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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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Role of microRNAs and their downstream target transcription factors in zebrafish thrombopoiesis (open access)

Role of microRNAs and their downstream target transcription factors in zebrafish thrombopoiesis

Article describes how previous studies have shown that human platelets and megakaryocytes carry microRNAs suggesting their role in platelet function and megakaryocyte development. In their laboratory, the authors identified 15 microRNAs in thrombocytes using single-cell RNA sequencing.
Date: September 26, 2023
Creator: Qaryoute, Ayah Al; Fallatah, Weam; Dhinoja, Sanchi; Raman, Revathi & Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
System: The UNT Digital Library
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Traffic light nutrition labeling preferences among children (open access)

Traffic light nutrition labeling preferences among children

Article describes how this study evaluates the effect of traffic light nutritional label attributes on children's food choices. The study's findings offer evidence that TL labels are effective in helping children make food choices consistent with their preferences for food products with TL labels representing healthier alternatives.
Date: September 25, 2023
Creator: Cabrera, Tania; Carpio, Carlos E.; Sarasty, Oscar; Watson, Susan E. & Gonzales, María-Susana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychometric properties of the Trauma Checklist 2.0 and its predictive utility of felony re-offending among high-risk juvenile offenders (open access)

Psychometric properties of the Trauma Checklist 2.0 and its predictive utility of felony re-offending among high-risk juvenile offenders

Article describes how incarcerated youth are characterized by particularly high rates of childhood trauma, a significant risk factor for outcomes including risky behaviors and recidivism. The authors examined relationships between TCL 2.0 scores, measures of psychopathology, and psycopathic traits in a sample of incarcerated male juvenile offenders.
Date: September 21, 2023
Creator: Shold, Jenna N.; Maurer, J. Micahel; Reynolds, Brooke L.; Gullapalli, Aparna R.; Allen, Corey H.; Edwards, Bethany G. et al.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Phrasal Proper Names in German and Norwegian (open access)

Phrasal Proper Names in German and Norwegian

Article discusses the morpho-syntax of phrasal proper names like Deutsche Bahn 'German Railway' and Norske Skog 'Norwegian Forest' in German and Norwegian. The authors document that phrasal proper names may show features of recursivity evidenced most clearly in Norwegian.
Date: September 9, 2023
Creator: Julien, Marit & Roehrs, Dorian
System: The UNT Digital Library
Silicon supply promotes differences in growth and C:N:P stoichiometry between bamboo and tree saplings (open access)

Silicon supply promotes differences in growth and C:N:P stoichiometry between bamboo and tree saplings

Article describes how silicon can be important for the growth, functioning, and stoichiometric regulation of nutrients for high-Si-accumulating bamboo. The authors demonstrated that silicon supply can decrease the ratio of C:Si in bamboo leaves and increase the ratio of N:P without altering nutrient status or the N:P ratio of tree spalings.
Date: September 21, 2023
Creator: Liu, Xiaoyu; Tang, Xinghao; Compson, Zacchaeus Greg; Huang, Dongmei; Zou, Guiwu; Luan, Fenggang et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complexity Synchronization of Organ Networks (open access)

Complexity Synchronization of Organ Networks

Article describes how the transdisciplinary nature of science as a whole became evident as the necessity for the complex nature of phenomena to explain social and life science, along with the physical sciences, blossomed into complexity theory and most recently into complexitysynchronization. The authors use the scaling of empirical datasets from the brain, cardiovascular and respiratory networks to support the hypothesis that complexity synchronization occurs between scaling indices or equivalently with the matching of the time dependencies of the networks' multifractal dimensions.
Date: September 28, 2023
Creator: West, Bruce J.; Grigolini, Paolo; Kerick, Scott E.; Franaszczuk, Piotr J. & Mahmoodi, Korosh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Duals of Tirilman spaces have unique subsymmetric basic sequences (open access)

Duals of Tirilman spaces have unique subsymmetric basic sequences

Article describes how the Tirilman spaces were introduced by Casazza and Shura as variations of the spaces constructed by Tzafriri. We prove that all subsymmetric basic sequences in the dual space are equivalent to its canonical subsymmetic but not symmetric basis.
Date: September 5, 2023
Creator: Dilworth, Steven J.; Kutzarova, Denka; Sari, Bünyamin & Stankov, Svetozar
System: The UNT Digital Library
Functional Carbon Capsules Supporting Ruthenium Nanoclusters for Efficient Electrocatalytic 99TcO4-/ReO4 Removal from Acidic and Alkaline Nuclear Wastes (open access)

Functional Carbon Capsules Supporting Ruthenium Nanoclusters for Efficient Electrocatalytic 99TcO4-/ReO4 Removal from Acidic and Alkaline Nuclear Wastes

Article describes how the selective removal of the β-emitting pertechnetate ion (99TcO4−) from nuclear waste streams is technically challenging. In this article, a practical approach is proposed for the selective removal of 99TcO4− (or its surrogate ReO4−) under extreme conditions of high acidity, alkalinity, ionic strength, and radiation field.
Date: September 10, 2023
Creator: Liu, Xiaolu; Xie, Yinghui; Li, Yang; Hao, Mengjie; Chen, Zhongshan; Yang, Hui et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resident satisfaction indicators in long term care settings in the United States: A scoping review (open access)

Resident satisfaction indicators in long term care settings in the United States: A scoping review

Article describes how, due to an increasingly aging population and long-term care available, the number of older adults seeking long-term care facilities is growing. According to the authors, the aim of this study is to summarize the evidence on the types of resident satisfaction indicators utilized in long term care settings in the United States.
Date: September 20, 2023
Creator: Li, Xiaoli; Mpofu, Elias; Collins, Sandra; Yin, Cheng & Shaw, Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gene-Level Analysis of Anthracycline-Induced Cardiomyopathy in Cancer Survivors (open access)

Gene-Level Analysis of Anthracycline-Induced Cardiomyopathy in Cancer Survivors

Article describes how anthracyclines are highly effective in treating cancer, despite increased risk of cardiomyopathy. This study examined gene-level associations with cardiomyopathy among cancer survivors using whole-exome sequencing data.
Date: September 12, 2023
Creator: Sharafeldin, Noha; Zhou, Liting; Singh, Purnima; Crossman, David K.; Wang, Xuexia; Hagerman, Lindsey et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
When expectation fails and motivation prevails: the mediating role of awareness in bridging the expectancy-capability gap in mobile identity protection (open access)

When expectation fails and motivation prevails: the mediating role of awareness in bridging the expectancy-capability gap in mobile identity protection

Article describes how identity theft poses a significant threat to mobile users, yet mobile identity protection is often overlooked in cybersecurity literature. This study adopts a mixed-methods approach and draws on expectancy-value theory to address these gaps and explore the impact of expectations, capabilities, motivational values, technical measures, and awareness on individuals' intentions to achieve mobile identity protection.
Date: September 19, 2023
Creator: Alhelaly, Yasser; Dhillon, Gurpreet & Oliveira, Tiago
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyzing influence of COVID-19 on crypto & financial markets and sentiment analysis using deep ensemble model (open access)

Analyzing influence of COVID-19 on crypto & financial markets and sentiment analysis using deep ensemble model

Article describes how COVID-19 affected the world's economy severely and increased the inflation rate in both developed and developing countries. This study performs an analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on public opinion and sentiments regarding the financial markets and crypto markets.
Date: September 28, 2023
Creator: Washington, Patrick Bernard; Gali, Pradeep; Rustam, Furqan & Ashraf, Imran
System: The UNT Digital Library
New reactions of diazene and related species for modelling combustion of amine fuels (open access)

New reactions of diazene and related species for modelling combustion of amine fuels

Article discusses how potential energy surfaces for reactions involving N2H2 isomers of diazene (diimide) have been explored using density functional theory, with energies based on coupled-cluster theory. A focus is on processes that create or consume these species, and isomerization between the E (trans) and Z (cis) forms of HNNH. This is the accepted manuscript version of the published article.
Date: September 24, 2021
Creator: Marshall, Paul; Rawling, George R. & Glarborg, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Video Game Equipment Loss and Durability in a Circulating Academic Collection (open access)

Video Game Equipment Loss and Durability in a Circulating Academic Collection

This article reviewed twelve years of circulation data related to loss and damage of video game equipment, specifically consoles, game controllers, and gaming peripherals such as steering wheels, virtual reality headsets, and joysticks in an academic library collection.
Date: September 24, 2023
Creator: Robson, Diane; Bryant, Sarah & Sassen, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Big Men, Small Boys; A Power Dimension Perspective of Farmers–Herdsmen Conflict in Ghana (open access)

Big Men, Small Boys; A Power Dimension Perspective of Farmers–Herdsmen Conflict in Ghana

Article discusses how the Peace Council of Ghana ranks farmer–herder conflicts among the country's three most significant threats to peace. The literature the authors cite emphasizes natural factors contributing to farmer–herder conflicts, namely, climate change which results in environmental degradation and consequently leads to droughts, and food insecurity.
Date: September 26, 2022
Creator: Kyei-Poakwah, Kwadwo; Owusu-Mensah, Isaac; Adu, Edmund Poku & Ateng, Mathias Awonnatey
System: The UNT Digital Library
Content-Based Characterization of the End of Term Web Archive (open access)

Content-Based Characterization of the End of Term Web Archive

Article describes how, since 2008, the End of Term Web Archive has been gathering snapshots of the federal web, consisting of the publicly accessible .gov and .mil websites. This paper describes the decisions made in the creation of these derivatives, the technologies used, and introduces the WARC Metadata Sidecar, which presents a useful approach for creating and storing auxiliary metadata for web archives.
Date: September 2023
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Phillips, Kristy & Alam, Sawood
System: The UNT Digital Library
What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity (open access)

What do complexity measures measure? Correlating and validating corpus-based measures of morphological complexity

Article describes how the authors present an analysis of eight measures used for quantifying morphological complexity of natural languages. The measures they study are corpus-based measures of morphological complexity with varying requirements for corpus annotation.
Date: September 22, 2022
Creator: Çöltekin, Çağrı & Rama, Taraka
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nonlinear frequency analysis of porous Bi directional functionally graded beams utilizing reddy shear deformation theory (open access)

Nonlinear frequency analysis of porous Bi directional functionally graded beams utilizing reddy shear deformation theory

Article describes how the nonlinear frequency response of bi-directional functionally graded porous beams experienced range of various end conditions is investigated in this work. The findings are presented to aid in future research into the effects of various gradient indices, vibration amplitude ratios, porosity coefficients, shear and elastic substrate parameters, boundary conditions, and vibration frequencies on the bi-directional functionally graded beams.
Date: September 3, 2023
Creator: Forghani, Mohammadamin; Bazarganlari, Yousef; Zahedinejad, Parham & Kazemzadeh-Parsi, Mohammad Javad
System: The UNT Digital Library
An approach for reliably identifying high-frequency oscillations and reducing false-positive detections (open access)

An approach for reliably identifying high-frequency oscillations and reducing false-positive detections

Article states that high-frequency oscillation (HFO), classified as ripples (80-240 Hz) and fast ripples (240-500 Hz), is regarded as a promising biomarker of epilepsy. The authors presented an integrated, multi-layered procedure capable of automatically rejecting HFOs from a variety of common false positives, such as motion, background signals, and sharp transients.
Date: September 2, 2022
Creator: Zhou, Yufeng; You, Jing; Kumar, Udaya; Weiss, Shennan A.; Bragin, Anatol; Engel Jr., Jerome et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling (open access)

Assessing approaches to learning with nonparametric multidimensional scaling

Article reports on a trace-based assessment of approaches to learning used by middle school aged children who interacted with NASA Mars Mission science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) games in Whyville, an online game environment with 8 million registered young learners. Differences in approach to learning were found illustrating the potential value of the methodology to curriculum and game-based learning designers as well as other creators of online STEM content for pre-college youth.
Date: September 5, 2022
Creator: Knezek, Gerald; Gibson, David; Christensen, Rhonda; Trevisan, Ottavia & Carter, Morgan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining physical activity and quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability (open access)

Examining physical activity and quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability

Article discusses how quality of life and physical activity relate to each other in adults with autism and intellectual disabilities. The authors use Fitbit activity trackers to find connections between physical activity and quality of life of their sample group of autistic adults.
Date: September 13, 2021
Creator: Tomaszewski, Brianne; Savage, Melissa N. & Hume, Kara
System: The UNT Digital Library