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
Jardineras Subantárticas: Conocimiento Y Valoración De La Flora Altoandina (open access)

Jardineras Subantárticas: Conocimiento Y Valoración De La Flora Altoandina

This article proposes a new concept for changing the perception about the high mountain habitats in the sub-Antarctic region of Cape Horn.
Date: 2018
Creator: Méndez, Manuela; Cavieres, Lohengrin A. & 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
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
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
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
Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI (open access)

Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI

This article uses 41 Landsat images between 1988 and 2016 to calculate the normalized difference vegetation indices (NVDIs) of the wetland vegetation at Xitugou (XTG) and Wowachi (WWC) inside the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in northwest China in order to assess the impacts of climate change on wetland vegetation.
Date: May 10, 2018
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Xie, Jianping; Lin, Juming; Zhao, Tingwei; Ji, Yongyuan; Hu, Qi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The relationship between perseverative cognitions and mental health and physical health complaints among college students (open access)

The relationship between perseverative cognitions and mental health and physical health complaints among college students

This article examines whether perseverative cognitions represent a common risk factor for poor health in college students.
Date: May 24, 2018
Creator: Zawadzki, Matthew J.; Boals, Adriel; Mathews, Nick; Schuler, Keke; Southard-Dobbs, Shana & Smyth, Joshua M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of Refugees of Shangri-La by Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter (open access)

Review of Refugees of Shangri-La by Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter

This article reviews the documentary film "Refugees of Shangri-La" by Doria Bramante and Markus Weinfurter.
Date: June 6, 2018
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
Object Type: Review
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
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
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
Cabo De Hornos: Un Crisol Biogeográfico en La Cumbre Austral De América (open access)

Cabo De Hornos: Un Crisol Biogeográfico en La Cumbre Austral De América

This article proposes to distinguish three discoveries of Cape Horn.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interacciones Bioculturales Del Pueblo Yagán Con Las Macroalgas Y Moluscos: Una Aproximación Desde La Filosofía Ambiental De Campo (open access)

Interacciones Bioculturales Del Pueblo Yagán Con Las Macroalgas Y Moluscos: Una Aproximación Desde La Filosofía Ambiental De Campo

This article applies the conceptual framework of biocultural ethics to characterize the intertidal habitat within the biocultural context of the Yaghan people.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Ojeda, Jaime; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Rosenfeld, Sebastián; Contador, Tamara; Massardo, Francisca; Malebrán, Javiera et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transformaciones Del Pensamiento De Darwin en Cabo De Hornos: Un Legado Para La Ciencia Y La Etica Ambiental (open access)

Transformaciones Del Pensamiento De Darwin en Cabo De Hornos: Un Legado Para La Ciencia Y La Etica Ambiental

This article examines how in the course of his life Darwin transformed his initial judgments about the Fuegian people, and how this change of judgment is associated with the maturation of his concepts to forget the theory of human evolution.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
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
Review of Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal by Mark Pickett (open access)

Review of Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal by Mark Pickett

This article reviews the book "Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society: The Newar City of Lalitpur, Nepal" by Mark Pickett.
Date: June 21, 2018
Creator: Nelson, Andrew S.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Análisis De Los Cursos De Filosofía Ambiental De Campo en El Parque Etnobotánico Omora, Reserva De La Biosfera Cabo De Hornos, Chile (open access)

Análisis De Los Cursos De Filosofía Ambiental De Campo en El Parque Etnobotánico Omora, Reserva De La Biosfera Cabo De Hornos, Chile

This article focuses on the international Field Environmental Philosophy (FEP) course that takes place annually at Omora Park, examining courses offered from 2015 - 2018.
Date: June 25, 2018
Creator: Malebrán, Javiera & 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
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
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
Locative Media and Sociability: Using Location-Based Social Networks to Coordinate Everyday Life (open access)

Locative Media and Sociability: Using Location-Based Social Networks to Coordinate Everyday Life

This article examines the application in the context of social coordination and sociability using a dataset of original qualitative research within a range of Foursquare users.
Date: September 1, 2018
Creator: Saker, Michael & Frith, Jordan
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