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The Changing Use of Health Care Services by Unmarried Older Women, 1969 to 1975: Final Report to the NRTA-AARP Andrus Foundation

Description: Final report to the National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA)- American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Andrus Foundation. This reports on a research study of the changing use of health care services by unmarried older women from 1969 to 1975.
Date: March 12, 1982
Creator: Martin, Cora A. & Eve, Susan Brown
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service

Public Libraries and Democratization in Three Developing Countries: Exploring the Role of Social Capital

Description: 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.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Ignatow, Gabriel; Webb, Sarah M.; Poulin, Michelle; Parajuli, Ramesh; Fleming, Peter; Batra, Shika et al.
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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On Critchfield's Proposal: Student Concerns and Recommendations

Description: This article contains a response to the article by Critchfield (2011) entitled "Interesting Times: Practice, Science, and Professional Associations in Behavior Analysis", including a concern about the effect of seprating science and practice on the future of behavior analysis.
Date: 2012
Creator: Bayles, Makenzie W.; Boutain, Ariana R.; Ackerlund Brandt, Julie A.; Call, Nikki; Dracobly, Joseph D.; Greer, Brian D. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Down deep in the holler: chasing seeds and stories in southern Appalachia

Description: 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.
Date: September 27, 2013
Creator: Veteto, James R.
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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The Logic of Uncertainty and Executive Discretion in Decision Making: The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Ebola Response

Description: This article addresses what a highly complex public health situation such as the Dallas-Fort Worth Ebola outbreak tell about the use of discretion by executive level public administrators.
Date: June 2017
Creator: Benavides, Abraham David; Keyes, Laura; McEntire, David & Carlson, Erin K.
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs: Aspects of the One-Percenter Culture for Emergency Department Personnel to Consider

Description: This article discusses various aspects of the culture of outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) so that emergency department personnel may better understand the mentality of the outlaw biker.
Date: May 12, 2014
Creator: Bosmia, Anand N.; Quinn, James F.; Peterson, Todd B.; Griessenauer, Christoph J. & Tubbs, R. Shane
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Not so bad: avoidance and aversive discounting modulate threat appraisal in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex

Description: 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.
Date: June 10, 2015
Creator: Schlund, Michael W.; Brewer, Adam T.; Richman, David M.; Magee, Sandy K. & Dymond, Simon
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Housing and the Aging Population: Options for the New Century

Description: Compilation of essays that address the topic of aging from a wide variety of perspectives and provide a basis for the discussion of housing issues concerning the elderly in the coming century. Indexes start on page 423 (authors) and 431 (subjects).
Date: 1994
Creator: Folts, W. Edward (William Edward) & Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Electoral Decentralization in Ghana: What do Ghana's Local Governments Really Need for Economic Development?

Description: 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.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Nukpezah, Julius A. & Bediako, William Asare
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Safety of Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood Therapy for Acquired Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children

Description: This article presents the results of a phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the intravenous administration of human umbilical cord blood (hUCB) mononuclear fraction in infants and children with acquired sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).
Date: June 18, 2018
Creator: Baumgartner, Linda S.; Moore, Ernest J.; Shook, David; Messina, Steven; Day, Mary Clare; Green, Jennifer et al.
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Health Care Services Utilization Among Older Adults: FInal Report

Description: Final report on a research study examining the use of physicians, hospitals, and dentists among the noninstitutionalized population 65 years of age and older in the United States to determine what social, economic, and health factors were most predictive of the use of those services.
Date: 1981
Creator: Eve, Susan Brown
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Global, regional, and national under-5 mortality, adult mortality, age-specific mortality, and life expectancy, 1970–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

Description: Article describes an estimate of age-specific and sex-specific all-cause mortality between 1970 and 2016 for 195 countries and territories and at the subnational level for the five countries with a population greater than 200 million in 2016.
Date: September 16, 2017
Creator: GBD 2016 Mortality Collaborators
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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