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- Access to Film and Video Works: Surrogates for Moving Image Documents
- This doctoral dissertation discusses access to film and video works. Physical and intellectual access to moving image documents is insufficient, often insignificant, at the level of the individual user. Existing access tools suffer from a lack of recognition of the differences between linguistic text communication and image communication. Browsing and relevance judgements are made difficult by the physical realities of film and video documents - one cannot flip through them - and by the habits of serial and passive viewing. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77222/
- According to the Goal: How Eliyahu Goldratt Helps Organizations Examine Their Processes to Achieve Maximum Results
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing Eliyahu Goldratt's "Theory of Constraints," summarizes the book "The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement," and examines a company applying this theory. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146513/
- Actigraphy, Sleep Diaries and Polysomnography in College Students with Insomnia
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the use of actigraphy on college students to measure the number of awakenings, wake after sleep onset, total sleep time, and sleep efficiency. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146541/
- The Affect of Coping on the Physical and Mental Health of Abused Women
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the role of coping on the physical and mental health symptoms of women in abusive relationships. It is hypothesized that sustained partner abuse will be associated with mental and physical health symptoms and that coping will mediate these effects. Psychological abuse was found to have the strongest impact on women's physical and mental health. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146495/
- American Modernist Writers: How They Touched the Private Realm of Life
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing modern literature (particularly Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway) and the changes in traditional moral values and gender roles. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146522/
- Arrival Survival and Adaptation: The Quest for Gender Identity Among Female Mexican Immigrants
- Honors thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing anthropological issues for female anthropologists of color while researching the lives of several Latinas in Denton, Texas. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146486/
- The Art of Music Composition: An Introduction to Basic Elements, Methods, and the Importance of Modeling as a Compositional Process
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing composing music for bands, orchestras, or choirs. Discussions of music theory, instrumentation, and orchestration are also included. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146458/
- Assistive Technology Use by Students with Disabilities at UNT
- Honors thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing assertive technologies used by students with physical disabilities. Topics include frequently used devices, services of the Office of Disability Accommodation, and the quality of students' training with these devices. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146530/
- At Quem Non Ceno, Barbarus Ille Mihi Est: Roman and Jewish Dietary Traditions in Antiquity
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing how ancient Roman and Jewish dietary traditions confirmed group identity, expressed piety through ritual, and were otherwise a matter of social significance. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146557/
- Attitudes and Internalized Stigma in Gay and Lesbian College Students
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the influence and predictive qualities of homonegative attitudes on internalized homophobia among gay, lesbian, and bisexual college students, and the moderating effects of self esteem on these variables. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146560/
- The Austen Women: A Look at Character
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing female characters of Jane Austin's novels and how they achieve happiness. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146491/
- Automatic MEA Coupling Tester: two proposed designs
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the development of an automatic coupling tester to test for electrode-electrode coupling on an Malt Extract Agar plate. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146501/
- Autonomic Control of Heat Rate Variability in Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) Hatchlings
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the role of the autonomic nervous system in the heart rate variability of day-old emu hatchlings. Atropine and propranolol were administered to block the action of cholinegric and adrenegric pathways and thereby reduce heart rate. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146494/
- Bal. Pulse = 1'
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the Gamelan orchestra of Indonesia, its instruments, a musical piece composed in the style, and scanned photographs of the instruments. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146429/
- Between Identity and Commodity: Female Urban Experience in Vicki Baum's Menschen im Hotel
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the urban experiences of German women in the late Weimar Republic as portrayed in the character Flammchen in Vicki Baum's 1929 Novel Menschen im Hotel. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146554/
- Camelot's Mystique
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing John F. Kennedy's rise through American politics, his death, and the conspiracy theories that surround his assassination. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146455/
- Caring for Indigent Children in Denton County in Relation to Dallas and Tarrant Counties in Texas
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing health care of people without health insurance in Denton County, Texas. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146544/
- Characteristics of Musicians' Earplugs as a Function of Jaw Position
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the effects of different earplugs on the jaw movements of musicians. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146487/
- Charting Cultural Changes Through the Movie Adaptations of The Three Musketeers
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the differences between film adaptations of The Three Musketeers and the novel while placing each adaptation within the historical context of the decade in which it was created. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146482/
- Classical Inspiration and Modern Expression: Greek Art Turned Fauve, Constructivist, Dada, and Pop
- Senior colloquium written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing Greek sculpture and architecture as filtered through the Fauve, Constructivist, Dada, and Pop artistic movements. The author takes examples of Grecian sculpture, recreates them in each of the other styles, and discusses the results. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146415/
- Cognitive Styles and Aggression in Preschool Children
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College examining aggressive preschool children (27 children between the ages of 4 and 6) and assessing them for similarities in conceptual tempo and field independence/dependence. Findings indicate that aggressive children may have less accurate decision making skills and be more impulsive. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146505/
- Collection-Level Subject Access in Aggregations of Digital Collections: Metadata Application and Use
- This doctoral dissertation is about collection-level subject access in aggregations of digital collections. Abstract: Problems in subject access to information organization systems have been under investigation for a long time. Focusing on item-level information discovery and access, researchers have identified a range of subject access problems, including quality and application of metadata, as well as the complexity of user knowledge required for successful subject exploration. While aggregations of digital collections built in the United States and abroad generate collection-level metadata of various levels of granularity and richness, no research has yet focused on the role of collection-level metadata in user interaction with these aggregations. This dissertation research sought to bridge this gap by answering the question "How does collection-level metadata mediate scholarly subject access to aggregated digital collections?" This goal was achieved using three research methods: - in-depth comparative content analysis of collection-level metadata in three large-scale aggregations of cultural heritage digital collections: Opening History, American Memory, and The European Library, - transaction log analysis of user interactions, with Opening History, and - interview and observation data on academic historians interacting with two aggregations: Opening History and American Memory. It was found that subject-based resource discovery is significantly influenced by collection-level metadata richness. The richness includes such components as: 1) describing collection's subject matter with mutually-complementary values in different metadata fields, and 2) a variety of collection properties/characteristics encoded in the free-text Description field, including types and genres of objects in a digital collection, as well as topical, geographic and temporal coverage are the most consistently represented collection characteristics in free-text Description fields. Analysis of user interactions with aggregations of digital collections yields a number of interesting findings. Item-level user interactions were found to occur more often than collection-level interactions. Collection browse is initiated more often than search, while subject browse (topical and geographic) is used most often. Majority of collection search queries fall within FRBR Group 3 categories: object, concept, and place. Significantly more object, concept, and corporate body searches and less individual person, event and class of personas searches were observed in collection searches than in item searches. While collection search is most often satisfied by Description and/or Subjects collection metadata fields, it would not retrieve a significant proportion of collection records without controlled-vocabulary subject metadata (Temporal Coverage, Geographic Coverage, Subjects, and Objects), and free-text metadata (the Description field). Observation data shows that collection metadata records in Opening History and American Memory aggregations are often viewed. Transaction log data show a high level of engagement with collection metadata records in Opening History, with the total page views for collections more than 4 times greater than item page views. Scholars observed viewing collection records valued descriptive information on provenance, collection size, types of objects, subjects, geographic coverage, and temporal coverage information. They also considered the structured display of collection metadata in Opening History more useful than the alternative approach taken by other aggregations, such as American Memory, which displays only the free-text Description field to the end-user. The results extend the understanding of the value of collection-level subject metadata, particularly free-text metadata, for the scholarly users of aggregations of digital collections. The analysis of the collection metadata created by three large-scale aggregations provides a better understanding of collection-level metadata application patterns and suggests best practices. This dissertation is also the first empirical research contribution to test the FRBR model as a conceptual and analytic framework for studying collection-level subject access. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67618/
- Combustible Birds
- Book manuscript written by a student in the UNT Honors College that follows the protagonist, Syd, through life at a university. Plato's Republic and the allegory of the cave are primary inspirations. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146466/
- Community Economic Development in the Banking Industry: Banks and Their Involvement in the Communities They Serve
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the support and involvement of banks in Community Economic Development. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146470/
- A Comparative Analysis of Phonetic Awareness and Development in Learners of French in At Home and Study Abroad Contexts
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the differences between eleven students of the French language who studied at home versus eleven who studied in France. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146511/
- The Complexities of Career Development
- Honors thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing career development. The author researched both existing literature and interviews of professional career counselors. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146521/
- Concurrences in the U. S. Supreme Court
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing different types of opinions within the United States Supreme Court, with an emphasis on the history and practice of concurrences. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146471/
- Cultural Hybridity: Arab/Latino -- A Reflexive Approach
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the experiences of being multi-ethnic and multicultural, focusing on people with a Latino and Arabic background. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146517/
- A Day in the Life of Thomas McKean
- Honors thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College. The thesis is crafted in two parts, with the first part being a discussion of the craft of writing the short story contained in the second part. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146459/
- Designing a Health Promotion Message to Advocate the Use of Clarinet Neckstraps as an Injury Prevention Method in Public School Band Programs
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing clarinet neck straps and their promotion within the clarinet community. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146472/
- Deterrence: American Naval Policy In The Western Pacific, Realistic Or Subject To Change
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the future of United States naval deterrence and its viability. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146561/
- The Discrepancies of Kant and Camus: Relating to the world
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College comparing the philosophies and ethics of Albert Camus and Immanuel Kant. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146463/
- Discussing the Validity of a Guest Worker Program in the United States
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the history and potential benefits and disadvantages of a guest worker program within the United States of America, and attempts to formulate a such a program. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146539/
- Drama in the Science Classroom: Teaching Science in the New Millenium
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the use of drama as an educational tool in grade school science classes. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146452/
- Drug Related Corruption
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the relationship between the global drug trade and the corruption of government officials. Included is a history of international drug prohibition, cases of corruption by country, United States policies implemented to prevent corruption, and an analysis of the potential for success in curtailing drug related corruption in the U. S. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146550/
- The Dynamics of Interfaith Relationships
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing a correlation and causation effect between interfaith relationships and age, education, and economic status. It also analyzes dating dynamics and social forces working against interfaith relationships. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146527/
- Dysphoric Pauses: A Collection of Short Fiction
- Short stories written by a student in the UNT Honors College that concern ordinary people in states of despair. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146509/
- Ecofeminism: The Ethics of Hierarchal Dichotomies
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing how the social organization of gender relates to the ways societies create nature. Other hierarchical dichotomies are discussed. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146518/
- Educational Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing Mexico's educational system and corporate social responsibility programs and whether these actually respond to the needs of Mexican schools. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146483/
- The Effect of Antimitotics on Neuronal Cell Cultures: A thorough investigation
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the different kinds of antimitotics and their direct and indirect effects on neuronal cell cultures. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146453/
- The Effect of Increased Vocal Intensity on Articulatory Dynamics
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing loudness in speech therapy. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146496/
- Effects of Technology on Mathematics Education in the Middle School
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the use of technology in middle schools. While technology is shown to improve standardized test scores, there are problems with the costs, training, and failure of technology. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146523/
- The End of Slavery and the Reconstruction of the United States
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the history of Reconstruction following the American Civil War. Slavery and the fate of former slaves following the war is the primary focus. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146426/
- An Entangled Pathology
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the history of healthcare in the Gaza Strip from 1940 to 2008, the role of healthcare in the development of Hamas, the current state of health systems in the Gaza Strip, and how the relationship between Hamas with the citizens of Gaza, Israel, and other countries have an effect on the healthcare of Gaza. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146559/
- Environmental Inequality in Tarrant County: An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Waste
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the distribution of environmental contamination generated by public and private sector activities as it relates to the social, demographic, and economic characteristics of the inhabitants of Tarrant County, Texas. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146536/
- Ethics in the Accounting Profession: A Challenge for the Future?
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the evolution of ethics within the accounting profession and the difficulties encountered when personal ethics conflict with the Code of Professional Conduct. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146440/
- Etiquette and Ethics in International Trade with Japan
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing how American businesses can properly interact with Japanese businesses by understanding Japan's system of etiquette and business philosophy. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146450/
- Euston Station and The Master's Chair
- Thesis in short fiction written by a student in the UNT Honors College. Two short stories are included after a short introduction. The first, "Euston Station," deals with a man disappointed with his visit to England. The second, "The Master's Chair," features a priest falling in love with a woman and trying to impress her son. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146468/
- The Evolution of Creation
- Colloquium written by a student in the UNT Honors College wherein Biblical Creation and the theory of evolution are combined into a story. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146442/
- The Evolution of Man Towards Self Actualization
- Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing his evolution towards self-actualization via existentialism. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc146476/