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Safety of Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood Therapy for Acquired Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children (open access)

Safety of Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood Therapy for Acquired Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Children

This article presents the results of a phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the intravenous administration of human umbilical cord blood (hUCB) mononuclear fraction in infants and children with acquired sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).
Date: June 18, 2018
Creator: Baumgartner, Linda S.; Moore, Ernest J.; Shook, David; Messina, Steven; Day, Mary Clare; Green, Jennifer et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Political Mandate and Clarity of Responsibility: Economic Policies under Rightist Governments in Latin America (open access)

Political Mandate and Clarity of Responsibility: Economic Policies under Rightist Governments in Latin America

This article uses panel data for eighteen Latin American countries from 1995 to 2015 to study whether clarity of responsibility can influence presidential decision-making concerning unpopular policies, especially microeconomic policies.
Date: June 13, 2018
Creator: Biglaiser, Glen & McGauvran, Ronald J.
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
Combining semi-synthesis with plant and microbial biocatalysis: new frontiers in producing a chemical arsenal against cancer (open access)

Combining semi-synthesis with plant and microbial biocatalysis: new frontiers in producing a chemical arsenal against cancer

This article demonstrates the methods of semi-synthesis and biocatalysis that can be used as modules in succession and in different combinations to produce 6,8-dibromogenkwanin, a derivative of the anticancer natural product apigenin.
Date: June 4, 2018
Creator: Gary, Samuel; Adegboye, Janet; Popp, Brian; Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Woodrum, Brooklyn & Kovinich, Nik
System: The UNT Digital Library
First Principles Study of the Optical Emission of Cadmium Yellow: Role of Cadmium Vacancies (open access)

First Principles Study of the Optical Emission of Cadmium Yellow: Role of Cadmium Vacancies

This article studies the role of structural defects in the CdS-based cadmium yellow paint to explain the origin of its deep trap states optical emission.
Date: June 1, 2018
Creator: Giacopetti, Laura; Nevin, Austin; Comelli, Daniela; Valentini, Gianluca; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco & Satta, Alessandra
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamics of self-reorganization explains passivation of silicate glasses (open access)

Dynamics of self-reorganization explains passivation of silicate glasses

This article demonstrates that gel reorganization involving high exchange rate of oxygen and low exchange rate of silicon is the key mechanism accounting for extremely low apparent water diffusivity.
Date: June 4, 2018
Creator: Gin, Stéphane; Collin, Marie; Jollivet, Patrick; Fournier, Maxime; Minet, Yves; Dupuy, Laurent et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Overlapping geographic clusters of food security and health: Where do social determinants and health outcomes converge in the U.S? (open access)

Overlapping geographic clusters of food security and health: Where do social determinants and health outcomes converge in the U.S?

Article describes study which identified overlapping geographic clusters of food insecurity and health across U.S. counties to identify potential shared mechanisms for geographic disparities in health and food insecurity.
Date: June 30, 2018
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; Hughes, Amy E.; Donegan, Connor; Santillan, Alejandro & Pruitt, Sandi L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Overlapping geographic clusters of food security and health: Where do social determinants and health outcomes converge in the U.S? (open access)

Overlapping geographic clusters of food security and health: Where do social determinants and health outcomes converge in the U.S?

This article identifies geographic clusters of food insecurity and health across U.S. counties to identify potential shared mechanisms for geographic disparities in health and food insecurity.
Date: June 14, 2018
Creator: Leonard, Tammy; Hughes, Amy; Donegan, Connor; Santillan, Alejandro & Pruitt, Sandi L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cooperative bi-exponential decay of dye emission coupled via plasmons (open access)

Cooperative bi-exponential decay of dye emission coupled via plasmons

This article demonstrates that the relaxation in the sub-radiant system leads to the population of the sub-radiant states by dephasing the super-radiant Dicke states giving rise to the bi-exponential decay in agreement with the experiments.
Date: June 22, 2018
Creator: Lyvers, David P.; Moazzezi, Mojtaba; de Silva, Vashista C.; Brown, Dean P.; Urbas, Augustine M.; Rostovtsev, Yuri V. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes-3 (open access)

Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes-3

A series of editorials highlighting in brief reports recently published articles describing crucial findings in the field of medical chemistry.
Date: June 30, 2018
Creator: Mangoni, Arduino A; Tuccinardi, Tiziano; Collina, Simona; Vanden Eynde, Jean Jacques; Muñoz-Torrero, Diego; Karaman, Rafik et al.
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
Early Predictors of Child's Bully and Victim Statuses: A Longitudinal Investigation Using Parent, Teacher, and Student Reports From National Data (open access)

Early Predictors of Child's Bully and Victim Statuses: A Longitudinal Investigation Using Parent, Teacher, and Student Reports From National Data

This article studies how bullies and victims develop within the contexts of their homes and schools, and how early childhood behaviors can predict later bullying/victimization statuses.
Date: June 29, 2018
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba; Mitchell, Mary E. & Glover, Rebecca
System: The UNT Digital Library
Field Environmental Philosophy and the Sub-Antarctic Ecoregion of Magallanes as a Natural Laboratory in the Anthropocene (open access)

Field Environmental Philosophy and the Sub-Antarctic Ecoregion of Magallanes as a Natural Laboratory in the Anthropocene

Article presents the methodological approach of the Field Environmental Philosophy (FEP).
Date: June 25, 2018
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hexagonal MoTe₂ with Amorphous BN Passivation Layer for Improved Oxidation Resistance and Endurance of 2D Field Effect Transistors (open access)

Hexagonal MoTe₂ with Amorphous BN Passivation Layer for Improved Oxidation Resistance and Endurance of 2D Field Effect Transistors

This article demonstrates the effectiveness of an a-BN capping layer in preserving few-layer MoTe₂ material quality and controlling its conductivity type at elevated temperatures in an atmospheric environment.
Date: June 6, 2018
Creator: Sirota, Benjamin; Glavin, Nicholas; Krylyuk, Sergiy; Davydov, Albert V. & Voevodin, Andrey A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Microstructural Design for Improving Ductility of An Initially Brittle Refractory High Entropy Alloy (open access)

Microstructural Design for Improving Ductility of An Initially Brittle Refractory High Entropy Alloy

This article presents a novel approach to microstructural engineering of refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) to form an "inverted" BCC+B2 microstructure.
Date: June 11, 2018
Creator: Soni, V.; Senkov, O. N.; Gwalani, B.; Miracle, D. B. & Banerjee, Rajarshi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Designing Learning for Sustainable Development: Digital Practices as Boundary Crossers and Predictors of Sustainable Lifestyles (open access)

Designing Learning for Sustainable Development: Digital Practices as Boundary Crossers and Predictors of Sustainable Lifestyles

This article contains results from a survey among students of urban and spatial planning in Slovenia to inform teacher's approaches to teaching as an important driver of institutional change.
Date: June 15, 2018
Creator: Starcic, Andreja Istenic; Terlevic, Maja; Lin, Lin & Lebenicnik, Maja
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal Matrix Composite Coatings of Cupronickel Embedded with Nanoplatelets for Improved Corrosion Resistant Properties (open access)

Metal Matrix Composite Coatings of Cupronickel Embedded with Nanoplatelets for Improved Corrosion Resistant Properties

This article studies the effects of nanoplatelet reinforcement on the durability, corrosion resistance, and mechanical properties of copper-nickel coatings.
Date: June 3, 2018
Creator: Thurber, Casey; Ahmad, Yahia H.; Calhoun, Margaret C.; Al-Shenawa, Amaal; D'Souza, Nandika; Mohamed, Adel M. A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solubility and Apparent Specific Volume of Sucrose in Some Aqueous Polyethylene Glycol Mixtures at 298.2 K (open access)

Solubility and Apparent Specific Volume of Sucrose in Some Aqueous Polyethylene Glycol Mixtures at 298.2 K

This article determines and correlates the equilibrium solubility of sucrose in {PEG 200 (or 400) + water} mixtures at 298.2 K.
Date: June 20, 2018
Creator: Tinjacá, Darío; Muñoz, María M.; Rahimpour, Elaheh; Jouyban, Abolghasem; Martínez, Fleming & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Duty of Notification and Aviation Safety—A Study of Fatal Aviation Accidents in the United States in 2015 (open access)

Duty of Notification and Aviation Safety—A Study of Fatal Aviation Accidents in the United States in 2015

Study examines the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) database wasto identify fatal accidents during 2015 in the United States in which a deceased pilot used a prescribed medication or had a disease that potentially reduced pilot performance and was not reported to their aeromedical practitioners (AMEs) in order to gain insight on issues with the duty of notification process.
Date: June 13, 2018
Creator: Vuorio, Alpo; Budowle, Bruce; Sajantila, Antti; Laukkala, Tanja; Junttila, Ilkka; Kravik, Stein E. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library