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Achieving Greater Tornado Resilience through Informed Decision- Making about Reinforcing the Anchorage of Mobile and Manufactured Homes

Description: This is the final report of a study exploring the decision-making factors of mobile and manufactured homes (MMH) related to anchorage systems for their homes. Overall, participants in the sample displayed a high degree of familiarity with anchoring systems; however, they lacked of knowledge about the relative strength of their own systems, installation and maintenance costs, and the source of codes requiring them. Findings also suggest MMH dealers and park owners may be information gatekeepers … more
Date: September 6, 2024
Creator: Schumann, Ronald L., III
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An acoustic analysis of American English liquids by adults and children: Native English speakers and native Japanese speakers of English

Description: This article is a study investigating acoustic characteristics of American English liquids produced by native English (NE) and native Japanese (NJ) speakers reported in Aoyama, Flege, Guion, Akahane-Yamada, and Yamada [(2004). J. Phonetics 32, 233–250]. The secondary aim of the study is to compare the acoustic nature of English liquids between native speakers and Japanese L2 speakers of English. This work was presented at the 170th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America on June 25, 2017 i… more
Date: October 24, 2019
Creator: Aoyama, Katsura; Flege, James E.; Akahane-Yamada, Reiko & Yamada, Tsuneo
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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Forensic Typologies: Getting Specific about Trauma among Institutionalized Youth

Description: Article on Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Utilizing data from 3382 institutionalized delinquents in Texas, logistic regression models indicated multiple associations between ACEs and forensic typologies in both adjusted and unadjusted models, with sexual abuse and physical abuse emerging as the most consistent and robust predictors. Supplemental sensitivity models confirmed the associations between sexual abuse and physical abuse among youth who fit multiple forensic typologies. Models f… more
Date: October 28, 2021
Creator: Jahic, Ilma; Trulson, Chad R.; Caudill, Jonathan W.; Bonner, Taea; Slemaker, Alexandra & DeLisi, Matt
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Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and pregnancy complications and birth outcomes: A population-based cohort study in Denmark

Description: Article describes how alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) is related to developing lung and liver disease, but no large-scale studies examine its association with birth outcomes. The authors investigated the risk of pregnancy complications and adverse birth outcomes in mothers and children with AATD.
Date: January 2, 2024
Creator: Orimoloye, Helen T.; He, Di; Li, Tong; Janzen, Carla; Barjaktarevic, Igor; Wang, Xuexia et al.
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Analyzing the Functional Interdependence of Verbal Behavior with Multiaxial Radar Charts

Description: This article extends the use of multidimensional analyses to compare the relative performance distributions of verbal behavior across four potential controlling variables. The authors discuss the use of radar charts as a framework for understanding the interdependence of verbal operants and suggest their use for complex analyses of complex verbal behavior.
Date: April 30, 2024
Creator: Mason, Lee; Otero, Maria & Andrews, Alonzo
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Applied Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology

Description: This book is intended to help readers become educated consumers of research. It provides a practical, applied, and user-friendly approach to research methods by consistently applying the concepts learned to real-life examples of research. Each chapter builds upon prior chapters so readers can incrementally learn the dynamics of the research process. Readers will understand how research is one of several sources of knowledge when they are faced with the question “How do we know what we know?” St… more
Date: 2025
Creator: Fritsch, Eric J.; Trulson, Chad R. & Blackburn, Ashley G.
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Associated Factors of Patients' Survival in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest; a Cross-sectional Study

Description: This article asserts that Chinese populations have an increasingly high prevalence of cardiac arrest. This study aimed to investigate the prehospital associated factors of survival to hospital admission and discharge among out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) adult cases in Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), China.
Date: May 9, 2024
Creator: Ke, Liang; Ieong, Pui I.; Brock, Kaye E.; Mpofu, Elias; Yin, Cheng; Feng, Xiuhua et al.
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Association between medically diagnosed postnatal infection and childhood cancers: A matched case-control study in Denmark, 1978 to 2016

Description: Article describes how, although the association between infection and childhood cancer has been long investigated, there is limited information on rarer cancers. This article aimed to explore the association between postnatal infection and childhood cancers in the Danish population.
Date: May 27, 2023
Creator: Sirirungreung, Anupong; Hansen, Johnni; Ritz, Beate & Heck, Julia E.
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Associations between volunteering and cognitive impairment: The moderating role of race/ethnicity

Description: Article describes how although volunteering has been shown to benefit cognitive health, there is a paucity of evidence on informal volunteering and subjective measures of cognitive impairment. The author's study aimed to examine the associations of both formal and informal volunteering with older adults' objective and subjective cognition and explore the moderating role of race/ethnicity in such associations.
Date: May 22, 2022
Creator: Wang, Yi; Wong, Roger; Amano, Takashi & Shen, Huei-Wern
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Behavior and Physiology in the Assessment and Treatment of Trauma

Description: This poster explores behavior and physiology in the assessment and treatment of trauma, specifically in how previously appetitive or neutral stimuli may become aversive after trauma events. It was presented at the UNT Research Day on October 4, 2024 in Denton, Texas.
Date: October 4, 2024
Creator: Dracobly, Joseph D.; Houck, Elizabeth J.; Smith, Richard G.; Linden, April; Sanchez, Aaron J.; Foster, Natalee et al.
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Big Men, Small Boys; A Power Dimension Perspective of Farmers–Herdsmen Conflict in Ghana

Description: Article discusses how the Peace Council of Ghana ranks farmer–herder conflicts among the country's three most significant threats to peace. The literature the authors cite emphasizes natural factors contributing to farmer–herder conflicts, namely, climate change which results in environmental degradation and consequently leads to droughts, and food insecurity.
Date: September 26, 2022
Creator: Kyei-Poakwah, Kwadwo; Owusu-Mensah, Isaac; Adu, Edmund Poku & Ateng, Mathias Awonnatey
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Children’s health insurance coverage and adequacy from 2016 to 2018: Racial/ethnic disparities under the ACA

Description: This article presents a study to advance health disparities research by documenting the racial/ethnic disparities in children’s health insurance coverage and health insurance adequacy under the implementation and revisions of the Affordable Care Act between 2016 and 2018 in America.
Date: July 29, 2022
Creator: Shen, Yuying; Turner, Carlene Buchanan; Perkins, Robert K. & Moore, Ami R.
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A Collaborative Implementation Strategy to Increase Falls Prevention Training Using the Age-Friendly Health Systems Approach

Description: Article is a study examining outcomes of a partnership among an academic institution, government agency, community organizations, and emergency management services to implement a falls prevention training program using an Age-Friendly Health Systems approach.
Date: May 12, 2022
Creator: Severance, Jennifer Jurado; Rivera-Torres, Solymar; Cho, Jinmyoung; Hartos, Jessica; Khan, Amal & Knebl, Janice
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Collaborative Research: Place Attachment in Mitigation and Recovery: A Mixed Methods Study of Residential Adjustment Following Wildfires

Description: Data management plan for the grant, "Collaborative Research: Place Attachment in Mitigation and Recovery: A Mixed Methods Study of Residential Adjustment Following Wildfires." This study focuses on understanding how place attachment influences the decisions people make after disasters, specifically residential decisions about where they live and whether they invest in measures that reduce their risk to future disasters. Using three California counties as study sites, and building on a pilot stu… more
Date: 2022-06-01/2024-05-31
Creator: Schumann, Ronald L., III
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Cross-modal plasticity in children with cochlear implant: converging evidence from EEG and functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Description: The authors assert that over the first years of life, the brain undergoes substantial organization in response to environmental stimulation, and in a silent world it may promote vision by recruiting resources from the auditory cortex and making the visual cortex more efficient. The authors examine 7-18 years old children who either had cochlear implants with delayed or age-appropriate language abilities, or had typical hearing and language.
Date: May 21, 2024
Creator: Deroche, Mickael L. D.; Wolfe, Jace; Neumann, Sara; Manning, Jacy; Hanna, Lindsay; Towler, Will et al.
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Cultural and Social Factors in Care Delivery Among African American Caregivers of Persons With Dementia: A Scoping Review

Description: Article asserts that cultural and social factors significantly influence the care provided to persons with dementia. This scoping review aimed to map emerging evidence on the influence of cultural and social factors on care delivery among Africa American caregivers of persons with dementia, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: January 25, 2022
Creator: Imoh, Udoh Idorenyin & Charity, Tinofirei
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Daily Living Subjective Cognitive Decline Indicators in Older Adults with Depressive Symptoms: A Scoping Review and Categorization Using Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF)

Description: This article is a scoping review that identifies subjective cognitive decline (SCD) indicators in ADLs and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) in older adults with depressive symptoms using the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF).
Date: August 10, 2022
Creator: Komalasari, Renata; Mpofu, Elias; Prybutok, Gayle & Ingman, Stanley R.
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Discovering Capabilities for Community Living and Participation for Older Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Description: Data management plan for the grant, "Discovering Capabilities for Community Living and Participation for Older Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder." This study aims to explore and discover the life situation capability priorities for the improved community living of older autistic adults (55 > years) for more satisfying lives. With age-related changes over time, older autistic adults may need to rediscover their emerging capabilities for self-managing their community living. Findings will pro… more
Date: 2024-09-01/2027-08-31
Creator: Mpofu, Elias
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District Reliance by Service Function: A Study of Public Financing of American Special Districts

Description: This article provides an exploratory investigation of special district finance reliance from expenditure reliance of general–purpose governments on special districts’ service delivery and financing mode of special districts. The study shows that special districts have replaced the role of general-purpose governments and which revenue sources districts rely on the most.
Date: April 1, 2021
Creator: Park, HyungGun & Shi, Yu
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