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All Terrorism is Local? A Quantitative Analysis of Al Qaeda Affiliation and Rebel Group Behavior (open access)

All Terrorism is Local? A Quantitative Analysis of Al Qaeda Affiliation and Rebel Group Behavior

Paper examines the effects of affiliation, focusing on Al Qaeda, on the behavior of rebel groups.
Date: 2014
Creator: Robbins, Arianna
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
All’s Well That Ends Better: Third-Party Intervention as a Challenge to Sovereignty (open access)

All’s Well That Ends Better: Third-Party Intervention as a Challenge to Sovereignty

Paper investigates the role third party intervention has played in undermining or bolstering the stability of a state’s leadership in a post-conflict setting via capacity building and legitimacy.
Date: 2014
Creator: VanMeter, Emily
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Anachronistic Anarchy: A Linguistic Character Analysis of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo (open access)

Anachronistic Anarchy: A Linguistic Character Analysis of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Samurai Champloo

Paper analyzes how linguistic tokens contribute to character design, personality, and development in the Japanese anime Samurai Champloo.
Date: 2014
Creator: Park, Macy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Antimicrobial and Synergistic Efficiency of Antibiotic and Bacteriophage for the Treatment of Tuberculosis (open access)

The Antimicrobial and Synergistic Efficiency of Antibiotic and Bacteriophage for the Treatment of Tuberculosis

Paper describes a study exploring bacteriophages and antibiotics as a potential treatment for tuberculosis.
Date: 2014
Creator: Cai, Lucy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communication through Mathematics: The Effects on Mathematic Reasonableness (open access)

Communication through Mathematics: The Effects on Mathematic Reasonableness

Paper describes a study focused on the efficiency of using prescribed tools to aid in justification and reasonableness in solving mathematical problems.
Date: 2014
Creator: Lopez, Lorraine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contemporary Family Structures and Sexual Victimization (open access)

Contemporary Family Structures and Sexual Victimization

Paper examines the link between contemporary family structures and verbal and forced sexual victimization.
Date: 2014
Creator: Beach, Katie & Jackson, Madison
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does Family Matter? Exploring the Relationship between ADHD and Substance Abuse (open access)

Does Family Matter? Exploring the Relationship between ADHD and Substance Abuse

Paper examines the relationship of family structure to alcohol and drug use among people diagnosed with ADHD.
Date: 2014
Creator: Palmer, Renée & Peters, Jessica
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does the Truth Really Set You Free? Examining the Effect of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions on Social and Political Trust (open access)

Does the Truth Really Set You Free? Examining the Effect of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions on Social and Political Trust

Paper investigates the effect that truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs) have on social and political trust in Africa, utilizing the Afrobarometer and World Values Survey.
Date: 2014
Creator: Mendez, Nicole
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Electronic Books in the Primary Classroom (open access)

The Effectiveness of Electronic Books in the Primary Classroom

Paper describes study exploring the effectiveness of using electronic books in an elementary school classroom to teach reading skills.
Date: 2014
Creator: Hendrickson, Bethany
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Sulfur on Fuel Nitrogen Conversion in Combustion (open access)

Effects of Sulfur on Fuel Nitrogen Conversion in Combustion

Undergraduate thesis on the emission of atmospheric pollutants. The pollutants focused on are NO and NO₂. The author discusses the influence of sulfur on NO emission using computational chemistry.
Date: May 12, 2014
Creator: Moukambi, Odreille Mapaka
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engendering Violence: The Acceptability of Domestic Violence as a Determinant of Intrastate Conflict (open access)

Engendering Violence: The Acceptability of Domestic Violence as a Determinant of Intrastate Conflict

Paper analyzes the influence of attitudes regarding domestic violence upon the likelihood of civil conflict.
Date: 2014
Creator: Leban, Lucy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enjoying Vocabulary (open access)

Enjoying Vocabulary

Paper discusses study seeking to determine whether deliberate and consistent vocabulary practice and exposure through interactive games and intentional dialogue increase the oral story-retelling skills in English in low reading-level bilingual students.
Date: 2014
Creator: Soto-Vazquez, Adriana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Awareness: A Survey of UNT Students’ Knowledge and Opinions (open access)

Environmental Awareness: A Survey of UNT Students’ Knowledge and Opinions

Paper discusses study examining awareness and opinions of environmental issues among students at the University of North Texas.
Date: 2014
Creator: McClinchie, Elizabeth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding Powers, Gender Dynamics and Militarized Interstate Disputes: The Impact of National Material Capability and Gender on Onset and Escalation (open access)

Expanding Powers, Gender Dynamics and Militarized Interstate Disputes: The Impact of National Material Capability and Gender on Onset and Escalation

Paper explores the relationship between national capabilities and the likelihood of conflict, and in particular the impact of gender on this relationship.
Date: 2014
Creator: Ferris, Rachel Elizabeth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feared or Family: Portrayal of Native Americans in Redeemed and Unredeemed Captivity Narratives (open access)

Feared or Family: Portrayal of Native Americans in Redeemed and Unredeemed Captivity Narratives

Paper explores the difference in the portrayal of Native Americans in captivity narratives that did result in acculturation and those that did not.
Date: 2014
Creator: Dismukes, Emily
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps (open access)

Finding the Frontline in Civil Conflict: Looting and Recruiting in African Refugee Camps

This paper explores the relationship between the locations of conflict zones and refugee camps in African nations.
Date: 2014
Creator: Bolte, Brandon L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
From Radian Waves to Data Streams: Media Environments in DeLillo and Shteyngart (open access)

From Radian Waves to Data Streams: Media Environments in DeLillo and Shteyngart

Undergraduate thesis examining representations of media and technology in two contemporary American novels, "White Noise" by Don DeLillo (1985) and "Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart (2010), with the goal of elucidating the attributes and significance of the technological contexts in fiction as well as contributing to a broader discussion of its operations on consciousness, society, and the cultural imagination.
Date: June 13, 2014
Creator: Young, Michael
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gossypium hopi: Product Value for Consumers through Heritage, History and Culture (open access)

Gossypium hopi: Product Value for Consumers through Heritage, History and Culture

Paper describes how gossypium hopi cotton production has benefited through using culture and history to connect with customers in branding.
Date: 2014
Creator: Taylor, Alicia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Government Policy on Racial Genocide Through Eugenics Exposed: Joseph Bruchac’s Hidden Roots (open access)

Government Policy on Racial Genocide Through Eugenics Exposed: Joseph Bruchac’s Hidden Roots

Paper discusses eugenics policies brought against Native Americans as explored in the young adult novel Hidden Roots.
Date: 2014
Creator: Williams, Sheri "Cat"
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
How the Act of Bullying is Transforming in Today’s High Schools (open access)

How the Act of Bullying is Transforming in Today’s High Schools

Paper discusses modern forms of bullying in high schools.
Date: 2014
Creator: Taub, Stephanie; Mlinar, Brenna & Hogue, Joseph
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impacts of Parental Health on the Psychosocial Functioning of University Students (open access)

Impacts of Parental Health on the Psychosocial Functioning of University Students

Undergraduate thesis exploring the effects of growing up with parental chronic illness on emerging adults. The current study utilizes self-reported questionnaire data on the psychosocial functioning of 635 students from UNT to increase understanding of how parental chronic illness affects university students' life satisfaction, psychological distress, and compulsive self-reliance. In an attempt to identify potential protective factors, the moderating effects of attachment and resiliency on the link between parental chronic illness and the psychosocial wellness variables were examined.
Date: July 9, 2014
Creator: Askings, Diana Christine
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of Self-Esteem and Perceptions of Infidelity on College Students' Relationship Quality (open access)

The Influence of Self-Esteem and Perceptions of Infidelity on College Students' Relationship Quality

Undergraduate thesis studying the relationship between self-esteem and relationship quality in college students, while also investigating the mediational role of perceptions of infidelity on that relation. The study uses three different measures in order to understand college students and the dynamics of their romantic relationships. Results indicate that there are possible associations between self esteem, relationship quality, and perceptions of infidelity.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Ruales, Dahyan Michelle
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to Special Section on Capstone Projects in Sociology (open access)

Introduction to Special Section on Capstone Projects in Sociology

Introduction to the special section on capstone projects from the Department of Sociology for the 2014 edition of The Eagle Feather, written by Michael Nino.
Date: 2014
Creator: Nino, Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to Special Section on English Literature (open access)

Introduction to Special Section on English Literature

Introduction to the special section on English Literature for the 2014 edition of The Eagle Feather, written by Kelly Wisecup.
Date: 2014
Creator: Wisecup, Kelly
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library