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Controlling Gully Erosion with Earth Dams in North-Central Texas (open access)

Controlling Gully Erosion with Earth Dams in North-Central Texas

This article describes the use of earth dams for controlling gully erosion in part of the Eastern Cross Timbers of North-Central Texas.
Date: January 2001
Creator: Hudak, Paul F. & Chadbourne, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lightning, Downed Power Line Form Intriguing Rock Structure in Denton, Texas (open access)

Lightning, Downed Power Line Form Intriguing Rock Structure in Denton, Texas

This article describes a vitrified soil structure, formed by atmospheric and human activity, possessing characteristics of igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Date: March 2003
Creator: Hudak, Paul F. & Maxey, George
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geophysical Prospecting for Oil and Gas Well Effluent (open access)

Geophysical Prospecting for Oil and Gas Well Effluent

This article describes the evaluation of the utility of an earth resistivity system for detecting drilling effluent at a site in the Trinity Group outcrop zone.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Hudak, Paul F. & Maxey, George
System: The UNT Digital Library
Change in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Weight Gain: Dallas Heart Study (open access)

Change in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Weight Gain: Dallas Heart Study

This article examines the longitudinal relationship between moving to more socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods and weight gain as a cardiovascular risk factor.
Date: June 17, 2015
Creator: Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.; Cooper-McCann, Rebecca; Ayers, Colby; Berrigan, David; Lian, Min; McClurkin, Michael et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Neighborhood Price Externalities of Foreclosure Rehabilitation: An Examination of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program

This article examines the neighborhood price impacts of Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) funded foreclosure rehabilitation undertaken by Habitat for Humanity in Dallas County, Texas using a difference-in-difference framework.
Date: January 12, 2017
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; Jha, Nikhil & Zhang, Lei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Borrelia, Ehrlichia, and Rickettsia spp. in Ticks Removed from Persons, Texas, USA (open access)

Borrelia, Ehrlichia, and Rickettsia spp. in Ticks Removed from Persons, Texas, USA

This article analyzes the frequency and identity of pathogens and bacterial agents in ticks removed from humans and subsequently submitted to the Texas Department of State Health Services, Zoonosis Control Program, from October 1, 2004, through September 30, 2008.
Date: March 10, 2010
Creator: Williamson, Phillip C.; Billingsley, Peggy M.; Teltow, Glenna J.; Seals, Janel P.; Turnbough, Meredith A. & Atkinson, Samuel F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region (open access)

Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region

This article applies an environmental justice lens to two archaeological research narratives, one centering on chemical analysis of biomolecular artifact residues and the other on paleohydrology and Pueblo farming.
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.; Figueroa, Robert & Swentzell, Porter
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comprehensive Analysis of Groundwater Quality in the Barnett Shale Region (open access)

A Comprehensive Analysis of Groundwater Quality in the Barnett Shale Region

This article presents an analysis of 550 groundwater samples collected from private and public supply water wells drawing from aquifers overlying the Barnett shale formation of Texas.
Date: June 16, 2015
Creator: Hildenbrand, Zacariah Louis; Carlton Jr., Doug D.; Fontenot, Brian; Meik, Jesse M.; Walton, Jayme; Taylor, Josh et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A determination of the spatial concordance between Lyme disease incidence and habitat probability of its primary vector Ixodes scapularis (black-legged tick) (open access)

A determination of the spatial concordance between Lyme disease incidence and habitat probability of its primary vector Ixodes scapularis (black-legged tick)

This article involves mapping the probability of occurrence that the disease vector exists in the environment, mapping the incidence of Lyme disease in the human population and examining the spatial concordance between the probability map and incidence map.
Date: November 1, 2014
Creator: Atkinson, Samuel F.; Sarkar, Sahotra; Avina, Aldo; Schuermann, Jim A. & Williamson, Phillip C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modelling spatial concordance between Rocky Mountain spotted fever disease incidence and habitat probability of its vector Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick) (open access)

Modelling spatial concordance between Rocky Mountain spotted fever disease incidence and habitat probability of its vector Dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick)

This article reports on the development and comparison of two maps of Texas related to Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Date: November 1, 2012
Creator: Atkinson, Samuel F.; Sarkar, Sahotra; Avina, Aldo; Schuermann, Jim A. & Williamson, Phillip C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Industrial Geography of Toxic Chemical Generation, Release and Management in Texas (open access)

The Industrial Geography of Toxic Chemical Generation, Release and Management in Texas

This article examines overall trends in toxic chemical generation, releases and management in Texas from 1995 to 1999 within the broad context of sustainable industrial production.
Date: 2001
Creator: Lyons, Donald
System: The UNT Digital Library
Systematic Neighborhood Observations at High Spatial Resolution: Methodology and Assessment of Potential Benefits (open access)

Systematic Neighborhood Observations at High Spatial Resolution: Methodology and Assessment of Potential Benefits

This article describes a systematic neighborhood observation instrument for collecting data at very high spatial resolution to collect data in a low-income minority neighborhood in Dallas, TX.
Date: January 20, 2011
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; O'Brien Caughy, Margaret; Mays, Judith K. & Murdoch, James
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Deprivation Predicts Weight Gain in a Multi-Ethnic Population: Longitudinal Data from the Dallas Heart Study (open access)

Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Deprivation Predicts Weight Gain in a Multi-Ethnic Population: Longitudinal Data from the Dallas Heart Study

This article examines the relationship between neighborhood-level socioeconomic deprivation and weight change in a multi-ethnic cohort from Dallas County, Texas, and whether behavioral/psychosocial factors attenuate the relationship.
Date: May 27, 2014
Creator: Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.; Ayers, Colby; Agyemang, Priscilla; Leonard, Tammy; Berrigan, David; Ballard Barbash, Rachel et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rediscovery of the Elements: The Noble Gases--Rayleigh and Ramsay (open access)

Rediscovery of the Elements: The Noble Gases--Rayleigh and Ramsay

Article describing the discovery of argon, helium, and other inert gases by Lord Rayleigh, Sir William Ramsay, and other collaborators. Ramsay also characterized the noble gases and classified them within the structure of the Periodic Table of Elements.
Date: Autumn 2012
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Graben in the Eagle Ford Shale, Lewisville, Texas (open access)

A Graben in the Eagle Ford Shale, Lewisville, Texas

This article describes a graben bounded by normal faults in an outcrop of the Eagle Ford formation within Denton County.
Date: April 1999
Creator: Hudak, Paul F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A History of Geography at the University of North Texas (open access)

A History of Geography at the University of North Texas

This article provides a history of the Geography Department at the University of North Texas.
Date: 2004
Creator: Lyons, Donald & Forbes, Bill
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sedentary Behaviors and Obesity in a Low-Income, Ethnic-Minority Population (open access)

Sedentary Behaviors and Obesity in a Low-Income, Ethnic-Minority Population

This article examines sedentary pastimes specifically in low-income, minority communities in the United States.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Shuval, Kerem; Leonard, Tammy; Murdoch, James; O'Brien Caughy, Margaret; Kohl, Harold W. & Sugg Skinner, Celette
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oil Production and Groundwater Quality in the Edwards-Trinity Plateau Aquifer, Texas (open access)

Oil Production and Groundwater Quality in the Edwards-Trinity Plateau Aquifer, Texas

This article suggests that evaporite dissolution and oilfield brine locally impact the Edwards-Trinity Plateau Aquifer, but the problem is not regionally pervasive.
Date: November 12, 2003
Creator: Hudak, Paul F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pathways to Financial Advancement: A Case Study (open access)

Pathways to Financial Advancement: A Case Study

This article describes a research project conducted in a South Dallas neighborhood to study how gateways and stepping stones can put households on a path to financial security.
Date: 2012
Creator: Di, Wenhua; Leonard, Tammy & Ryder, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ring of Fire (open access)

Ring of Fire

Front cover of the fall 2012 issue of The Hexagon, which features an image of the "ring of fire" that occurred during the annular eclipse on May 20, 2012. The photograph was taken in Brownfield, Texas a few minutes before sunset. The inside cover contains a table of contents, a staff list, an editorial, and details about the cover photograph.
Date: Autumn 2012
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2011 Beta Eta Spring Banquet. Celebration of Rediscovery of the Elements (open access)

The 2011 Beta Eta Spring Banquet. Celebration of Rediscovery of the Elements

Article describing an Eta Beta celebration of the completion of James and Virginia Marshall's "Rediscovery of the Elements." Photographs from the event are included. Three separate articles appear on the right side of the page.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Helium Monument (open access)

Helium Monument

Front cover of the summer 2012 issue of The Hexagon, which features the Helium Monument in Amarillo, Texas. The visible portion of this monument is a metal sculpture of a helium molecule hanging from the center of a structure of metal bars. The inside cover contains a table of contents, a staff list, an editorial, and a description of the Helium Monument.
Date: Summer 2012
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
System: The UNT Digital Library