Play and the Subculture of Larping: Gender, Motivations, and Self (open access)

Play and the Subculture of Larping: Gender, Motivations, and Self

Paper analyzes perceptions of gender, motivations, and self of people who participate in the subculture of Live Action Role-Playing, or LARPing, to better understand the importance of play for adults.
Date: 2010
Creator: Lee, Mai Cha
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Unheard Voice: The American Muslim Struggle for Political Inclusion (open access)

An Unheard Voice: The American Muslim Struggle for Political Inclusion

Paper explores the effect of discrimination against American Muslims on their political participation.
Date: 2012
Creator: Dean, Tahirah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Do You Get Me? Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication Between Refugees and Health Practitioners (open access)

Do You Get Me? Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication Between Refugees and Health Practitioners

Paper discusses recurring themes in cross-cultural communication between medical practitioners and refugees, specifically Vietnamese refugees who have lived in the United States for more than 20 years, at the Dallas County Health Services Refugee Clinic, including substitution, omission, editorialization with the use of an interpreter, and nonverbal communication expressed by both populations.
Date: 2010
Creator: Haynes, Kayla Marie
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
The Relationship between Central Banking Independence and the Onset of Civil Conflicts (open access)

The Relationship between Central Banking Independence and the Onset of Civil Conflicts

Paper examines the relationship between central banking independence in a state and the costs and benefits of igniting a civil conflict.
Date: 2010
Creator: Mai, Minh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mindfulness and Cardiovascular Risk in College Students (open access)

Mindfulness and Cardiovascular Risk in College Students

Paper describes the results of a study on the relationship between mindfulness and cardiovascular health in college students.
Date: 2010
Creator: Kettler, Kristen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perception, Loss, and Rivalry Termination (open access)

Perception, Loss, and Rivalry Termination

Paper examines the impact of the perception of losses and gains on the length of rivalry and conflict between rival states.
Date: 2011
Creator: Carpenter, Craig
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
Migration and Healing in a Latino/a Context (open access)

Migration and Healing in a Latino/a Context

Paper examines the history and belief systems of Latin American folk healers in the United States.
Date: 2011
Creator: Diaz, Martha Nuño
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethnicity, Civil War and International Disputes (open access)

Ethnicity, Civil War and International Disputes

Paper explores the role played by ethnicity in civil war in terms of sparking international disputes.
Date: 2010
Creator: Kenwick, Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism (open access)

Environmental Values of Texas Farmers and Ranchers Engaged in Agritourism

Papers explores the ways in which Texas agritourism operators value their land and construct their relationships with the natural environment.
Date: 2011
Creator: Bonham, Mēgan S. Albaugh
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
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
Lethal Negotiation: The Effect of Violence on the Likelihood of State-Organization Negotiation (open access)

Lethal Negotiation: The Effect of Violence on the Likelihood of State-Organization Negotiation

Paper explores the relationship between violence caused by an organization and the likelihood of negotiation with a state.
Date: 2012
Creator: Gustafson, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to Special Section in Art History: The Significance of Place: Emotional Geography, Collective Memory and Heritage (open access)

Introduction to Special Section in Art History: The Significance of Place: Emotional Geography, Collective Memory and Heritage

Introduction to the special section on art history featured in the 2012 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2012
Creator: Way, Jennifer
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
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
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
Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Africa (open access)

Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Africa

Paper examines the relationship between independent judiciaries and human rights records in African nations.
Date: 2011
Creator: Longmiles, Leticia
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
Towards a Theory of Electronic Communication and Protest (open access)

Towards a Theory of Electronic Communication and Protest

Paper seeks to explore the impact of electronic communication on social protest movements and how individuals petition for redress of grievances against the government.
Date: 2012
Creator: Stoner, Byron
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
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
Judicial Independence and Peace Duration: An Assessment of Political Institutions in the Post-Conflict Environment (open access)

Judicial Independence and Peace Duration: An Assessment of Political Institutions in the Post-Conflict Environment

Paper assesses the role that an independent judiciary serves in the post-conflict environment.
Date: 2012
Creator: Madden, Ryan J.
System: The UNT Digital Library