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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
Regional Security Organizations: Factors Behind Peacekeeping Participation (open access)

Regional Security Organizations: Factors Behind Peacekeeping Participation

Paper discusses which factors drive nations to contribute to regional peacekeeping operations.
Date: 2010
Creator: Puerta, Gene
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
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
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
Globalization and Indigenous Group Violence in Latin America (open access)

Globalization and Indigenous Group Violence in Latin America

Paper investigates the relationship between levels of globalization and indigenous conflict in Latin America.
Date: 2010
Creator: Rojas, Jacqueline I.
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
Women and Printmaking: An Approach Informed by Gender and Technology Studies (open access)

Women and Printmaking: An Approach Informed by Gender and Technology Studies

Paper examines the history of women printmakers from an interdisciplinary perspective, identifying printmaking as an area of the humanities, while arguing for the benefits of this perspective for future research on the topic.
Date: 2010
Creator: Hirsch, Lauren
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pictures of Charlotte: The Illustrated Charlotte Temple and Her Readers (open access)

Pictures of Charlotte: The Illustrated Charlotte Temple and Her Readers

Article on the illustrated Charlotte Temple and her readers.
Date: November 3, 2010
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reference book indexes reviewed (open access)

Reference book indexes reviewed

Article on a study of the frequency and nature of remarks about indexes found in reviews of reference books.
Date: March 2010
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Best Practices for Librarians Embedded in Online Courses (open access)

Best Practices for Librarians Embedded in Online Courses

Article discussing research on embedded librarian services in collaboration with faculty in online courses.
Date: 2010
Creator: Hoffman, Starr & Ramin, Lilly
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Reaction Between NH(X3Σ-) + SO(X3Σ-) (open access)

An Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Reaction Between NH(X3Σ-) + SO(X3Σ-)

Article on an experimental and theoretical study of the reaction between NH(X3Σ–) + SO(X3Σ–).
Date: August 3, 2010
Creator: Blitz, Mark A.; Shannon, Robin J.; Marshall, Paul & Pilling, Michael J.
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
Dallas Freedman’s Town: One Community’s Preservation Within a Gentrified Environment (open access)

Dallas Freedman’s Town: One Community’s Preservation Within a Gentrified Environment

Paper discusses the effects of gentrification on communities by focusing on Dallas Freedman’s Town/North Dallas—established by freed slaves in the 1860’s—and the Saint Paul United Methodist Church congregation.
Date: 2010
Creator: Velin, Gabriel
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Counterterrorist Policy on Terrorist Success in Western Europe (open access)

The Effect of Counterterrorist Policy on Terrorist Success in Western Europe

Paper examines the effectiveness of post-9/11 counterterrorism policies in Western Europe.
Date: 2010
Creator: McGee, Daniel
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
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
Regional Peacekeeping in the Developing World: Conditions That Permit for a Successful Peacekeeping Campaign (open access)

Regional Peacekeeping in the Developing World: Conditions That Permit for a Successful Peacekeeping Campaign

Paper analyzes humanitarian peacekeeping interventions led by regional organizations in the developing world and presents results seeking to shed light on the success of these humanitarian interventions and whether they are the better option versus allowing the conflicts to evolve.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jones, Joseph S.
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
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