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“The Inevitable: Withdrawn”

Description: The Inevitable: Withdrawn is a critical preface and collection of non-fiction writing: personal essay, lyric essay, fragments, and experimental forms. The work’s cohesive subject matter is the author’s European vacation directly following her divorce. Within the pieces, the author attempts to reconcile who she is when starting over and she begins to ask questions regarding the human condition: How do I learn to exhibit intimacy again, not just with romantic partners, but with also in a familial… more
Date: May 2014
Creator: Christy, Gwendolyn Anne
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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The Library of the Future, How the heart of campus is transforming

Description: This report discusses the future of academic libraries which serve as an essential gateway to knowledge. It discusses how libraries, as one of the largest facilities on campus, have become vibrant hubs for diverse purposes while retaining flexibility for future needs. How librarians have been steering discussions about open-source journals and courseware, which has profound implications for student access and success, and institutional budgets. Why libraries are leveraging special collections t… more
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Date: February 2022
Creator: Carlson, Scott
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Making Sense of Teaching: A Holistic Approach to Teacher Reflection about Practice

Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experience of reflection and document how a holistic approach to teacher reflection contributes to teachers' understanding of, and improvement in their pedagogical practice. The investigation asked how classroom observations, when followed by a reflective dialogue, impact pedagogical practice. The particular focus included how teachers make sense of observational data during a post-observation, reflective dialogue; how teachers reflect on class… more
Date: August 2009
Creator: Norris, Karen S.
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Grand Research Questions in the Solid-Earth Sciences Final Scientific/Technical Report

Description: Over the past three decades, Earth scientists have made great strides in understanding our planet’s workings and history. Yet this progress has served principally to lay bare more fundamental questions about the Earth. Expanding knowledge is generating new questions, while innovative technologies and new partnerships with other sciences provide new paths toward answers. A National Academies committee was established to frame some of the great intellectual challenges inherent in the study of the… more
Date: December 3, 2008
Creator: Linn, Anne M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Planning Meeting for Colloquium and Report on: Systems Microbiology: Beyond Microbial Genomics

Description: The steering committee for the American Academy of Microbiology's colloquium, ''Systems Microbiology: Beyond Microbial Genomics'' met September 26, 2003, in Washington, DC, to plan the colloquium and discuss the report that would be produced following the colloquium. The steering committee developed the intellectual approach to the issues relating to systems microbiology, including drafting questions for the colloquium participants to work their way through. The committee then identified the sc… more
Date: March 22, 2005
Creator: Buckley, Merry R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Exploring How Faculty and Graduate Students Conceptualize and Teach Entropy Through Cognitive and Pedagogical Lenses

Description: Representations are central to communicating chemical phenomena and play a key role in learning physical chemistry, where understanding abstract topics such as entropy and polarity require both conceptual and mathematical reasoning. This dissertation examines cognitive and pedagogical dimensions of teaching entropy and understanding polarity. While prior research on entropy instruction highlights the role of language in shaping student understanding, little is known about how instructors and gr… more
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Date: July 2025
Creator: England, Jennifer Diane
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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Business planning for scientists and engineers

Description: Business Planning for Scientists and Engineers is a combination text/workbook intended for use by individuals and firms having received Phase II SBIR funding (Small Business Innovation Research). It is used to best advantage in combination with other aspects of the Commercialization Assistance Project developed by Dawnbreaker for the US Department of Energy. Although there are many books on the market which indicate the desired contents of a business plan, there are none which clearly indicate … more
Date: March 1, 1992
Creator: Servo, J.C. & Hauler, P.D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Saving: Answers to Key Questions

Description: Other written product issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report is designed to present information about national saving--as measured in the National Income and Product Accounts--and its implications for economic growth and retirement security. GAO addresses the following questions: (1) what is personal saving, how is it related to national saving, and what are the implications of low personal saving for Americans' retirement security? (2) what is nationa… more
Date: June 1, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
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Quickstart Tutorial: How to Use the Co-Benefits Risk Assessment (COBRA) Screening Model: Analytical Steps and Case Studies

Description: A presentation that explains COBRA and how to use it to estimate the air quality, health, and related economic impacts of a scenario. It then explains two case studies about how to apply COBRA in these clean energy scenarios.
Date: June 2015
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
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Old-field Community, Climate and Atmospheric Manipulation

Description: We are in the process of finishing a number of laboratory, growth chamber and greenhouse projects, analyzing data, and writing papers. The projects reported addressed these subjects: How do climate and atmospheric changes alter aboveground plant biomass and community structure; Effects of multiple climate changes factors on plant community composition and diversity: what did we learn from a 5-year open-top chamber experiment using constructed old-field communities; Do atmospheric and climatic c… more
Date: November 1, 2009
Creator: Classen, Aimee
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Black Motherhood: A Feminist Autoenthography and Historical Case Studies

Description: In this thesis I will be analyzing the ways colonization, slavery, and economic status affect the roles families force women and girls to assume the Strong Black Woman Myth. How did colonialism and capitalism change the Black family dynamic? How does the narrative of Black girls and women being the caretakers and nurturers of the world/ family circulate? In what ways does this narrative dictate or possess throughout their lives? In what ways does the sexual politics of Black women contort their… more
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Date: May 2026
Creator: Thomas, Destiny
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The RadAssessor manual

Description: THIS manual will describe the functions and capabilities that are available from the RadAssessor database and will demonstrate how to retrieve and view its information. You’ll learn how to start the database application, how to log in, how to use the common commands, and how to use the online help if you have a question or need extra guidance. RadAssessor can be viewed from any standard web browser. Therefore, you will not need to install any special software before using RadAssessor.
Date: February 1, 2007
Creator: Seitz, Sharon L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Personal narrative about establishing a school

Description: Bunghon Suungnem of Leingangching tells what he did to establish the school in his village and in culture promotion, and then Shetphong Jangvei of Charangching, who was earlier in Manipur Rifles and later elected as Member of District council, shared the light of education and how Shekarnong Sankhil organized a student conference where he demonstrated how they shoot the sun. Shetphong Sankhil describes learning about Haikaa, and he requested to discuss how Chuva and Khava went to heaven, how pe… more
Date: 2004
Duration: 49 minutes 59 seconds
Creator: Tholung, Daniel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Why is the Household Saving Rate So Low?

Description: This report begins by showing how much the household saving rate has declined in recent years. Next, it explains how household saving is measured, and provides some detail on how saving varies across the income distribution. Finally, it discusses factors that may account for the decline in household saving, as well as how much of a policy concern the decline in household saving may be.
Date: January 9, 2008
Creator: Cashell, Brian W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Breathing Life into the Reductive Format

Description: a. How does the use of different materials such as string, screen, fabric or wire personalize the work? b. How does the addition of subtly recognizable imagery change the reductive field? c. How do processes such as wrapping, printing, dripping, and other techniques infer meaning? d. How does the choice of color and scale affect the work?
Date: May 1999
Creator: Smith, Charlotte D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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Defining Readiness: Background and Issues for Congress

Description: This report discusses how differing uses of the term "readiness" affect congressional debate, but does not evaluate the current state of the U.S. military or provide a conclusive definition of readiness. It also considers how the different uses of the term readiness relate to certain issues: Is there a readiness crisis? What should the U.S. military be ready for? How should readiness be measured? How does the FY2018 budget request affect the U.S. military's readiness?
Date: June 14, 2017
Creator: Rumbaugh, Russell
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bureau of Reclamation: Information on Operations and Maintenance Activities and Costs at Multipurpose Water Projects

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Bureau of Reclamation's operation and maintenance (O&M) of federal water projects, focusing on: (1) how the Bureau defines O&M activities; (2) what latitude the Bureau has in deciding which O&M costs to charge customers; (3) how the Bureau accounts for O&M costs; (4) how the Bureau defines overhead; (5) how the Bureau calculates the O&M costs that it charge… more
Date: May 31, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An Analysis of the Work of Pestalozzi in Education and His Philosophy Concerning Practical Arts

Description: The purpose of this study was to ascertain and analyze the following: What was Pestalozzi's philosophy concerning practical arts? What effect did his method of teaching have on the education of Europe during his time? How did his experiment at Neuhof influence education of his time? How did his experiment at Stanz influence education? How did his experiment at Burgdorf influence the method of education? How did his experiment at Yverdon influence education? What was his method of teaching eleme… more
Date: August 1950
Creator: Kay, Leland Oliver
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Enhancement of Terrestrial Carbon Sinks through the Reclamation of Abandoned Mined Lands

Description: This project will determine the optimal forest management method to employ for each of the major commercial tree species so that profitability of timber production only or the combination of timber production and carbon sequestration is maximized. The goal of this project is to achieve DOE's long-term cost goal of sequestering carbon at $10 or less per ton. Because the potential of a forest ecosystem to sequester carbon depends on the species, site quality and management regimes utilized, this … more
Date: January 31, 2006
Creator: Kronrad, Gary
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Enhancement of Terrestrial Carbon Sinks through the Reclamation of Abandoned Mined Lands

Description: This project will determine the optimal forest management method to employ for each of the major commercial tree species so that profitability of timber production only or the combination of timber production and carbon sequestration is maximized. The goal of this project is to achieve DOE's long-term cost goal of sequestering carbon at $10 or less per ton. Because the potential of a forest ecosystem to sequester carbon depends on the species, site quality and management regimes utilized, this … more
Date: October 31, 2004
Creator: Kronrad, Gary
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Enhancement of Terrestrial Carbon Sinks through the Reclamation of Abandoned Mined Lands

Description: This project will determine the optimal forest management method to employ for each of the major commercial tree species so that profitability of timber production only or the combination of timber production and carbon sequestration is maximized. The goal of this project is to achieve DOE's long-term cost goal of sequestering carbon at $10 or less per ton. Because the potential of a forest ecosystem to sequester carbon depends on the species, site quality and management regimes utilized, this … more
Date: April 30, 2005
Creator: Kronrad, Gary
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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"All things at once": A Retrospective Qualitative Examination of the Parental Racial Ethnic Socialization Practices Experienced by Multiracial/Multiethnic Individuals

Description: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore how individuals from different multiracial/multiethnic groups experience and process the phenomenon of parental racial ethnic socialization (RES). Critical multiracial race theory, critical race theory, and bioecological systems theory offered a conceptual framework to how RES is often presented and processed. This study was guided by two research questions: (1) What are the experiences of RES among multiracial individuals? and (2) How d… more
Date: August 2022
Creator: Camacho Taylor, Jennifer
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