Shared metadata for data-centric materials science (open access)

Shared metadata for data-centric materials science

Article describes how the expansive production of data in materials science, their widespread sharing and repurposing requires educated support and stewardship. The authors mainly focus on computational materials-science data and propose a constructive approach for the FAIRification of the (meta)data related to ground-state and excited-states calculations, potential-energy sampling, and generalized workflows.
Date: September 14, 2023
Creator: Ghiringhelli, Luca M.; Baldauf, Carsten; Bereau, Tristan; Brockhauser, Sandor; Carbogno, Chistian; Chamanara, Javad et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accuracy of long-term volunteer water monitoring data: A multiscale analysis from a statewide citizen science program (open access)

Accuracy of long-term volunteer water monitoring data: A multiscale analysis from a statewide citizen science program

Article describes study which assesses the relative accuracy of volunteer water quality data collected by the Texas Stream Team (TST) citizen science program from 1992–2016 across the State of Texas by comparing it to professional data from corresponding stations during the same time period.
Date: January 29, 2020
Creator: Albus, Kelly Hibbeler; Thompson, Rudi; Mitchell, Forrest; Kennedy, James H. & Ponette-González, Alexandra G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Promoting bioanalytical concepts in genetics: A TATA box molecularly imprinted polymer as a small isolated fragment of the DNA damage repairing system (open access)

Promoting bioanalytical concepts in genetics: A TATA box molecularly imprinted polymer as a small isolated fragment of the DNA damage repairing system

Article describes study which demonstrates that a new, stable, artificial TATA (T — thymine, A — adenine) box is recognized by amino acids recognizing the natural TATA box.
Date: February 13, 2019
Creator: Bartold, Katarzyna; Pietrzyk-Le, Agnieszka; Lisowski, Wojciech; Golebiewska, Karolina; Siklitskaya, Alexandra; Borowicz, Pawel et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crowdsourcing biocuration: the Community Assessment of Community 1 Annotation with Ontologies (CACAO) (open access)

Crowdsourcing biocuration: the Community Assessment of Community 1 Annotation with Ontologies (CACAO)

Article describing an approach to expand biocuration through crowdsourcing with undergraduates in the community-oriented wiki framework for GO annotation called the Gene Ontology Normal Usage Tracking System (GONUTS). This multiplies the number of high-quality annotations in international databases, enriches the coverage of the literature on normal gene function, and pushes the field in new directions.
Date: October 28, 2021
Creator: Ramsey, Jolene; McIntosh, Brenley; Renfro, Daniel; Aleksander, Susan A.; LaBonte, Sandra; Ross, Curtis et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Fractal Tapestry of Life: III Multifractals Entail the Fractional Calculus (open access)

The Fractal Tapestry of Life: III Multifractals Entail the Fractional Calculus

This article is the third essay advocating the use the (non-integer) fractional calculus (FC) to capture the dynamics of complex networks in the twilight of the Newtonian era. Herein, the focus is on drawing a distinction between networks described by monfractal time series extensively discussed in the prequels and how they differ in function from multifractal time series, using physiological phenomena as exemplars.
Date: March 10, 2022
Creator: West, Bruce J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Application of Genome Editing in Tomato Breeding: Mechanisms, Advances, and Prospects (open access)

Application of Genome Editing in Tomato Breeding: Mechanisms, Advances, and Prospects

This article is a review presenting examples of gene editing responsible for conferring both biotic and abiotic stresses in tomato simultaneously. The literature on using this powerful technology to improve fruit quality, yield, and nutritional aspects in tomato is highlighted.
Date: January 12, 2021
Creator: Salava, Hymavathi; Thula, Sravankumar; Mohan, Vijee; Kumar, Rahul & Maghuly, Fatemeh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining the Viability of the use of Sarocladium zeae as a Biocontrol Agent in the Agricultural Production of Maize (open access)

Examining the Viability of the use of Sarocladium zeae as a Biocontrol Agent in the Agricultural Production of Maize

Data management plan for the grant, "Examining the Viability of the use of Sarocladium zeae as a Biocontrol Agent in the Agricultural Production of Maize." Sarocladium zeae is a fungus that naturally grows within corn and produces pyrrocidines, compounds that inhibit the production of two exogenous threats to maize, aflatoxins and fumonisins. This project aims to identify other natural products that may be produced by S. zeae through genetic modification in native and non-native fungal hosts to ensure there are no toxins present. In doing so, further information will be gathered about the possibility of using S. zeae as a targeted biocontrol agent that protects against exogenous threats while remaining safe for consumption.
Date: 2023-06-01/2026-05-31
Creator: Skellam, Elizabeth & Schoellhorn, Sydney
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combined effects of elevated temperature and Deepwater Horizon oil exposure on the cardiac performance of larval mahi-mahi, Coryphaena hippurus (open access)

Combined effects of elevated temperature and Deepwater Horizon oil exposure on the cardiac performance of larval mahi-mahi, Coryphaena hippurus

This article investigates physiological responses of larval fish to interactions between anthropogenic crude oile xposure andn atural factors.
Date: October 17, 2018
Creator: Perrichon, Prescilla; Mager, Edward M.; Pasparakis, Christina; Stieglitz, John D.; Benetti, Daniel D.; Grosell, Martin et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Testing gene-environment interactions for rare and/or common variants in sequencing association studies (open access)

Testing gene-environment interactions for rare and/or common variants in sequencing association studies

Article describes study in which novel approaches to test the effects of gene-environment (GE) interactions of rare and/or common risk, and/or protective variants in sequencing association studies were developed.
Date: March 10, 2020
Creator: Zhao, Zihan; Zhang, Jianjun; Sha, Qiuying & Hao, Han
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A gene based approach to test genetic association based on an optimally weighted combination of multiple traits (open access)

A gene based approach to test genetic association based on an optimally weighted combination of multiple traits

In this article, the authors propose a statistical method by Testing an Optimally Weighted Combination of Multiple traits (TOW-CM) to test the association between multiple traits and multiple variants in a genomic region (a gene or pathway). They investigate the performance of the proposed method through extensive simulation studies. Their simulation studies show that the proposed method has correct type I error rates and is either the most powerful test or comparable with the most powerful tests. Additionally, they illustrate the usefulness of TOW-CM based on a COPDGene study.
Date: August 9, 2019
Creator: Zhang, Jianjun; Sha, Qiuying; Liu, Guanfu & Wang, Xuexia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Migratory movements of Atlantic puffins Fratercula arctica naumanni from high Arctic Greenland (open access)

Migratory movements of Atlantic puffins Fratercula arctica naumanni from high Arctic Greenland

This article is the first to present data on the migratory movements of the “large-billed” subspecies, F. a. naumanni, that breeds in the high Arctic and which has significantly larger body size than those farther south.
Date: May 28, 2021
Creator: Burnham, Kurt K.; Burnham, Jennifer L.; Johnson, Jeff A. & Huffman, Abby
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Developmental Windows for Morphology and Hematology Revealed by Intermittent and Continuous Hypoxic Incubation in Embryos of Quail (Coturnix Coturnix) (open access)

Critical Developmental Windows for Morphology and Hematology Revealed by Intermittent and Continuous Hypoxic Incubation in Embryos of Quail (Coturnix Coturnix)

This article describes the exposure of quail embryos in the intact egg to hypoxia during "early" or "late" incubation for their entire 16-18 day incubation to determine critical windows for viability and growth.
Date: November 14, 2016
Creator: Burggren, Warren W. & Elmonoufy, Nourhan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The 2019 materials by design roadmap (open access)

The 2019 materials by design roadmap

This roadmap article presents an overview of the current state of computational materials prediction, synthesis and characterization approaches, materials design needs for various technologies, and future challenges and opportunities that must be addressed.
Date: October 24, 2018
Creator: Alberi, Kirstin; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco; Zakutayev, Andriy; Mitas, Lubos; Curtarolo, Stefano; Jain, Anubhav et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Natural variation and improved genome annotation of the emerging biofuel crop field pennycress (open access)

Natural variation and improved genome annotation of the emerging biofuel crop field pennycress

Article describing pennycress genome annotation improvements using a combination of long- and short-read transcriptome data obtained from RNA derived from embryos of 22 accessions, in addition to public genome and gene expression information.
Date: April 13, 2022
Creator: García Navarrete, Tatiana; Arias, Cintia Lucía; Mukundi, Eric; Alonso, Ana Paula & Grotewold, Erich
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolases and Chemical Communication in Plants (open access)

Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolases and Chemical Communication in Plants

Data management plan for the grant, "Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolases and Chemical Communication in Plants." Research seeking to understand how an evolutionarily-conserved group of plant enzymes utilizes chemical signals to regulate growth and to influence their microbial environment. Specific research aims include the discovery of new enzymes and their substrate molecules that act as communication signals. Broader applications of this research may offer new strategies to enhance agricultural outputs by manipulating plant-microbe interactions in crop and soil systems.
Date: 2021-07-01/2024-06-30
Creator: Chapman, Kent Dean; Aziz, Mina & Blancaflor, Elison B.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dry blood spot samples to monitor immune-associated mRNA expression in intervention studies: Impact of Baker's yeast beta glucan (open access)

Dry blood spot samples to monitor immune-associated mRNA expression in intervention studies: Impact of Baker's yeast beta glucan

Article describes how monitoring immunological response to physical stressors in a field setting is challenging because existing methods require a laboratory visit and traditional blood collection via venipuncture. The purpose of this study was to determine if our optimized dry blood spot (DBS) methodology yields sufficient total RNA to quantify the effect of Baker's Yeast Beta Glucan supplementation on post-exercise mRNA expression.
Date: September 22, 2023
Creator: McFarlin, Brian K.; Bridgeman, Elizabeth A.; Vingren, Jakob L. & Will, David W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The XMM-SERVS survey: new XMM–Newton point-source catalogue for the XMM-LSS field (open access)

The XMM-SERVS survey: new XMM–Newton point-source catalogue for the XMM-LSS field

This article presents an X-ray point-source catalogue from the XMM-Large Scale Structure (XMMLSS) survey region, one of the XMM-Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (XMM-SERVS) fields.
Date: April 25, 2018
Creator: Chen, C. -T. J.; Brandt, William Nielsen; Luo, Bin; Ranalli, P.; Yang, G.; Alexander, David M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
High-redshift AGN in the Chandra Deep Fields: the obscured fraction and space density of the sub-L∗ population (open access)

High-redshift AGN in the Chandra Deep Fields: the obscured fraction and space density of the sub-L∗ population

This article investigates the population of high-redshift (3≤z<6) active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected in the two deepest X-ray surveys, the 7 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South and 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North.
Date: September 26, 2017
Creator: Vito, F.; Brandt, William Nielsen; Yang, G.; Gilli, Roberto; Luo, Bin; Vignali, Christian et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential-induced nanoclustering of metallic catalysts during electrochemical CO2 reduction (open access)

Potential-induced nanoclustering of metallic catalysts during electrochemical CO2 reduction

This article reveals the unique and general degradation mechanism of metallic nanocatalysts during electrochemical CO₂ reduction, exemplified by different sized copper nanocubes.
Date: August 6, 2018
Creator: Huang, Jianfeng; Hörmann, Nicolas; Oveisi, Emad; Loiudice, Anna; De Gregorio, Gian Luca; Andreussi, Oliviero et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The psychosocial burden of women seeking treatment for breast and cervical cancers in Ghana’s major cancer hospitals (open access)

The psychosocial burden of women seeking treatment for breast and cervical cancers in Ghana’s major cancer hospitals

Article discusses how breast and cervical cancers remain the most common cancers and the leading cause of cancer deaths in Ghana. Authors state that there is a need for liaison psychiatrists and health psychologists to assist oncologists to provide psychological support such as free and routine counselling services for cancer patients and their caregivers.
Date: August 22, 2023
Creator: Okyere Asante, Patience Gyamenah; Owusu, Adobea Yaa; Oppong, Joseph R.; Amegah, Kingsley E. & Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Three Component Cascade Reaction of Cyclohexanones, Aryl Amines, and Benzoylmethylene Malonates: Cooperative Enamine-Brønsted Acid Approach to Tetrahydroindoles (open access)

Three Component Cascade Reaction of Cyclohexanones, Aryl Amines, and Benzoylmethylene Malonates: Cooperative Enamine-Brønsted Acid Approach to Tetrahydroindoles

Article discusses how a three-component cascade reaction comprising cyclic ketones, arylamines, and benzoylmethylene malonates has been developed to access 4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-indoles. Furthermore, the reaction was achieved through cooperative enamine-Brønsted catalysis in high yields with wide substrate scopes.
Date: November 30, 2022
Creator: Vasquez, Jose Cortes; Alharbi, Waad S.; Davis, Jacqkis; Moore, Alexia; Nesterov, Vladimir N.; Cundari, Thomas R., 1964- et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genomic diversity of bacteriophages infecting Microbacterium spp (open access)

Genomic diversity of bacteriophages infecting Microbacterium spp

Article describing the isolation and genomic characterization of 116 phages that infect Microbacterium spp.
Date: June 18, 2020
Creator: Hughes, Lee E.; Jacobs-Sera, Deborah; Abad, Lawrence A.; Alvey, Richard M.; Anders, Kirk R.; Aull, Haley G. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prioritizing riparian corridors for ecosystem restoration in urbanizing watersheds (open access)

Prioritizing riparian corridors for ecosystem restoration in urbanizing watersheds

This article explores restoration, rather than protection, being the basis for developing a watershed level strategy for improving water quality in urbanizing watersheds.This study uses a geographical information system (GIS) approach that utilizes riparian characteristics extracted from 40-meter wide corridors centered on streams and rivers. The model was applied to 90 sub-watersheds in the watershed of an important drinking water reservoir in north central Texas, USA.
Date: February 4, 2020
Creator: Atkinson, Samuel F. & Lake, Matthew C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recurrent urinary tract infection and estrogen shape the taxonomic ecology and function of the postmenopausal urogenital microbiome (open access)

Recurrent urinary tract infection and estrogen shape the taxonomic ecology and function of the postmenopausal urogenital microbiome

Article describes how postmenopausal women are severely affected by recurrent urinary tract infection (rUTI). The authors perform shotgun metagenomics and advanced culture on urine from a controlled cohort of postmenopausal women to identify urogenital microbiome compositional and function changes linked to rUTI susceptibility.
Date: October 18, 2022
Creator: Neugent, Michael D.; Kumar, Ashwani; Hulyalkar, Neha V.; Lutz, Kevin C.; Nguyen, Vivian H.; Fuentes, Jorge L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library