Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacteriophage (open access)

Comparative Immunity Analysis in Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacteriophage

Paper describes research conducted with the goal of expanding the body of information related to mycobacteriophages and the relationship between those viruses and the bacteria that are immune to them.
Date: 2012
Creator: Schade, Amy E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cultural Competency in the Learning Environment: Promoting the Development of Diversity Training (open access)

Cultural Competency in the Learning Environment: Promoting the Development of Diversity Training

Paper looks at the effects of anti-gay bias and a lack of diversity training related to LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer/Questioning) issues on pre-service educators, and in turn on their students.
Date: 2012
Creator: Tolle, Kendal
System: The UNT Digital Library
Do As the Romans: Greco-Roman Iconography in Eleanor Antin’s Last Days of Pompeii (open access)

Do As the Romans: Greco-Roman Iconography in Eleanor Antin’s Last Days of Pompeii

Paper analyzes the commentary on the use of history in art in Eleanor Antin’s Last Days of Pompeii.
Date: 2012
Creator: Parkinson, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Disasters and Subnational Conflict: A Study on the Effects of Environmental Disasters and Environmentally-Induced Migration on Subnational Conflict (open access)

Environmental Disasters and Subnational Conflict: A Study on the Effects of Environmental Disasters and Environmentally-Induced Migration on Subnational Conflict

Paper examines the effect of migration precipitated by environmental disasters on the likelihood of conflict in host communities.
Date: 2012
Creator: Manglaris, Angela
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
Hanging on to Home: Representations of Handala and the Home (open access)

Hanging on to Home: Representations of Handala and the Home

Paper examines the subjective relationships between the Palestinians, the Israeli West Bank Barrier ( or the “Apartheid Wall”), Handala (a cartoon character created by Naji al-Ali), and the concept of home.
Date: 2012
Creator: Hyche, Breana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hitler as Sculptor: Molding Germany’s Collective Memory of “Degenerate” Art (open access)

Hitler as Sculptor: Molding Germany’s Collective Memory of “Degenerate” Art

Paper discusses the 1937 National Socialist exhibition “Entartete Kunst,” (Degenerate Art) and the ways it influenced the German public’s perceptions of the art displayed, as well as the cultural memory of modern art in general.
Date: 2012
Creator: Warner, Tory
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
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
Shutters Shut and Open: Photographic Theory in Gertrude Stein’s Literary Portraits (open access)

Shutters Shut and Open: Photographic Theory in Gertrude Stein’s Literary Portraits

Paper investigates how Gertrude Stein uses photographic theory in the formal construction of her literary portraits in order to create an autonomous work of art and an authentic resemblance to her human subjects.
Date: 2012
Creator: Parkinson, Laure
System: The UNT Digital Library
Star Trek and “The Other”: Race, Gender and the Cultural Imagination (open access)

Star Trek and “The Other”: Race, Gender and the Cultural Imagination

Paper examines the portrayal of the Other as an indicator of change in the cultural imagination in Star Trek.
Date: 2012
Creator: Resendiz, Ramon
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
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
Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges, Explanations and Suggestions for the Future (open access)

Democratization in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges, Explanations and Suggestions for the Future

Paper explores why democratization has been unsuccessful in the Middle East and North Africa, and the impact of the U.S. and global policy on this failure.
Date: 2011
Creator: Young, Krysten
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to The Eagle Feather 2011 (open access)

Preface to The Eagle Feather 2011

Introduction to the 2011 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2011
Creator: Cox, Gloria C. & Eve, Susan Brown
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
Technology and Our Emotional Selves (open access)

Technology and Our Emotional Selves

Paper discusses studio practice exploring the relationship between technology and the emotional self, and the central role technology can take in our definition of intimacy.
Date: 2011
Creator: Rand, Peter
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
Avalokiteśvara: Bodhisattvas and Signs of Change (open access)

Avalokiteśvara: Bodhisattvas and Signs of Change

Paper examines the evolution and transformation of Buddhism in different cultures by focusing on the example of Avalokiteśvara, a Bodhisattva traditionally depicted as a man who was eventually depicted as Kuan-yin, a woman, once fully transitioned into Chinese Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Date: 2010
Creator: Santayana, S.M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fitzgerald’s Women: Motherhood and Masculinity in the Flapper Era (open access)

Fitzgerald’s Women: Motherhood and Masculinity in the Flapper Era

Paper discusses how changing gender roles in the 1920s, particularly for mothers, are depicted in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and how mother figures influence the development of his leading male characters.
Date: 2010
Creator: Vincent, Emily S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flight Control Subsystem (open access)

Flight Control Subsystem

Paper describes a project with the goal of designing and prototyping a small-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), offering dual-channel real-time video, data logging, and waypoint tracking.
Date: 2010
Creator: Williams, Jennifer; Bratton, David; Jones, Aaron; Anderson, Alyse; Befort, Jonathan; Lowe, Ryan et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gender Equality and Post-Conflict Peace (open access)

Gender Equality and Post-Conflict Peace

Paper explores relationship between gender equality and the duration of peace in post civil war societies.
Date: 2010
Creator: Kelly, Eliza
System: The UNT Digital Library