North Texas Review, Issue 21, 2021 (open access)

North Texas Review, Issue 21, 2021

Annual literature journal containing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, artworks, and other creative works by UNT students.
Date: Spring 2021
Creator: University of North Texas. Department of English.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Beyond Traits and States: Interpersonal Decentering Is Also Activated Social Information Processing

Article drawing on a process-focused model of interpersonal decentering's causal validity, the authors manipulated activation experimentally, comparing decentering scores from expressive writing essays under standard instructions (activation condition) versus control instructions, then correlated decentering scores with use of activated language. With condition controlled, both decentering scores correlated significantly with greater proportions of present-tense verbs, positive emotion words, and cognitive words, showing trait effects.
Date: October 22, 2021
Creator: Jenkins, Sharon Rae; Shamji, Jabeen F.; Straup, Madison L. & Boals, Adriel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Positive memory intervention techniques: a scoping review (open access)

Positive memory intervention techniques: a scoping review

This article is a review that examines and summarises the available knowledge base on intervention techniques focused on positive memories. This review serves as a quick reference guide to help professionals’ access to descriptions and information on empirical evidence of positive memory techniques, improving their therapeutic arsenal to enhance well-being and therapeutic outcomes in their patients.
Date: June 10, 2021
Creator: Miguel-Alvaro, Alejandro; Guillén, Ana I.; Contractor, Ateka A. & Crespo, María
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shifting Inequalities? Parents’ Sleep, Anxiety, and Calm during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia and the United States (open access)

Shifting Inequalities? Parents’ Sleep, Anxiety, and Calm during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia and the United States

This article examines traditional gender roles during the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout as an opportunity to evaluate shifting gender dynamics amidst rapid changes in employment and domestic demands for heterosexual couples with children in Australia and the United States. The authors argue that traditional gender roles were reinforced for U.S. parents but eroded for Australian parents.
Date: February 2, 2021
Creator: Ruppanner, Leah; Tan, Xiao; Scarborough, William; Landivar, Liana Christin & Collins, Caitlyn
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pilgrimage and Textual Culture (open access)

Pilgrimage and Textual Culture

This article considers issues of reading and writing before, during, and after medieval pilgrimages, as well as the methodological and historical issues at stake for both pilgrim writers and modern scholars. In particular, the articles address the vexed issue of where — and how much — reading and writing took place around historically attested pilgrimages.
Date: January 1, 2021
Creator: Bale, Anthony & Beebe, Kathryne
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatial Targeting of Agricultural Support Measures: Indicator-Based Assessment of Coverages and Leakages (open access)

Spatial Targeting of Agricultural Support Measures: Indicator-Based Assessment of Coverages and Leakages

This article evaluates the targeting strategy of a national-level program in Mexico that distributed agricultural support based on seven criteria that prioritized poor smallholder farming communities at high risk of cropland failure. The findings highlight the continued lack of financial support for smallholder agriculture in Mexico, despite program rules and priority statements that stress the vulnerability of this sector. The article also illustrates the important role of spatial targeting in better aligning agricultural support payments with stated policy priorities.
Date: July 15, 2021
Creator: LaFevor, Matthew C.; Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Larson, Rebecca & Mungai, Leah M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using Gaze Tracking as a Research Tool in the Deaf Health Literacy and Access to Health Information Project: Protocol for a Multisite Mixed Methods Study and Preliminary Results (open access)

Using Gaze Tracking as a Research Tool in the Deaf Health Literacy and Access to Health Information Project: Protocol for a Multisite Mixed Methods Study and Preliminary Results

This article used gaze-tracking technology to understand the navigation and use of web-based health information by deaf adults who communicate with sign language and by hearing adults. The findings of this study show that incorporating gaze-tracking technology offers beneficial avenues for better understanding how individuals interact with health information.
Date: September 7, 2021
Creator: Champlin, Sara; Cuculick, Jessica; Hauser, Peter C.; Wyse, Kelley & McKee, Michael M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of dispersal strategy and migration history on genetic diversity and population structure of Antarctic lichens (open access)

Effects of dispersal strategy and migration history on genetic diversity and population structure of Antarctic lichens

Article studying the effects of dispersal strategy and migration history on lichen genetic structure to better understand the importance of these processes and their interplay in shaping population structure as well as their relevance for conservation.
Date: March 23, 2021
Creator: Lagostina, Elisa; Andreev, Mikhail; Dal Grande, Francesco; Grewe, Felix; Lorenz, Aline; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accumulator, Transporter, Substrate, and Reactor: Multidimensional Perspectives and Approaches to the Study of Bark (open access)

Accumulator, Transporter, Substrate, and Reactor: Multidimensional Perspectives and Approaches to the Study of Bark

This article is a short review that explores different perspectives and approaches to the study of bark and what they reveal about the myriad ways bark surfaces influence the quality of sub-canopy precipitation.
Date: August 5, 2021
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating potential range shift of some wild bees in response to climate change scenarios in northwestern regions of Iran (open access)

Estimating potential range shift of some wild bees in response to climate change scenarios in northwestern regions of Iran

Article investigating the impact of climate change on distributional and habitat quality changes of five wild bees in northwestern regions of Iran under two representative concentration pathway scenarios (RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). This study uses species distribution models to predict the potential range shift of these species in the year 2070.
Date: August 14, 2021
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Intersection of Racial and Gender Attitudes, 1977 through 2018 (open access)

The Intersection of Racial and Gender Attitudes, 1977 through 2018

Article applying latent class analysis to a set of racial and gender attitude items from the General Social Survey (1977 to 2018) to identify four configurations of individuals’ simultaneous views on race and gender.
Date: August 18, 2021
Creator: Scarborough, William; Pepin, Joanna R.; Lambouths, Danny L. III; Kwon, Ronald & Monasterio, Ronaldo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychometric Evaluation of the Posttrauma Risky Behaviors Questionnaire: Item Response Theory Analyses (open access)

Psychometric Evaluation of the Posttrauma Risky Behaviors Questionnaire: Item Response Theory Analyses

This article investigates the psychometric properties of the Posttrauma Risky Behaviors Questionnaire (PRBQ) using item response theory to examine (a) item analysis (b) person fit, and (c) differential item functioning (DIF) across gender-based groups and two different samples.
Date: July 30, 2021
Creator: Batley, Pathiba Natesan; Contractor, Ateka A.; Weiss, Nicole; Compton, Sidonia E. & Price, Matthew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Who Is Purged? Determinants of Elite Purges in North Korea (open access)

Who Is Purged? Determinants of Elite Purges in North Korea

This article argues that elite purges in consolidated dictatorships have a different purpose and logic. Dictators, who have consolidated their position, seek to maximize the efficiency of rule by making the elite obedient through purges. For this purpose, dictators carefully select the purge target by considering various factors. To test this theory, the article examines the pattern of elite purges in North Korea based on an original individual-level dataset, which contains the personal background of 367 North Korean elites and their purge records between 1948 and 2019. Findings suggest that coup-proofing is not the only purpose of elite purges but that ensuring the leader’s political superiority is another purpose of elite purges in consolidated dictatorships.
Date: September 1, 2021
Creator: Kim, Taekbin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Confronting Russia: How Do the Citizens of Countries of the Near Abroad Perceive Their State’s Role? (open access)

Confronting Russia: How Do the Citizens of Countries of the Near Abroad Perceive Their State’s Role?

Article providing an explanation as to why citizens of some states differ from others in their role conceptions, especially those states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. The authors offer a novel theoretical explanation that accounts for variation in roles, based on each country’s historic relationship with Russia, its emerging relationship with the West and China, and domestic ethnopolitical conditions.
Date: September 1, 2021
Creator: Ishiyama, John T. & Breuning, Marijke
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are States Created Equal? Moving to a State With More Expensive Childcare Reduces Mothers' Odds of Employment (open access)

Are States Created Equal? Moving to a State With More Expensive Childcare Reduces Mothers' Odds of Employment

This article investigates whether moving to a state with more expensive childcare is associated with lower odds of maternal employment among mothers who had been employed prior to relocation. Results show that moving to states with fewer childcare barriers is associated with higher levels of maternal employment, partly mitigating the negative labor market effects of interstate migration.
Date: March 4, 2021
Creator: Landivar, Liana Christin; Ruppanner, Leah & Scarborough, William
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating landscape structure effects on pollination for management of agricultural landscapes (open access)

Estimating landscape structure effects on pollination for management of agricultural landscapes

Article estimating the effects of different scenarios of forest fragmentation to find an optimized pattern of forest patches for increasing pollination in an agricultural landscape. The authors use simulated agricultural landscapes and landscape metrics to estimate the relationship between pollination and landscape structure.
Date: September 7, 2021
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using the Lonsdorf model for estimating habitat loss and fragmentation effects on pollination service (open access)

Using the Lonsdorf model for estimating habitat loss and fragmentation effects on pollination service

Article examining the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on pollination separately according to the Lonsdorf model. Results show that the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on pollination are completely different at the landscape and farm levels. This article shows that using the Lonsdorf model could lead to confusing results for the landscape ecologists and farmers who want to reduce the adverse effects of fragmentation on their products by creating new forest patches.
Date: March 22, 2021
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The “Malevolent” Benevolence: what happens to perceived immigrant threat when value priorities collide? (open access)

The “Malevolent” Benevolence: what happens to perceived immigrant threat when value priorities collide?

This article examines how self-transcending human values affect perceptions of immigrant threat. Results show that benevolence and universalism tend to affect perceived immigrant threat in opposite directions. A part of individuals’ anti-immigrant bias does not stem from strictly self-interested motivations, as often proposed, but by a sense of loyalty to the interests of our immediate contacts.
Date: February 10, 2021
Creator: Grigoropoulou, Nikolitsa
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geomorphic analysis of Xiadian buried fault zone in Eastern Beijing plain based on SPOT image and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data (open access)

Geomorphic analysis of Xiadian buried fault zone in Eastern Beijing plain based on SPOT image and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data

This article presents geomorphic analysis of Xiadian buried fault in eastern Beijing plain (China), based on the analysis of a Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT-5) image, a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) derived from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system, SRTM DEM and field investigation. Results can provide valuable insight into geomorphic analysis of buried and semi-buried active faults in plain areas with increasingly frequent human activities.
Date: January 19, 2021
Creator: Wang, Yanping; Dong, Pinliang; Zhu, Yueqin; Shen, Jun & Liao, Shunbao
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Gendered Consequences of a Weak Infrastructure of Care: School Reopening Plans and Parents’ Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic (open access)

The Gendered Consequences of a Weak Infrastructure of Care: School Reopening Plans and Parents’ Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This article collected detailed primary data—the Elementary School Operating Status database (ESOS)—to measure the percentage of school districts offering in-person, remote, and hybrid instruction models for elementary schools by state in September 2020 to understand the nature and magnitude of school closures across states during the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on maternal labor force participation. The article shows that schools are a vital source of care for young children, and that without in-person instruction, mothers have been sidelined from the labor force.
Date: March 12, 2021
Creator: Collins, Caitlyn; Ruppanner, Leah; Landivar, Liana Christin & Scarborough, William
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ambient urban N deposition drives increased biomass and total plant N in two native prairie grass species in the U.S. Southern Great Plains (open access)

Ambient urban N deposition drives increased biomass and total plant N in two native prairie grass species in the U.S. Southern Great Plains

This article studies atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition in urban areas on two native prairie grass species, Schizachyrium scoparium and Nasella leucotricha. Findings indicate that while native prairie grasses may exhibit a positive biomass response to increased N deposition up to ~18 kg ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹, total inorganic N deposition is well above the estimated critical load for herbaceous plant species richness in the tallgrass prairie of the Great Plains ecoregion and thus may negatively affect these plant communities.
Date: May 6, 2021
Creator: Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Green, Michelle L.; McCullars, Justin & Gough, Laura
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South (open access)

GAFA's information infrastructure distribution: Interconnection dynamics in the global North versus global South

This article analyzes public points of interconnection of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) in the global North versus the global South to determine the degree to which their location preferences differ.
Date: December 14, 2021
Creator: Rosa, Fernanda R. & Hauge, Janice A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Autonomic Spectrum Questionnaire: A Factor Analysis

Dataset for the article, "The Autonomic Spectrum Questionnaire: A Factor Analysis" by Colin Ross, Justin Litvin, Anthony Ryals, and Patricia Kaminski (2021).
Date: March 28, 2021
Creator: Ross, Colin; Litvin, Justin; Ryals, Anthony J. & Kaminski, Patricia L.
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Religious Exiting and Social Networks: Computer Simulations of Religious/Secular Pluralism (open access)

Religious Exiting and Social Networks: Computer Simulations of Religious/Secular Pluralism

This article uses agent-based simulations in three “artificial societies” (one predominantly religious; one predominantly secular; and one in between), to demonstrate that worldview pluralism within one’s neighborhood and family social networks can be a significant predictor of religious (dis)affiliation but in pluralistic societies worldview diversity is less important and, instead, people move toward worldview neutrality.
Date: March 12, 2021
Creator: Cragun, Ryan; McCaffree, Kevin; Puga-Gonzalez, Ivan; Wildman, Wesley & Shults, F. LeRon
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library