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- Cubans in Texas and My Anthropological Journey
- Paper discusses the experience of conducting anthropological research into the Cuban diaspora to Texas as a creative writing student.
- The Evolution of Japan’s Foreign Policy
- Paper examines the effect of World War II and its aftermath on foreign policy in Japan, particularly military policy.
- Indian Immigrants’ Experiences with Health Care
- Paper examines the perspectives of Indian immigrants on health care.
- Market Evolution: Marketing to the Mexican American Female
- Paper examines the effectiveness of advertising techniques used in print magazines that target Mexican American consumers.
- Preface to The Eagle Feather 2008
- Introduction to the 2008 edition of The Eagle Feather.
- Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas
- Introduction to the proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology, as published in the 2008 edition of The Eagle Feather.
- The Production of Cultural Boundaries: The Influence of Participatory Journalism on the Immigration Debate in Texas
- Paper uses a content analysis of the editorial section in a major Dallas-area newspaper to demonstrate a shift within American public discourse toward moral and cultural arguments against illegal immigration, and argues that this is due to the inclusion of participatory journalism in newspaper editorial pages.
- Puerto Rican Feminist Discourse: Culture through Narratives
- Paper examines Puerto Rican national identity through the lens of stories by women and feminist discourse.
- The “Real” New Orleans: Perceptions of Katrina Survivors
- Paper describes a project seeking to provide photos that better reflect the lives of residents directly affected by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans after the hurricane.
- Self-Identity Among African American Women
- Paper examines the impact of social environments on the development of self-identity in young African American women.
- Sleep in College Students
- Paper discusses two studies focusing on sleep in college students - the first examining sleep and insomnia in general, the second examining the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy in treating insomnia.
- Thomas Kinkade’s Landscape of Commodity: A Critical Analysis on the Status of the Artist
- Paper discusses the artist Thomas Kinkade and analyzes the reasons why he is not given serious critical attention by the art community despite his popularity.
- Writing Transformations: Mediating the Effects of High-Stakes Testing Through the National Writing Project
- Paper discusses the efforts of the National Writing Project (NWP) to mitigate the effects of high-stakes testing on teachers and students.
- The Acute Dying Experience
- Article discussing the acute dying experience (ADE), which incorporates peritraumatic dissociation and hyperarousal into an experiential continuum lasting seconds to minutes. It is instantly triggered by the sudden, clear perception of threat of significant injury and/or death and followed, at times, by physical trauma, physiological derangement, and loss of consciousness. Results from this and other studies show that paradoxically the more terrifying and traumatic an accident may appear, the more peaceful and painless it may actually be experienced.
- Census of Non-Western Near-Death Experiences to 2005: Overview of the Current Data
- Abstract: This paper provides a census of non-Western near-death experiences (NDEs), noting similarities and differences in features with Western NDEs and other non-Western NDEs. The two sims of this current review are to update previous transcultural reviews with current data and to describe both crosscultural and culture-specific features of NDEs.
- The Death Journey of a Hopi Indian: A Case Study
- Article presenting the case study of the "death journey" or near-death experience (NDE) of Don Talayesva, a Hopi Indian, whose experience occurred between 1900 and 1910. The article compares and contrasts his experience with 11 accounts of Native American NDEs reported by Jenny Wade, as well as with modern day NDEs.
- Near-Death Experiences in India: Prevalence and New Features
- Study seeking to learn about the prevalence rate in a larger Indian population and to explore new features of near-death experiences (NDEs).
- Near-Death Experiences in Suicide Attempters in Sri Lanka
- Study exploring near-death experiences (NDEs) among suicide attempters, using interviews of 77 consecutive suicide attempters admitted to a tertiary teaching hospital in Sri Lanka.
- Geographic distribution of authors in The Indexer, 1988-2007
- Article on the geographic distribution of authors in The Indexer from 1988 through 2007.
- Corroboration of the Dentures Anecdote Involing Veridical Perception in a Near-Death Experience
- Abstract: One of the most striking examples of near-death experience stories is the account of a clinically dead patient whose dentures were removed from his mouth prior to resuscitation, and which dentures were then lost. Days later the patient saw a nurse and told him that it was he who had removed those dentures. The patient was right, but he should not have known this information, because tat the time the nurse had removed his dentures, the patient was clinically dead. Since publication of this account in a prestigious mainstream medical journal, speculations have abounded. In this article I describe the investigation I undertook to put these speculations to rest and the outcome of that investigation.
- The Phenomenology of the Self-Conscious Mind
- Article exploring the phenomenon of a near-death experiencer's veridical perceptions during the out-of-body experience (OBE), which strongly suggests the existence of a self-conscious mind as a "field of consciousness," a region of space where a person's consciousness exists.
- Developing Collections of Web-Published Materials
- This article discusses collection development practices to meet the unique characteristics of Web-published materials.
- Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker as Sole Diabetes Educator: Comparison of CoDE with Similar Culturally Appropriate Interventions
- Article discussing the effectiveness of a community health worker as sole diabetes educator.
- E-Government and Libraries Helpful Resources
- Article on e-government services and how libraries can provide helpful online government resources.
- The Death and Posthumous Life of Tom Sawyer: A Case Study of Apparent After-Death Communication
- Article exploring the near-death experience of Tom Sawyer, as well as the question of whether he actually died in April of 2007.
- Electromagnetic Aftereffects of Near-Death Experiences
- Study investigating electromagnetic effects among near-death experiencers (NDErs), people who reported a close brush with death without an NDE, and people who reported never having been close to death but who used their most life-changing event as a past reference point.
- An Analysis of Preparatory Measures for Mathematical Proof Courses
- Paper explores the effectiveness of the methods used to prepare mathematics majors for courses that require proofs.
- Contextualizing Effects of Public Spheres on Community Socialization
- Paper discusses the changing role of public spaces in community socialization, with a focus on coffee shops serving as work environments.
- Electronic Undergraduate Research Journals: A Survey of their Characteristics
- Paper survey's the characteristics of undergraduate student journals which are published electronically.
- Evaluation of the eSensor® XT-8 System for Determining CYP2C9 and VKORC1 Genotypes to Aid in Correct Warfarin Dosing
- Paper discusses the capabilities of the eSensor® XT-8, which is designed to assist doctors in determining the dose and effectiveness of warfarin in patients by detecting polymorphisms in the genes CYP2C9 and VKORC1.
- Healthcare for Uninsured Children: Where We Are and Where We Are Going
- Paper examines the state of children's healthcare and explores options for expanding care to more uninsured children.
- Hurricane Katrina: Survivors’ Perceptions of a Social Disaster
- Paper discusses research attempting to identify communication gaps between survivors and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
- Insulin-Like Signaling and Tissue-Specific Requirements of Anoxia Survival in Caenorhabditis elegans
- Paper examines the soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, an organism which can normally survive a day of anoxia (oxygen deprivation) and longer with mutations in the daf-2/daf-16 pathway. Examines how these mutations affect anoxia survival and the potential benefit to the development of anoxia-related therapies in humans.
- Looking For the Perfect Beat: Feedback Loops, Media Panopticism, and the Hip-Hop DJ
- Paper examines the relationships between disc jockeys (DJs), the music industry, and their listener communities in order to better understand the relationship between people and the media.
- Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience
- Article on metadata quality assurance and the experience of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
- Morality, Religion, and the Lure of the Ascetic in Halevi’s “The Kuzari”
- Paper analyzes Judah Halevi’s The Kuzari and what it has to say about the philosophic and religious ways of life.
- “Nor Cruel and Unusual Punishments Inflicted”: A Look at the Eighth Amendment and the Evolving Standards of Decency
- Paper discusses constitutional interpretation and focuses on the evolving interpretation of the Eighth Amendment through Supreme Court cases.
- On the Line in the Motor City: Narratives of Latina Auto Worker Culture
- Paper explores the experiences of the Latina auto-worker community, their struggles in family life, and the effects of marginalization.
- Preface to The Eagle Feather 2009
- Introduction to the 2009 edition of The Eagle Feather.
- Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas
- Introduction to the special section featuring the proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology in the 2009 edition of the Eagle Feather.
- Ready for Apocalypse: Survivalism and Stigma in Online Communities
- Paper examines survivalists in online communities, the sigma associated with their culture, and their conceptions of common stereotypes.
- Soft Power and International Public Opinion: U.S Presidents and the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- Paper discusses the international effects of the policies of a nation in the form of soft power.
- Spanish and the Workplace: How Language Affects Community Formation
- Paper examines community formation in the context of persons of various linguistic backgrounds who share a workplace.
- Style and Emulation in the Renaissance of New Spain
- Paper explores the relationship between artwork created during the Renaissance in Italy and in New Spain 150 years later.
- Sustainable & Subsistence Providing Spaces Regulated by Public Characters: An Anthropological Study of South Dallas Street Vendors
- Paper examines the ways in which “public characters” in South Dallas regulated the space in their regular gathering area, with a focus on the need for life-sustaining informal spaces.
- Undergraduate Scholar Articles in Art History: An Introduction
- Introduction to the special section on art history in the 2009 edition of The Eagle Feather.
- Young Bolivians’ Perspectives on Globalism and How It Impacts Opinions on the New Nationalistic Bolivian Constitution
- Paper examines perceptions of globalism among young Bolivians, aged 18-27, who are living in their home country, and how those opinions impact their perception of the new Bolivian constitution.
- Did Emanuel Swedenborg Have Near-Death Experiences? Envisioning a Developmental Account of NDEs
- Article examining the phenomenological commonalities between Emanuel Swedenborg's experiences and near-death experiences (NDEs). It argues that a distal cause of Swedenborg's experiences was neural changes induced by his lifetime of unusual respiration, in conjunction with a predisposition to temporal lobe seizures. It concludes by proposing a number of empirically testable hypotheses emerging from the arguments, centered around a developmental approach to NDEs.
- Refreshment and Reunion in Paradise: Near-Death Experiences in Early North African Christianity
- Article discussing the near-death experiences of Perpetua and Saturus, martyrs of early Christianity.
- Four Ostensible Near-Death Experiences of Roman Times with Peculiar Features: Mistake Cases, Correction Cases, Xenoglossy, and Prediction
- Abstract: In this paper, I present four apparent near-death experiences (NDEs) reported in Roman times. Despite their uncertain reliability, they contain features deserving attention. Three reports involve taking the wrong person to the realm of death by mistake ("mistake cases"), and even include the claim that the correct person had died after the NDEr revived ("correction cases"). Though common in Asia, such cases are absent in contemporary Western NDE reports. The fourth report contains an alleged correct future prediction and xenoglossy, the latter being a novum to NDE research. After introducing the four cases, I discuss their peculiar features and some related aspects of near-death states with a focus on their relevance for future NDE research.