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Land-Surface Subsidence in the Area of Burnett, Scott, and Crystal Bays Near Baytown, Texas

Description: Abstract: Subsidence in the Baytown area is becoming critical because much of the area is subject to inundation by high tides. Withdrawals of water from industrial wells and declines in artesian pressures began about 1918. As much as 280 feet (85.3 meters) of artesian-head decline has occurred in the Evangeline aquifer, and as much as 320 feet (97.5 meters) of decline has occurred in the Alta Lorna Sand. Subsidence of the land surface began about 1920, and as much as 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) of su… more
Date: September 1974
Creator: Gabrysch, R. K. & Bonnet, C. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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"Miss Kathy"

Description: Miss Kathy is a documentary film that tells the story of Kathy Griffin-Grinan, a lead recovery coach for prostitution and human trafficking with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office. Her non-profit organization —We’ve Been There, Done That – works in conjunction with law-enforcement to offer the survivors of prostitution a chance at rehabilitation. With endless enthusiasm, she mentors survivors as they struggle to escape a destructive lifestyle. This film also explores the relationship between hu… more
Date: May 2015
Creator: Alexander, Jeffrey, 1982-
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Script: Baytown Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of one person who was injured as a result of a series of explosions and a major fire at the EXXON refinery in Baytown.
Date: February 8, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Henley]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Elmer Wayne Henley who goes on witness stand to tell a pre-trial hearing in Houston about statements he made to police admitting complicity in the Houston Mass Murders.
Date: January 24, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Baytown Fire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of the Exxon refinery which was hit by a series of explosions that triggered a raging fire.
Date: February 8, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Exxon]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Exxon who announced at Houston that it has adjusted operations at it's 5 refineries to emphasize gasoline production instead of heating oil.
Date: February 15, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Boys hang]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 14, 1971, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: College]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Circuit Court of Appeals which has ruled that a Pasadena, Texas, Junior College teacher fired in 1969, is entitled to $19,000 from the school.
Date: August 29, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Custodians]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a federal judge in Houston ruling that Goose Creek Independent School District must pay male and female custodians the same wages.
Date: April 5, 1973
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Flooding in east Texas]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about approximately 500 residents who are living below lake Livingston, near Houston are being evacuated as the trinity river authority prepares to release a record amount of water from the rain swollen reservoir.
Date: June 13, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Houston Grand Jury]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Houston grand jury who is investigating the torture slayings of 27 young boys.
Date: August 21, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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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)
Partner: UNT Libraries

Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department

Description: Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nation’s largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy chronicle the development of policing in the Bayou City from its days as a grimy trading post in the 1830s to its current status as the nation’s fourth largest city. … more
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: November 15, 2012
Creator: Roth, Mitchel P.
Partner: UNT Press
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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.
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)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Observations of heavy energetic ions for upstream from comet Halley

Description: On March 25, 1986, the ICE spacecraft came within 28 x 10/sup 6/ km of the nucleus of comet Halley. For several days around this time, bursts of heavy ions were observed by the ICE energetic ion experiment. These bursts were observed only during periods when the solar wind velocity was considerably higher than its nominal value. We examine the characteristics of these ions, in particular their anisotropies. Using the well known formulae for transformation of distributions from the solar wind fr… more
Date: January 1, 1986
Creator: Sanderson, T. R.; Wenzel, K. P.; Daly, P. W.; Cowley, S. W. H.; Hynds, R. J.; Richardson, I. G. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Davis]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: October 29, 1978
Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: News briefs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.
Date: September 23, 1953
Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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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)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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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
Partner: UNT Libraries
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