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Re-assessing the science - society relation: The case of the US National Science Foundation's broader impacts merit review criterion (1997 - 2011) (open access)

Re-assessing the science - society relation: The case of the US National Science Foundation's broader impacts merit review criterion (1997 - 2011)

Article discussing research on re-assessing the science to society relation and the case of the U.S. National Science Foundation's broader impacts merit review criterion from 1997 to 2011.
Date: 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Not in My Back Yard!

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Gas Well Drilling Redux. This presentation discusses the 'not in my back yard' (NIMBY) attitude - opposition by residents to a proposal for new development that is close to their homes - and focus on whether is it principled or hypocritical to simultaneously oppose the development while benefiting economically from it.
Date: February 8, 2012
Creator: Briggle, Adam
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

No Longer Collecting Dust: How ETD & Open Access Will Revolutionize the Academy

This is the presentation for the closing remarks at the Texas Electronic Theses and Dissertations (TxETD) Annual Conference. It discusses how ETDs and open access will revolutionize the academy.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Meernik, James David
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multiple domains in MtENOD8 protein including the signal peptide target it to the symbiosome (open access)

Multiple domains in MtENOD8 protein including the signal peptide target it to the symbiosome

Article presenting evidence from GFP fusion experiments that the MtENOD8 protein contains at least three symbiosome targeting domains, including its N-terminal signal peptide (SP).
Date: May 2012
Creator: Meckfessel, Matthew H.; Blancaflor, Elison B.; Plunkett, Michael; Dong, Qunfeng & Dickstein, Rebecca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interpolative multidimensional scaling techniques for the identification of clusters in very large sequence sets (open access)

Interpolative multidimensional scaling techniques for the identification of clusters in very large sequence sets

This article discusses interpolative multidimensional scaling techniques for the identification of clusters in very large sequence sets.
Date: March 13, 2012
Creator: Hughes, Adam; Ruan, Yang; Ekanayake, Saliya; Bae, Seung-Hee; Dong, Qunfeng; Rho, Mina et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mediated Primaries

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the 2012 Presidential Primaries. In this presentation, the author uses his background in rhetoric and debate, as well as his interests in ideological criticism, and the politics of representation to comment on the candidates' rhetoric.
Date: April 24, 2012
Creator: Lain, Brian A.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Racial and Ethnic Politics in the 2012 Presidential Primaries

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the 2012 Presidential Primaries. In this presentation, the author discusses how members of different racial and ethnic backgrounds responded to the 2012 Republican primary candidates.
Date: April 24, 2012
Creator: Carey, Tony E.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The 2012 Republican Primaries

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the 2012 Presidential Primaries. In this presentation, the author gives the audience an overview of the structure of the primaries, and provides a recap of past primaries. The author also speaks about the money, momentum, and media attention in the primaries.
Date: April 24, 2012
Creator: Eshbaugh-Soha, Matthew, 1972-
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Using Calibrated Peer Review to Facilitate Writing Assignments in Large Classes

This poster discusses a project using Calibrated Peer Review (CPR). CPR is a web-based instructional tool. CPR assignments require students to write an essay, evaluated three 'canned' calibration essays on the same topic, evaluate three of their peers' essays, and finally evaluate their own essay. The authors' goal was to determine whether the CPR process improves student learning of the essay content and whether the CPR process improves student writing.
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: Ishiyama, John & Watson, Wendy
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

History 4263: Palestinian History

Poster for the 2012 University Forum on Teaching & Learning. This poster discusses a project for a UNT history course, History 4263, on Palestinian history. In the course, students explore historical foundations and interpretations of modern Palestinian history.
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: Stockdale, Nancy L.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mock Trial on Stalin and Stalinism

This poster describes an experiential learning activity for the UNT course History 5040, Historiography of Stalinism. The goal is to apply critical reasoning to Stalin's politics in a courtroom environment.
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Teaching French Verbal Aspect through Concept-Based Instruction

This poster describes a pilot study on teaching French verbal aspect through concept-based instruction. This poster outlines and describes the background and context of a verbal aspect, the tasks and assessments for the study, student learning outcomes, the theoretical framework, and the results of the study.
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: Williams, Lawrence
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Gender and globalization through film: A Wiki course

Poster presented as part of the 2012 University Forum on Teaching & Learning at UNT. This poster discusses a learning activity with a Wiki course on gender and globalization through film. The course aims to help students understand how existing gender inequalities are challenged and furthered by processes of international development and globalization.
Date: March 28, 2012
Creator: Altiok, Özlem
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose (open access)

Resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose

Article discussing research on how the resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose.
Date: March 15, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does open access really threaten peer review? (open access)

Does open access really threaten peer review?

In this paper, the author discusses whether open access threatens peer review, as implied by the Association of American Publishers in their endorsement of the Research Works Act. The author suggests that we need to experiment with new models of peer evaluation.
Date: January 11, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Philosophy Matters - Examining the Value of Knowledge (open access)

Philosophy Matters - Examining the Value of Knowledge

This paper discusses the University of North Texas' (UNT) Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity (CSID), where philosophers continue to examine the value of knowledge. The authors also discuss one example of CSID's work with the Comparative Assessment of Peer Review (CAPR) project. CAPR is a four-year project (2008-2012) studying the changing nature of peer review processes across six U.S. and foreign public science agencies. CAPR is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: Frodeman, Robert & Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Transformations: Ambiguity and the NSF's Experiment with 'Transformative' Research (open access)

Good Transformations: Ambiguity and the NSF's Experiment with 'Transformative' Research

This article discusses a recent workshop on Transformative Research held at the headquarters of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia.
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt; Barr, Kelli R. & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Promise and Perils of Transformative Research (open access)

The Promise and Perils of Transformative Research

This report is on the workshop 'Transformative Research: Ethical and Societal Implications'. Workshop conversations cluster under the four headings of the history and definitions, promotion, evaluation, and integration of transformative research.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Frodeman, Robert & Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Science: For Science's or Society's Sake? Owning the National Science Foundation's Broader Impacts Criterion (open access)

Science: For Science's or Society's Sake? Owning the National Science Foundation's Broader Impacts Criterion

Article describing changes in the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) merit review criteria. The authors argue that scientists are more likely to preserve their autonomy by embracing - or 'owning' - the new Broader Impacts Criterion rather than resisting it.
Date: March 1, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetic Manipulation of a "Vacuolar" H+ -PPase: From Salt Tolerance to Yield Enhancement under Phosphorus-Deficient Soils (open access)

Genetic Manipulation of a "Vacuolar" H+ -PPase: From Salt Tolerance to Yield Enhancement under Phosphorus-Deficient Soils

Article on the genetic manipulation of a vacuolar H+ -PPase and salt tolerance to yield enhancement under phosphorous-deficient soils.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Gaxiola, Roberto A.; Paez-Valencia, Julio; Ayre, Brian G. & Elser, James J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geminivirus-Mediated Delivery of Florigen Promotes Determinate Growth in Aerial Organs and Uncouples Flowering from Photoperiod in Cotton (open access)

Geminivirus-Mediated Delivery of Florigen Promotes Determinate Growth in Aerial Organs and Uncouples Flowering from Photoperiod in Cotton

This article discusses geminivirus-mediated delivery of florigen. Florigen acts as a general growth hormone, advancing determinate growth. The findings extend our understanding of florigen as a general growth hormone and could benefit crop management techniques.
Date: May 2012
Creator: McGarry, Roisin C. & Ayre, Brian G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Origin and Composition of Cucurbit "Phloem" Exudate (open access)

The Origin and Composition of Cucurbit "Phloem" Exudate

This article discusses the origin and composition of cucurbit phloem exudate.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Zhang, Cankui; Yu, Xiyan; Ayre, Brian G. & Turgeon, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Controllable enhanced dragging of light in ultradispersive media (open access)

Controllable enhanced dragging of light in ultradispersive media

Article discussing research on the controllable enhanced dragging of light in ultradispersive media.
Date: July 5, 2012
Creator: Rostovtsev, Yuri V. & Davuluri, Sankar
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracking molecular wave packets in cesium dimers by coherent Raman scattering (open access)

Tracking molecular wave packets in cesium dimers by coherent Raman scattering

Article discussing tracking molecular wave packets in cesium dimers by coherent Raman scattering.
Date: August 31, 2012
Creator: Yuan, Luqi; Murawski, Robert K.; Ariunbold, Gombojav O.; Zhi, Miaochan; Wang, Xi; Sautenkov, Vladimir A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library