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Bus Ride to Liberation: a Historical Video Documentary of the Acres Homes Transit Company in Houston, Texas

Description: The Acres Homes Transit Company in Houston, Texas is Texas' first African American owned and operated bus company. Some say it is the first in the South. The company was developed during the height of the civil rights period. It serves as an establishment of economic empowerment during the oppressive civil rights era. The video is a historical visual documentation of the bus company from its beginning to its end. An accompanying written profile describes the research process, the pre-production… more
Date: May 1994
Creator: Childress, Doris (Doris Elaine)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[Memorandum of Meeting: Ellington Field Air Guard Station, Texas, July 25, 2005]

Description: Memorandum of Meeting with representatives from Ellington Field Task Force. Purpose of meeting was for the community representatives from Ellington Field Task Force to share information with the BRAC Commission representatives regarding their concerns about the proposed realignment of the 147th Fighter Wing Air Guard Station.
Date: July 25, 2005
Creator: United States. Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Virtual Reality for Scientific Visualization: an Exploratory Analysis of Presentation Methods

Description: Humans are very effective at evaluating information visually. Scientific visualization is concerned with the process of presenting complex data in visual form to exploit this capability. A large array of tools is currently available for visual presentation. This research attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of three different presentation models that could be used for scientific visualization. The presentation models studied were, two-dimensional perspective rendering, field sequential stereo… more
Date: August 1997
Creator: Hetsel, Gene A. (Gene Arthur)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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The Impact of Cultural Values and Perception of the Anglo-Dominant Curriculum on the Achievement of Mexican-American and Anglo-American Junior and Senior High School Students

Description: This study is concerned with the problem of determining whether there is a relationship between achievement and specific ethnic and profile characteristics of Anglo-American and Mexican-American junior and senior high school students who are enrolled in a large metropolitan public school district. The purposes include (a) delineation of demographic data on these students in terms of specific group membership, gender, age, and educational concerns; (b) identification of the attitudes and values … more
Date: August 1994
Creator: Rorex, P. Dale (Paul Dale)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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Maternal Stress and Cystic Fibrosis

Description: The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between parent and child factors for mothers of children diagnosed with cystic fibrosis to predict mother's psychological distress. Mothers were surveyed to identify measurement models in areas of Child and Parental characteristics and a Full Causal Model of Maternal distress. Factors related to Child Characteristics include general parental stressors and cystic fibrosis specific parental stressors. Factors related to Parental Cha… more
Date: August 1996
Creator: Bizzell, Laurie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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An Evaluation of Audio-Visual Instruction in Low-First Grade Reading

Description: The problem of this investigation was two fold: first, to obtain information on available auditory and visual aids adaptable to teaching reading on the low-first-grade level; and second, to determine the progress in general reading efficiency of three groups of beginning readers who were taught by three different methods.
Date: 1947
Creator: Keith, Flora Fay
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The Impact of Hearing Impairment upon Communication Apprehension and Self-Disclosure

Description: The present study used a variety of procedures to investigate which selected communication factors interfered in the interpersonal communication process between hearing-impaired and hearing persons. Three hypotheses were tested and all of them were confirmed. The results of the analyses of responses to the variables revealed that hearing-impaired subjects had greater communication problems when interpersonally interacting with hearing targets than with deaf targets. The hearing subjects reporte… more
Date: December 1980
Creator: Gonzalez, Teresa Dennett
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A Study of the Success of 209 Graduates of the Houston Public Schools on the Basis of their Wages and Increases in Wages

Description: The problem of this study is to make a comparative analysis of the success, based on wages and increases in wages, of 209 students. There were 103 students who had completed Type "B" vocational training and 106 high school graduates who had not completed or taken Type "B" vocational training in the Houston Public Schools.
Date: 1951
Creator: Herring, Arthur D.
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Effects of the Urbanization on Floods in the Houston, Texas Metropolitan Area

Description: Abstract: Rainfall and runoff data from drainage basins in the Houston metropolitan area and a 60-year rainfall record for the National Weather Service station, Houston-City, were used to simulate 60 annual flood peaks at 26 sites. Selected frequency characteristics, based on these simulated annual peaks are related to drainage area and percentage of impervious area. These relations which may be used to estimate the flood characteristics at ungaged sites, indicate that in the Houston metropolit… more
Date: April 1973
Creator: Johnson, Steven L. & Sayre, Douglas M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Comparison of Major Factors that Affect Hospital Formulary Decision-Making by Three Groups of Prescribers

Description: The exponential growth in medical pharmaceuticals and related clinical trials have created a need to better understand the decision-making factors in the processes for developing hospital medication formularies. The purpose of the study was to identify, rank, and compare major factors impacting hospital formulary decision-making among three prescriber groups serving on a hospital's pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committee. Prescribers were selected from the University of Texas, MD Anderson Can… more
Date: May 2018
Creator: Spence, James Michael
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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Dismantling the Psychiatric Ghetto: Evaluating a Blended-Clinic Approach to Supportive Housing in Houston, Texas

Description: Locational decisions based on stigma and low funding have handicapped the efficiency of community based mental healthcare in the United States since 1963. However, the pattern of services in the 21st century American South remains largely unknown. This thesis addresses this gap in knowledge by using a mixed methodology including location allocation, descriptive statistics, and qualitative site visits to explore the geography of community clinics offering both physical and mental health services… more
Date: December 2014
Creator: Lester, Katherine Ann
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Enacting Community Through the Arts

Description: This study is concerned with the roles and relationships between artists-in-residence, community audiences, and program coordinators/art educators as they engage together in community arts programs. This study takes place at Project Row Houses (PRH), a community arts organization located in Houston, Texas and focuses on the artist-in-residence program, which commissions a group of national and international artists for a 6-month period to create art installations in relation to the community a… more
Date: December 2014
Creator: Keller, Sarita Talusani
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The Effects of Three Physical Education Activites on Selected Physical Fitness Components

Description: This study was designed to investigate the relative effects of selected physical education activities upon four components of physical well-being of college men. This study was intended to determine if changes occur in endurance, flexibility, balance, and agility by groups participating in either apparatus gymnastics, wrestling or swimming.
Date: June 1970
Creator: Hampton, Gary Wade
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Friday Night in the Coliseum

Description: Friday Night in the Coliseum is a short film featuring wrestling performances recorded at the Sam Houston Coliseum, in Houston, Texas, along with interviews with audience members and wrestling promoter Paul Boesch. The film features many wrestlers who were well-known in Houston, including The Crusher, Nick Kozak, Red Bastien, Dory Funk, Stan Stasiak, Johnny Valentine, Thunderbolt Patterson and Wild Bull Curry. The creation of this film was supported by a grant from the Corporation for Public B… more
Date: 1972
Duration: 34 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Winningham, Geoff & York, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Blouse

Description: Blouse of beige silk crepe. Long sleeves gather into vented cuffs with single button closure. Standing collar extends above V-shaped opening to form tie; buttonhole on side of collar for passing through tie. Hook & loop closure. Designer label: Dimitri / Couture
Date: unknown
Creator: Dimitri, Piero
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Silk blouse

Description: Blouse of ivory silk. Long sleeves with vented cuffs; collar; six buttons down center front. Two front patch pockets with Chanel logo. Gathered at back yoke. Designer label: Chanel Créations / Paris / Made in France Retailer label: Neiman-Marcus Evidence of label removed
Date: unknown
Creator: Chanel (Firm)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Physical Object
Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Silk blouse

Description: Blouse of light cream-colored silk. Deep round placket neckline with topstitching; long sleeves gather into fold-back French cuffs; Patch pocket on left side with Chanel logo. Designer label: Chanel
Date: unknown
Creator: Chanel (Firm)
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Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design
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[News Script: Houston Killings]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of attorney of one of the two persons charged in the mass slayings in Houston says that his client's defense may not be based in insanity.
Date: August 18, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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