Role of ribosomal RNA released from red cells in blood coagulation in zebrafish and humans (open access)

Role of ribosomal RNA released from red cells in blood coagulation in zebrafish and humans

This article identifies that an rRNA released in hemolysis activates clotting in human and zebrafish plasma. Furthermore, it shows that fish Hgfac plays a role in rRNA-mediated activation of coagulation.
Date: November 17, 2021
Creator: Alharbi, Abdulmajeed; Iyer, Neha; Al Qaryoute, Ayah; Raman, Revathi; Burks, David J.; Azad, Rajeev K. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Air Corridors: Concept, Design, Simulation, and Rules of Engagement (open access)

Air Corridors: Concept, Design, Simulation, and Rules of Engagement

Article presenting fundamental insights into the design of air corridors with high operational efficiency as well as zero collisions. It begins with the definitions of air cube, skylane or track, intersection, vertiport, gate, and air corridor. Then a multi-layered air corridor model is proposed. Traffic at intersections is analyzed in detail with examples of vehicles turning in different directions. The concept of capacity of an air corridor is introduced along with the nature of distribution of locations of vehicles in the air corridor and collision probability inside the corridor are discussed. Finally, results of traffic flow simulations are presented.
Date: November 12, 2021
Creator: Muna, Sabrina Islam; Mukherjee, Srijita; Namuduri, Kamesh; Compere, Marc; Akbas, Mustafa Ilhan; Molnár, Péter et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seeking Mental Health Support Among College Students in Video-Based Social Media: Content and Statistical Analysis of YouTube Videos (open access)

Seeking Mental Health Support Among College Students in Video-Based Social Media: Content and Statistical Analysis of YouTube Videos

This article presents a study that aims to identify strategies for using video-based social media to combat stigmatized diseases, such as mental health, among college students. The authors identify effective strategies for designing video-based social media content for supporting college students’ mental health. Results show that the videos where individuals share their personal stories, as well as experiential knowledge (ie, tips and advice), engaged more viewers in both the short term and long term. Individuals’ videos on YouTube showed the potential to support college students' mental health in unique ways, such as providing social support, validating experience, and sharing the positive experience of help-seeking.
Date: November 11, 2021
Creator: Choi, Bogeum; Kim, Heejun & Huh-Yoo, Jina
System: The UNT Digital Library
Form and Function of the Vertebrate and Invertebrate Blood-Brain Barriers (open access)

Form and Function of the Vertebrate and Invertebrate Blood-Brain Barriers

Article reviewing blood-brain barriers (BBBs) in their various forms in both invertebrates and vertebrates, with an emphasis on the function, evolution, and conditional relevance of popular animal models such as the fruit fly and the zebrafish to mammalian BBB research.
Date: November 9, 2021
Creator: Dunton, Alicia D.; Göpel, Torben; Ho, Dao H. & Burggren, Warren W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
High power density and bias-free reverse electrowetting energy harvesting using surface area enhanced porous electrodes (open access)

High power density and bias-free reverse electrowetting energy harvesting using surface area enhanced porous electrodes

Article presents a novel approach for enhancing power output from a REWOD energy harvester by significantly increasing the total available surface area using perforated silicon wafer electrodes.
Date: November 6, 2021
Creator: Adhikari, Pashupati R.; Reid, Russell C. & Mahbub, Ifana
System: The UNT Digital Library
I Cannot See You—The Perspectives of Deaf Students to Online Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic: Saudi Arabia Case Study (open access)

I Cannot See You—The Perspectives of Deaf Students to Online Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic: Saudi Arabia Case Study

This article investigates the e-learning experiences of deaf students, focusing on the college of the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Particularly, it studies the challenges and concerns faced by deaf students during the sudden shift to online learning. Results report problems with internet access, inadequate support, and inaccessibility of content from learning systems, among other issues. The authors argue that institutions should consider a procedure to create more accessible technology that is adaptable during the pandemic to serve individuals with diverse needs.
Date: November 5, 2021
Creator: Aljedaani, Wajdi; Aljedaani, Mona; AlOmar, Eman Abdullah; Mkaouer, Mohamed Wiem; Ludi, Stephanie & Khalaf, Yousef Bani
System: The UNT Digital Library
Architectural dimensions of socially driven venture capital firms: social innovation in the capital markets (open access)

Architectural dimensions of socially driven venture capital firms: social innovation in the capital markets

Article explores socially responsible VC architectural dimensions with implications for firm design based on blended measures of success.
Date: November 4, 2021
Creator: Jones, Raymond J. & Salimath, Manjula S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expand-and-Randomize: An Algebraic Approach to Secure Computation (open access)

Expand-and-Randomize: An Algebraic Approach to Secure Computation

This article considers the secure computation problem in a minimal model, where Alice and Bob each holds an input and wish to securely compute a function of their inputs at Carol without revealing any additional information about the inputs. For this minimal secure computation problem, the authors propose a novel coding scheme built from two steps. First, the function to be computed is expanded such that it can be recovered while additional information might be leaked. Second, a randomization step is applied to the expanded function such that the leaked information is protected. The authors implement this expand-and-randomize coding scheme with two algebraic structures—the finite field and the modulo ring of integers, where the expansion step is realized with the addition operation and the randomization step is realized with the multiplication operation over the respective algebraic structures.
Date: November 4, 2021
Creator: Zhao, Yizhou & Sun, Hua
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigating the Use of Metadata Record Graphs to Analyze Subject Headings in the Digital Public Library of America (open access)

Investigating the Use of Metadata Record Graphs to Analyze Subject Headings in the Digital Public Library of America

Article discussing network analysis of aggregated subject values in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), with a discussion of how format normalization could affect subject overlap across collections.
Date: November 4, 2021
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating a Local Usage Collection System: PySUSHI (open access)

Creating a Local Usage Collection System: PySUSHI

Article discussing the design and implementation of a built-in-house usage collection system for electronic resource usage via release 4 and release 5 of the SUSHI protocol, as well as the design and integration of additional modules for the loading of manually downloaded COUNTER reports.
Date: November 2021
Creator: Hergert, Christopher; Harker, Karen & Byrne, Sephra
System: The UNT Digital Library
The effect of laser shock peening with and without protective coating on intergranular corrosion of sensitized AA5083 (open access)

The effect of laser shock peening with and without protective coating on intergranular corrosion of sensitized AA5083

Article applies Laser Shock Peening with (LSP) and without protective coating (LPwC) to sensitized AA5083 followed by electrochemical analysis.
Date: November 1, 2021
Creator: Kaufman, Jan; Racek, Jan; Cieslar, Miroslav; Minárik, Peter; Steiner, Matthew A.; Mannava, Seetha R. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Everything You Wanted to Know About Continuous Glucose Monitoring (open access)

Everything You Wanted to Know About Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Article providing a brief review about various approaches of continuous glucose measurement with noninvasive manner. This article covers the state-of-the-art glucose measurement methods and its control mechanism. The study of various consumer products have also been discussed along with the open challenges. This is the Accepted Manuscript version.
Date: November 1, 2021
Creator: Joshi, Amit M. & Mohanty, Saraju P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Who still checks stuff out?: A look at physical circulation during the COVID-19 pandemic (open access)

Who still checks stuff out?: A look at physical circulation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Article examining the changes to physical circulation of the University of North Texas Libraries' physical materials collection.
Date: November 2021
Creator: Byrne, Sephra; Hergert, Christopher & Harker, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library