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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.
Partner: UNT College of Science

[Desert landscape and robot gouache painting for Instagram challenge, "Gouachetober"]

Description: Photograph of a gouache on paper painting depicting a desert landscape with a rock mountain in the background, a tree in the middle ground, and a black and white robot under the tree. The painting is signed and dated "10-03-2020" by the artist and creator.
Date: October 3, 2020
Creator: Camacho-Cedillo, Perla
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Lindsey Witt's calendar page]

Description: Photograph of Lindsey Witt's weekly calendar page with a row containing the title, "The Week Of:." The majority of the page has six columns with a heading for each day of the week, except Saturday and Sunday which is grouped together to state, "Weekend." The bottom of the page has a row with the subtitle, "Notes." Witt has handwritten the date span on the top of the page, "October 26-November 1." Each day and the "Notes" section also has handwritten bullet point notes in pen pertaining to class… more
Date: 2020-10-26/2020-11-01
Creator: Witt, Lindsey
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pizza Snob restaurant's patio balcony and snow]

Description: Photograph of the Pizza Snob restaurant's outdoor wooden patio and balcony. The patio has a wooden fence wall with their logo and name painted in yellow. The logo of pizza snob is a yellow outline of a cartoon face with its nose pointed up. In front of the patio balcony is grass with remnants of scattered snow. Pizza Snob is located on West Hickory Street in Denton, Texas near the Historic Denton County Courthouse block, also known as "The Square."
Date: January 11, 2020
Creator: Irby, Brian
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music cancellation notice letter]

Description: Photograph of a typed letter from Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music's Executive Director and Board President notifying the recipient about the cancellation of the summer event due to the "current imperative for “social distancing”" and issues regarding performers traveling.
Date: March 31, 2020
Creator: Bernaert, Angelica
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Snow storm on University of North Texas (UNT) campus]

Description: Photograph of a snow storm on UNT's campus that shows a staircase in the foreground flanked by two trees, an open field in the middle ground and a building that looks like UNT's Coliseum or "Super Pit" in the background. The entirety of the pathways, stairs, and field is covered in snow and it appears that snow is falling when this photograph was taken.
Date: January 11, 2020
Creator: Van Diest, Kristin
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[El Buen Samaritano food pantry volunteers and truck]

Description: Photograph of five El Buen Samaritano food pantry volunteers posing for a photo in front of an El Buen Samaritano truck that has the name, logo and contact information for the food pantry. The logo for El Buen Samaritano is an orange shape drawn to represent a mission-style church with two outlined hands extended toward each other in front of the church.
Date: April 20, 2020
Creator: Van Diest, Kristin
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Family collection of face masks and socks]

Description: Photograph of a basket of various assorted cloth face masks and socks. In view there is a royal blue, light grey, and white with light blue stripes face masks. Both pairs of socks are white. The word "Family" is shown at the top of the image.
Date: 2020
Creator: Closs, Jeremy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Wallet with COVID-19 vaccination card]

Description: Photograph of a black leather trifold wallet with worn edges. The wallet is standing upright on a green cloth flat surface. The wallet holds an assortment of credit cards and cards. The center-fold pocket holds a COVID-19 vaccination card.
Date: 2020-04~
Creator: Closs, Jeremy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Mitigating Usability Issues in Legacy EHR Systems to Improve Patient Safety: A Learning Health System Approach

Description: This paper describes an on-going research project examining currently used processes in both hospitals and EHR vendor companies for identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating electronic health record (EHR) software issues, and usability issues, that may compromise patient safety as they arise in the implemented or legacy EHR system. This on-going project includes 3 interviews with CMIOs at hospitals and 3 interviews with EHR vendors. Next steps include surveying both groups. The project can be… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Meehan, Rebecca
Partner: UNT College of Information
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The Impact of Social Isolation Arising from COVID-19 Pandemic on the Use of Customer Service Channels

Description: The new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic forced the population to adapt routines, create new habits and adapt to the new reality. A significant change resulting from social isolation was the way that consumers began to seek the provision of services and purchase of products. What was previously done predominantly in physical stores, started to be carried out by digital channels, according to the customers' preference. Because it provides essential services, Companhia Águas de Joinville (CAJ) also … more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Siewert Pretto, Luana; Loth, Adriana Falcão; de Almeida Pires, Marcos Henrique & de Sa Freire, Patricia
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Innovation Process Based on Customer Development in a Large Mature Company

Description: This case study was built from a semi-structured interview with the Innovation manager and a UX Designer at that institution. It was possible to verify from the analysis of the interview that the company is able to apply only part of the Customer Development process in its new product innovation process.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Reis, Kleiton Luiz Nascimento & Baldessar, Maria José
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Social Media, Grindr, and PrEP: Sexual Health Literacy for Men Who have Sex with Men in the Internet Age

Description: Despite continued improvements to HIV/AIDS treatment and awareness, HIV transmission rates remain high among men who have sex with men (MSM). Online consumer health information targeting high risk MSM through social media and geosocial networking (GSN) apps have shown to be successful HIV intervention strategies. This review article addresses (1) the efficacy and acceptance of delivering consumer health information about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and HIV prevention through GSN apps, (2) t… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Goodwin, Gavin
Partner: UNT College of Information
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The Corporate Education System in a Financial Institution in Southern Brazil: Maturity Diagnosis

Description: Corporate universities make up a strategic umbrella for developing the organizational ecosystem with a high impact on business goals. A mature organization in educational activities necessarily creates lasting and sustainable mechanisms for human and organizational development. Thus, we sought to identify the maturity level of a corporate education system and the necessary actions for its evolution based on the Kraemer model (2018).
Date: December 2020
Creator: Neves, Marta Silva; de Sa Freire, Patricia & Silva, Talita Caetano
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Role of Social Media in Spreading Fake News During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey among University Students of Bangladesh

Description: Arising in China in December 2019, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) soon spread to other countries worldwide including Bangladesh. Mass media and social media platforms played an important role in providing Coronavirus related information and news as they enable people to share news as well as personal experiences with one another rapidly. Since little is known about COVID-19, various fake news spread across social media that panicked people into making panic decisions. The primary objective of… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Atikuzzaman, MD.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management in South African Automotive Industries

Description: Automotive industries in the developed world have strived to improve performance and productivity by incorporating Knowledge Management (KM) practices in their manufacturing processes. This has been attributed to the use of upgraded technological capabilities in the acquisition, sharing, and retention of organizational knowledge. Literature has unpacked that as much as automotive industries need Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in their KM strategy, they should also include aspects… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Musonza, Charleen & Muchaonyerwa, Ndakasharwa
Partner: UNT College of Information

Factors Affecting Late Medication Administration in the Hospital Setting

Description: This pilot study extends nursing’s historical efforts to prevent medication errors by using a database research approach to better understand why medication errors persist in acute care settings. The pilot study was conducted 3 units and float pool nurses. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multilevel regression modeling.
Date: December 2020
Creator: Estes, Carey & McCoy, Thomas
Partner: UNT College of Information

Using Query Expansion to Improve Findability of Resources Addressing Multiple Chronic Conditions

Description: With advances in natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), there are new opportunities for improving findability among existing public-facing resources. This project seeks to inform findability, especially for multiple chronic condition (MCC) resources, by describing current search capabilities and limitations across several of AHRQ’s publicly available domains and by identifying and piloting a novel NLP/ML approach to make suggested improvements… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Marcial, Laura Haak; Santini, Silas; Kery, Caroline; Brown, Stephen; Chew, Rob & Blumenfeld, Barry
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Crisis and Culture

Description: The research seeks to know if the COVID-19 pandemic has created culture change by measuring the criteria of work outputs and actions of organization members. As a part of this research, a survey was developed to identify how and to what extent workplace culture has been impacted. 111 professional services staff from a North Texas business were surveyed. We identified three factors for criteria of work outputs and behavior that indicates the current level of change of the culture. The three fact… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Beaver, Zachery R.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Blended Learning During Pandemic Through Knowledge Management an Analytical Study

Description: Blended learning (BL) assimilates the best digital high-tech learning and traditional methods that involve students in network learning transcending physical boundaries. It has been embraced as a possibility so that knowledge can be distributed through time and space. KM-based approaches may be used to collect, coordinate, and transmit intelligence to control processes that can be utilized efficiently to recognize and share the most important details to address customer needs. This study aims t… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Hasan, Khandakar Kamrul; Mukherjee, Debarshi; Othman, Roslina & Mostofa, Sk Mamun
Partner: UNT College of Information
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The Influence of Information Technology Support on Knowledge Management Process of Nurses in Patient Care

Description: The current study investigated the influence of information technology support on knowledge management process of nurses in patient care. Recent concerns about the issue of nursing care delivery have accentuated the need for more improved health services. The importance of knowledge management in improving performance has been strongly highlighted in existing literature. Paucity of studies exist in information technology-based knowledge management of nurses in Nigeria. A quantitative approach c… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Ajanaku, Olateju Jumoke
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Innovation Process Based on Customer Development in a Large Mature Company

Description: The Customer Development process, widely used by startups, is designed with the aim that, at the end of a process of development of an innovation, the customer can see the maximum value in the product. But there are few studies on the application of this methodology in mature companies. The aim of this study was to assess whether it is indeed possible to apply the Customer Development process in a mature firm. This case study was built from a semi-structured interview with the Innovation manage… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Reis, Kleiton & Baldessar, Maria Jose
Partner: UNT College of Information

Knowledge Management in the Technical Information Center/Library of a Navy Lab and as a Whole, as well as Metrics to Measure the Scientific Health of a R&D Center

Description: In order to perform research data triangulation, there were three main sources of data: 1. External/Internal Survey of 15 Library Directors (5 in the Navy; 10 from Government/Universities), 2. Literature Review/Industry Best Practices, and 3. Navy Lab Interviews (Ten) . The results include "Harvest” the personal collections of classified and other materials (reach out to the end users to put documents in library repository); Need to modernize our workflow; Having research material that can be e… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Liebowitz, Jay
Partner: UNT College of Information
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