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Do Neighborhoods Matter Differently for Movers and Non-Movers?: Analysis of Weight Gain in the Longitudinal Dallas Heart Study

Description: This article uses data from the Dallas Heart Study to evaluate the relationship between changes in neighborhood condition and weight change for both movers and non-movers over an approximate seven-year follow-up period.
Date: January 9, 2017
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; Ayers, Colby; Das, Sandeep R.; Neeland, Ian J. & Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Roles revealed: An examination of the adopted roles of emergency managers in hazard mitigation planning and strategy implementation

Description: 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.
Date: April 11, 2019
Creator: Samuel, Carlos & Siebeneck, Laura K.
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Health information, attitudes and actions at religious venues: Evidence from hajj pilgrims

Description: Article presents research using the Health Belief Model (HBM) to evaluate Hajj pilgrims’ perceptions of health risks, their patterns of receiving health information from various traditional and new media channels and their adoptions or intentions to take health-promoting behavior in light of various challenges.
Date: November 9, 2020
Creator: Andrew, Simon A.; Taibah, Hassan; Arlikatti, Sudha; Maghelal, Praveen & DelGrosso, Bill
Partner: UNT College of Health and Public Service
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Sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior as risk factors for human papillomavirus infection in Saudi Arabia

Description: This article seeks to determine the prevalence and the sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior risk factors for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in a hospital-based cohort of women in Saudi Arabia.
Date: April 3, 2016
Creator: Alhamlan, F. S.; Khayat, H. H.; Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini; Al-Muammar, T. A.; Tulbah, A. M.; Al-Badawi, I. A. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Structural analysis of a plant fatty acid amide hydrolase provides insights into the evolutionary diversity of bioactive acylethanolamides

Description: Article reporting the three-dimensional crystal structures of the signal-terminating enzyme fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) from Arabidopsis in its apo and ligand-bound forms at 2.1- and 3.2-Å resolutions, respectively.
Date: March 20, 2019
Creator: Aziz, Mina; Wang, Xiaoqiang; Tripathi, Ashutosh; Bankaitis, Vytas A. & Chapman, Kent Dean
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Advances in academic video game collections

Description: This article discusses how the UNT Media Library developed a video game collection to support student retention, student recreation, and classroom instruction. The article also will explain how the Library successfully met challenges involved in collection development, related technology, space needs, and the challenges it sees ahead.
Date: August 29, 2020
Creator: Robson, Diane; Sassen, Catherine & Rodriguez, Allyson
Partner: UNT Libraries
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International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture

Description: This article employs a recently introduced magnesium-samarium oxide (Mg–Sm₂O₃) nanocomposite, with different volume fractions of nanosize Sm₂O₃ particles as reinforcement, to study ambient temperature rate-dependent plastic response of the material.
Date: May 11, 2020
Creator: Hasannaeimi, Vahid; Mukherjee, Sundeep; Haghshenas, M.; Song, X. & Gupta, D.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Student, School, Parent Connectedness, and School Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Saudi Arabia

Description: This article investigates select school behaviors, including school absenteeism, engaging in fights, and discipline for misconduct at school as well as their association with the school environment, school and home connectedness.
Date: October 31, 2015
Creator: AlMakadma, AbdulKarim S. & Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Neighborhood Effects on Food Consumption

Description: This article examines the dual role of the social and physical neighborhood environment as they relate to the eating behaviors of residents of a low-income minority urban neighborhood.
Date: May 12, 2014
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; McKillop, Caitlin; Carson, Jo Ann & Shuval, Kerem
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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RBS Study of a Dilute Alloy of Ga(99.8% at.):Bi(0.2% at.)

Description: This paper from the 2016 Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings describes an attempt to observe an atomic bismuth monolayer with Rutherford backscattering to demonstrate the surface concentration of the bismuth over the alloy in the bulk.
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Peterson, Randolph S.; Augustine, Carlyn N.; Beriont, Griffin G.; Farr, Aidan T.; Jenkins, William T. J.; Morris, Taylor A. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Seismic Response and Engineering of Cold-formed Steel Framed Buildings

Description: This article discusses a North American effort which formed as part of the NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), known as Enabling Performance-Based Seismic Design of Multi-Story Cold-Formed Steel Structures (CFS-NEES), as it addresses seismic performance-based design for cold-formed steel framed buildings.
Date: May 26, 2016
Creator: Schafer, B. W.; Ayhan, D.; Leng, J.; Liu, P.; Padilla-Llano, D.; Peterman, K. D. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Technologies to Support End of Life Care

Description: Article discussing the current level of utilization of informatics systems in hospice and palliative care and two projects that highlight the role of informatics applications for hospice informal caregivers.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Demiris, George; Oliver, Debra Parker & Wittenberg-Lyles, Elaine
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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