Coal Feeds My Family: Subsistence, Energy, and Industry in Central Appalachia (open access)

Coal Feeds My Family: Subsistence, Energy, and Industry in Central Appalachia

Article on the change in land-human relationships in Central Appalachia through the lens of the coal economy and food. The coal energy economy was not only made possible through various technological innovations in production and consumption, but also by certain social relations and political structures. In spite of the rapid disintegration of the coal economy, the popularity of the slogan “Coal Feeds My Family" still remains.
Date: November 2018
Creator: Aloi, M. Joseph
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Political Mandate and Clarity of Responsibility: Economic Policies under Rightist Governments in Latin America (open access)

Political Mandate and Clarity of Responsibility: Economic Policies under Rightist Governments in Latin America

This article uses panel data for eighteen Latin American countries from 1995 to 2015 to study whether clarity of responsibility can influence presidential decision-making concerning unpopular policies, especially microeconomic policies.
Date: June 13, 2018
Creator: Biglaiser, Glen & McGauvran, Ronald J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biocultural homogenization: Exotism of the femenine landscape of latin america (open access)

Biocultural homogenization: Exotism of the femenine landscape of latin america

Article discusses the importance of valuing an alternative, ecological, aesthetic and post-modern-exotic hermeneutic in viewing Latin America, and discusses the colonial impression of a "exotic" Latin America.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Castellanos, Angelina Paredes & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sumergidos Con Lupa en Los Ríos Del Cabo De Hornos: Valoración ética De Los Ecosistemas Dulceacuícolas Y Sus Co-Habitantes (open access)

Sumergidos Con Lupa en Los Ríos Del Cabo De Hornos: Valoración ética De Los Ecosistemas Dulceacuícolas Y Sus Co-Habitantes

This article presents the methods and results of a multidisciplinary work focused on invertebrates and freshwater ecosystems of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve.
Date: June 25, 2018
Creator: Contador, Tamara; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Kennedy, James H.; Massardo, Francisca; Ojeda, Jaime; Caballero, Paula et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential Niche Expansion of the American Mink Invading a Remote Island Free of Nativepredatory Mammals (open access)

Potential Niche Expansion of the American Mink Invading a Remote Island Free of Nativepredatory Mammals

This article evaluates whether the lack of potential predators and competitors, together with a more diurnal and terrestrial prey, have resulted in the mink expanding its spatial and temporal niche on Navarino Island as compared to that in its native habitats,
Date: December 16, 2017
Creator: Crego, Ramiro D.; Jiménez, Jaime E. & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Los Ojos Del Árbol: Percibiendo, Registrando, Comprendiendo Y Contrarrestando Las Invasiones Biológicas en Tiempos De Rápida Homogeneizacion Biocultural (open access)

Los Ojos Del Árbol: Percibiendo, Registrando, Comprendiendo Y Contrarrestando Las Invasiones Biológicas en Tiempos De Rápida Homogeneizacion Biocultural

This article describes the use of the metaphor "the eyes of the tree" to overcome limitations to the International Long-Term Ecological Research Network by integrating ecological, philosophical, and technological components.
Date: 2018
Creator: Crego, Ramiro D.; Ward, Nora; Jiménez, Jaime E.; Massardo, Francisca & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimation of technical change and price elasticities: a categorical time–varying coefficient approach (open access)

Estimation of technical change and price elasticities: a categorical time–varying coefficient approach

This article, proposes a categorical time-varying coefficient translog cost function, where each coefficient is expressed as a nonparametric function of a categorical time variable, thereby allowing each time period to have its own set of coefficients.
Date: October 24, 2018
Creator: Feng, Guohua; Gao, Jiti & Zhang, Xiaohui
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A reconsideration of the (non-)uniform syntax of Korean right-dislocation (open access)

A reconsideration of the (non-)uniform syntax of Korean right-dislocation

This article investigates the clausal nature of Korean Right-Dislocation Constructions (RDCs) and reconsiders recent extant (non-uniform analyses of RDCs.
Date: 2018
Creator: Furuya, Kaori
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Rafael Major holding a microphone]

Photograph of Rafael Major speaking at the 2018 Constitution Day event, "Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus."
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Robert Shipley standing at lectern]

Photograph of Robert Shipley speaking at the 2018 Constitution Day event, "Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus."
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Shannon Gilreath standing at lectern]

Photograph of Shannon Gilreath speaking at the 2018 Constitution Day event, "Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus."
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Speakers at 2018 Constitution Day]

Photograph of Rafael Major moderating a discussion between Shannon Gilreath and Robert Shipley at the 2018 Constitution Day event, "Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus."
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Speakers at 2018 Constitution Day]

Photograph of Rafael Major and Glenisson de Oliveira at the 2018 Constitution Day event, "Can Free Speech Do Harm?: Free Speech on the College Campus."
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bergson, Materialization, and the Peculiar Nature of Space (open access)

Bergson, Materialization, and the Peculiar Nature of Space

This article shows how Bergson's notions of variable lived space and the dynamic character of physical matter could lead to theories of fractal dimension and theories of the creation and expansion of matter.
Date: 2018
Creator: Gunter, P. A. Y. (Pete Addison Y.), 1936-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comment on ‘Dairy, calcium, vitamin D, and ovarian cancer risk in African-American women’ (open access)

Comment on ‘Dairy, calcium, vitamin D, and ovarian cancer risk in African-American women’

A comment on the article 'Dairy, calcium, vitamin D, and ovarian cancer risk in African-American women'.
Date: May 9, 2018
Creator: Hilliard, Constance
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ecological model links proto-oncogene to high incidence of metastatic cancers in African-Americans (open access)

Ecological model links proto-oncogene to high incidence of metastatic cancers in African-Americans

This article describes an ecological model that identifies the underlying reasons for the pattern of cancer susceptibility in Americans of African descent.
Date: September 3, 2018
Creator: Hilliard, Constance
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Negotiating local versus global needs in the International Long Term Ecological Research Network’s socio-ecological research agenda (open access)

Negotiating local versus global needs in the International Long Term Ecological Research Network’s socio-ecological research agenda

This article describes the assessment of six long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) platforms through site visits, coupled with reflections and insights of the platform managers.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Holzer, J. M.; Adamescu, M. C.; Bonet-García, F. J.; Díaz-Delgado, R.; Dick, J.; Grove, J. M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd (open access)

Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd

This chapter critiques the use of student labor on digital humanities projects in and out of the classroom.
Date: November 6, 2018
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
El Turismo Como Una Herramienta Para La Conservación Del Elefante Marino Del Sur (Mirounga Leonina) Y Sus Habitats en Tierra Del Fuego, Reserva De La Biosfera Cabo De Hornos, Chile (open access)

El Turismo Como Una Herramienta Para La Conservación Del Elefante Marino Del Sur (Mirounga Leonina) Y Sus Habitats en Tierra Del Fuego, Reserva De La Biosfera Cabo De Hornos, Chile

This article establishes the importance that the conservation of the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina Linnaeus 1758) and its habitats has for tourists.
Date: June 25, 2018
Creator: Kirk, Christian; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960- & Gelcich, Stefan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Overlapping geographic clusters of food security and health: Where do social determinants and health outcomes converge in the U.S? (open access)

Overlapping geographic clusters of food security and health: Where do social determinants and health outcomes converge in the U.S?

Article describes study which identified overlapping geographic clusters of food insecurity and health across U.S. counties to identify potential shared mechanisms for geographic disparities in health and food insecurity.
Date: June 30, 2018
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; Hughes, Amy E.; Donegan, Connor; Santillan, Alejandro & Pruitt, Sandi L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Overlapping geographic clusters of food security and health: Where do social determinants and health outcomes converge in the U.S? (open access)

Overlapping geographic clusters of food security and health: Where do social determinants and health outcomes converge in the U.S?

This article identifies geographic clusters of food insecurity and health across U.S. counties to identify potential shared mechanisms for geographic disparities in health and food insecurity.
Date: June 14, 2018
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; Hughes, Amy; Donegan, Connor; Santillan, Alejandro & Pruitt, Sandi L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cultivando Un Jardín De Nombres en Los Bosques en Miniatura Del Cabo De Hornos: Extensión De La Conservación Biocultural Y La Ética a Seres Vivos Poco Percibidos (open access)

Cultivando Un Jardín De Nombres en Los Bosques en Miniatura Del Cabo De Hornos: Extensión De La Conservación Biocultural Y La Ética a Seres Vivos Poco Percibidos

This article presents a new methodology and activity to foster an ecological understanding of biodiversity, as well as of biocultural conservation and ethics, which includes little, under-perceived, living-beings--such as bryophytes.
Date: June 19, 2018
Creator: Lewis, Lily R.; Gottschalk-Druschke, Caroline; Saldías, Camila; Mackenzie, Roy; Malebrán, Javiera; Goffinet, Bernard et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Structural equation modeling of psychopathic traits in Chilean female offenders using the Self-Report Psychopathy-Short Form (SRP-SF) Scale: a comparison of gender-based item modifications versus standard items (open access)

Structural equation modeling of psychopathic traits in Chilean female offenders using the Self-Report Psychopathy-Short Form (SRP-SF) Scale: a comparison of gender-based item modifications versus standard items

This article examines the utility of the Self-Report Psychopathy-Short Form (SRP-SF) to assess psychopathic traits in female offenders and to test gender-based item modifications. While both the standard SRP-SF and the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) were adequate, the modified items added robustness to representation of psychopathic features.
Date: October 11, 2018
Creator: León Mayer, Elizabeth; Rocuant Salinas, Joanna; Eisenbarth, Hedwig; Folino, Jorge O. & Neumann, Craig S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating Individual Tree Height and Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) from Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data at Plot Level (open access)

Estimating Individual Tree Height and Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) from Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data at Plot Level

This article explores the methods of using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) technology to obtain point cloud data and estimate individual tree height and diameter at breast height (DBH) at plot level in regions with complex terrain.
Date: July 4, 2018
Creator: Liu, Guangjie; Wang, Jinliang; Dong, Pinliang; Chen, Yun & Liu, Zhiyuan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library