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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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law (open access)

Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law

This article demonstrates instances in which sacred site law was construed so narrowly as to a priori preclude indigenous ways of knowing, particularly in regards to the nature of land, use of sacred objects, and pollution.
Date: September 1, 2017
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Further Numerical Analyses on the Solubility of Sulfapyridine in Ethanol + Water Mixtures (open access)

Further Numerical Analyses on the Solubility of Sulfapyridine in Ethanol + Water Mixtures

This article aims to correlate the solubility of sulfapyridine and sulfadiazine in ethanol + water mixtures by means of the Jouyban-Acree model, and to evaluate the preferential solvation of sulfapyridine in these mixtures by using the inverse Kirkwood-Buff integrals.
Date: September 30, 2016
Creator: Delgado, Daniel R.; Peña, María Á.; Martínez, Fleming; Jouyban, Abolghasem & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elevated CO2 increases energetic cost and ion movement in the marine fish intestine (open access)

Elevated CO2 increases energetic cost and ion movement in the marine fish intestine

Article describes study which aimed to gain resolution in assessing the energetic demand associated with acid-base regulation by examining ion movement and O2 consumption rates of isolated intestinal tissue from Gulf toadfish acclimated to control or 1900 μatm CO2 (projected for year 2300).
Date: September 29, 2016
Creator: Heuer, Rachael M. & Grosell, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plant communities as bioclimate indicators on Isla Navarino, one of the southernmost forested areas of the world (open access)

Plant communities as bioclimate indicators on Isla Navarino, one of the southernmost forested areas of the world

This article focuses on Isla Navarino (Chile) to understand changes in plant community composition and plant diversity and their relation to climatic factors along an altitudinal gradient.
Date: September 29, 2016
Creator: Molina, José Antonio; Lumbreras, Ana; Benavent-González, Albert; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960- & Sancho, Leopoldo G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is Exposure to Macondo Oil Reflected in the Otolith Chemistry of Marsh-Resident Fish? (open access)

Is Exposure to Macondo Oil Reflected in the Otolith Chemistry of Marsh-Resident Fish?

This article evaluates otolith microchemistry as a method for assessing oil exposure history.
Date: September 28, 2016
Creator: López-Duarte, Paola C.; Fodrie, F. Joel; Jensen, Olaf P.; Whitehead, Andrew; Galvez, Fernando; Dubansky, Benjamin et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ROS Are Good (open access)

ROS Are Good

This opinion article focuses on the possibility that ROS are beneficial to plants, supporting cellular proliferation, physiological function, and viability, and that maintaining a basal level of ROS in cells is essential for life.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Mittler, Ron
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Field-grown transgenic switchgras (Panicum virgatum L.) with altered lignin does not affect soil chemistry, microbiology, and carbon storage potential (open access)

Field-grown transgenic switchgras (Panicum virgatum L.) with altered lignin does not affect soil chemistry, microbiology, and carbon storage potential

This article describes a study to evaluate effects of two independent lines of caffeic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT) downregulated switchgrass plants on soils in terms of chemistry, microbiolgy, and carbon cycling when grown in the field.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: DeBruyn, Jennifer M.; Bevard, David A.; Essington, Michael E.; McKnight, Julie Y.; Schaeffer, Sean M.; Baxter, Holly L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laser Ablated Carbon Nanodots for Light Emission (open access)

Laser Ablated Carbon Nanodots for Light Emission

This article reports the synthesis of fluorescent carbon dots-like nanostructures obtained through the laser ablation of a carbon solid target in liquid environment is reported.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Reyes, Delfino; Camacho, Marco; Camacho, Miguel; Mayorga, Miguel; Weathers, Duncan L.; Salamo, Greg et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region (open access)

Archaeology, Heritage, and Moral Terrains: Two Cases from the Mesa Verde Region

This article applies an environmental justice lens to two archaeological research narratives, one centering on chemical analysis of biomolecular artifact residues and the other on paleohydrology and Pueblo farming.
Date: September 14, 2016
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.; Figueroa, Robert & Swentzell, Porter
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altered brain ion gradients following compensation for elevated CO2 are linked to behavioural alterations in a coral reef fish (open access)

Altered brain ion gradients following compensation for elevated CO2 are linked to behavioural alterations in a coral reef fish

This article pairs a behavioural assay with measurements of relevant intracellular and extracellular acid-base parameters in a coral reef fish exposed to elevated CO₂.
Date: September 13, 2016
Creator: Heuer, R.M.; Welch, M.J.; Rummer, J.L.; Munday, P.L. & Grosell, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using Paired Depth Interviews to Collect Qualitative Data (open access)

Using Paired Depth Interviews to Collect Qualitative Data

This article defines and describes paired depth interviews, discusses conceptualizations of paired depth interviews using Roulston's framework, delineates the strengths and limitations of paired depth interviews, and provides examples of paired depth interviews utilized in helping professions.
Date: September 5, 2016
Creator: Wilson, Angela K.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J. & Manning, LaShondra P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Role of Exponential Type Random Invexities for Asymptotically Sufficient Efficiency Conditions in Semi-Infinite Multi-Objective Fractional Programming (open access)

Role of Exponential Type Random Invexities for Asymptotically Sufficient Efficiency Conditions in Semi-Infinite Multi-Objective Fractional Programming

This article introduces several notions of random exponential type asymptotic invexities to establish results to the context of a class of asymptotically sufficient efficiency conditions in semi-infinite multi-objective fractional programing.
Date: September 2, 2016
Creator: Verma, Ram U. & Seol, Youngsoo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ultra-Fast Alterations in mRNA Levels Uncover Multiple Players in Light Stress Acclimation in Plants (open access)

Ultra-Fast Alterations in mRNA Levels Uncover Multiple Players in Light Stress Acclimation in Plants

This article contains RNA sequencing analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana plants subjected to light stress in order to identify and characterize rapid changes in the steady-state level of different transcripts in response to light stress.
Date: September 26, 2015
Creator: Suzuki, Nobuhiro; Devireddy, Amith R.; Inupakutika, Madhuri A.; Baxter, Aaron; Miller, Gad; Song, Luhua et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Primera década de investigación y educación en la Reserva de la Biosfera Cabo de Hornos: el enfoque biocultural del Parque Etnobotánico Omora (open access)

Primera década de investigación y educación en la Reserva de la Biosfera Cabo de Hornos: el enfoque biocultural del Parque Etnobotánico Omora

This article discusses the historical context motivating the creation of the future Cape Horn Sub-Antarctic Center in 2017.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960- & Schüttler, Elke
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational inference of the structure and regulation of the lignin pathway in Panicum virgatum (open access)

Computational inference of the structure and regulation of the lignin pathway in Panicum virgatum

This article uses a systems biological modeling approach to address the challenge of in vivo measurements to elucidate the structure and regulation of the lignin pathway through a computational characterization of alternate candidate topologies.
Date: September 17, 2015
Creator: Faraji, Mojdeh; Fonseca, Luis L.; Escamilla-Treviño, Luis; Dixon, R. A. & Voit, Eberhard O.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lipidomic Analysis of Endocannabinoid Signaling: Targeted Metabolite Identification and Quantification (open access)

Lipidomic Analysis of Endocannabinoid Signaling: Targeted Metabolite Identification and Quantification

This article reviews several methodologies to quantify endocannabinoids in various biological systems.
Date: September 9, 2015
Creator: Keereetaweep, Jantana & Chapman, Kent D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Triply Differential Measurements for Positron Impact Ionization of Argon (open access)

Triply Differential Measurements for Positron Impact Ionization of Argon

This article reports triply differential cross sections for positron impact ionization of argon.
Date: September 7, 2015
Creator: Mueller, D. W.; Knudsen, E. J.; Boadle, R.; Armitage, S.; Dorn, A.; Buckman, S. J. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tissue biodistribution of intravenously administrated titanium dioxide nanoparticles revealed blood-brain barrier clearance and brain inflammation in rat (open access)

Tissue biodistribution of intravenously administrated titanium dioxide nanoparticles revealed blood-brain barrier clearance and brain inflammation in rat

This article reports time-related responses from single-dose intravenous administration of 1 mg/kg Ti₂ NPs to rats, with particular emphasis on titanium quantification in the brain.
Date: September 4, 2015
Creator: Disdier, Clémence; Devoy, Jérôme; Cosnefroy, Anne; Chalansonnet, Monique; Herlin-Boime, Nathalie; Brun, Emilie et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis (open access)

Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis

This article discusses validation of the potential of an extraction and characterization approach via application to ancient bone proteins, as part of a larger method-development project for innovation and improvement of liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry analysis of protein residues from cooking pottery.
Date: September 4, 2015
Creator: Barker, Andrew; Dombrosky, Jonathan; Chaput, Dale; Venables, Barney J.; Wolverton, Steven J. & Stevens, Stanley M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abraham Model Correlations for Estimating Solute Transfer of Neutral Molecules into Anhydrous Acetic Acid from Water and from the Gas Phase (open access)

Abraham Model Correlations for Estimating Solute Transfer of Neutral Molecules into Anhydrous Acetic Acid from Water and from the Gas Phase

Article on Abraham model correlations for estimating solute transfer of neutral molecules into anhydrous acetic acid from water and from the gas phase.
Date: September 1, 2015
Creator: Stovall, Dawn M.; Schmidt, Amber; Dai, Colleen; Zhang, Shoshana; Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education and Employment Outcomes from the RSA Data File for Transition-Age African American, White, and Hispanic Youth with Learning Disabilities (open access)

Education and Employment Outcomes from the RSA Data File for Transition-Age African American, White, and Hispanic Youth with Learning Disabilities

This article examines relationships among consumer demographic variables, services, and employment outcomes for 15-18 year old youth with learning disabilities using the 2012 Rehabilitation Services Administration database.
Date: September 2015
Creator: Ji, Eun; Schaller, James; Pazey, Barbara L. & Glynn, Kate
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library