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Investigations Into Using Machine Learning Models to Automate the Sorting of Digitized Texas State Publications.

Description: This poster highlighting the development of machine learning model to automate part of the process of digitizing and archiving documents from the Texas State Depository Program. This particular part of the process is the sorting of documents to facilitate metadata creation. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Date: May 16, 2023
Creator: Rikka, Praneeth & Phillips, Mark Edward

Accessible History: Putting a Century of The Chronicles of Oklahoma Online

Description: Presentation sharing the project workflows for digitizing back issues of The Chronicles of Oklahoma. It has been published since 1921, and in 2020, the Oklahoma Historical Society partnered with the UNT Digital Library to make the back issues freely available through The Gateway to Oklahoma History. It was presented at the 2023 NASIG Conference held May 22-25, 2023 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Date: May 25, 2023
Creator: Johnson-Freeman, Whitney R.; Scott, Megan E. & Carroll, Hannah

How May I Help You?

Description: This presentation shares the experiences of the author while working as a Library Services Academic Assistant that support the UNT Libraries' Access Services team. It was presented at the UNT Libraries' 2023 Student Snapshots Symposium held in Denton, Texas.
Date: April 18, 2023
Creator: Hoang, Thi (Monica)

Working with Metadata: MISAME

Description: This presentation highlights the author's work with the UNT Digital Library collection for Mnemothèque Internationale des Arts Electroacoustiques (MISAME). It was presented at the UNT Libraries' 2023 Student Snapshots Symposium held in Denton, Texas.
Date: April 18, 2023
Creator: Grattan, Francine K.

Creating Subject Metadata for The Chronicles of Oklahoma in The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Description: This poster explores the process and resources used to create subject metadata for The Chronicles of Oklahoma collection in The Gateway to Oklahoma History. The Chronicles of Oklahoma is a regional publication from the Oklahoma Historical Society that has been published since 1921. The UNT Digital Library is digitizing the back issues and making them available to the public through the digital library, The Gateway to Oklahoma History. It was presented at the UNT Libraries' 2023 Student Snapshot… more
Date: April 18, 2023
Creator: Carroll, Hannah & Johnson-Freeman, Whitney R.

UNT Combats National Book Ban Crisis: A GSA Perspective

Description: This poster shares the perspective of a Graduate Student Assistant on the practice of book banning. It also highlights the author's research and resources they have helped create to document and navigate this critical topic. It was presented at the UNT Libraries' 2023 Student Snapshots Symposium held in Denton, Texas.
Date: April 18, 2023
Creator: Teel, Zoe (Abbie)
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The Influence of the Preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier of J. S. Bach on the Preludes and Etudes of Chopin

Description: Bach and Chopin were both virtuosi on their respective keyboard instruments and were considered as successful performers. This study analyzes the Influence of the Preludes from the Well-Tempered Clavier of J. S. Bach on the Preludes and Etudes of Chopin. They both exploited their keyboard instruments to the fullest. The study concluded that what Bach achieved in his preludes and fugues, Chopin imitated in the spirit of his age.
Date: May 1984
Creator: Tavaglione, Eunice J.
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Motivational Style, Length of Residency, and Voluntariness in Relation to Nursing Home Adjustment

Description: This study related length of residency, motivational style, and the resident's role in deciding to move to a nursing facility to adjustment, represented by a number of variables (e.g., desired control, expected control, life satisfaction, and affect). Fifty-five residents of nursing facilities and assisted-living apartments were given an interview, compiled of a number of brief measures relating to aspects of adjustment. While results from multivariate analyses of variance failed to support any… more
Date: May 1997
Creator: Curtiss, Karin
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Psychological and Social Functioning Differences among Homeless Mothers

Description: Existing studies of people who are homeless provide descriptive information about the heterogeneity of the population. Families who are homeless are the fastest growing subset of this population. This study examined the variability in psychological and social functioning among homeless mothers and attempted to identify risk factors that predict level of adult functioning. Data was collected from 76 homeless mothers with minor aged children receiving services at area shelters. The sample was div… more
Date: December 1996
Creator: Green, Patricia Pater
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Childhood Cancer: Maternal Stress and Coping

Description: Sixty-two mothers of childhood cancer patients completed questionnaires on family demographics, parental stress, sense of parenting competence, self esteem, health locus of control, attitudes toward cancer, life events, social support, and psychological symptomatology. Correlation and regression procedures were used. Time since diagnosis and the severity rate of a child's illness did not predict the mother's sense of parenting competence, but a negative correlation at the $p<.01$ level between … more
Date: December 1996
Creator: Buenrostro, Martha
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Empathy as Perceived Emotional Social Support: Fire Fighters in Hurricane Andrew

Description: Stress responses and coping strategies were assessed for 155 fire fighters who worked during and immediately following Hurricane Andrew in Dade County, Florida in 1992. The participants were surveyed approximately two months after the hurricane, and again one year following the hurricane. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the amount of emotional social support received and the amount of symptomatology the participants experienced. This study also introduced empa… more
Date: December 1995
Creator: Mumy, Elaine Schoka
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Evaluation of Self-Perception in ACHD Children

Description: Only a limited amount of research exists which addresses low self-esteem, poor self-concept, and distorted self-image in ADHD children. The most urgent task is to test assumptions regarding self-perception and to assess the dimensions of self-concept of ADHD children. The Self-Perception Profile for Children (Harter, 1985) was used in the proposed study to assess those dimensions. Subjects of this study are 8- to 12- year-old boys diagnosed with ADHD and the same age boys who exhibit no symptom… more
Date: 1991
Creator: Walters, Pace Jill
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Anxiety in the Career Exploration Process

Description: This paper discusses the causes behind anxiety in the career exploration process and explains the findings of a study conducted with 200 undergraduate college students at the University of North Texas. Nancy E. Polk explores related literature and topics such as psychological separation/attachment and self-efficacy that are involved in the creation of anxiety.
Date: 1990
Creator: Polk, Nancy E.
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