Effect of light-delignification on mechanical, hydrophobic, and thermal properties of high-strength molded fiber materials (open access)

Effect of light-delignification on mechanical, hydrophobic, and thermal properties of high-strength molded fiber materials

This article discusses the development of a high-strength molded fiber material using pulp fibers, which coudl be a good substitute for plastic and solid wood materials.
Date: July 20, 2017
Creator: Wang, Quanliang; Xiao, Shengling; Shi, Sheldon Q. & Cai, Liping
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biocultural homogenization: Exotism of the femenine landscape of latin america (open access)

Biocultural homogenization: Exotism of the femenine landscape of latin america

Article discusses the importance of valuing an alternative, ecological, aesthetic and post-modern-exotic hermeneutic in viewing Latin America, and discusses the colonial impression of a "exotic" Latin America.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Castellanos, Angelina Paredes & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
System: The UNT Digital Library
A random walk version of Robbins' problem: small horizon (open access)

A random walk version of Robbins' problem: small horizon

This article considers an analogous problem in which the observed random variables are the steps of a symmetric random walk. Assuming continuously distributed step sizes, it describes the optimal stopping rules for the cases n = 2 and n = 3 in two versions of the problem: a "full information" version in which the actual steps of the random walk are disclosed to the decision maker; and a "partial information" version in which only the relative ranks of the positions taken by the random walk are observed. When n = 3, the optimal rule and expected rank depend on the distribution of the step sizes. The authors give sharp bounds for the optimal expected rank in the partial information version, and fairly sharp bounds in the full information version.
Date: November 17, 2018
Creator: Allaart, Pieter C. & Allen, Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transitioning from Acute to Chronic Pain: An Examination of Different Trajectories of Low-Back Pain (open access)

Transitioning from Acute to Chronic Pain: An Examination of Different Trajectories of Low-Back Pain

The article examines the most recent trajectory research, and highlights the importance of developing a broader model for patient evaluation. Traditionally, there has been a widely accepted notion that the transition from acute to chronic pain follows a linear trajectory, where an injury leads to acute episodes, subacute stages, and progresses to a chronic pain condition. However, it appears that pain progression is much more complicated and individualized than this original unsupported assumption.
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Gatchel, Robert J.; Bevers, Kelley; Licciardone, John C.; Su, Jianzhong; Du, Ying & Brotto, Marco
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shining Light on Chitosan: A Review on the Usage of Chitosan for Photonics and Nanomaterials Research (open access)

Shining Light on Chitosan: A Review on the Usage of Chitosan for Photonics and Nanomaterials Research

This article highlights the different molecular-nano systems that are prepared or stabilized using the Chitosan polymer.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Marpu, Sreekar & Benton, Erin N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods and Results From the Genome-Wide Association Group at Genetic Analysis Workshop 20 (open access)

Methods and Results From the Genome-Wide Association Group at Genetic Analysis Workshop 20

This article summarizes the contributions from the Genome-wide Association Study group (GWAS group) of the GAW20. The GWAS group contributions focused on topics such as association tests, phenotype imputation, and application of empirical kinships. This summary article reports on promising statistical approaches and findings of the members of the GWAS group applied on real and simulated data which encompass the current topics of epigenetic and pharmacogenomics.
Date: September 17, 2018
Creator: Wang, Xuexia; Boekstegers, Felix & Brinster, Regina
System: The UNT Digital Library

When Hackers Err -- The Impacts of False Positives on Information Security Games

This article presents the first comprehensive analytical model that incorporates the false positives both from the perspective of the attacker as well as of the system defender.
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Mai, Bin & Kulkarni, Shailesh S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determination of Asymmetric Dimethylarginine by Using Organic Semiconductor-Based Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Film (open access)

Determination of Asymmetric Dimethylarginine by Using Organic Semiconductor-Based Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Film

This article describes simple, fast and cheap procedure of Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) determination using a new chemosensor with an artificial recognition unit.
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Malyshev, Valerii; Michota-KamiƄska, Agnieszka; Shao, Shuai; D'Souza, Francis & Noworyta, K.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrochemical and Friction Characteristics of Metallic Glass Composites at the Microstructural Length-scales (open access)

Electrochemical and Friction Characteristics of Metallic Glass Composites at the Microstructural Length-scales

This article evaluates the phase-specific electrochemical and friction characteristics of a Zr-based mtallic glass composite, which comprised roughly of 40% by volume crystalline dendrites in an amorphous matrix.
Date: November 1, 2017
Creator: Ayyagari, Aditya; Hasannaeimi, Vahid; Singh Arora, Harpreet & Mukherjee, Sundeep
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods and results from the genome-wide association group at GAW20 (open access)

Methods and results from the genome-wide association group at GAW20

This article reports on promising statistical approaches and findings of the members of the Genome-wide Association Study group applied on real and simulated data which encompass the current topics of epigenetic and pharmacogenomics.
Date: September 17, 2018
Creator: Wang, Xuexia; Boekstegers, Felix & Brinster, Regina
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods to evaluate rare variants gene-age interaction for triglycerides (open access)

Methods to evaluate rare variants gene-age interaction for triglycerides

This article discusses the development of two statistical methods to test the gene environment interaction effect of rare variants.
Date: September 17, 2018
Creator: Huayang Gao, Tony; Zhang, Jianjun; Medina Miguelangel, Diaz & Wang, Xuexia
System: The UNT Digital Library
GAW20: methods and strategies for the new frontiers of epigenetics and pharmacogenomics (open access)

GAW20: methods and strategies for the new frontiers of epigenetics and pharmacogenomics

Article presents an overview of the data sets and the contributions analyzing data related to human lipid-related phenotypes, DNA methylation, and single-nucleotide markers in a study involving a pharmaceutical intervention.
Date: September 17, 2018
Creator: Tintle, Nathan L.; Fardo, David W.; de Andrade, Mariza; Aslibekyan, Stella; Bailey, Julia N.; Bermejo, Justo Lorenzo et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The cisd gene family regulates physiological germline apoptosis through ced-13 and the canonical cell death pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans (open access)

The cisd gene family regulates physiological germline apoptosis through ced-13 and the canonical cell death pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans

This article examines how the disruption of the cisd-1 gene function, using RNA interference (RNAi), or mutant alleles [cisd-1(tm4993) deletion mutant, cisd-1(pnIs27) insertion mutant] led to germline abnormalities including an increase in the number of cell corpses and distal tip cell migration defects.
Date: April 17, 2018
Creator: King, Skylar D.; Gray, Chipo F.; Song, Luhua; Nechushtai, Rachel; Gumienny, Tina L; Mittler, Ron et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library