Saguaro Cactus and Joshua Trees (open access)

Saguaro Cactus and Joshua Trees

Front cover of the spring 2013 issue of The Hexagon, which features an image of a saguaro cactus and joshua trees at a location in northwest Arizona along highway US 93. The inside cover contains a table of contents, a staff list, an editorial, and details about the cover photograph.
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ion Beam Analysis of Microcrystalline Quartz Artifacts from the Reed Mound Site, Delaware County, Oklahoma (open access)

Ion Beam Analysis of Microcrystalline Quartz Artifacts from the Reed Mound Site, Delaware County, Oklahoma

This paper from the 23rd Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings evaluates the potential of particle induced X-ray emission spectrometry as a tool for future Ozarks chert provenance studies based on its ability to facilitate discrimination of Ozarks chert materials from different geological formations and identification of discrete groups of artifacts from the same geological formation.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Younger-Mertz, S. B.; Manuel, J. E.; Reinert, Tilo; Szilasi, S. Z.; Hammerstedt, S. W. & Glass, Gary A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rediscovery of the Elements: Columbium and Tantalum (open access)

Rediscovery of the Elements: Columbium and Tantalum

Article describing the discovery of columbium and tantalum. Tourist information regarding locations significant to these discoveries are included.
Date: Summer 2013
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Monodisperse Thermo-Responsive Microgels of Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Analogue-Based Biopolymers, their Manufacture, and their Applications (open access)

Monodisperse Thermo-Responsive Microgels of Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Analogue-Based Biopolymers, their Manufacture, and their Applications

Patent relating to monodisperse thermo-responsive microgels of poly(ethylene glycol) analogue-based biopolymers, their manufacture, and their applications.
Date: July 14, 2009
Creator: Hu, Zhibing; Cai, Tong; Chi, Chenglin & Marquez, Manuel
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Applications of Hydrogen Gas Getters in Mass Spectrometry (open access)

Applications of Hydrogen Gas Getters in Mass Spectrometry

Patent relating to applications of hydrogen gas getters in mass spectrometry.
Date: December 30, 2009
Creator: Verbeck, Guido F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
What’s a Quail Worth? A Longitudinal Assessment of Quail Hunter Demographics, Attitudes, and Spending Habits in Texas (open access)

What’s a Quail Worth? A Longitudinal Assessment of Quail Hunter Demographics, Attitudes, and Spending Habits in Texas

This paper discusses a survey of quail hunters in Texas in 2000 and 2011 to assess hunter demographics and spending habits.
Date: January 9, 2012
Creator: Johnson, Jason L.; Rollins, Dale & Reyna, Kelly S.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gas That Wouldn't Burn (open access)

The Gas That Wouldn't Burn

Article describing how Alpha Chi Sigma members were involved with the events described on a pictured Kansas historical marker relating to the discovery of helium in a deposit of natural gas.
Date: Summer 2012
Creator: Marshall, James L., 1940- & Marshall, Virginia R.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the COlorado (open access)

River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the COlorado

This article reviews the book "River Notes: A Natural and Human History of the Colorado" by Wade Davis.
Date: November 4, 2013
Creator: La Point, Thomas W., 1949-
Object Type: Review
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.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low neutral genetic diversity in isolated Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) populations in northwest Wyoming (open access)

Low neutral genetic diversity in isolated Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) populations in northwest Wyoming

This article contains an analysis of 16 microstatellite loci from 300 Greater Sage-Grouse individuals to assess genetic structure among populations in Wyoming and southeast Montana.
Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Schulwitz, Sarah; Bedrosian, Bryan & Johnson, Jeff A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gray Wolf Exposure to Emerging Vector-Borne Diseases in Wisconsin with Comparison to Domestic Dogs and Humans (open access)

Gray Wolf Exposure to Emerging Vector-Borne Diseases in Wisconsin with Comparison to Domestic Dogs and Humans

This article contains the evaluation of temporal and geographic patterns of exposure to these four vector-borne diseases in Wisconsin as the Gray Wolf population expanded between 1985 and 2011.
Date: November 29, 2016
Creator: Jara Miller, Rocio F.; Wydeven, Adrian P. & Samuel, Michael D.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Method and Apparatus For Improving Computer Cache Performance and for Protecting Memory Systems Against Some Side Channel Attacks (open access)

Method and Apparatus For Improving Computer Cache Performance and for Protecting Memory Systems Against Some Side Channel Attacks

Patent relating to a method and apparatus both for improving execution performance and for protecting memory system against some side channel attacks.
Date: November 22, 2012
Creator: Kavi, Krishna M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Method of Enhancing Quality Factors in Cotton (open access)

Method of Enhancing Quality Factors in Cotton

Patent relating to a method of enhancing quality factors in cotton.
Date: June 9, 2006
Creator: Hake, Kater Davis; Chapman, Kent D.; Kerby, Thomas Arthur & Speed, Thomas Rainey
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identification of and Composition Containing Polyphosphate Accumulating Bacteria (open access)

Identification of and Composition Containing Polyphosphate Accumulating Bacteria

Patent relating to the identification of and compositions containing polyphosphate accumulating bacteria.
Date: March 15, 2013
Creator: Allen, Michael S. & LaMontagne, Michael G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods and Devices for Electromagnetically Tuning Acoustic Media (open access)

Methods and Devices for Electromagnetically Tuning Acoustic Media

Patent relating to methods and devices for electromagnetically tuning acoustic media.
Date: May 2, 2012
Creator: Neogi, Arup & Walker, Ezekiel
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fluorinated Metal-Organic Frameworks for Hydrocarbon Storage (open access)

Fluorinated Metal-Organic Frameworks for Hydrocarbon Storage

Patent relating to fluorinated metal-organic frameworks for hydrocarbon storage.
Date: October 7, 2011
Creator: Omary, Mohammad A. & Yang, Chi
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library