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Improved bore-sight calibration for airborne light detection and ranging using planar patches (open access)

Improved bore-sight calibration for airborne light detection and ranging using planar patches

This article proposes an improved method for bore-sight calibration based on the principles of symmetry of coordinate offsets and low correlations between bore-sight angles.
Date: May 9, 2016
Creator: Li, Dong; Guo, Huadong; Wang, Cheng; Dong, Pinliang & Zuo, Zhengli
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantifying Access Disparities in Response Plans (open access)

Quantifying Access Disparities in Response Plans

This article develops and explores data driven methods to quantify vulnerabilities in the context of response plans, addressing limitations on the availability, granularity, and currency of data to identify vulnerable populations.
Date: January 15, 2016
Creator: Indrakanti, Saratchandra; Mikler, Armin R.; O'Neil II, Martin & Tiwari, Chetan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Phenotypic developmental plasticity induced by preincubation egg storage in chicken embryos (Gallus gallus domesticus) (open access)

Phenotypic developmental plasticity induced by preincubation egg storage in chicken embryos (Gallus gallus domesticus)

This article investigates how preincubation egg storage conditions (temperature, duration, hypoxia, and hypercapnia) affects viability, body mass, and physiological variables and functions in day 15 chicken embryos.
Date: January 23, 2016
Creator: Branum, Sylvia R.; Tazawa, Hiroshi & Burggren, Warren W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are Smoking Cessation Treatments Associated with Suicidality Risk? An Overview (open access)

Are Smoking Cessation Treatments Associated with Suicidality Risk? An Overview

This article explores the relationship between smoking cessation interventions and suicidality and explore common treatments, their associated risks, and effectiveness in promoting smoking reduction and abstinence.
Date: January 27, 2016
Creator: Penberthy, J. Kim; Penberthy, J. Morgan; Harris, Marcus R.; Nanda, Sonali; Ahn, Jennifer; Martinez, Caridad Ponce et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Centimeter Scale Patterned Growth of Vertically Stacked Few Layer Only 2D MoSâ‚‚/WSâ‚‚ van der Waals Heterostructure (open access)

Centimeter Scale Patterned Growth of Vertically Stacked Few Layer Only 2D MoSâ‚‚/WSâ‚‚ van der Waals Heterostructure

This article reports the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of large-area (>2 cm²) patterned 2D vdW heterostructures composed of few layer, vertically-stacked molybdenum disulfide and tungsten disulfide.
Date: May 5, 2016
Creator: Choudhary, Nitin; Park, Juhong; Hwang, Jun Yeon; Chung, Hee-Suk; Dumas, Kenneth H.; Khondaker, Saiful I. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling immune response and its effect on infectious disease outbreak dynamics (open access)

Modeling immune response and its effect on infectious disease outbreak dynamics

This article presents a model that incorporates individuals' immune responses to further examine the role of the collective immune response of individuals in a population during an infectious outbreak.
Date: March 5, 2016
Creator: Reyes-Silveyra, Jorge & Mikler, Armin R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fabrication of Wood-Rubber Composites Using Rubber Compound as a Bonding Agent Instead of Adhesives (open access)

Fabrication of Wood-Rubber Composites Using Rubber Compound as a Bonding Agent Instead of Adhesives

This article describes fabricating wood-rubber composites using rubber processing to improve water resistance and mechanical properties.
Date: June 14, 2016
Creator: Shao, Dongwei; Xu, Min; Cai, Liping & Shi, Sheldon Q.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Holographic Fabrication of Designed Functional Defect Lines in Photonic Crystal Lattice Using a Spatial Light Modulator (open access)

Holographic Fabrication of Designed Functional Defect Lines in Photonic Crystal Lattice Using a Spatial Light Modulator

This article reports the holographic fabrication of designed defect lines in photonic crystal lattices through phase engineering using a spatial light modulator.
Date: April 1, 2016
Creator: Lutkenhaus, Jeffrey; Lowell, David; George, David; Zhang, Hualiang; Lin, Yuankun & Lin, Yuankun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flexible Holographic Fabrication of 3D Photonic Crystal Templates with Polarization Control through a 3D Printed Reflective Optical Element (open access)

Flexible Holographic Fabrication of 3D Photonic Crystal Templates with Polarization Control through a 3D Printed Reflective Optical Element

This article systematically studies the holographic fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) structures using a single 3D printed reflective optical element (ROE), taking advantage of the ease of design and 3D printing of the ROE.
Date: July 21, 2016
Creator: Lowell, David; George, David; Lutkenhaus, Jeffrey; Tian, Chris; Adewole, Murthada; Zhang, Hualiang et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Carbonization Temperature and Component Ratio on Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Effectiveness of Woodceramics (open access)

Effects of Carbonization Temperature and Component Ratio on Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Effectiveness of Woodceramics

This article explores the effects of carbonization temperature and mass ratio of wood/resin on electromagnetic interference, shielding effectiveness, and morphology of woodceramics.
Date: July 2, 2016
Creator: Tao, Yubo; Li, Peng & Shi, Sheldon Q.
System: The UNT Digital Library
ABA is required for the accumulation of APX1 and MBF1c during a combination of water deficit and heat stress (open access)

ABA is required for the accumulation of APX1 and MBF1c during a combination of water deficit and heat stress

This article studies the response of mutants impaired in ABA signalling (abi1-1) and biosynthesis (aba1-1) to a combination of water deficit and heat stress.
Date: July 18, 2016
Creator: Zandalinas, Sara I.; Balfagón, Damián; Arbona, Vicent; Gómez-Cadenas, Aurelio; Inupakutika, Madhuri A. & Mittler, Ron
System: The UNT Digital Library
Being an Informed Consumer of Health Information and Assessment of Electronic Health Literacy in a National Sample of Internet Users: Validity and Reliability of the e-HLS Instrument (open access)

Being an Informed Consumer of Health Information and Assessment of Electronic Health Literacy in a National Sample of Internet Users: Validity and Reliability of the e-HLS Instrument

This article examines psychometric properties of a new electronic health literacy measure in a national sample of Internet users with specific attention to older users.
Date: November 7, 2016
Creator: Seçkin, Gül; Yeatts, Dale E., 1952-; Hughes, Susan; Hudson, Cassie & Bell, Valerie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior as risk factors for human papillomavirus infection in Saudi Arabia (open access)

Sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior as risk factors for human papillomavirus infection in Saudi Arabia

This article seeks to determine the prevalence and the sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior risk factors for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in a hospital-based cohort of women in Saudi Arabia.
Date: April 3, 2016
Creator: Alhamlan, F. S.; Khayat, H. H.; Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini; Al-Muammar, T. A.; Tulbah, A. M.; Al-Badawi, I. A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
ABA Is Required for Plant Acclimation to a Combination of Salt and Heat Stress (open access)

ABA Is Required for Plant Acclimation to a Combination of Salt and Heat Stress

This article highlights the important role abscisic acid plays in the acclimation of plants to a combination of two different abiotic stresses.
Date: January 29, 2016
Creator: Suzuki, Nobuhiro; Bassil, Elias; Hamilton, Jason S.; Inupakutika, Madhuri A.; Zandalinas, Sara I.; Tripathy, Deesha et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reduced Inflammatory and muscle damage biomarkers following oral supplementation with bioavailable curcumin (open access)

Reduced Inflammatory and muscle damage biomarkers following oral supplementation with bioavailable curcumin

This article seeks to determine the effects of oral curcumin supplementation on muscle and activities of daily living soreness, creatine kinase, and inflammatory cytokines following exercise-induced muscle damage.
Date: February 18, 2016
Creator: McFarlin, Brian K.; Venable, Adam S.; Henning, Andrea L.; Best Sampson, Jill N.; Pennel, Kathryn; Vingren, Jakob L. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changes of Children's Motivation in Physical Education and Physical Activity: A Longitudinal Perspective (open access)

Changes of Children's Motivation in Physical Education and Physical Activity: A Longitudinal Perspective

This article attempts to examine the relationship between changes of children's motivation to changes in children's intention for future participation in physical education and physical activity over an academic year, guided by the expectancy-value model.
Date: August 8, 2016
Creator: Gu, Xiangli & Zhang, Tao
System: The UNT Digital Library
Value and Pricing of MOOCs (open access)

Value and Pricing of MOOCs

This article reviews the potential for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to transform higher education delivery, accessibility, and costs.
Date: May 27, 2016
Creator: Baker, Rose M. & Passmore, David L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genome Sequences of Streptomyces Phages Amela and Verse (open access)

Genome Sequences of Streptomyces Phages Amela and Verse

This article describes Amela and Verse, two Streptomyces phages isolated by enrichment on Streptomyces venezuelae (ATCC 10712) from two different soil samples.
Date: February 18, 2016
Creator: Layton, Sonya R.; Hemenway, Ryan M.; Munyoki, Christine M.; Barnes, Emory B.; Barnett, Sierra E.; Bond, Alec M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identification of Novel Genomic Islands in Liverpool Epidemic Strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Using Segmentation and Clustering (open access)

Identification of Novel Genomic Islands in Liverpool Epidemic Strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Using Segmentation and Clustering

This article utilizes a recursive segmentation and cluster procedure presented as a genome-mining tool, GEMINI, to decipher genomic islands and understand their contributions to the evolution of virulence and antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Date: August 3, 2016
Creator: Jani, Mehul; Mathee, Kalal & Azad, Rajeev K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accumulation of Flavonols over Hydroxycinnamic Acids Favors Oxidative Damage Protetion under Abiotic Stress (open access)

Accumulation of Flavonols over Hydroxycinnamic Acids Favors Oxidative Damage Protetion under Abiotic Stress

This article reports on the characterization of the different antioxidant mechanisms of tomato plants subjected to heat stress, salinity stress, or a combination of both stresses.
Date: June 15, 2016
Creator: Martinez, Vicente; Mestre, Teresa C.; Rubio, Francisco; Girones-Vilaplana, Amadeo; Moreno, Diego; Mittler, Ron et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Remembering to Ask the Boss: Priming and the Dynamics of Priest Reliance on Bishop Cues (open access)

Remembering to Ask the Boss: Priming and the Dynamics of Priest Reliance on Bishop Cues

This article assesses the effects of randomly priming priests with varying considerations of their professional responsibilities and relevant constituencies (including parishioner expectations).
Date: February 26, 2016
Creator: Calfano, Brian Robert & Oldmixon, Elizabeth Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Epigenetic Inheritance and Its Role in Evolutionary Biology: Re-Evaluation and New Perspectives (open access)

Epigenetic Inheritance and Its Role in Evolutionary Biology: Re-Evaluation and New Perspectives

This essay poses an argument for epigenetics having a potentially profound role in our understanding of inheritance, natural selection and evolution, and deserving more attention.
Date: May 25, 2016
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Post-hatching development of mitochondrial function, organ mass and metabolic rate in two ectotherms, the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) and the common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) (open access)

Post-hatching development of mitochondrial function, organ mass and metabolic rate in two ectotherms, the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) and the common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)

This article investigates the metabolism, growth and muscle mitochondrial function in hatchlings of a turtle and a crocodilian, two ectotherms that never develop endothermy.
Date: March 9, 2016
Creator: Sirsat, Sarah K. G.; Sirsat, Tushar S.; Price, Edwin R. & Dzialowski, Edward M. (Edward Michael)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid identification of causative insertions underlying Medicago truncatula Tnt1 mutants defective in symbiotic nitrogen fixation from a forward genetic screen by whole genome sequencing (open access)

Rapid identification of causative insertions underlying Medicago truncatula Tnt1 mutants defective in symbiotic nitrogen fixation from a forward genetic screen by whole genome sequencing

This article demonstrates that whole genome sequencing is an efficient approach for identification of causative genes underlying symbiotic nitrogen fixation defective phenotypes in Medicago truncatula Tnt1 insertion mutants obtained via forward genetic screens.
Date: February 27, 2016
Creator: Veerappan, Vijaykumar; Jani, Mehul; Kadel, Khem; Troiani, Taylor; Gale, Ronny; Mayes, Tyler et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library