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Biological Factors Contributing to the Development of Homosexuality: A Systematic Review of the Literature (open access)

Biological Factors Contributing to the Development of Homosexuality: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Paper explores theories about the possible biological causes of homosexuality in people.
Date: 2017
Creator: Maciel, Idalia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compromise and Example: Continued Issues of Art Restitution and Holocaust-Era Looted Art (open access)

Compromise and Example: Continued Issues of Art Restitution and Holocaust-Era Looted Art

Paper examines the state of standards and legislation for handling restitution claims for artworks looting from victims during the Holocaust.
Date: 2017
Creator: Bellet, Caitlin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gliére, Erdely, and the Harp in Russia (open access)

Gliére, Erdely, and the Harp in Russia

Paper explores the possible reasons behind Reinhold Gliére, a prominent Russian composer, choosing to write two pieces for harp.
Date: 2017
Creator: Mertens, Ruth
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hashtags and Hail to the Redskins: My Summer in Ashburn, Virginia (open access)

Hashtags and Hail to the Redskins: My Summer in Ashburn, Virginia

Log of the author's experience as a social media intern with the Washington Redskins football team during the summer of 2017.
Date: 2017
Creator: Kemrite, Madison
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Historical Discord: The Question of Greek Women (open access)

Historical Discord: The Question of Greek Women

Paper seeks to rectify the inaccuracies in previous historians’ analyses of Greek women by investigating the social, political, and economic power held by various women within the Greek world, as demonstrated in art, religion, and literature.
Date: 2017
Creator: Coil, Caitlyn
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introducing Change of Early Implementation of Learning Spanish as a Foreign Language in the Texas Education System (open access)

Introducing Change of Early Implementation of Learning Spanish as a Foreign Language in the Texas Education System

Paper explores why the United States, and in particular Texas, does not begin requiring foreign language education until high school.
Date: 2017
Creator: White, Krystin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanistic Knowledge and Public Opinion of GMOs (open access)

Mechanistic Knowledge and Public Opinion of GMOs

Paper explores how mechanistic learning affects participants’ knowledge and opinions of GMOs, as well as retention of knowledge and opinions.
Date: 2017
Creator: Haskell, Allison
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Non–denial Denial: A Study to Find Evidence That Donald Trump Is Changing the Perception of the Media (open access)

A Non–denial Denial: A Study to Find Evidence That Donald Trump Is Changing the Perception of the Media

Paper explores how public statements made by Donald Trump since the 2016 presidential election have affected public perception of the media.
Date: 2017
Creator: Walker, Brandy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Refugee Representations: 1950s Non-Western/WWII Refugees in American Media with Smaller Circulation (open access)

Refugee Representations: 1950s Non-Western/WWII Refugees in American Media with Smaller Circulation

Paper explores refugee representations in the 1950s of non-western/World War II in American media, specifically “smaller circulation” media - local newspapers, academic studies, and governmental documents.
Date: 2017
Creator: Anderson, Tova
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) to Improve the Daily Lives of Children with Autism (open access)

Using Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) to Improve the Daily Lives of Children with Autism

Paper examines the benefits and limitations of alternative and augmentative devices for assisting autistic children with communication.
Date: 2017
Creator: Rodriguez, Kelsey
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
What is Rhythmic Dissonance? (open access)

What is Rhythmic Dissonance?

Paper explores the current state of rhythmic dissonance by examining precedents set by previous theorists.
Date: 2017
Creator: Adams, Evan O.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Images in Mexican-American War Literature (open access)

An Analysis of Images in Mexican-American War Literature

Paper argues that John Frost’s pictorial images and narratives of Mexicans were used as historical justifications for the intervention into Mexico during the Mexican-American War.
Date: 2016
Creator: Rudy, Matthew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Application of Genetic Engineering in Forestry: Factors That Prevent Its Commercialization (open access)

The Application of Genetic Engineering in Forestry: Factors That Prevent Its Commercialization

Paper discusses factors influencing the lack of adaption of genetic engineering in forestry.
Date: 2016
Creator: Evers, John
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Science and Non-science Major Students’ Awareness of Bacterial Resistance and their Hygiene Practices (open access)

Comparison of Science and Non-science Major Students’ Awareness of Bacterial Resistance and their Hygiene Practices

Paper explores the question of whether differing education provided to a science major and non-science major university students affect their awareness of antibacterial resistance.
Date: 2016
Creator: Bui, Jenny
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emerging Market Multinationals and the Effect of Institutional Distance on Equity Participated in Cross Border Acquisition (open access)

Emerging Market Multinationals and the Effect of Institutional Distance on Equity Participated in Cross Border Acquisition

Paper examined the relationship of institutional distance based on an economic freedom index between the acquirer’s nation and host nation with the equity participated in the acquisition of emerging market multinational companies.
Date: 2016
Creator: Al Beayeyz, Sulaiman
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Erasing Mexico. Notes on the Upper Rio Grande: Documentation for the Sake of Future Exploitation (open access)

Erasing Mexico. Notes on the Upper Rio Grande: Documentation for the Sake of Future Exploitation

Paper examines the text and images in Bryant Tilden’s Notes on the Upper Rio Grande and analyzes how Mexicans are misrepresented in order to justify Manifest Destiny.
Date: 2016
Creator: Reyes, Christianna
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
For Those Who Served the Mission Continues: Veteran Integration Back into Civilian Life via Higher Education after Military Service (open access)

For Those Who Served the Mission Continues: Veteran Integration Back into Civilian Life via Higher Education after Military Service

Paper explores the issues face by veterans attending higher education institutions after their time in service, and what support services are most effective and why.
Date: 2016
Creator: Buchanan, Jeremy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Honey, Ain’t You Glad We’re Texan: The Mythic Narrative of Texas in the Texas Centennial (open access)

Honey, Ain’t You Glad We’re Texan: The Mythic Narrative of Texas in the Texas Centennial

Paper explores how the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936 was used to build the mythology of a unified Texas identity and history.
Date: 2016
Creator: Wilson, Hannah Joan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hubert Howe Bancroft: Behind the Façade of Professional Historian (open access)

Hubert Howe Bancroft: Behind the Façade of Professional Historian

Paper explores the imagery and text coded with implications of the United States’ social dominance over Mexico in Hubert Howe Bancroft XVI's accounts of Texas history.
Date: 2016
Creator: Wilson, Hannah Joan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Illustrating American Power and Privilege: Images of Mexico as the Other in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70 (open access)

Illustrating American Power and Privilege: Images of Mexico as the Other in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70

Paper argues the images and text in Albert S. Evans’s Our Sister Republic: A Gala Trip Through Tropical Mexico in 1869-70 misrepresented Mexico to justify American imperialism.
Date: 2016
Creator: Tuley, Tiffany
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Image of Mexico in Letters from Mexico: Hegemonic Relations between the U.S. and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century (open access)

The Image of Mexico in Letters from Mexico: Hegemonic Relations between the U.S. and Mexico in the Late Nineteenth Century

Paper closely examines images and text in Mexico of To-day by Solomon Bulkley Griffin and discusses how the book demonstrates the United States' attitude towards Mexico during the late nineteenth century.
Date: 2016
Creator: Kim, Jungwan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music and Facial Emotion Recognition: An Experimental Approach (open access)

Music and Facial Emotion Recognition: An Experimental Approach

Paper discusses a study that examines the effect of music on the recognition of facial expressions, with the goal of providing insight into how the brain processes emotion.
Date: 2016
Creator: Vu, Vy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Other Side: Fifteen Mexicans and an American (open access)

The Other Side: Fifteen Mexicans and an American

Paper argues that Albert C. Ramsey’s The Other Side: or Notes for the History of the War Between Mexico and the U.S., a translation of a Mexican account of the war, Apuntes para la Historia de la Guerra entre M´ exico y los Estrados-Unidos depicts the Mexican perspective on the Mexican-American war to counter misrepresentations of Mexico by his American peers.
Date: 2016
Creator: Brand, Rebecca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Slash Fanfiction and Media Representation of the LGBTQ+ Community (open access)

Slash Fanfiction and Media Representation of the LGBTQ+ Community

Paper analyzes and explores the history and development of the slash fanfiction-writing subculture, and how it relates to the lack of accurate media depictions of LGBTQ+ individuals.
Date: 2016
Creator: Bradley, Allison
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library