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- Design of District Emergency Operations Centres, and the Case Study of Indian Oil Corporation Jaipur Depot Explosion
- Article on the design of district emergency operations centres and a case study of Indian Oil Corporation Jaipur depot explosion.
- Interpol
- This encyclopedia entry describes Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization. Interpol facilitates cross-border police cooperation and assists all organizations, authorities, and services with a mission to prevent or combat international crime.
- Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources
- This presentation presents a research study conducted at UNT. The UNT Libraries partnered with the Department of Anthropology at UNT to conduct ethnographic research of how UNT students use the electronic library services.
- Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources
- This paper presents a research study conducted at UNT. The UNT Libraries partnered with the Department of Anthropology at UNT to conduct ethnographic research of how UNT students use the electronic library services.
- Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources
- This presentation presents a research study conducted at UNT. The UNT Libraries partnered with the Department of Anthropology at UNT to conduct ethnographic research of how UNT students use the electronic library services.
- Improving Student Success: Researching How Students Use Electronic Library Resources
- This paper presents a research study conducted at UNT. The UNT Libraries partnered with the Department of Anthropology at UNT to conduct ethnographic research of how UNT students use the electronic library services.
- “I’m Gonna Get Busy Living”: Examining the Trajectories of Affect, Behavioral Health, and Psychological Resilience Among Persons Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus in a Southeastern U.S. Health District
- Article describes results of a study seeking to provide further insight into how core affect influences the adaptability of persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) after diagnosis.
- Factor structure of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Figural Form A in Kiswahili speaking children: Multidimensionality and influences on creative behavior
- This article provides evidence for the valid use of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) in sub-Saharan Africa.
- [Review] Habits of the Heartland: Small-Town Life in Modern America
- This article reviews the book "Habits of the Heartland: Small-Town Life in Modern America," by Lyn C. MacGregor published in 2010.
- Inter-organizational digital divide: Civic groups' media strategies in the Trinity River Corridor Project
- Article on inter-organizational digital divides and civic groups' media strategies in the Trinity River Corridor Project.
- Public Libraries and Democratization in Three Developing Countries: Exploring the Role of Social Capital
- This article explores the role of social capital. The authors develop a theoretical framework intended to facilitate systematic investigation of the contributions public libraries may make to democratization.
- Africa: Sustainability, Poverty, Education
- Presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This presentation discusses sustainability, poverty, and education in Africa.
- Futuro sin Pobreza: Future without Poverty
- Presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This presentation discusses the initiatives and groups working to reduce global poverty.
- Bollywood and Beyond: Hinduism Changing the World
- Article discussing research on the ideals of Hinduism, such as pluralism, dharma, ritam, and nonviolence holding important lessons for the future of Hinduism in particular and for humanity in general.
- The Cosmic Dance of Obama-Raja on Newsweek
- Article discussing an image that appears on the front cover of Newsweek magazine depicting President Barack Obama.
- The Dharmic Method to Save the Planet
- This article discusses environmentalism and ways in which dharmic methods can help save the planet. While most Americans are familiar with the terms such as "yoga" and "Bollywood," Indian perspectives toward the ecology seem to be largely unknown.
- The Hindu Method to Save the Planet
- This paper discusses the Hindu religion and elements of ecology that relate to this religion. It describes some of the principles of Mahatma Gandhi and describes how these are important spiritually and ecologically.
- Irony and the 'yoga wars'
- 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.
- Jainism, Dharma, and Environmental Ethics
- Article discussing the absence of a formal category of environmental ethics in Jainism and Jainism's historical relationship to environmental ethics.
- Reinterpreting Yajña as Vedic Sacrifice
- In this article, the author endeavors to problematize the term "sacrifice," which is often used to translate the word yajna in Indological writings.
- Renunciation and Non-Renunciation in Indian Films
- Article discussing the renunciation and non-renunciation in Indian films. The author reviews several films to analyze the portrayal of ascetics and householders.
- [Review] Biodivinity and Biodiversity: The Limits to Religious Environmentalism
- This article reviews the book "Biodivinity and Biodiversity: The Limits to Religious Environmentalism," by Emma Tomalin, a book about religion and ecology.
- [Review] Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition
- This article reviews the book "Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition," by Bhaskar Sarkar. The book examines the political truncation of India at the end of British colonial rule in 1947.
- Swadhyaya's Dharmic Ecology
- 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.
- Ten Key Hindu Environmental Teachings
- This article discusses diverse theologies in Hinduism and describes ten important Hindu teachings on the environment.
- Local Government Adoption of Age Friendly Policies: An Integrated Model of Responsiveness, Multi-Level Governance and Public Entrepreneurship Theories
- This article argues that responsiveness, multi-level governance, and public entrepreneurship theories offer a fuller explanation for local government policy decision-making.
- Flood Resilience Building in Thailand: Assessing Progress and the Effect of Leadership
- 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.
- Public Health Network Structure and Collaboration Effectiveness during the 2015 MERS Outbreak in South Korea: An Institutional Collective Action Framework
- This article studies examines the structural effect of public health network explaining collaboration effectiveness.
- Why do we need a national address point database to improve wildfire public safety in the U.S.?
- Article aims to advance understanding of the value of national address point databases in improving wildfire public safety in the U.S.
- 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.
- Unidentified Bodies and Mass-Fatality Management in haiti: A Case Study of the January 2010 Earthquake with a Cross-Cultural Comparison
- This article examines the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti as a case study to understand what happens to unidentified bodies in mass-fatality management.
- HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa
- This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on HIV/AIDS. This presentation discusses HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Disclosure of Children's Positive Serostatus to Family and Nonfamily Members: Informal Caregivers in Togo, West Africa
- Article on the disclosure of children's positive serostatus to family and nonfamily members.
- Running Head: Faithful Health Norms
- This article applies a structural theory analysis to understand the ways by which religious adherents adopt and enact health norms.
- Electoral Decentralization in Ghana: What do Ghana's Local Governments Really Need for Economic Development?
- Paper accompanying a presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This paper discusses electoral decentralization in Ghana and what Ghana's local governments really need for economic development.
- Teaching and Learning Technologies in Higher Education: Applied Behaviour Analysis and Autism: "Necessity is the Mother of Invention"
- 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.
- Roles revealed: An examination of the adopted roles of emergency managers in hazard mitigation planning and strategy implementation
- 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.
- Amygdala involvement in human avoidance, escape and approach behavior
- 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).
- Not so bad: avoidance and aversive discounting modulate threat appraisal in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex
- 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.
- Nothing to fear? Neural systems supporting avoidance behavior in healthy youths
- Article discussing neural systems supporting avoidance behavior in healthy youths. The author's investigation examined brain activation patterns to threatening cues that prompted avoidance in healthy youths.
- Generalized anxiety modulates frontal and limbic activation in major depression
- This article explores how generalized anxiety modulates frontal and limbic activation in major depression. The authors' findings highlight frontal and limbic hypoactivation in patients with depression and comorbid anxiety and indicate that anxiety level may modulate frontal and limbic activation depending upon the emotional context.
- Social Capital and Self-Rated Health among Older Adults in China: A Multilevel Analysis
- Article on social capital and self-rated health among middle-aged and older adults in China.
- Increased physical activity, physician recommendation, and senior center participation
- This article employs the Andersen Behavioral Model to explore increased physical activity and participation in three types of senior center activities: physical fitness, dance/aerobic classes, and chair exercises.
- Cultural Memory and Heirloom Seeds: The Foundation of Local Food Systems
- This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Food We Eat. This presentation discusses heirloom seeds and covers information about the Foundation of Local Food Systems.
- Down deep in the holler: chasing seeds and stories in southern Appalachia
- This article is the third in a series "Recollections, Reflections, and Revelations: Ethnobiologists and their First Time in the Field" and is a personal reflection by the researcher on his experience and involvement in kinship and friendship networks while conducting agrobiodiversity research in southern Appalachia, USA.
- The Perception of "Training Availability" Among Certified Nurse Aides: Relationship to CNA Performance, Turnover, Attitudes, Burnout, and Empowerment
- Article on the perception of "training availability" among certified nurse aides (CNAs) and the relationship to CNA performance, turnover, attitudes, burnout, and empowerment.
- Village Characteristics and Health of Rural Chinese Older Adults: Examining the CHARLS Pilot Study of a Rich and Poor Province
- Article on the village characteristics and health of rural Chinese older adults and an examination of the CHARLS pilot study of a rich and poor province.