A lipidomics platform to analyze the fatty acid compositions of non-polar and polar lipid molecular species from plant tissues: Examples from developing seeds and seedlings of pennycress (Thlaspi arvense) (open access)

A lipidomics platform to analyze the fatty acid compositions of non-polar and polar lipid molecular species from plant tissues: Examples from developing seeds and seedlings of pennycress (Thlaspi arvense)

Article describes a stepwise targeted lipidomics approach to characterize the polar and non-polar lipid classes using complementary LC-MS methods. This lipidomics workflow was applied to developing, mature, and germinated pennycress seeds/seedlings and found unexpected changes among several lipid molecular species.
Date: November 9, 2022
Creator: Romsdahl, Trevor B.; Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Pearson, Mackenzie J.; Alonso, Ana Paula & Chapman, Kent Dean
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
MetaLP: An integrative linear programming method for protein inference in metaproteomics (open access)

MetaLP: An integrative linear programming method for protein inference in metaproteomics

Authors of the article discuss how MetaLP was developed here for protein inference in metaproteomics using an integrative linear programming method. Authors claim that MetaLP could substantially improve protein inference for complex metaproteomes by incorporating taxonomic abundance information in a linear programming model.
Date: October 21, 2022
Creator: Feng, Shichao; Ji, Hong-Long; Wang, Huan; Zhang, Bailu; Sterzenbach, Ryan; Pan, Chongle et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Shadow Effect on Surface Biophysical Variables Derived from Remote Sensing: A Review (open access)

The Shadow Effect on Surface Biophysical Variables Derived from Remote Sensing: A Review

Article states that the main objective of this study was to review the recent literature on the shadow effect in remote sensing. An overview of the proposed methods for identifying and removing the shadow effect is presented.
Date: November 12, 2022
Creator: Alavipanah, Seyed Kazem; Firozjaei, Mohammad Karimi; Sedighi, Amir; Fathololoumi, Solmaz; Naghadehi, Saeid Zare; Saleh, Samiraalsadat et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identification of Novel Antimicrobial Resistance Genes Using Machine Learning, Homology Modeling, and Molecular Docking (open access)

Identification of Novel Antimicrobial Resistance Genes Using Machine Learning, Homology Modeling, and Molecular Docking

Article claims antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the healthcare system worldwide with the rise of emerging drug resistant infectious agents. To infer novel resistance genes, we used complete gene sets of several bacterial strains known to be susceptible or resistant to specific drugs and associated phenotypic information within a machine learning framework that enabled prioritizing genes potentially involved in resistance.
Date: October 23, 2022
Creator: Sunuwar, Janak & Azad, Rajeev K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Object-Oriented Canopy Gap Extraction from UAV Images Based on Edge Enhancement (open access)

Object-Oriented Canopy Gap Extraction from UAV Images Based on Edge Enhancement

Article describes the efficient and accurate identification of canopy gaps is the basis of forest ecosystem research, which is of great significance to further forest monitoring and management. One major limitation of the traditional methods of remote sensing to map canopy gaps is that they cannot finely extract the complex edges of canopy gaps in mountainous areas. The authors proposed an object-oriented classification method that integrates multi-source information.
Date: September 23, 2022
Creator: Xia, Jisheng; Wang, Yutong; Dong, Pinliang; He, Shijun; Zhao, Fei & Luan, Guize
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manipulating plasma thyroid hormone levels alters development of endothermy and ventilation in nestling red-winged blackbirds (open access)

Manipulating plasma thyroid hormone levels alters development of endothermy and ventilation in nestling red-winged blackbirds

Authors of the article propose that thyroid hormones play an important role in regulating development of endothermy during the nestling period in altricial birds. Their data suggests plasma thyroid hormone levels play an active role in the systemic development of endothermic capacity and the development of ventilatory control.
Date: November 29, 2022
Creator: Sirsat, Tushar S.; Sirsat, Sarah K. G.; Price, Edwan R.; Pineda, Megan & Dzialowski, Edward M. (Edward Michael)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lipid Droplets: Packing Hydrophobic Molecules Within the Aqueous Cytoplasm (open access)

Lipid Droplets: Packing Hydrophobic Molecules Within the Aqueous Cytoplasm

Article discusses how lipid droplets, also known as oil bodies or lipid bodies, are plant organelles that compartmentalize neutral lipids as a hydrophobic matrix covered by proteins embedded in a phospholipid monolayer. The authors review the growing body of knowledge about lipid droplets in plant cells, describe the evolutionary similarity and divergence in their associated subcellular machinery, and point to gaps that deserve future attention.
Date: November 22, 2022
Creator: Guzha, Athanas; Whitehead, Payton; Ischebeck, Till & Chapman, Kent Dean
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An experimental and modeling study on auto-ignition kinetics of ammonia/methanol mixtures at intermediate temperature and high pressure (open access)

An experimental and modeling study on auto-ignition kinetics of ammonia/methanol mixtures at intermediate temperature and high pressure

Article describes how a rapid compression machine has been applied to measure the ignition delay times of NH3/CH3OH mixtures covering pressures of 20 and 40 bar, equivalence ratios of 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0, and temperatures between 845 and 1100 K. Analysis of the pressure profiles shows three distinct ignition modes for NH3/CH3OH mixtures, facilitated by the pre-ignition heat release from NH3 consumption. A detailed mechanism for ignition of NH3/CH3OH fuel blends has been developed, capable of reproducing the ignition behavior of mixtures with reasonable accuracy.
Date: April 29, 2022
Creator: Li, Mengdi; He, Xiaoyu; Hashemi, Hamid; Glarborg, Peter; Lowe, Vincent M.; Marshall, Paul et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comment on ‘Extremely rapid self-reactions of hydrochlorofluoromethanes and hydrochlorofluoroethanes and implications in destruction of ozone’ (open access)

Comment on ‘Extremely rapid self-reactions of hydrochlorofluoromethanes and hydrochlorofluoroethanes and implications in destruction of ozone’

Article comments on the claims made by the authors of the original article. The authors of the commentary note flaws in the DFT-based methodology and the commentators describe differences between their application and the original article's described application.
Date: May 26, 2022
Creator: Marshall, Paul & Burkholder, James B. (James Bart), 1954-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library