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- 1:1 iPads in 1st Grade: Two-Year Case Study of a Teacher's Concerns, Use, and Innovation Configuration
- This chapter reports the findings of a two-year case study of how one first-grade teacher in a Florida charter school with 1:1 iPads progresses through stages of concerns and levels of use to achieve technological innovation. Findings inform technology integration practices and emphasize the importance of acknowledging change concerns associated with technology acceptance.
- Крестьянский Союз в 1920-е годы и формирование крестьянской идентичности: модернизационный дискурс: The Peasant Union in the 1920s. The Formation of a Peasant Identity: Modernizing Discourse
- Book chapter discussing the Peasant Union in the 1920s, the formation of a peasant identity, and modernizing discourse.
- Annotating and Identifying Emotions in Text
- This book chapter discusses annotating and identifying emotions in text.
- Behavioral Economic Tools for Promotion of Physical Activity
- This book chapter describes two key behavioral economic constructs and four key behavioral economic tools and their application to physical activity.
- Berlin's History in Context: The Foreign Ministry and the Spreebogen Complex in the Context of the Architectural Debates
- Book chapter discussing Berlin, Germany's history in context and the Foreign Ministry and Spreebogen Complex in the context of the architectural debates.
- Biocultural conservation in Cape Horn: the Magellanic woodpecker as a charismatic species
- This book chapter discusses a research project to promote biocultural conservation in Cape Horn, Chile. In an effort to achieve the goal of transdisciplinary integration, the authors used the strategy of identifying a charismatic species, since doing so serves to motivate people towards biodiversity conservation, to communicate ecological concepts, and to integrate both the ecological and social dimensions of sustainability.
- Characteristics of Tweets about African Cultural Heritage
- This article investigates broad characteristics of tweets about African cultural heritage with possible implications for marketing by cultural heritage administrators and other stakeholders.
- Complex Adaptive Systems: Adapting and Managing Teams and Team Conflict
- This book chapter provides an overview of teams, complex adaptive systems, conflict stages, and conflict models, while also presenting adaptive leadership as a style that offers organizations with the capabilities of reacting to changing environments quickly.
- Considering the Impact of the WPA Outcomes Statement on Second Language Writers
- Book chapter on considerations on the impact of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) Outcomes Statement (OS) on second language writers. This chapter examines the extent to which the WPA OS reflects (or does not reflect) the presence and needs of second language writers.
- Dear Facebook
- This book chapter is written in the form of a break-up letter from the author to the social networking website, Facebook. It discusses social networking, technological changes, urbanization, globalization, media technology, and philosophical ideas about society.
- Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork
- Book chapter defining descriptive linguistic fieldwork, explores tasks that fall under this definition, outlines goals of descriptive linguistic fieldwork, and identifies aspirations and limitations of linguistic fieldworkers.
- Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd
- This chapter critiques the use of student labor on digital humanities projects in and out of the classroom.
- Documenting Institutional Knowledge Through TRAC Self-Audit: A Case Study
- Book chapter on the Trusted Repository Audit and Checklist (TRAC) process through the lens of contextual dimensions within knowledge management, using the case study of the University of North Texas Libraries.
- Educating the Community: Preserving Tomorrow's Treasures Today
- This book chapter discusses educating communities. and preserving tomorrow's treasures today. Librarians, curators, archivists, and volunteers work hard to conserve and preserve materials as they are added to their collections, insuring that the materials can be safely used. However, not all genealogical and historical information is held in cultural institutions; unknown numbers of valuable information sources reside with individuals and in residences. By educating the community today on how to protect the treasures in their care, we have the potential to minimize the repairs needed for these items in the future.
- Effectiveness of Nature Conservation - A Case of Natura 2000 Sites in Poland
- This book chapter examines problems emerging due to the designation of protected areas as well as implementation and management of the Natura 2000 in Poland.
- Electrochemical Synthesis of Rare Earth Ceramic Oxide Coatings
- This book chapter discusses the electrochemical synthesis of lanthanum, cerium, and praseodymium oxides.
- Electrodeposition of Cu-Ni Composite Coatings
- This book chapter reviews the electrodeposition of Cu-Ni incorporated with nano- to microparticles to produce metal matrix composites.
- The Evolution of Publishing Agreements at the University of Michigan Library
- Book chapter on the evolution of publishing agreements at the University of Michigan Library. Taking as an example an open-access journal with a single editor, this chapter discusses the various configurations of rights agreements used by the University of Michigan Library throughout the evolution of its publishing operation, the advantages of the various models, and the reasons for moving from one to another.
- Facilitating Discovery and Use of Digital Cultural Heritage Resources with Folksonomies: A Review
- This article explores the strengths and limitations of folksonomies through traditional indexing and taxonomies with an emphasis on the history of cultural heritage information retrieval.
- Ferromagnetic ZnO Nanowires for Spintronic Applications
- This book chapter reviews experimental results of observed room temperature ferromagnetism in transition metal doped group II-VI semiconductors.
- Guide to Options for ETD Programs
- Chapter from Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. This chapter describes ETD access policies and intellectual property issues, deposit procedures, repository system options, ETD program management and ETD program services.
- HAM: A Hybrid Aquisitions Model for Public Libraries
- This book chapter discusses how to operationalize acquisitions through a discussion of various models of acquisitions, encompassing budgeting, working with vendors, selection, ordering, receiving, processing, and overall administration of the process.
- Hiring and Training Graduate Assistants for the Academic Library
- Book chapter discussing hiring and training graduate assistants for the academic library.
- How to Hook a Hottie: Teenage Boys, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Cosmo Girl! Magazine
- This book chapter discusses different media texts targeted at a different audience, magazines written for an audience of teenaged girls, which also work to naturalize male sexuality as aggressive and predatory. The authors study advice columns and articles in these magazines that depict teenaged boys as sexually forceful and emotionally stunted, and that encourage girl readers to expect and enable such behaviors.
- Hybrid Approach for Energy-Aware Synchronization
- This book chapter discusses a time synchronization scheme for wireless sensor networks that aims to save sensor battery power while maintaining network connectivity for as long as possible.
- IamWe: Digital Storytelling, Personal Journeys, and Praxis
- This chapter discusses the practice of digital storytelling as it relates to personal growth among high school youth who were part of the IamWe program.
- Inclusivity Instead of Exclusivity: The Role of MOOCs for College Credit
- This book chapter reviews the extant model, programs, and available outcomes for the massive open online course (MOOC) credit acceptance process.
- Introduction to the Law and the American Legal System
- This book chapter offers an introduction to the law and the American legal system.
- “Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967
- This book chapter presents the Charles Lloyd Quartet’s performance at the 1967 Tallinn Jazz Festival, which broke the “stagecraft” of prior jazz diplomacy with the Soviet Union, and proceeded despite numerous official attempts to derail it, as a case study in the effectiveness of Willis Conover’s approach over the twelve years since his Voice of America program began in 1955.
- Media and Communication
- This book chapter discusses media and communication. As core features of humanity, communication and media clearly predate academic disciplines. They are in this sense non-disciplinary. Yet, they have for centuries been the subject of inquiry by those concerned to understand and improve human correspondence. This chapter surveys the historical development and present form of multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary studies of media and communication.
- Mentoring Graduate Assistants in the Academic Library
- Book chapter discussing mentoring graduate assistants in the academic library.
- Metadata Enhancement Through Name Authority in the UNT Digital Library
- This book chapter contains a case study discussing the University of North Texas Libraries' implementation of name authority control in the UNT Digital Library as a means of increasing metadata records' quality and consistency, and of improving end-user retrieval.
- Metadata for ETD Lifecycle Management
- Chapter from Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. This chapter describes the roles of metadata in facilitating the ETD lifecycle, methods to capture metadata manually and automatically, examples of programs using metadata to enhance ETD access, and strategies to manage metadata over time.
- Monolignol Biosynthesis and its Genetic Manipulation: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Book chapter manuscript on monolignol biosynthesis and its genetic manipulation.
- Network Theory
- This book chapter discusses network theory, defined as the proposed processes and mechanisms that relate network properties to outcomes of interest.
- Neural Dynamics: Criticality, Cooperation, Avalanches and Entrainment between Complex Networks
- Book chapter discussing neural dynamics and the criticality, cooperation, avalanches and entrainment between complex networks.
- Open (Flu) Season: A Case Study of The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia
- Book chapter discussing a project by the University of Michigan's Center for the History of Medicine (CHM) in partnership with the University of Michigan Library's MPublishing division, to create an open source digital collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials related to the history of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States.
- Out of the Oven and into the (Reusable) Bag: Sous-Vide Book Delivery
- This is a section of The Sustainable Library's Cookbook, which is a collection of sustainable activities for academic libraries. This particular section explores sustainable practices in the Access Services Department at the University of North Texas.
- Performance Practice: Crafting a Historically Informed Interpretation of Nouvelles Poésies
- This book chapter discusses performance practice and crafting a historically informed interpretation of "Nouvelles Poésies."
- 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.
- Predicting Subjectivity Orientation of Online Forum Threads
- This book chapter discusses predicting subjectivity orientation of online forum threads.
- Prediction of Partition Coeffecients and Permeability of Drug Molecules in Biological Systems with Abraham Model Solute Descriptors Derived from Measured Solubilities and Water-to-Organic Solvent Partition Coefficients
- Book chapter on the prediction of partition coefficients and permeability of drug molecules in biological systems with Abraham model solute descriptors derived from measured solubilities and water-to-organic solvent partition coefficients.
- Prediction of Toxicity, Sensory Responses and Biological Responses with the Abraham Model
- This book chapter discusses the prediction of toxicity, sensory responses and biological responses with the Abraham model.
- Preserving Our Collections, Preserving Our Missions
- This book chapter discusses digital collection preservation. The authors provide a philosophical base for cultural memory organizations' need to participate in distributed digital preservation solutions as community-owned and community-led initiatives. This chapter will be useful for all readers, particularly those with questions about the value of collaborative engagement in the digital arena for cultural memory organizations.
- Professional Development Assessment Paella
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing the assessment methods of a professional development program at University of North Texas Libraries.
- Reengineering The Portal to Texas History
- This book chapter reports on a case study on the activities, findings, and lessons learned during a project that replaced the legacy Digital Asset Management (DAM) system of The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas Libraries with an open source system.
- Rendering Repositories: Taking out the Fat and Getting to the Impact
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing how to survey users for understanding the perceived value of digital library collections.
- Rubrics and Rutabagas: Only One is Useful for Assessing Staff During Evaluations
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing how rubrics can be used for discussing employee performance expectations and evaluations.
- Scholarly Communications Librarian
- The Future Academic Librarian’s Toolkit is a thorough handbook designed to guide future academic librarians from library school through first several years. This chapter specifically focused on scholarly communications librarian, which is a relatively recent area of professional focus for academic librarians.
- Selection of Ionic Liquid Solvents for Chemical Separations Based on the Abraham Model
- Book chapter on the selection of ionic liquid solvents for chemical separations based on the Abraham model.