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Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 17, Pages 2587-2848, April 26, 2024 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 17, Pages 2587-2848, April 26, 2024

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 26, 2024
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 16, Pages 2349-2586, April 19, 2024 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 16, Pages 2349-2586, April 19, 2024

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: April 19, 2024
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 12, Pages 1793-2014, March 22, 2024 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 12, Pages 1793-2014, March 22, 2024

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: March 22, 2024
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 10, Pages 1349-1556, March 8, 2024 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 10, Pages 1349-1556, March 8, 2024

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: March 8, 2024
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 4, Pages 299-448, January 26, 2024 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 4, Pages 299-448, January 26, 2024

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: January 26, 2024
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and pregnancy complications and birth outcomes: A population-based cohort study in Denmark (open access)

Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and pregnancy complications and birth outcomes: A population-based cohort study in Denmark

Article describes how alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) is related to developing lung and liver disease, but no large-scale studies examine its association with birth outcomes. The authors investigated the risk of pregnancy complications and adverse birth outcomes in mothers and children with AATD.
Date: January 2, 2024
Creator: Orimoloye, Helen T.; He, Di; Li, Tong; Janzen, Carla; Barjaktarevic, Igor; Wang, Xuexia et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cross-Pollinating Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies and Systemic Functional Linguistics in English as a Second Language (ESL) Classrooms (open access)

Cross-Pollinating Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies and Systemic Functional Linguistics in English as a Second Language (ESL) Classrooms

This exploratory case study research was conducted with a view to exploring how teachers teaching emergent bilingual students in ESL programs can enact the principles of culturally sustaining systematic functional linguistics (CS SFL), such as critical centering, historicizing, curricularizing, teaching and learning cycle (TLC), and semantic waving in their classrooms. Two middle school teachers participated in the study and used CS SFL principles to teach their emergent bilingual students. I gathered data for the study through non-participatory observations, semi-structured interviews, informal talks with the teachers, usually right after their classes, and artifacts from teachers and students. The thematic analysis of the data demonstrated that teachers could recognize their students' ways of knowing and being by (a) translanguaging between English and Spanish seamlessly in their classrooms; (b) centering their students' lifeways, prior knowledge, and lived experiences by making them the parts of their curricula; (c) using TLC for creating dialogic interactions between teachers and students and among students; (d) positioning their students through strength perspectives; and (e) using multimodal and multi-semiotic means of communication so that their students can understand their content area knowledge and express their ideas even if their English language is emerging. The teachers faced tensions about whether …
Date: December 2023
Creator: Rana, Lal Bahadur
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
FruitPAL: An IoT-Enabled Framework for Automatic Monitoring of Fruit Consumption in Smart Healthcare (open access)

FruitPAL: An IoT-Enabled Framework for Automatic Monitoring of Fruit Consumption in Smart Healthcare

This research proposes FruitPAL and FruitPAL 2.0. They are full automatic devices that can detect fruit consumption to reduce the risk of disease. Allergies to fruits can seriously impair the immune system. A novel device (FruitPAL) detecting fruit that can cause allergies is proposed in this thesis. The device can detect fifteen types of fruit and alert the caregiver when an allergic reaction may have happened. The YOLOv8 model is employed to enhance accuracy and response time in detecting dangers. The notification will be transmitted to the mobile device through the cloud, as it is a commonly utilized medium. The proposed device can detect the fruit with an overall precision of 86%. FruitPAL 2.0 is envisioned as a device that encourages people to consume fruit. Fruits contain a variety of essential nutrients that contribute to the general health of the human body. FruitPAL 2.0 is capable of analyzing the consumed fruit and then determining its nutritional value. FruitPAL 2.0 has been trained on YOLOv5 V6.0. FruitPAL 2.0 has an overall precision of 90% in detecting the fruit. The purpose of this study is to encourage fruit consumption unless it causes illness. Even though fruit plays an important role in people's …
Date: December 2023
Creator: Alkinani, Abdulrahman Ibrahim M.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kinetics and Atmospheric Chemistry Studies of Halogenated Species (open access)

Kinetics and Atmospheric Chemistry Studies of Halogenated Species

Quantitative information about halogenated hydrocarbons is important for understanding their impact on atmospheric ozone chemistry and climate change, their regulation, and the devising of improved substitutes. The Montreal Protocol aimed to regulate the utilization and manufacturing of hydrochlorofluorocarbon compounds (HCFCs), contributing to ozone layer depletion. The 2016 Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol agreement, Annex C listed 274 HCFCs. Only 16 of them have been measured experimentally. The rest were set to zero by default. These reported global warming potentials (GWPs) play a crucial role in formulating policies for gradually reducing the usage and production of HCFCs to prevent atmospheric impact. Here we are studying 1-chloro-1-fluoro-ethane (CH3CHFCl) as a test of past theory. There are no prior experimental measurements of the reactivity of CH3CHFCl with hydroxyl (OH) radicals, which primarily determines its atmospheric lifetime, nor of its infrared (IR) spectrum. Saturated hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are non-ozone depleting substitutes for chlorofluorocarbons deprecated under the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, but they exhibit high global warming potentials (GWPs) and the Kigali Amendment adopted in 2016 outlines their phase down. Unsaturated HFCs offer more reactive alternatives, whose likely short atmospheric lifetimes would imply small GWPs. Because their GWPs are …
Date: December 2023
Creator: Sapkota, Ramesh
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neonatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure in relation to retinoblastoma (open access)

Neonatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure in relation to retinoblastoma

Article describes how neonatal per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance exposure can disrupt hormonal homeostasis and induce neuro- and immunotoxicity in children. In this exploratory study, we investigated associations between PFAS levels in neonatal dried blood spots and retinoblastoma risk.
Date: October 31, 2023
Creator: Chen, Yixin; Paul, Kimberly C.; Walker, Douglas I.; Jones, Dean P.; Wang, Xuexia; Ritz, Beate R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Suppression of the antitumoral activity of natural killer cells under indirect coculture with cancer-associated fibroblasts in a pancreatic TIME-on-chip model (open access)

Suppression of the antitumoral activity of natural killer cells under indirect coculture with cancer-associated fibroblasts in a pancreatic TIME-on-chip model

Article describes how recently, natural killer cells emerged as a treatment option for various solid tumors. The effect of activated pancreatic stellate cells on natural killer cell-mediated anticancer efficacy under three-dimensional coculture conditions was investigated.
Date: September 27, 2023
Creator: Kim, Hyun-Ah; Kim, Hyunsoo; Nam, Min-Kyung; Park, Jong Kook; Lee, Moo-Yeal; Chung, Seok et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Archive Activism: Memoir of a "Uniquely Nasty" Journey

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Archive Activism is a memoir of activism rooted in a new way to converse with history—by rescuing it. Archive activists discover documents and other important materials often classified, “gone missing,” or sealed that somehow escaped the fireplace or shredder. It is an approach to LGBTQ advocacy and policy activism based on citizen archivery and original archival research to effect social change. Research=Activism is the formula growing out of Charles Francis’s personal story as a gay Texan born and raised during the 1950s and 1960s in Dallas. The rescues range in time and place from Francis’s first encounter with a raucous, near-violent religious demonstration in Fort Worth to attics loaded with forgotten historic treasures of LGBTQ pioneers. Archive Activism tells how Francis helped Governor George W. Bush achieve his dream of becoming president in 2000 by reaching out to gay and lesbian supporters, the first time a Republican candidate for president formally met with gay and lesbian Americans. This inspired Francis to engage with deleted LGBTQ history by forming a historical society with an edge, a new Mattachine Society of Washington, DC. For the first time, Archive Activism reveals how LGBTQ secrets were held for decades at the LBJ Presidential Library …
Date: August 2023
Creator: Francis, Charles C.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detection and Classification of Cancer and Other Noncommunicable Diseases Using Neural Network Models (open access)

Detection and Classification of Cancer and Other Noncommunicable Diseases Using Neural Network Models

Here, we show that training with multiple noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is both feasible and beneficial to modeling this class of diseases. We first use data from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) to train a pan cancer model, and then characterize the information the model has learned about the cancers. In doing this we show that the model has learned concepts that are relevant to the task of cancer classification. We also test the model on datasets derived independently of the TCGA cohort and show that the model is robust to data outside of its training distribution such as precancerous legions and metastatic samples. We then utilize the cancer model as the basis of a transfer learning study where we retrain it on other, non-cancer NCDs. In doing so we show that NCDs with very differing underlying biology contain extractible information relevant to each other allowing for a broader model of NCDs to be developed with existing datasets. We then test the importance of the samples source tissue in the model and find that the NCD class and tissue source may not be independent in our model. To address this, we use the tissue encodings to create augmented samples. We test …
Date: July 2023
Creator: Gore, Steven Lee
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Question Concerning Endocrinology: Judith Butler's Gender Theory and Transgender Hormone Therapy (open access)

The Question Concerning Endocrinology: Judith Butler's Gender Theory and Transgender Hormone Therapy

For such a vexing topic as gender identity, this dissertation asks a rather straightforward question: If gender identity is—as Judith Butler has asserted—socially constructed and discursively mediated, then why does transgender hormone therapy (THT) work? This is the question concerning endocrinology that I ask Butler, and their answer is, if requiring of delicate assessment and interpretation, clear: it doesn't. Butler's work reveals an admonishing view that the efficacity of THT is due to placebo effect, in turn brought on by the bewitchment of the trans* who seeks medical transition. In a logic similar to sin and salvation, if only the trans* had not believed in gender dysphoria, then there would be no (putative) efficacity to THT whatsoever. With our answer, we begin a perilous adventure of discovering just why such a preeminent gender theorist (and trans* themselves) with no experience of gender dysphoria, and no desire to medically transition, would say this. We examine Butler's gender theory, their concept of desire, their views on the self, on transsexuality, their rarely discussed philosophies of science and nature, and their dearth of citations of transsexual voices. Due to this lack, I lend my own, relying upon my experience with gender dysphoria, THT, …
Date: July 2023
Creator: Toole, Violet Ann
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, Volume 59, Number 1, Summer 2023 (open access)

The Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record, Volume 59, Number 1, Summer 2023

Annual journal of the Texas Gulf Historical Society publishing papers about the history of people, events, and development in the Texas Gulf region.
Date: Summer 2023
Creator: Texas Gulf Historical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Navigating Privacy and Data Safety: The Implications of Increased Online Activity among Older Adults Post-COVID-19 Induced Isolation (open access)

Navigating Privacy and Data Safety: The Implications of Increased Online Activity among Older Adults Post-COVID-19 Induced Isolation

Article asserts that the COVID-19 pandemic spurred older adults to use information and communication technology (ICT) for maintaining connections and engagement during social distancing. This paper highlights the gap in the literature regarding the increased privacy and data security risks for older adults adopting technology due to isolation during the pandemic.
Date: June 17, 2023
Creator: Alagood, John; Prybutok, Gayle & Prybutok, Victor R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maternal migraine and risk of pediatric cancers (open access)

Maternal migraine and risk of pediatric cancers

Article describes how maternal migraine has been linked to adverse birth outcomes including low birth weight and preterm birth, as well as congenital anomalies in offspring. Authors used logistic regression to estimate the risk of childhood cancers associated with maternal migraine.
Date: April 26, 2023
Creator: Orimoloye, Helen T.; Heck, Julia E.; Andrews, Charles G.; Saechao, Chai; He, Di; Federman, Noah et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 48, Number 12, Pages 1603-1674 March 24, 2023 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 48, Number 12, Pages 1603-1674 March 24, 2023

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: March 24, 2023
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hilltop Views (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 2023 (open access)

Hilltop Views (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 2023

Biweekly student newspaper from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the college community along with advertising.
Date: February 23, 2023
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 48, Number 4, Pages 255-442 , January 27, 2023 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 48, Number 4, Pages 255-442 , January 27, 2023

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: January 27, 2023
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 123, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 2023 (open access)

Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 123, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 2023

Weekly newspaper from Garber, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 26, 2023
Creator: Deeds, Lacey
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Mapping Health Fragility and Vulnerability in Air Pollution–Monitoring Networks in Dallas–Fort Worth (open access)

Mapping Health Fragility and Vulnerability in Air Pollution–Monitoring Networks in Dallas–Fort Worth

Article describes how environmental air pollution remains a major contributor to negative health outcomes and mortality, but the relationship between socially vulnerable populations and air pollution is not well understood. This paper seeks to understand how air pollution monitor placement strategies and policy may neglect social vulnerabilities and therefore potentially underestimate exposure burdens in vulnerable populations.
Date: January 18, 2023
Creator: Northeim, Kari & Oppong, Joseph R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 76, No. 5, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 2023 (open access)

Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 76, No. 5, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 2023

Monthly newsletter published by the 12th Armored Division Association, discussing news related to the activities of the U.S. Army unit and updates on previous members of the division.
Date: January 1, 2023
Creator: Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Molecular signatures in the progression of COVID-19 severity (open access)

Molecular signatures in the progression of COVID-19 severity

Authors of the article discuss that to uncover genes and pathways involved in the differential clinical manifestations of COVID-19 they developed a novel gene co-expression network-based pipeline that uses gene expression obtained from different SARS-CoV-2 infected human tissues. Their study shines a new light on genes and their networks (modules) that drive the progression of COVID-19 from moderate to extremely severe condition, which could aid development of new therapeutics to combat COVID-19.
Date: December 21, 2022
Creator: De, Ronika & Azad, Rajeev K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library