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Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Wetland Vegetation in the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in Northwest China Using Landsat Derived NDVI

Description: This article uses 41 Landsat images between 1988 and 2016 to calculate the normalized difference vegetation indices (NVDIs) of the wetland vegetation at Xitugou (XTG) and Wowachi (WWC) inside the Dunhuang Yangguan National Nature Reserve in northwest China in order to assess the impacts of climate change on wetland vegetation.
Date: May 10, 2018
Creator: Pan, Feifei; Xie, Jianping; Lin, Juming; Zhao, Tingwei; Ji, Yongyuan; Hu, Qi et al.
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Identity Management at the University of North Texas

Description: Brief history of name authority in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Collections, including the development and use of a local name authority database for creators associated with the UNT community. This text was part of the article "Who Is This: Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management" published in the May/June 2018 issue of AALL Spectrum.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Making Fair Use Make More Sense: A White Paper

Description: This document is part of a series of white papers on various copyright issues. Fair use is a powerful tool for people who want to use and expand on copyrighted works. Fair use is special among the other copyright exceptions because it isn’t specifically targeted at one kind of use. Instead, fair use is purposely open ended to permit many different kinds of uses. One downside of this however, is that it can be difficult for anyone — lawyer and nonlawyer alike — to figure what is/isn’t fair use u… more
Date: May 2018
Creator: Wolfson, Stephen M.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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3D Atom Probe Tomography Study on Segregation of Yttrium in Modified Aluminum-Silicon Alloys

Description: In this article, yttrium segregation behavior in Al-Si alloys has been studied using the three-dimensional atom probe tomography technique. Al-Si alloys were prepared by casting method, and yttrium was added to modify the eutectic silicon morphology in these alloys. The results indicated that yttrium is preferentially located within the Si phase, with the highest concentration at the interface between eutectic Al and eutectic Si.
Date: May 15, 2018
Creator: De-Giovanni, Mario; Alam, Talukder; Banerjee, Rajarshi & Srirangam, Prakash
Partner: UNT College of Engineering

Strategic Voting and Insider Ownership

Description: This article outlines a model of strategic shareholder voting that allows outside shareholders to mitigate the influence of insiders.
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Date: May 18, 2018
Creator: Marquardt, Blair; Myers, Brett W. & Niu, Xu
Partner: UNT College of Business
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Transitioning from Acute to Chronic Pain: An Examination of Different Trajectories of Low-Back Pain

Description: The article examines the most recent trajectory research, and highlights the importance of developing a broader model for patient evaluation. Traditionally, there has been a widely accepted notion that the transition from acute to chronic pain follows a linear trajectory, where an injury leads to acute episodes, subacute stages, and progresses to a chronic pain condition. However, it appears that pain progression is much more complicated and individualized than this original unsupported assumpt… more
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Gatchel, Robert J.; Bevers, Kelley; Licciardone, John C.; Su, Jianzhong; Du, Ying & Brotto, Marco
Partner: UNT Health Science Center
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Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) graft copolymer dense membranes for human mesenchymal stem cell growth

Description: This article discusses the preparation of thermal-remolded membrane scaffolds from poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) grafted with 2-amino-ehtyl methacrylate hydrochloride.
Date: May 25, 2018
Creator: González-Torres, Maykel; Sánchez-Sánchez, Roberto; Solís-Rosales, Silvia G.; Brostow, Witold, 1934-; Reyes-Cervantes, Eric; Gutiérrez-Uribe, Janet Alejandra et al.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Annotating If Authors of Tweets are Located in the Locations They Tweet About

Description: Article presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). The study investigates spatial information of tweets whereby the authors present a corpus of tweets annotated with temporally-anchored spatial information involving the author.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Doudagiri, Vivek; Vempala, Alakananda & Blanco, Eduardo
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Meditation-Induced Coherence and Crucial Events

Description: This article emphasizes that 1/f noise has two different origins, one compatible with Laplace determinism and one determined by unpredictable crucial events.
Date: May 29, 2018
Creator: Tuladhar, Rohisha; Bohara, Gyanendra; Grigolini, Paolo & West, Bruce J.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Barriers to Food Security and Community Stress in an Urban Food Desert

Description: This article describes how residents in urban food deserts access food, the barriers they experience in accessing nutritious, affordable food, and how community food insecurity exacerbates prior social, built, and economic stressors.
Date: May 31, 2018
Creator: Crowe, Jessica; Lacy, Constance & Columbus, Yolanda
Partner: UNT Dallas
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"Who Is This?": Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management

Description: Article describing name authority practices in institutional repositories at three universities -- University of North Texas, Texas A&M University, and the University of Arizona -- and how processes have been adapted in digital libraries to incorporate or be more compatible with linked data.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Graham, Suzanne
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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