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What's the Real Story? SLI Session Addresses Challenge of Fake News (open access)

What's the Real Story? SLI Session Addresses Challenge of Fake News

This article discusses a session on "Fake News and the Fate of Our Democracy" at the 2018 Texas Association of School Boards Summer Leadership Institute, and provides information on resources and strategies for assessing the legitimacy of news information.
Date: 2018-09/2018-10
Creator: French, Corinne & Monahan, Jo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Photo-Magnetic Irradiation-Mediated Multimodal Therapy of Neuroblastoma Cells Using a Cluster of Multifunctional Nanostructures (open access)

Photo-Magnetic Irradiation-Mediated Multimodal Therapy of Neuroblastoma Cells Using a Cluster of Multifunctional Nanostructures

This article implements a safer and alternative multimodal therapeutic strategy involving simultaneous optical and oscillating (AC) magnetic field stimulation of a multifunctional nanocarrier system to guide neuroblastoma cell destruction.
Date: September 29, 2018
Creator: Atluri, Rohini; Atmaramani, Rahul; Tharaka, Gamage; McCallister, Thomas; Peng, Jian; Diercks, David et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reliability Generalization of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire: A Meta-Analytic View of Reliability Estimates (open access)

Reliability Generalization of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire: A Meta-Analytic View of Reliability Estimates

This article uses a reliability generalization meta-analysis to explore the relationship between study factors and levels of alpha reliability for the 15 subscales of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ).
Date: September 26, 2018
Creator: Holland, David F.; Kraha, Amanda; Zientek, Linda Reichwein; Nimon, Kim F.; Fulmore, Julia A.; Johnson, Ursula Y. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reduced structural flexibility for an exonuclease deficient DNA polymerase III mutant (open access)

Reduced structural flexibility for an exonuclease deficient DNA polymerase III mutant

This article reports on the dynamics of E coli DNA polymerase III proofreading in the presence of its processivity factor, the β₂-sliding clamp, at varying base pair termini using single-molecule FRET.
Date: June 29, 2018
Creator: Gahlon, Hailey L.; Walker, Alice R.; Cisneros, Gerardo Andrés; Lamers, Meindert H. & Rueda, David S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parametric nondifferentiable multiobjective fractional programming under (b;Ψ; Φ; ρ)-univexity (open access)

Parametric nondifferentiable multiobjective fractional programming under (b;Ψ; Φ; ρ)-univexity

This article is concerned with optimality conditions and duality results for nondifferentiable multi-objective fractional programming problems.
Date: September 27, 2018
Creator: Antczak, Tadeusz & Verma, Ram U.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plasmon coupled super- and sub- radiance from dye shells (open access)

Plasmon coupled super- and sub- radiance from dye shells

Article investigates cooperative spontaneous emission, theoretically and experimentally, for an ensemble of emitters coupled to a core-shell structure.
Date: September 2018
Creator: de Silva, Vashista C.; Moazzezi, Mojtaba; Rostovtsev, Yuri V. & Drachev, Vladimir P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Convective oxygen transport during development in embryos of the snapping turtle Chelydra serpentina (open access)

Convective oxygen transport during development in embryos of the snapping turtle Chelydra serpentina

This article describes a study investigating the maturation of convective oxygen transport in embryos of the snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina). Measurements included: mass, oxygen consumption, heart rate, blood oxygen content and affinity and blood flow distribution at 50%, 70% and 90% of the incubation period.
Date: September 24, 2018
Creator: Sartori, Marina R.; Kohl, Zachary F.; Taylor, Edwin W.; Abe, Augusto S. & Crossley, Dane A., II
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton CENTRORADIALIS/TERMINAL FLOWER 1/SELF-PRUNING genes functionally diverged to differentially impact plant architecture (open access)

Cotton CENTRORADIALIS/TERMINAL FLOWER 1/SELF-PRUNING genes functionally diverged to differentially impact plant architecture

This article characterizes the CETS gene family from tetraploid cotton in order to understand the regulation of cotton architecture and exploit these principles to enhance crop productivity.
Date: September 10, 2018
Creator: Prewitt, Sarah F.; Ayre, Brian G. & McGarry, Roisin C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Challenges in measuring ACGME competencies: considerations for milestones (open access)

Challenges in measuring ACGME competencies: considerations for milestones

This article extends previous studies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)'s measure of residents' training progress to examine the validity of ACGME International competency measures for an international setting across emergency medicine (EM) and neurology, and across evaluators.
Date: September 28, 2018
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba; Batley, Nicholas J.; Bakhti, Rinad & El-Doueihi, Philippe Z.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Humanin Attenuates NMDA-Induced Excitotoxicity by Inhibiting ROS-dependent JNK/p38 MAPK Pathway (open access)

Humanin Attenuates NMDA-Induced Excitotoxicity by Inhibiting ROS-dependent JNK/p38 MAPK Pathway

This article highlights a study aimed to investigate neuroprotective mechanisms of HN. We analyzed intracellular Ca²+ levels, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, and the MAPKs signal transduction cascade using an in vitro NMDA-mediated excitotoxicity of cortical neurons model.
Date: September 29, 2018
Creator: Yang, Xiaorong; Zhang, Hongmei; Wu, Jinzi; Yin, Litian; Yan, Liang-Jun & Zhang, Ce
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental and Computational Preference for Phosphine Regioselectivity and Stereoselective Tripodal Rotation in Hos₃(Co)₈(PPh₃)₂(μ-1,2-N,Cη-¹,ᴋ¹-C₇H₄NS) (open access)

Experimental and Computational Preference for Phosphine Regioselectivity and Stereoselective Tripodal Rotation in Hos₃(Co)₈(PPh₃)₂(μ-1,2-N,Cη-¹,ᴋ¹-C₇H₄NS)

This article investigates the site preference for ligand substitution in the benzothiazolate-bridged cluster HOs₃(CO)₁₀(μ-1,2-N,Cη-¹,ᴋ¹-C₇H₄NS) using PPh₃.
Date: September 12, 2018
Creator: Begum, Shahin A.; Chowdhury, Md. Arshad H.; Ghosh, Shishir; Tocher, Derek A.; Richmond, Michael G.; Yang, Li et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Application of Various Normalization Methods for Microscale Analysis of Tissues Using Direct Analyte Probed Nanoextraction (open access)

Application of Various Normalization Methods for Microscale Analysis of Tissues Using Direct Analyte Probed Nanoextraction

Article describes a study where various normalization techniques were investigated in order to improve the quantitative capabilities of direct analyte probed nanoextraction (DAPNe).
Date: September 27, 2018
Creator: de Jesus, Janella; Bunch, Josephine; Verbeck, Guido F.; Webb, Roger P.; Costa, Catia; Goodwin, Richard J. A. et al.
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
Evolutionary Path of Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction among Chinese Elderly: A Perspective of Data Visualization (open access)

Evolutionary Path of Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction among Chinese Elderly: A Perspective of Data Visualization

This article investigates how the influence and importance of factors associated with life satisfaction in the elderly have changed during these years.
Date: September 11, 2018
Creator: Zhang, Hui; Wang, Yongyi; Wu, Dan & Chen, Jiangping
System: The UNT Digital Library
The overkill model and its impact on environmental research (open access)

The overkill model and its impact on environmental research

This article uses a citation analysis of selected works of the main proponent of the overkill model, Paul Martin, to evaluate how different disciplines interpret and use the overkill model.
Date: September 5, 2018
Creator: Nagaoka, Lisa; Rick, Torben & Wolverton, Steven J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Administrative Intensity and Student Retention and Success: A Three-Year Study (open access)

The Relationship between Administrative Intensity and Student Retention and Success: A Three-Year Study

This article describes a secondary data analysis study linking the internal organizational elements of administrative intensity to institutional results as evidenced by higher education student retention and graduation rates.
Date: September 22, 2018
Creator: Romine, Kerry; Baker, Rose M. & Romine, Karla A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
High-entropy alloy strengthened by in situ formation of entropy-stabilized nano-dispersoids (open access)

High-entropy alloy strengthened by in situ formation of entropy-stabilized nano-dispersoids

This article focuses on the effect of introducing Y₂O₃ in the Al₀.₃CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloys, fabricated using mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering.
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Gwalani, B.; Pohan, Rizaldy M.; Lee, Junho; Lee, Bin; Banerjee, Rajarshi; Ryu, Ho Jin et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unequal Higher Education in the United States: Growing Participation and Shrinking Opportunities (open access)

Unequal Higher Education in the United States: Growing Participation and Shrinking Opportunities

This article argues that rising institutional inequality is a component of individual-level inequality in the United States because U.S. higher education provides a diverse group of students with unequal access to different kinds of institutions.
Date: September 18, 2018
Creator: Taylor, Barrett J. & Cantwell, Brendan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Surface Finish and Back-Wall Dross Behavior during the Fiber Laser Cutting of AZ31 Magnesium Alloy (open access)

Surface Finish and Back-Wall Dross Behavior during the Fiber Laser Cutting of AZ31 Magnesium Alloy

Study examines the effect of cutting conditions on wall surface roughness and back-wall dross by carrying out fiber laser cutting of AZ31 magnesium alloy tubes.
Date: September 24, 2018
Creator: García-López, Erika; Ibarra-Medina, Juansethi R.; Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael; Lammel-Lindemann, Jan A. & Rodríguez, Ciro A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization (open access)

An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization

This article describes the ideal nature of the Catechyl lignin (C-lignin) via a revised compositional characterization of the vanilla seed coat fiber, new features of the C-lignin's reactivity and stability, and successful attempts at converting it to monomers in near-quantitative yields.
Date: September 28, 2018
Creator: Li, Yanding; Shuai, Li; Kim, Hoon; Hussain Motagamwala, Ali; Mobley, Justin K.; Yue, Fengxia et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors Associated with Conservation Participation by Local Communities in Gaurishankar Conservation Area Project, Nepal (open access)

Factors Associated with Conservation Participation by Local Communities in Gaurishankar Conservation Area Project, Nepal

This article examines how residents’ natural resource dependency and other social, economic, and access-related variables predict conservation participation.Overall, key findings suggest that conservation participation at Gaurishankar Conservation Area Project (GCAP)—a newly designated mountainous protected area in Nepal— needs to be improved with multiple outreach activities, especially to resource-dependent households.
Date: July 22, 2018
Creator: Paudyal, Ramesh; Thapa, Brijesh; Shree Neupane, Suman & Birendra
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ecological model links proto-oncogene to high incidence of metastatic cancers in African-Americans (open access)

Ecological model links proto-oncogene to high incidence of metastatic cancers in African-Americans

This article describes an ecological model that identifies the underlying reasons for the pattern of cancer susceptibility in Americans of African descent.
Date: September 3, 2018
Creator: Hilliard, Constance
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biomass and Fossil Fuel Combustion Contributions to Elemental Carbon Across the San Francisco Bay Area (open access)

Biomass and Fossil Fuel Combustion Contributions to Elemental Carbon Across the San Francisco Bay Area

This article provides better understanding in how effective regulations have been/could be across the diverse Bay Area.
Date: September 25, 2018
Creator: Yoon, Subin; Fairley, David; Barrett, Tate E. & Sheesley, Rebecca J.
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