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Credentialing in Higher Education: A User Experience Study of the University of North Texas' Student Learner Record
This was a mixed-method user-centered study regarding the University of North Texas's student-owned learner record and credentialing system. Through methods of quantitative and qualitative inquiry, student perceptions were unearthed and recommendations to improve the system were provided.
Date:
December 2021
Creator:
Stutts, Sarah
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
GIS-Based Analysis of Local Climate Zones in Denton, Texas
This study implemented a GIS-based analysis of local climate zones (LCZ) in Denton, TX with data sets from 2009, 2011, 2015, and 2016. The LCZ scheme enables evaluation of distinct regions' thermal characteristics with greater granularity than conventional urban-rural dichotomies. Further, the GIS-based approach to LCZ mapping allows use of high-resolution lidar data, the availability of which for the study area enabled estimation of geometric and surface cover parameters: height of roughness elements, sky-view factor, and building surface fraction. Pervious surface fraction was estimated from National Landcover Database impervious imagery. A regular grid was used to estimate per-cell mean values for each parameter, and with a decision-making algorithm (if/then statements) two maps were produced (2011 and 2015) and six LCZ identified in each: LCZ 6 (open low-rise), LCZ 8 (large low-rise), LCZ 9 (sparsely built), LCZ A (dense trees), LCZ B (scattered trees), and LCZ C (bush/scrub). Post-processing was carried out to ensure identified zones met the spatial minimum for qualification as LCZ. Landsat Collection 2 Level 2 surface temperature products from various seasons of 2011 and 2015 were acquired to examine LCZ thermal differentiability, and preliminary surface urban heat island intensity values were estimated. Particular attention was afforded to …
Date:
December 2021
Creator:
Michel, Daniel
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
John B. Denton: the Bigger-than Life Story of the Fighting Parson and Texas Ranger
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Denton County and the City of Denton are named for pioneer preacher, lawyer, and Indian fighter John B. Denton, but little has been known about him. He was an orphan in frontier Arkansas who became a circuit-riding Methodist preacher and an important member of a movement of early settlers bringing civilization to North Texas. After becoming a ranger on the frontier, he ultimately was killed in the Tarrant Expedition, a Texas Ranger raid on a series of villages inhabited by various Caddoan and other tribes near Village Creek on May 24, 1841. Denton’s true story has been lost or obscured by the persistent mythologizing by publicists for Texas, especially by pulp western writer Alfred W. Arrington. Cochran separates the truth from the myth in this meticulous biography, which also contains a detailed discussion of the controversy surrounding the burial of John B. Denton and offers some alternative scenarios for what happened to his body after his death on the frontier.
Date:
October 2021
Creator:
Cochran, Mike
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 and Crowd
View of the Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 steam engine after it's arrival in Denton, TX and onlooking crowd.
Date:
August 13, 2021
Creator:
Hicks, William
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Diversity Without Inclusion: The Experience of Female Graduate Students of Color at a Minority Serving Institution
Graduate education can be psychologically taxing, and the academic tasks that graduate students are required to perform can cause a great level of stress, insecurity, and uncertainty. The unique experiences that female students of color face at the intersections of gender, race, and class may have negative effects on their academic performance and attainment. This research explored the experiences of discrimination among the female African American/Black and Hispanic/Latina graduate students and their coping strategies to survive in the program of study at the University of North Texas (UNT), as a minority serving institution (MSI). A narrative research method was applied and 13 in-depth interviews were conducted using a semi-structured interview protocol. The findings showed the participants experienced various types of intragroup and intergroup discrimination based on the intersections of their multiple identities, especially race, gender, and socioeconomic status. The findings of this study revealed structural discrimination that participants experienced through their education; starting with their low income neighborhood where they were raised and the discrimination at the university. They perceived that minorities are not represented in the management and faculty positions, and there is an inadequacy of support resources and lack of racially sensitive advising services for female graduate students …
Date:
August 2021
Creator:
Khalaf, Zahra Fazli
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Crafting Downtown Denton: An Exploration of Craft Beer Consumption as an Activity in Denton, Texas
Craft beer as a cultural phenomenon coincided with the revitalization of downtown Denton, Texas. Much of the existing literature on craft beer and its relation to place focuses on breweries rather than bars. This exploratory study aims to explain why people consume craft beer, what factors influenced its popularity in Denton despite little beer production, and to explore considerations for the promotion of Denton as a craft beer destination and making downtown an inclusive space. Data was collected through interviews, participant observation, and a survey. Findings indicated that craft beer consumption in Denton is largely related to perceptions of community, localism, and knowledge seeking. The ethos of the craft beer industry closely aligned with participants' perceptions of Denton as a city.
Date:
December 2020
Creator:
Hooker, Jenny
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Picnic table at the northbound rest area on Interstate 35
Photograph of a picnic table at the rest area on northbound Interstate 35 in Cooke County.
Date:
October 30, 2020
Creator:
Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Under an overpass on Interstate 35 north of Sanger, Texas
Photograph underneath the west side of an overpass on Interstate 35 just north of Sanger, Texas. The overpass is directly north of Belz road.
Date:
October 22, 2020
Creator:
Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
View facing north of Interstate 35 and the split into I-35W and I-35E in Denton, Texas
Photograph of the split of Interstate 35 into I-35W and I-35E in Denton, Texas.
Date:
September 15, 2020
Creator:
Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
View facing south on Interstate 35W from the Airport Road overpass.
Photograph facing south on Interstate 35W from the Airport Road overpass. Includes the exit ramp for Bonnie Brea street in Denton, Texas.
Date:
September 15, 2020
Creator:
Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
View facing south on Interstate 35W from the Airport Road overpass.
Photograph of the view of Interstate 35W facing south from the Airport Road overpass in Denton, Texas. In the distance you can see Mean Green Village and the UNT sports complex.
Date:
September 15, 2020
Creator:
Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
View from pedestrian bridge over I-35E looking northwest.
Photograph of I-35 from the pedestrian bridge of I-35 East. This view is towards the northwest and shows one branch of where I-35 splits into I-35E and I-35W in Denton.
Date:
September 15, 2020
Creator:
Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
In the Tall Grass West of Town: Racial Violence in Denton County during the Rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan
The aim of this thesis is to narrate and analyze lynching and atypical violence in Denton County, Texas, between 1920 and 1926. Through this intensive study of a rural county in north Texas, the role of law enforcement in typical and systemic violence is observed and the relationship between Denton County Officials and the Ku Klux Klan is analyzed. Chapter 1 discusses the root of the word lynching and submits a call for academic attention to violence that is unable to be categorized as lynching due to its restrictive definition. Chapter 2 chronicles known instances of lynching in Denton County from its founding through the 1920s including two lynchings perpetrated by Klavern 136, the Denton County Klan. Chapter 3 examines the relationship between Denton County Law Enforcement and the Klan. In Chapter 4, seasons of violence are identified and applied to available historical records. Chapter 5 concludes that non-lynching violence, termed "disappearances," occurred and argues on behalf of its inclusion within the historiography of Jim Crow Era criminal actions against Black Americans. In the Prologue and Epilogue, the development and dissolution of the St. John's Community in Pilot Point, Texas, is narrated.
Date:
May 2020
Creator:
Crittenden, Micah Carlson
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Storm Water Retention Ponds: An Important Source of Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Diversity in a Semi-Arid Urban Landscape of Denton, Texas
The City of Denton, located in a semi-arid region of Texas, has over 200 manmade ponds within its city limits. Many of these ponds, located in densely populated areas, are engineered to control storm water runoff. There is a general lack of recognition of the value these waters contribute to regional biodiversity and as greenspaces. This study, conducted in Denton, is monitoring habitat variables and macroinvertebrate diversity in a series of ponds selected to represent a gradient of urban influences. The objective of this study is to identify the variables associated with the highest diversity. Using drone imagery and a meter square box sampler, the quantitative approach allowed for delineation of three habitat types and area. The macroinvertebrates where identified to the genus level which allowed for higher resolution and resulted in stronger comparisons of the communities and conditions of the ponds. Taxa richness was positively correlated to pond size and trees along shoreline and negatively associated with average depth. Overall, submerged vegetation supported highest diversity and abundance, especially genera of Chironomidae (Diptera). Conductivity was associated with urban influences and the most urban influenced pond had the lowest taxa richness, but also reduced habitat area. Results of this study conclude …
Date:
May 2020
Creator:
Moore, Sabrina
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Overpass ramp from Interstate 35 East toward Interstate 35 West in Denton, Texas
Photograph of the overpass exit from Interstate 35 East to Interstate 35 West where Interstate 35 splits in Denton, Texas.
Date:
2020
Creator:
Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
View of the I35E and I35W Interstate Split in Denton, Texas
Photograph of the interstate 35 split into Interstate 35 East and Interstate 35 West in Denton, Texas.
Date:
2020
Creator:
Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Horn Concerto in E-flat Major (C41) by Antonio Rosetti: A Critical Edition
This project delivers to the scholar and performer a critical edition of a little-known horn concerto by Antonio Rosetti. Standing in contrast to performance or practical editions, critical editions demand that the editor exerts a non-trivial measure of authority over the state of the text. Performers often find this fact to be uncomfortable given the normal tendency to revere the perceived intent of the composers based upon the text that they set down. When engaging with sources, it is rarely clear what that intent is, or which of the available sources most closely represents that intent. Those available sources often disagree with one another, even those in the composer's own hand. It is vital for the editor to know, as precisely as is possible, who created the source material, when they created these sources, and why they created these sources. At that point the editor must decide which sources will best fit his or her framework for the creation of the critical edition. At that point the editor will grapple with numerous inconsistencies and ambiguities within those sources, and then use his or her own authority to fix the text of the composer's work into a single version for today's …
Date:
December 2019
Creator:
Stewart, Brandon (Brandon Gregory)
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 5, Ed. 1, July 2019
Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date:
July 2019
Creator:
Alvarado, Felix
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Water Quality Corridor Management for Restoration (WQCM-R) Modeling Dataset
The dataset was developed to support research intended to develop a spatially-explicit model that prioritizes riparian areas in terms of potential for ecosystem restoration specifically to improve water quality downstream of the riparian area, and ultimately improve drinking water quality. The model was developed and then tested on the Lewisville Lake watershed (north central Texas, just north of Dallas, Texas, USA). The dataset contains environmental data for 90 sub-watersheds that form the overall Lewisville Lake watershed with a corresponding identification map.
Date:
June 10, 2019
Creator:
Atkinson, Samuel F.
Object Type:
Dataset
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Increasing Effective Thermal Resistance of Building Envelope's Insulation Using Polyurethane Foam Incorporated with Phase Change Material
Incorporating insulation material with phase change materials (PCMs) could help enhance the insulation capability for further building energy savings by reducing the HVAC loadings. During the phase change process between the solid and liquid states, heat is being absorbed or released by PCMs depending on the surrounding temperature. This research explores the benefits of a polyurethane (PU)-PCM composite insulation material through infiltrating paraffin wax as PCM into PU open cell foam. The new PU-PCM composite provides extra shielding from the exterior hot temperatures for buildings. Through this study, it was demonstrated that PU-PCM composite insulation could potentially help building energy savings through reducing the loads on the HVAC systems based on the building energy modeling using EnergyPlus. The Zero Energy Lab (ZØE) at the University of North Texas was modeled and studied in the EnergyPlus. It is a detached building with all wall facades exposed to the ambient. It was determined that the new PU-PCM insulation material could provide 14% total energy saving per year and reduce the electricity use due to cooling only by around 30%.
Date:
May 2019
Creator:
Houl, Yassine
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Identifying Gaps in Tools and Interfaces for Assessing Metadata Quality
White paper discussing qualitative research conducted by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries regarding perceptions of quality by metadata creators and their managers. These perceptions of metadata quality are intended to identify gaps in tools and interfaces used to create metadata.
Date:
February 19, 2019
Creator:
Fox, Nathaniel T.; Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type:
Paper
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Words and Pictures: Vernon Fisher, 1980-2019
Words and Pictures is an exhibition and catalogue of paintings and sculptures by Texas artist Vernon Fisher, dated 1980 to 2019. Curator Tracee Robertson and critic Dave Hickey explore themes and methods in Fisher’s art. Fisher came of age in the twentieth century, characterized as the bloodiest and most brutal century in history. Like many artists of his era, including poets and writers who inspire him, Fisher explores what it means to be lost in the face of indifference. His art is a personal expression of what life feels like. His paintings, typified by compositions of floating imagery and overlaid texts, present an unresolved narrative, intended to leave viewers with an overarching sense of emotion. Embracing postmodern humor, irreverence, and anti-closure, Vernon Fisher paints images of hopeful uncertainty.
Date:
2019
Creator:
Robertson, Tracee W.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 89, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 30, 2018
Creator:
McCrory, Sean
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 88, Ed. 1 Monday, October 29, 2018
Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 29, 2018
Creator:
McCrory, Sean
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History