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Estimating landscape structure effects on pollination for management of agricultural landscapes

Description: Article estimating the effects of different scenarios of forest fragmentation to find an optimized pattern of forest patches for increasing pollination in an agricultural landscape. The authors use simulated agricultural landscapes and landscape metrics to estimate the relationship between pollination and landscape structure.
Date: September 7, 2021
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Using the Lonsdorf model for estimating habitat loss and fragmentation effects on pollination service

Description: Article examining the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on pollination separately according to the Lonsdorf model. Results show that the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on pollination are completely different at the landscape and farm levels. This article shows that using the Lonsdorf model could lead to confusing results for the landscape ecologists and farmers who want to reduce the adverse effects of fragmentation on their products by creating new forest patches.
Date: March 22, 2021
Creator: Rahimi, Ehsan; Barghjelveh, Shahindokht & Dong, Pinliang
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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The world's southernmost tree and the climate and windscapes of the southernmost forests

Description: Article documenting the world's southernmost tree along with the condition and growth pattern of the world's southernmost forest on Isla Hornos, Chile. This offers an ideal way to test the relationship between the biogeography of individual species and the effects of climate/climate change.
Date: September 9, 2020
Creator: Buma, Brian; Holz, Andrés; Díaz, Iván A. & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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The Metacognitive Self: The Role of Motivation and an Updated Measurement Tool

Description: Article on the theoretical motivational background regarding metacognitive self. Based on this framework, a single-factor structure of metacognitive self is developed from modification of the MCSQ-40 questionnaire and results in a new tool: MCSQ-21.
Date: February 2019
Creator: Brycz, Hannah; Konarski, Roman & Wright, Rex
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Negotiating local versus global needs in the International Long Term Ecological Research Network’s socio-ecological research agenda

Description: This article describes the assessment of six long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) platforms through site visits, coupled with reflections and insights of the platform managers.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Holzer, J. M.; Adamescu, M. C.; Bonet-García, F. J.; Díaz-Delgado, R.; Dick, J.; Grove, J. M. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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The “Malevolent” Benevolence: what happens to perceived immigrant threat when value priorities collide?

Description: This article examines how self-transcending human values affect perceptions of immigrant threat. Results show that benevolence and universalism tend to affect perceived immigrant threat in opposite directions. A part of individuals’ anti-immigrant bias does not stem from strictly self-interested motivations, as often proposed, but by a sense of loyalty to the interests of our immediate contacts.
Date: February 10, 2021
Creator: Grigoropoulou, Nikolitsa
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Head Start and Families' Recovery From Economic Recession: Policy Recommendations for COVID-19

Description: This article examines whether the availability of Head Start during the Great Recession mitigated the impact of this crisis on poverty rates among families with young children. The findings provide clear, evidence-based policy recommendations. Increased federal funding for Head Start is needed to support families during a COVID-19 recession.
Date: December 5, 2020
Creator: Scarborough, William; Collins, Caitlyn; Ruppanner, Leah & Landivar, Liana Christin
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Estimating Individual Tree Height and Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) from Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) Data at Plot Level

Description: This article explores the methods of using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) technology to obtain point cloud data and estimate individual tree height and diameter at breast height (DBH) at plot level in regions with complex terrain.
Date: July 4, 2018
Creator: Liu, Guangjie; Wang, Jinliang; Dong, Pinliang; Chen, Yun & Liu, Zhiyuan
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Video to Home Delivery of Evidence-Based Psychotherapy to Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Description: Article examined the provision of evidence-based psychotherapies (EBPs) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) delivered via ideo to home (VTH) at a large Southwestern Veterans Health Administration (VHA) PTSD outpatient clinic.
Date: December 6, 2019
Creator: Boykin, Derrecka M.; Keegan, Fallon; Thompson, Karin E.; Voelkel, Emily & Fletcher, Terri L.
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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A Latent Profile Analysis of Violent Offenders Based on PCL-R Factor Scores: Criminogenic Needs and Recidivism Risk

Description: Article describes study where latent profile analysis was used to investigate if homogeneous latent classes of psychopathy exist within a sample of 215 adult male violent offenders from Berlin, Germany.
Date: September 6, 2019
Creator: Lehmann, Robert Johann Bernhard; Neumann, Craig S.; Hare, Robert Douglas; Biedermann, Jürgen; Dahle, Klaus-Peter & Mokros, Andreas
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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A semi-automated method for extracting channels and channel profiles from lidar-derived digital elevation models

Description: Article introduces a semi-automated method for extracting stream channels and channel profiles from high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs) using image processing techniques. The method is implemented as an ArcGIS Python add-in toolbar named Channel Extraction and demonstrated using a lidar-derived DEM in a study area along the San Andreas fault in California, USA.
Date: March 10, 2020
Creator: Dong, Pinliang; Zhong, Ruofei; Xia, Jisheng & Tan, Shucheng
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Geomorphic analysis of Xiadian buried fault zone in Eastern Beijing plain based on SPOT image and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data

Description: This article presents geomorphic analysis of Xiadian buried fault in eastern Beijing plain (China), based on the analysis of a Satellite Pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT-5) image, a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) derived from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system, SRTM DEM and field investigation. Results can provide valuable insight into geomorphic analysis of buried and semi-buried active faults in plain areas with increasingly frequent human activities.
Date: January 19, 2021
Creator: Wang, Yanping; Dong, Pinliang; Zhu, Yueqin; Shen, Jun & Liao, Shunbao
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

COVID-19 and the gender gap in work hours

Description: Article using panel data from the US Current Population Survey to examine changes in mothers’ and fathers’ work hours from February through April 2020, the period of time prior to the widespread COVID-19 outbreak in the United States and through its first peak. Using person-level fixed effects models, we find that mothers with young children have reduced their work hours four to five times more than fathers.
Date: July 2, 2020
Creator: Collins, Caitlyn; Landivar, Liana Christin; Ruppanner, Leah & Scarborough, William
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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The Gendered Consequences of a Weak Infrastructure of Care: School Reopening Plans and Parents’ Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Description: This article collected detailed primary data—the Elementary School Operating Status database (ESOS)—to measure the percentage of school districts offering in-person, remote, and hybrid instruction models for elementary schools by state in September 2020 to understand the nature and magnitude of school closures across states during the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on maternal labor force participation. The article shows that schools are a vital source of care for young children, and that wit… more
Date: March 12, 2021
Creator: Collins, Caitlyn; Ruppanner, Leah; Landivar, Liana Christin & Scarborough, William
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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People of Color, People of Faith: The Effect of Social Capital and Religion on the Political Participation of Marginalized Communities

Description: Article exploring how religion, social capital, and nativity intersect in the political mobilization of racial minorities. Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) 2016 data is used to examine the connection between social capital, religion, and political behavior in a novel attempt to systematically identify the unique role of churches in the mobilization of racial minority communities.
Date: May 19, 2020
Creator: Huckle, Kiku & Silva, Andrea
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Assessing the Impact of the Built-Up Environment on Nighttime Lights in China

Description: Article describes study investigating the effects of the built-up environment on artificial light at night, focusing on construction region environments on nighttime brightness and variation with building heights and regional economic development level in China.
Date: July 19, 2019
Creator: Wang, Cheng; Qin, Haiming; Zhao, Kaiguang; Dong, Pinliang; Yang, Xuebo; Zhou, Guoqing et al.
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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