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[Annette Becker speaking with Fashion Merchandising students]

Description: Photograph of UNT College of Visual Arts and Design Texas Fashion Collection director Annette Becker speaking with the UNT CMHT Fashion Merchandising course "Dallas Study Tour," taught by Marissa Zorola, on Friday, January 26, 2024, in the TFC's facilities in Welch Street Complex 1.
Date: January 24, 2024
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Planar shock compression of spark plasma sintered B4C and B4C-TiB2 ceramic composites

Description: Article describes how blending of ceramic constituent phases enhances sinterability and performance in high strength ceramics. The authors describe how a near fully dense blended boron carbide (B4C)-titanium diboride (TiB2) composite produced through spark plasma sintering (SPS) is probed to understand the mechanical performance under dynamic uniaxial strain, or shock compression.
Date: January 24, 2024
Creator: Turnage, Scott A.; Clayton, John D.; Rodriguez, Jonathan; Scharf, Thomas W. & Williams, Cyril L.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering

[Students touring Texas Fashion Collection storage]

Description: Photograph of students in the UNT CMHT Fashion Merchandising course "Dallas Study Tour," taught by Marissa Zorola, visiting the UNT College of Visual Arts and Design Texas Fashion Collection on Friday, January 26, 2024, in the TFC's facilities in Welch Street Complex 1. Students toured collection storage to learn more about archives' professional practices and how they engage with industry professionals.
Date: January 24, 2024
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Metabolic reprogramming underlies cavefish muscular endurance despite loss of muscle mass and contractility

Description: Article discusses the Mexican cavefish Astyanax mexicanus, has lost moderate-to-vigorous activity following cave colonization, reaching basal swim speeds ~3.7-fold slower than their river-dwelling counterpart. Collectively, the authors reveal broad skeletal muscle changes following cave colonization, displaying an adaptive skeletal muscle phenotype reminiscent to mammalian disuse and high-fat models while simultaneously maintaining a unique capacity for sustained muscle contraction via enhanced… more
Date: January 24, 2023
Creator: Olsen, Luke; Levy, Michaella; Medley, J. Kyle; Hassan, Huzaifa; Miller, Brandon; Alexander, Richard et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Adolescents’ Physical Activity and Depressive Symptoms: A Psychosocial Mechanism

Description: Article tests a hypothesized path model of Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) variables (i.e., attitude toward behavior, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, and intention) with physical activity (PA) and depressive symptoms. The findings support the theoretical tenets of TPB and provide empirical evidence of the psychosocial mechanism of PA and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents. It suggests that building PA intervention strategies while considering the TPB framework may promot… more
Date: January 24, 2022
Creator: Shen, Liang; Gu, Xiangli; Zhang, Tao & Lee, Joonyoung
Partner: UNT College of Education

Oral History Interview with Margaret Spinelli, January 24, 2020

Description: Interview with Margaret Spinelli, an author and psychiatrist at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. Spinelli discusses her background in nursing, founding the women's mental heath program at Columbia, her research on antepartum and postpartum depression and psychotherapy, her experience with neonaticide cases, and her book.
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Date: January 24, 2020
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Spinelli, Margaret
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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A Small Compound Targeting Prohibitin with Potential Interest for Cognitive Deficit Rescue in Aging mice and Tau Pathology Treatment

Description: Article describes study analyzing the effects of a new purine derivative drug, PDD005, in attenuating mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases, using both in vivo and in vitro models.
Date: January 24, 2020
Creator: Guyot, Anne-Cécile; Leuxe, Charlotte; Disdier, Clémence; Oumata, Nassima; Costa, Narciso; Le Roux, Gwenaëlle et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Spin Hall effect in prototype Rashba ferroelectrics GeTe and SnTe

Description: Article describes study investigating spin Hall effect (SHE) in two prototypical Ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors (FERSCs), GeTe and SnTe, and show that it can be large either in ferroelectric or paraelectric structure.
Date: January 24, 2020
Creator: Wang, Haihang; Gopal, Priya; Picozzi, Silvia; Curtarolo, Stefano; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco & Sławińska, Jagoda
Partner: UNT College of Science

[Boycott Grapes and Viva La Mujer buttons]

Description: Photograph of Boycott Grapes and Viva La Mujer buttons, held by UNT Special Collections. The Boycott Grapes button is black with an orange circle in the middle and a black bird graphic. The Viva La Mujer button has a white symbol for women on it, a black bird graphic inside it. Another Boycott Grapes Button is red with a black bird graphic in the middle. Dr. Gloria Contreras (1947-) was recruited to work at the University of North Texas in 1987 because of her strong background in multicultural … more
Date: January 24, 2019
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Episode 7: Dr. Fred Busche

Description: Interview with Dr. Fred Busche for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) podcast. In this episode, Susan speaks with Dr. Fred Busche about some of his most noteworthy accomplishments, including how he came to work on lunar samples from the Apollo missions as a graduate student, how one of the patents he holds was used to identify the cause of certain SUV rollovers, and how he has used cutting edge Geographic Information Systems to improve the lives of the residents of Highland Village th… more
Date: January 24, 2019
Duration: 15 minutes 43 seconds
Creator: Supak, Susan & Busche, Fred
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Moon Goddess]

Description: Photograph of Moon Goddess by Victoria Lisi, held by UNT Special Collections. The illustration is of a blond wavy haired woman in the middle of stars in the sky, a moon at the bottom of the page. The illustration is in a frame. Victoria (Poyser) Lisi (1949-) is a prolific artist and illustrator for science fiction and fantasy publications. After receiving her BFA from Evergreen State College, she began submitting art to sci-fi magazines for publication, and eventually won two Hugo Awards for Be… more
Date: January 24, 2019
Creator: Gellner, Megan
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Amateur Strip-Club Arrests: Probable Cause and Qualified Immunity

Description: This report discusses the Supreme Court case "District of Columbia v. Wesby" which addressed the question of what constituted probable cause for arrest and police officers qualified immunity from personal lawsuits against them for actions during the course of their duties.
Date: January 24, 2018
Creator: Doyle, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comments on "Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Data of Cefpiramide in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvents"

Description: Abstract: Errors are found in the mathematical correlation based on the combined Jouyban-Acree and Modified Apelblat model for describing the variation in the mole fraction solubility of cefpiramide with temperature and solvent composition for the binary aqueous-ethanol solvent system. The equation coefficents given by Tang and coworkers, when substituted into the model equation, do not yield the authors' calculated mole fraction solubilities of cefpiramide.
Date: January 24, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Economic Impact of Infrastructure Investment

Description: This report provides an overview of the trends surrounding infrastructure investment in the United States and examines the potential impact of additional infrastructure investments on economic output and employment.
Date: January 24, 2018
Creator: Stupak, Jeffrey M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EPA's Methane Regulations: Legal Overview

Description: This report examines the EPA's statutory authority for issuing the methane regulations, legal challenges to the standards, and legal issues related to the reconsideration and stay of the regulations.
Date: January 24, 2018
Creator: Tsang, Linda
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Abortion and Family Planning-Related Provisions in U.S. Foreign Assistance Law and Policy

Description: This report details legislation and policies that restrict or place requirements on U.S. funding of abortion or family planning activities abroad. The level and extent of federal funding for these activities is an ongoing and controversial issue in U.S. foreign assistance and will likely continue to be a point of contention during the 114th Congress.
Date: January 24, 2017
Creator: Blanchfield, Luisa
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Affordable Care Act Executive Order: Legal Considerations

Description: This report discusses President Trump's executive order (EO) regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and answers questions regarding the authority and discretion agencies currently have to implement the ACA, and the procedures that may be required in the exercise of those authorities. Also addressed are ways the policy enunciated in the EO may translate into action by the Trump Administration in the context of pending lawsuits challenging the ACA.
Date: January 24, 2017
Creator: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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