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Effects of Sulfur on Fuel Nitrogen Conversion in Combustion
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Undergraduate thesis on the emission of atmospheric pollutants. The pollutants focused on are NO and NO₂. The author discusses the influence of sulfur on NO emission using computational chemistry.
Date:
May 12, 2014
Creator:
Moukambi, Odreille Mapaka
Partner:
UNT Honors College
From Radian Waves to Data Streams: Media Environments in DeLillo and Shteyngart
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Undergraduate thesis examining representations of media and technology in two contemporary American novels, "White Noise" by Don DeLillo (1985) and "Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart (2010), with the goal of elucidating the attributes and significance of the technological contexts in fiction as well as contributing to a broader discussion of its operations on consciousness, society, and the cultural imagination.
Date:
June 13, 2014
Creator:
Young, Michael
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UNT Honors College
Lessons from the Past: Possible Courses of Action for the Conflict in Syria
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Undergraduate thesis examining the Syrian conflict and the international community's struggle to find an appropriate response. This thesis reviews the conflicts that occurred in Bosnia and Rwanda, the interventions that took place within these states, and how a resolution to these conflicts was created. From this information, the author determines what conflict management strategies had the most success and what types of outside interventions were failures and the similarities of these instance…
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Date:
June 8, 2014
Creator:
Carter, Rachel
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UNT Honors College
National Identity and Anxiety in the Captivity Narratives of Mary Rowlandson and Mary Godfrey
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Undergraduate thesis expanding exploring the 1836 captivity narrative "An Authentic Narrative of the Seminole War; and the Miraculous Escape of Mrs. Mary Godfrey, and Her Four Female Children." Unlike Mary Rowlandson's "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God," the anonymously-authored "An Authentic Narrative" is almost certainly fabricated. There are no records of a Mrs. Mary Godfrey being captured and redeemed, or even existing at all. However, like Rowlandson's captivity narrative, it attempts t…
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Date:
June 13, 2014
Creator:
Smith, Caitlin
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UNT Honors College
Personification of Grief in Dostoevsky's The Idiot
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Undergraduate thesis exploring Fyodor Dostoevsky's portrayal of grief in his work, "The Idiot". When examining a work of art, it is crucial to look at the context surrounding the composition. "The Idiot" presents a fascinating example, in that Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote this novel immediately following the death of his five-month-old daughter, Sofya. This thesis examines the historical background, grief in Russian society, religious grief and guilt, grief in the characterization, and cyclical grie…
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Date:
Spring 2014
Creator:
Teel, Haley
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UNT Honors College
Social Support and Type II Diabetes in Older Married Hispanic Americans
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Undergraduate thesis exploring psychosocial factors of type II diabetes in older married adults of the Hispanic American population. It is proposed that social support mitigates the effect of psychosocial problems on self-care behavior and posited that greater social support in the form of familial and spousal relationships is related to better health outcomes, specifically better self-reported disease self-management of type II diabetes in married Hispanics.
Date:
April 22, 2014
Creator:
Delk, Jenna
Partner:
UNT Honors College
"Take, Eat": A Creation Based Perspective on the Eucharist
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Undergraduate thesis exploring the Christian tradition of the Eucharist. Throughout the history of the Church, many ideas have been circulated and debated regarding the Eucharist. The author centers on the question "Why a command to eat?" with the goal to provide a supplemental perspective on this ambiguous Christian ritual.
Date:
2014~/2015~
Creator:
Puras, Alberto
Partner:
UNT Honors College
The Influence of Self-Esteem and Perceptions of Infidelity on College Students' Relationship Quality
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Undergraduate thesis studying the relationship between self-esteem and relationship quality in college students, while also investigating the mediational role of perceptions of infidelity on that relation. The study uses three different measures in order to understand college students and the dynamics of their romantic relationships. Results indicate that there are possible associations between self esteem, relationship quality, and perceptions of infidelity.
Date:
Spring 2014
Creator:
Ruales, Dahyan Michelle
Partner:
UNT Honors College
Impacts of Parental Health on the Psychosocial Functioning of University Students
Description:
Undergraduate thesis exploring the effects of growing up with parental chronic illness on emerging adults. The current study utilizes self-reported questionnaire data on the psychosocial functioning of 635 students from UNT to increase understanding of how parental chronic illness affects university students' life satisfaction, psychological distress, and compulsive self-reliance. In an attempt to identify potential protective factors, the moderating effects of attachment and resiliency on the …
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Date:
July 9, 2014
Creator:
Askings, Diana Christine
Partner:
UNT Honors College
The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide
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Undergraduate thesis examining the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in the United States and its ethics. The authors' study provides that in states where, by legislation, physicians can aid a patient by prescribing a lethal dose which the patient can choose to ingest, the benefits well surpass any risk feared by opponents of physician-assisted suicide.
Date:
May 12, 2014
Creator:
Horner, Marjorie
Partner:
UNT Honors College
Wither the Whip, Strengthen the Sword: Colonial Legacy and Geno-/Politicide in the Post-Colonial World, 1945-2012
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Undergraduate thesis examining the causes of geno-/politicides and the potential correlation between colonial legacy and the increased likelihood of seeing geno-/politicide across all newly independent states post-WWII from 1945-2012. This study reviews colonialism through an anthropological and sociological lens and applies it to state-structure's impact on political violence.
Date:
May 8, 2014
Creator:
Wood, Colin
Partner:
UNT Honors College
The Vulnerability of Self-report Measures of Psychopathy to Positive Impression Management: a Simulation Study with Inmates
Description:
Psychopaths have long been characterized as having a remarkable disregard for the truth, to the extent that deceit is often regarded as a defining characteristic of the syndrome. Scholars described heightened concerns about how psychopaths’ deceitful and manipulative nature could significantly obstruct evaluations of psychopathy. The accurate evaluation of psychopathy is very important in forensic and correctional settings, and in such issues as risk assessment or dangerousness. Although the…
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Date:
August 2014
Creator:
Kelsey, Katherine R.
Partner:
UNT Libraries
Self-determination of Military Students in Postsecondary Education
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The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine undergraduate military veteran students’ self-determination and academic effort in relation to their nonveteran college peers. A total of 734 undergraduates attending 4-year institutions in Texas completed a survey, including: 76 veterans (63% males, 37% females); and 658 non-veterans (26% males, 74% females). This research created a more holistic survey of self-determination by adding the 8-item New General Self-Efficacy Scale to the 10-ite…
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Date:
August 2014
Creator:
Placido, Robert B.
Partner:
UNT Libraries
Sexual Behavior During the Emerging Adult Years: Attachment and Social Support Perspectives
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The purpose of this study was to better understand sexual development during the transition to adulthood. Previous research was extended by testing models that examined direct effects of romantic attachment and social support on emerging adults’ sexual outcomes, as well as models that examined the mediating role of sexual motivations in those associations. Undergraduate students (n = 290, 66% female) completed questionnaires that assessed romantic attachment, social support, sexual motives, …
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Date:
August 2014
Creator:
Stillo, Nicole D.
Partner:
UNT Libraries
Under the Influence of Marc Blitzstein: Examining Leonard J Lehrman’s Uses of Serial Techniques for Dramatic Purposes in Karla
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American composer, author and conductor Leonard J. Lehrman (b. 1949) has spent a majority of his lifetime devoted to the scholarship on the music of Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964). Lehrman completed Blitzstein’s Idiots First in 1973, and finished his own one-act opera Karla in 1974. In an effort to honor Blitzstein, Lehrman included Karla along with Idiots First to begin the set of one-act operas to be titled Tales of Malamud. Lehrman coined the term “selective serialism” in reference to Blitzstei…
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Date:
December 2014
Creator:
Blackwood, Jeremy B
Partner:
UNT Libraries
"Stealing Dreams" and Other Stories
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The critical preface, "Learning to Break the Rules" discusses workshop rules as guidelines, as well as how and why I learned to break them. The creative portion of this thesis is made up of eight short stories: "The Many Incarnations of Blazer Chief," "Anna's Monsters," "The Pecan Tree's Daughter," "When the Seas Emptied," "The Umbrella Thief," "How to Forget," "Fracture," and "Stealing Dreams."
Date:
December 2014
Creator:
Matthews, Elise
Partner:
UNT Libraries
A Textual Analysis of News Framing in the Sri Lankan Conflict
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The purpose of this study is to investigate how local and foreign newspapers used the war journalism and peace journalism frames when covering the Sri Lankan civil war, and to uncover subframes specific to the conflict. The first part of the thesis provides an in- depth literature review that addresses the history of the conflict and media freedom in Sri Lanka. The newspaper articles for the textual analysis were selected from mainstream Sri Lankan and U.S newspapers: the Daily News (a state sp…
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Date:
December 2014
Creator:
Ratnam, Cheran
Partner:
UNT Libraries
Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Responsibilities in Teaching Social Emotional Skills: a Case Study
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This study investigated the beliefs of teachers at a particular elementary campus in North Texas during its first year of implementation of a social emotional curriculum regarding teaching social emotional skills and the influence of those beliefs on their classroom practices. The study drew from the works of Dewey and Bandura in the development of a framework for teacher decision making. A case study design incorporating multiple cases within the case study utilized a mixed-methods approach fo…
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Date:
August 2014
Creator:
Madueke, Nkechi A.
Partner:
UNT Libraries
Synthesis of Novel Organic Chromophores and Their Characterization
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Nonlinear organic liquids that exhibit two-photon absorption (TPA) function as good optical limiters for sensor protection from laser pulses. L34 (4-butyl-4'-propyl-diphenylethyne) is a liquid organic compound exhibiting nonlinear optical absorption. A thiol- derivatized analog of L34 (“thiol-L34”) was prepared to bind the molecules to the surface of gold nanoparticles. Surface binding is necessary to investigate synergy between nonlinear optical absorption of gold nanoparticles and thiol-L34. …
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Date:
December 2014
Creator:
Pokharel, Sundari D.
Partner:
UNT Libraries
Uncovering Gendered Teaching Practices in the Early Childhood Classroom
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For many early childhood teachers, interacting with children about issues concerning gender and sexuality is fraught with feelings of uneasiness and anxiety. For others, familiarity with research on these topics has resulted in rethinking their approaches to sex, gender, and sexuality in their early childhood classrooms. This inquiry examined the tensions associated with the researcher’s attempts to rethink gendered narratives and childhood sexuality in her own classroom. The study took plac…
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Date:
August 2014
Creator:
Larremore, April, 1972-
Partner:
UNT Libraries
Shall We Play a Game?: The Performative Interactivity of Video Games
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This study examines the ways that videogames and live performance are informed by play theory. Utilizing performance studies methodologies, specifically personal narrative and autoperformance, the project explores the embodied ways that gamers know and understand videogames. A staged performance, “Shall We Play a Game?,” was crafted using Brechtian theatre techniques and Conquergood’s three A’s of performance, and served as the basis for the examination. This project seeks to dispel popular mi…
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Date:
August 2014
Creator:
Beck, Michael J.
Partner:
UNT Libraries
Smartphone-based Household Travel Survey - a Literature Review, an App, and a Pilot Survey
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High precision data from household travel survey (HTS) is extremely important for the transportation research, traffic models and policy formulation. Traditional methods of data collection were imprecise because they relied on people’s memories of trip information, such as date and location, and the remainder data had to be obtained by certain supplemental tools. The traditional methods suffered from intensive labor, large time consumption, and unsatisfactory data precision. Recent research tre…
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Date:
December 2014
Creator:
Wang, Qian (Computer scientist)
Partner:
UNT Libraries
Youth-led Environmental Awareness: Initiatives Towards a Jain Faith Community Empowerment
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This project employs participatory action research methods in efforts to create a community specific environmental curriculum for the high school age youth at the only Jain faith community in the North Texas region. Aligned with the community’s goals, the youth led in deciding, creating, and carrying out initiatives that were aimed at increasing the level of awareness about environmental issues amongst community members. The research done by the youth aimed at looking at environmental issues th…
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Date:
August 2014
Creator:
Otterbine, Joseph R.
Partner:
UNT Libraries
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