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Irony and the 'yoga wars'

Description: Article discussing the debated topic of whether yoga is a Hindu or Secular practice and the potential causes and impacts of how and why this subject is being debated.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Jainism, Dharma, and Environmental Ethics

Description: Article discussing the absence of a formal category of environmental ethics in Jainism and Jainism's historical relationship to environmental ethics.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Renunciation and Non-Renunciation in Indian Films

Description: Article discussing the renunciation and non-renunciation in Indian films. The author reviews several films to analyze the portrayal of ascetics and householders.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Swadhyaya's Dharmic Ecology

Description: Article discussing an essay by the author titled "Dharmic Ecology: Perspectives from the Swadhyaya Practitioners," discussing the Swadhyayis and their Vrksamandiras, or tree-temples, and dharmic ecology.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Ten Key Hindu Environmental Teachings

Description: This article discusses diverse theologies in Hinduism and describes ten important Hindu teachings on the environment.
Date: 2010
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Flood Resilience Building in Thailand: Assessing Progress and the Effect of Leadership

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Running Head: Faithful Health Norms

Description: This article applies a structural theory analysis to understand the ways by which religious adherents adopt and enact health norms.
Date: April 9, 2018
Creator: Mpofu, Elias
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Computer Modeling of Physiological Phenomena at the Cellular Level

Description: 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
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Teaching and Learning Technologies in Higher Education: Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism: "Necessity is the Mother of Invention"

Description: Article discussing current thinking about adult education and blended learning technologies, as well as examples of emerging possibilities of multimedia technology in the development of teaching materials.
Date: November 13, 2015
Creator: Roll-Pettersson, Lise, 1955-; Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla; Keenan, Mickey & Dillenburger, Karola
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Roles revealed: An examination of the adopted roles of emergency managers in hazard mitigation planning and strategy implementation

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Amygdala involvement in human avoidance, escape and approach behavior

Description: Article on amygdala involvement in human avoidance, escape and approach behavior. The authors examine amygdala reactivity to threatening cues when avoidance responding consistently prevented contact with an upcoming aversive event (money loss).
Date: November 1, 2010
Creator: Schlund, Michael W. & Cataldo, Michael F.
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Not so bad: avoidance and aversive discounting modulate threat appraisal in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex

Description: This article describes an investigation in which 30 healthy adults underwent functional neuroimaging while completing an avoidance task in which responses to an Avoidable CS+ threat prevented delivery of an aversive stimulus, but not to an Unavoidable CS+ threat.
Date: June 10, 2015
Creator: Schlund, Michael W.; Brewer, Adam T.; Richman, David M.; Magee, Sandy K. & Dymond, Simon
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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