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[News Clip: Religion]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: 1994
Duration: 3 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Renewal aging and linear response

Description: Paper discussing the linear response to an external perturbation of a renewal process, in an aging condition that, with no perturbation, would yield super-diffusion.
Date: February 6, 2008
Creator: Allegrini, Paolo; Ascolani, Gianluca; Bologna, Mauro & Grigolini, Paolo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Paper
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Determinants of the Applications to the Institutional Care in Turkey: Darulaceze Example

Description: Although institutional care has started to be outmoded in the developed countries with development of different models of care, it still has a considerable place in the developing countries such as Turkey. This is because, changes in the demographic structure, extended family, and urban development of Turkey has brought about several aging problems leading older adults to end up in institutions. Loneliness was one of the significant reasons given in the Social Inquiry Survey of Applicants of … more
Date: May 2013
Creator: Esendemir, Serif
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Aging Is a Determinant in Anoxia Stress Tolerance in Caenorhabditis Elegans

Description: Oxygen availability is critical for survival for most organisms. The nematode, C. elegans, has been useful for studying genetic regulation of anoxia tolerance due to the oxygen deprivation response mechanisms shared with other metazoans. Studies examining long-term anoxia (72h, LTA) tolerance have only been conducted at adult day 1. To investigate the effect of aging on anoxia tolerance wild-type and mutant strains were exposed to LTA between adult day 1 and day 9. Wild-type isolates and daf-16… more
Date: May 2013
Creator: Goy, Jo M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Aging]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 4, 1977, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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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-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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The Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education

Description: This issue of the Journal for Vocational Special Needs focuses on the aging process and its effects on society and the workforce. Aging is the one experience that we all have in common. Individuals are expected to live longer in the future. Many will undoubtedly work beyond the traditional retirement age. This means that the composition of workers will be a blend of people, both young and old.
Date: 1998
Creator: Allen, Jeff M.; Sarkees-Wircenski, Michelle & West, Lynda L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: UNT College of Information
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[News Script: Aging grant]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the setting up of agencies to help the aging.
Date: August 22, 1972, 12:00 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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[News Script: Aging conference]

Description: A photocopy of a script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the announcement of the Conference for Aging held September 22, 1972 at the Tarrant County Convention Center regarding the topic of aging at the federal, state, and local level.
Date: September 13, 1972, 12:00 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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Comparative Models of the Impact of Social Support on Psychological Distress in Cancer Patients

Description: This study tested the relationship between Social Support, Psychological Distress, and Illness Stress in individuals who report cancer as a health condition. This study was based on archival data obtained from the Wave 1 of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The HRS provides a nationally representative sample of individuals aged 51 to 61 in 1992 and their spouses. The study sample was limited to cancer patients with a spouse or partner (n = 503). A structural equation modeling analysis pro… more
Date: May 2000
Creator: Forjaz, Maria João Bettencourt Pereira
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Aging]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 12, 1978, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Willingness of Older Adults to Evacuate in the Event of a Disaster

Description: The issue of rising number of disasters, the overwhelming increase in number of older adults, and historically flawed evacuations presents real challenges. Disasters can strike anywhere, any time, and have devastating consequences. Since 1900, the number of Americans 65 and older has increased 12 times (from 3.1 million to 36.3 million). During the next two decades, the number of American baby boomers, now aged 45-64, who turn 65, will increase by 40%. As evidenced by recent disasters, the impe… more
Date: May 2009
Creator: Gray-Graves, Amy Michael
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Aging]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 30, 1978
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Feel old]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 9, 1984
Duration: 1 minute 40 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Health-related Quality of Life and Social Engagement in Assisted Living Facilities

Description: This research project aims to clarify the factors that impact successful aging in Assisted Living facilities (ALFs) in Denton County, Texas. We hypothesize that social disengagement decreases physical and mental components of quality of life. This exploratory research project employed standardized questionnaires to assess residents in the following domains; HRQOL, social engagement status, level of cognition, depression, and the level of functioning. This study collected data from 75 participan… more
Date: August 2015
Creator: Amini, Reza
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Thermomechanical Processing, Additive Manufacturing and Alloy Design of High Strength Mg Alloys

Description: The recent emphasis on magnesium alloys can be appreciated by following the research push from several agencies, universities and editorial efforts. With a density equal to two-thirds of Al and one-thirds of steel, Mg provides the best opportunity for lightweighting of metallic components. However, one key bottleneck restricting its insertion into industrial applications is low strength values. In this respect, Mg-Y-Nd alloys have been promising due to their ability to form strengthening precip… more
Date: May 2016
Creator: Palanivel, Sivanesh
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Beyond the Dream]

Description: This news special, hosted by Jane Jayroe and Dave Layman, looks at how life in the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex will change for present and future residents with a particular focus on growth and economic development. The first segment focuses on local historical events and figures. The rest of the program covers issues affecting present and future residents of the Metroplex, including population growth, employment, family structure, real estate and home ownership, women in the workforce and … more
Date: 1981
Duration: 9 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: NBC 5 (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 32.899809 -97.040335
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Multifeature analyses of vascular cambial cells reveal longevity mechanisms in old Ginkgo biloba trees

Description: This article investigates age-related changes in Ginkgo biloba trees to learn more about the molecular and metabolic mechanisms underlying their longevity. The results revealed that long-lived trees have evolved compensatory mechanisms to maintain a balance between growth and aging processes.
Date: January 13, 2020
Creator: Wang, Li; Cui, Jiawen; Jin, Biao; Zhao, Jiangou; Xu, Huimin; Lu, Zhaogeng et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Retirees' Attitudes Toward Mental Illness Treatment: A Life-Course Perspective

Description: This purpose of this dissertation was to examine the attitudes of retirees toward mental illness treatment. Secondary data from the Survey Research Center at the University of North Texas was utilized for this study. The focus was on the influence that gender, income, education, race/ethnicity, personal experience, fear, goodwill, and social control might have had on retirees' attitudes toward mental illness treatment. An n = 225 was selected out of the existing data to serve as the sample popu… more
Date: May 2010
Creator: Starkey, Thomas Wayne, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Non-Poissonian statistics, aging and "blinking'" quantum dots.

Description: This dissertation addresses the delicate problem of aging in complex systems characterized by non-Poissonian statistics. With reference to a generic two-states system interacting with a bath it is shown that to properly describe the evolution of such a system within the formalism of the continuous time random walk (CTRW), it has to be taken into account that, if the system is prepared at time t=0 and the observation of the system starts at a later time ta>0, the distribution of the first s… more
Date: August 2004
Creator: Aquino, Gerardo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Clint goodbye]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story. This story aired at 6pm.
Date: December 18, 1992, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 52 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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