America Losing its Religion? transcript

America Losing its Religion?

Audio recording of a news segment from News Radio KFB. This episode discusses results from the General Social Survey in relation to religion and spirituality.
Date: April 9, 2019
Creator: Mendonsa, Cristina & Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Animal Resource Use Related to Socioenvironmental Change among Mesa Verde Farmers (open access)

Animal Resource Use Related to Socioenvironmental Change among Mesa Verde Farmers

Article is a case study of Mesa Verde subsistence utilizing optimal foraging theory models from evolutionary ecology to study small animal resource use during the Pueblo II to Terminal Pueblo III periods.
Date: July 11, 2019
Creator: Nagaoka, Lisa; Wolverton, Steven J. & Ellyson, Laura J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Art of Non-Violence in a Violent World captions transcript

The Art of Non-Violence in a Violent World

Video recording containing audio of a podcast episode from Grim News. This episode includes a discussion on the principles of non-violence and its relationship with Jainism
Date: April 5, 2019
Creator: Sengupta, Hindol & Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing the Impact of the Built-Up Environment on Nighttime Lights in China (open access)

Assessing the Impact of the Built-Up Environment on Nighttime Lights in China

Article describes study investigating the effects of the built-up environment on artificial light at night, focusing on construction region environments on nighttime brightness and variation with building heights and regional economic development level in China.
Date: July 19, 2019
Creator: Wang, Cheng; Qin, Haiming; Zhao, Kaiguang; Dong, Pinliang; Yang, Xuebo; Zhou, Guoqing et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of personal exposure to particulate air pollution: the first result of City Health Outlook (CHO) project (open access)

Assessment of personal exposure to particulate air pollution: the first result of City Health Outlook (CHO) project

First paper of a series on the City Health Outlook (CHO) project, which aims to establish multi-scale, long-lasting, real-time urban environment and health monitoring networks. This paper is targeted at illustrating the characteristics of the participants and examining the effects of different covariates on personal exposure at various air pollution exposure levels.
Date: June 7, 2019
Creator: Liang, Lu; Gong, Peng; Cong, Na; Li, Zhichao; Zhao, Yu & Chen, Ying
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
AT#650 - Travel to Rajasthan, India transcript

AT#650 - Travel to Rajasthan, India

Audio recording of a podcast episode from Amateur Traveler. This episode contains a discussion of travel ito the northern India state of Rajasthan.
Date: March 30, 2019
Creator: Christensen, Chris & Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atheism, Social Networks and Health: A Review and Theoretical Model (open access)

Atheism, Social Networks and Health: A Review and Theoretical Model

This article operationalizes social network structure within the study of secularism, discusses the available research with a focus on atheism in particular, and integrates this research into a schematic theoretical model of atheist self-identity, network structure and health.
Date: October 16, 2019
Creator: McCaffree, Kevin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins (open access)

Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins

This article examines the connections between participants in the illicit drug trade and members of state security forces to understand how they impact everyday understandings of the law. The authors used ethnographic fieldwork in a poor, high-crime district in Argentina and information gathered for a court case involving a drug trafficking group active in the same area as the basis for their research.
Date: April 10, 2019
Creator: Sobering, Katherine & Auyero, Javier
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deaf Adults’ Health Literacy and Access to Health Information: Protocol for a Multicenter Mixed Methods Study (open access)

Deaf Adults’ Health Literacy and Access to Health Information: Protocol for a Multicenter Mixed Methods Study

Article where the study aims to elucidate the role of information marginalization on health literacy in Deaf ASL users and to better understand the mechanisms of health literacy in this population for the purpose of identifying viable targets for future health literacy interventions.
Date: September 10, 2019
Creator: McKee, Michael M.; Hauser, Peter C.; Champlin, Sara; Paasche-Orlow, Michael; Wyse, Kelley; Cuculick, Jessica et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dharmic Ecology for Mother Earth

Presentation for the Dallas Philosophers Forum. This presentation discusses the intertwining of environmentalism in the dharmic practices of traditional grass-roots rural communities such as Bishnois, Bhils, and Swadhyaya.
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dialectical materialism: Marx’s method in human geography? (open access)

Dialectical materialism: Marx’s method in human geography?

Article is a self-critique of human geography that explicates the basic tenets of dialectical materialism in Marx’s work and presents some human geography research that engages with dialectical materialism.
Date: May 29, 2019
Creator: Chatterjee, Ipsita & Ahmed, Waquar
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Pathways to Positive Health Perceptions: Does Age Moderate the Relationship Between Medical Satisfaction and Positive Health Perceptions Among Middle-Aged and Older Internet Users? (open access)

Digital Pathways to Positive Health Perceptions: Does Age Moderate the Relationship Between Medical Satisfaction and Positive Health Perceptions Among Middle-Aged and Older Internet Users?

This article explores the influence of e-trust, e-health literacy, e-health information seeking, and e-health information consumerism on medical satisfaction and positive health perceptions.
Date: January 11, 2019
Creator: Seçkin, Gül; Hughes, Susan; Yeatts, Dale E., 1952- & Degreve, Thomas
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dis(Agreements) (open access)

Dis(Agreements)

(Dis) Agreements Section of L'Atalante: Revista de Estudios Cinematográficos Issue 28. This section includes assessments of the topic of censorship and cinematic classicism that serve to correct and update numerous aspects in relation to the real scope and impact of the Hays Code on Hollywood films.
Date: 2019
Creator: Gilbert, Nora; Jacobs, Lea; Staiger, Janet; Grieveson, Lee; Schaefer, Eric; Maltby, Richard et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An ecological measure to screen executive functioning in Multiple Sclerosis: the Picture Interpretation Test (PIT) 360° (open access)

An ecological measure to screen executive functioning in Multiple Sclerosis: the Picture Interpretation Test (PIT) 360°

This article's aim was to compare the efficiency of the Picture Interpretation Test 360° (PIT 360°) with traditional measures on executive dysfunction in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis (PwMS) and Healthy Controls (HC). Overall, the PIT 360° was concluded to be a quick, sensitive, and ecological tool that captures real-world executive dysfunction in PwMS. This engaging measure is sensitive for the detection of executive deficits since the early phases of the disease.
Date: April 5, 2019
Creator: Realdon, Olivia; Serino, Silvia; Savazzi, Federica; Rossetto, Federica; Cipresso, Pietro; Parsons, Thomas D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The effect of acute stress on salivary markers of inflammation: a systematic review protocol (open access)

The effect of acute stress on salivary markers of inflammation: a systematic review protocol

Article contains a a systematic review and meta-analysis of the reliability of changes in response to stress to measures of inflammation in saliva.
Date: May 2, 2019
Creator: Slavish, Danica & Szabo, Yevette Z.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental History of Dharmic Communities transcript

Environmental History of Dharmic Communities

Presentation for the Dallas Philosophers Forum. This presentation discusses the intertwining of environmentalism in the dharmic practices of traditional grass-roots rural communities such as Bishnois, Bhils, and Swadhyaya.
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extraction of Urban Objects in Cloud Shadows on the basis of Fusion of Airborne LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data (open access)

Extraction of Urban Objects in Cloud Shadows on the basis of Fusion of Airborne LiDAR and Hyperspectral Data

This article, fused airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data were used to extract urban objects in cloud shadows.The experimental results confirm that the proposed method is very effective for urban object extraction in cloud shadows and thus improve urban applications such as urban green land management, land use analysis, and impervious surface assessment.
Date: February 1, 2019
Creator: Man, Qixia & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hemisphere-specific effects of prefrontal theta-burst stimulation on visual recognition memory accuracy and awareness (open access)

Hemisphere-specific effects of prefrontal theta-burst stimulation on visual recognition memory accuracy and awareness

Article describes study seeking to determine if theta-burst transcranial magnetic stimulation (TBS) to prefrontal cortex modulates visual memory accuracy, visual memory awareness, or both, and whether these effects depend on brain hemisphere.
Date: January 6, 2019
Creator: Carbajal, Ivan; O'Neil, Jonathan T.; Palumbo, Robert T.; Voss, Joel L. & Ryals, Anthony J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Latent Profile Analysis of Violent Offenders Based on PCL-R Factor Scores: Criminogenic Needs and Recidivism Risk (open access)

A Latent Profile Analysis of Violent Offenders Based on PCL-R Factor Scores: Criminogenic Needs and Recidivism Risk

Article describes study where latent profile analysis was used to investigate if homogeneous latent classes of psychopathy exist within a sample of 215 adult male violent offenders from Berlin, Germany.
Date: September 6, 2019
Creator: Lehmann, Robert Johann Bernhard; Neumann, Craig S.; Hare, Robert Douglas; Biedermann, Jürgen; Dahle, Klaus-Peter & Mokros, Andreas
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanisms of the Formation and Involuntary Repetition of Trauma-Related Flashback: A Review of Major Theories of PTSD (open access)

Mechanisms of the Formation and Involuntary Repetition of Trauma-Related Flashback: A Review of Major Theories of PTSD

This article is a review of the major theories of PTSD. The clinical and nonclinical implications of the psychological explanations of trauma-related flashback, ideas of further explorations in the theories of PTSD, and directions of future research of the prevention and treatment of PTSD are presented.
Date: 2019
Creator: Zhu, Wenzhen; Sun, Qiwu; Wang, Ming & Liu, Jing
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medium, Vector, and Connector: Fog and the Maintenance of Ecosystems (open access)

Medium, Vector, and Connector: Fog and the Maintenance of Ecosystems

Article synthesizes recent research advances that reveal the diverse ways that fog shapes ecosystem processes.
Date: May 6, 2019
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Weathers, Kathleen C. & Dawson, Todd E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Metacognitive Self: The Role of Motivation and an Updated Measurement Tool (open access)

The Metacognitive Self: The Role of Motivation and an Updated Measurement Tool

Article on the theoretical motivational background regarding metacognitive self. Based on this framework, a single-factor structure of metacognitive self is developed from modification of the MCSQ-40 questionnaire and results in a new tool: MCSQ-21.
Date: February 2019
Creator: Brycz, Hannah; Konarski, Roman & Wright, Rex
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perceptions of Change after a Trauma and Perceived Posttraumatic Growth: A Prospective Examination (open access)

Perceptions of Change after a Trauma and Perceived Posttraumatic Growth: A Prospective Examination

This article uses a prospective research design to measure both actual and perceived posttraumatic growth in an attempt to replicate and extend previous findings.
Date: January 15, 2019
Creator: Boals, Adriel; Bedford, Lee A. & Callahan, Jennifer L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential effects of heat waves on the population dynamics of the dengue mosquito Aedes albopictus (open access)

Potential effects of heat waves on the population dynamics of the dengue mosquito Aedes albopictus

Article describes study aiming to investigate the potential effects of heat waves on the population dynamics of Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), which is a major vector of dengue and Zika viruses.
Date: July 5, 2019
Creator: Jia, Pengfei; Liang, Lu; Tan, Xiaoyue; Chen, Jin & Chen, Xiang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library