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Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 (open access)

Global, regional, national, and selected subnational levels of stillbirths, neonatal, infant, and under-5 mortality, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

Article discusses the generation of updated estimates of child mortality by age group (neonatal, post-neonatal, ages 1–4 years, and under 5) for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational geographies, from 1980–2015, using data from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015).
Date: October 8, 2016
Creator: GBD 2015 Child Mortality Collaborators
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (open access)

Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

Article describes an estimate of age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality between 1970 and 2016 for 195 countries and territories and at the subnational level for the five countries with a population greater than 200 million in 2016.
Date: September 16, 2017
Creator: GBD 2016 Mortality Collaborators
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing for Citizen Satisfaction: Is Good Not Enough? (open access)

Managing for Citizen Satisfaction: Is Good Not Enough?

Article proposes a theory that suggests the quantity of public goods and services is important to citizen satisfaction.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Collins, Brian K.; Kim, Hyun Joon & Tao, Jie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Roles revealed: An examination of the adopted roles of emergency managers in hazard mitigation planning and strategy implementation (open access)

Roles revealed: An examination of the adopted roles of emergency managers in hazard mitigation planning and strategy implementation

Article describes study where thirty emergency management coordinators from the North Central Texas region were interviewed to examine how they define their roles in hazard mitigation planning; then, grounded theory analysis generated six themes regarding the broad roles they practice.
Date: April 11, 2019
Creator: Samuel, Carlos & Siebeneck, Laura K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Why do we need a national address point database to improve wildfire public safety in the U.S.? (open access)

Why do we need a national address point database to improve wildfire public safety in the U.S.?

Article aims to advance understanding of the value of national address point databases in improving wildfire public safety in the U.S.
Date: July 5, 2019
Creator: Li, Dapeng; Cova, Thomas J.; Dennison, Philip E.; Wan, Neng; Nguyen, Quynh C. & Siebeneck, Laura K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
“I’m Gonna Get Busy Living”: Examining the Trajectories of Affect, Behavioral Health, and Psychological Resilience Among Persons Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus in a Southeastern U.S. Health District (open access)

“I’m Gonna Get Busy Living”: Examining the Trajectories of Affect, Behavioral Health, and Psychological Resilience Among Persons Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus in a Southeastern U.S. Health District

Article describes results of a study seeking to provide further insight into how core affect influences the adaptability of persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) after diagnosis.
Date: April 30, 2019
Creator: Hill, Miranda; Huff, Amber & Chumbler, Neale
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Progressing From Identification and Functional Analysis of Precursor Behavior to Treatment of Selfinjurious Behavior (open access)

Progressing From Identification and Functional Analysis of Precursor Behavior to Treatment of Selfinjurious Behavior

This article evaluates the utility of assessing and treating severe selfinjurious behavior (SIB) based on the outcomes of a functional analysis of precursor behavior.
Date: September 26, 2011
Creator: Dracobly, Joseph D. & Smith, Richard G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safety of Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood Therapy for Acquired Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children (open access)

Safety of Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood Therapy for Acquired Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children

This article presents the results of a phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the intravenous administration of human umbilical cord blood (hUCB) mononuclear fraction in infants and children with acquired sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).
Date: June 18, 2018
Creator: Baumgartner, Linda S.; Moore, Ernest J.; Shook, David; Messina, Steven; Day, Mary Clare; Green, Jennifer et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
On Critchfield's Proposal: Student Concerns and Recommendations (open access)

On Critchfield's Proposal: Student Concerns and Recommendations

This article contains a response to the article by Critchfield (2011) entitled "Interesting Times: Practice, Science, and Professional Associations in Behavior Analysis", including a concern about the effect of seprating science and practice on the future of behavior analysis.
Date: 2012
Creator: Bayles, Makenzie W.; Boutain, Ariana R.; Ackerlund Brandt, Julie A.; Call, Nikki; Dracobly, Joseph D.; Greer, Brian D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The challenges and future opportunities of emergency management education: a student's perspective (open access)

The challenges and future opportunities of emergency management education: a student's perspective

This article describes a few of the challenges facing current emergency management curriculum and how the University of North Texas Emergency Administration and Planning program is addressing these challenges.
Date: 2002
Creator: Fuller, Christopher
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Planning and Improvisation in Emergency Management (open access)

Planning and Improvisation in Emergency Management

Book chapter from "Critical Issues in Disaster Science and Management: A Dialogue Between Researchers and Practitioners." This chapter includes both a theoretical and practical examination of planning and improvisation in emergency management.
Date: 2014
Creator: McEntire, David
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Running Head: Faithful Health Norms (open access)

Running Head: Faithful Health Norms

This article applies a structural theory analysis to understand the ways by which religious adherents adopt and enact health norms.
Date: January 18, 2018
Creator: Mpofu, Elias
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factor structure of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Figural Form A in Kiswahili speaking children: Multidimensionality and influences on creative behavior (open access)

Factor structure of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Figural Form A in Kiswahili speaking children: Multidimensionality and influences on creative behavior

This article provides evidence for the valid use of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) in sub-Saharan Africa.
Date: November 19, 2016
Creator: Humble, Steve; Dixon, Pauline & Mpofu, Elias
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flood Resilience Building in Thailand: Assessing Progress and the Effect of Leadership (open access)

Flood Resilience Building in Thailand: Assessing Progress and the Effect of Leadership

This article uses the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction 10 Essentials for Making Cities Resilient as guidelines to assess the progress of flood resilience building in Thailand.
Date: March 5, 2018
Creator: Khunwishit, Somporn; Choosuk, Chanisada & Webb, Gary
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Approach to Improving and Evaluating Creative Scientific Thinking Skills in an Undergraduate Animal Physiology Course (open access)

An Approach to Improving and Evaluating Creative Scientific Thinking Skills in an Undergraduate Animal Physiology Course

This paper describes an attempt to improve creative scientific thinking skills in an undergraduate Animal Physiology course at a liberal arts college.
Date: March 12, 2009
Creator: Palombi Shadduck, Peggy
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computer Modeling of Physiological Phenomena at the Cellular Level (open access)

Computer Modeling of Physiological Phenomena at the Cellular Level

This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using computer modeling to study physiology, and provides an example of how students can begin to use computer modeling in the classroom.
Date: August 30, 1999
Creator: Palombi Shadduck, Peggy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Logic of Uncertainty and Executive Discretion in Decision Making: The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Ebola Response (open access)

The Logic of Uncertainty and Executive Discretion in Decision Making: The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Ebola Response

This article addresses what a highly complex public health situation such as the Dallas-Fort Worth Ebola outbreak tell about the use of discretion by executive level public administrators.
Date: June 2017
Creator: Benavides, Abraham David; Keyes, Laura; McEntire, David & Carlson, Erin K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
New-Student Orientations: Supporting Success and Socialization in Graduate Programs (open access)

New-Student Orientations: Supporting Success and Socialization in Graduate Programs

This article describes the use of an orientation logic model to examine whether certain orientation program characteristics, such as resources and tenets, are associated with student retention, grade achievement, and socialization.
Date: April 18, 2018
Creator: Benavides, Abraham David & Keyes, Laura
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Local Government Adoption of Age Friendly Policies: An Integrated Model of Responsiveness, Multi-Level Governance and Public Entrepreneurship Theories (open access)

Local Government Adoption of Age Friendly Policies: An Integrated Model of Responsiveness, Multi-Level Governance and Public Entrepreneurship Theories

This article argues that responsiveness, multi-level governance, and public entrepreneurship theories offer a fuller explanation for local government policy decision-making.
Date: 2017
Creator: Keyes, Laura & Benavides, Abraham David
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Public Health Network Structure and Collaboration Effectiveness during the 2015 MERS Outbreak in South Korea: An Institutional Collective Action Framework (open access)

Public Health Network Structure and Collaboration Effectiveness during the 2015 MERS Outbreak in South Korea: An Institutional Collective Action Framework

This article studies examines the structural effect of public health network explaining collaboration effectiveness.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Kim, KyungWoo; Andrew, Simon A. & Jung, Kyujin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unidentified Bodies and Mass-Fatality Management in haiti: A Case Study of the January 2010 Earthquake with a Cross-Cultural Comparison (open access)

Unidentified Bodies and Mass-Fatality Management in haiti: A Case Study of the January 2010 Earthquake with a Cross-Cultural Comparison

This article examines the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti as a case study to understand what happens to unidentified bodies in mass-fatality management.
Date: November 2012
Creator: McEntire, David; Sadiq, Abdul-Akeem & Gupta, Kailash
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs: Aspects of the One-Percenter Culture for Emergency Department Personnel to Consider (open access)

Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs: Aspects of the One-Percenter Culture for Emergency Department Personnel to Consider

This article discusses various aspects of the culture of outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) so that emergency department personnel may better understand the mentality of the outlaw biker.
Date: April 9, 2013
Creator: Bosmia, Anand N.; Quinn, James F.; Peterson, Todd B.; Griessenauer, Christoph J. & Tubbs, R. Shane
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Commitment Offense, and Race/Ethnicity: Are the Effects Crime-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Specific? (open access)

Adverse Childhood Experiences, Commitment Offense, and Race/Ethnicity: Are the Effects Crime-, Race-, and Ethnicity-Specific?

This article uses epidemiological tables of odds (both unadjusted and adjusted for onset, total adjudications, and total out of home placements) on a sample of 2520 male confined juvenile delinquents, to evaluate the significance of the number of adverse childhood experiences on commitment for homicide, sexual assault, and serious persons/property offending.
Date: March 22, 2017
Creator: DeLisi, Matt; Alcala, Justin; Kusow, Abdi; Hochstetler, Andy; Heirigs, Mark H.; Caudill, Jonathan W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Increased physical activity, physician recommendation, and senior center participation (open access)

Increased physical activity, physician recommendation, and senior center participation

This article employs the Andersen Behavioral Model to explore increased physical activity and participation in three types of senior center activities: physical fitness, dance/aerobic classes, and chair exercises.
Date: November 25, 2013
Creator: Swan, James H.; Turner, K. Whisnant (Keith Whisnant); Shashidhara, Shilpa & Sanders, David
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library