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Construction and characterization of superhydrophobic wood coatings using one-step technique (open access)

Construction and characterization of superhydrophobic wood coatings using one-step technique

Article describes how this study was aiming at enhancing the stain resistance and durability of varnish on wood surfaces, a super hydrophobic solution was created by blending the synthetic ZIF-8/paraffin with Hexadecyltrimethoxysilane at a specified mass ratio. This superhydrophobic mixture was then directly applied onto the wood varnish coating using a one-step method.
Date: November 22, 2023
Creator: Cao, Shuai; Cheng, Shuai; Wang, Pengyu; Ge, Shengbo; Cai, Liping & Cai, Jiabin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data-Driven Decision-Making Practice in Higher Education Institutions in Ethiopia (open access)

Data-Driven Decision-Making Practice in Higher Education Institutions in Ethiopia

Article describes how the study investigates the practice of data-driven decision-making in higher education institutions in Ethiopia. It then presents the results of a mixed-methods investigation that was conducted at two public universities in Ethiopia.
Date: October 22, 2023
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Asfaw, Zelalem; Jimma, Worku & Ferede, Bekalu
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Highly Pseudocapacitive Storage Design Principles of Heteroatom-Doped Graphene anode in Calcium-Ion Batteries (open access)

Highly Pseudocapacitive Storage Design Principles of Heteroatom-Doped Graphene anode in Calcium-Ion Batteries

Article describes how pseudocapacitive storage of multivalent ions, especially Ca2+, in heteroatom-doped carbon nanomaterials is promising to achieve both high energy and power densities, but there is the lack of pseudocapacitive theories that enable rational design of the materials for calcium-ion batteries.
Date: August 22, 2023
Creator: Gao, Yong; Li, Zhenglong; Weng, Pan; Cui, Wengang; Wang, Xiaowei; Yang, Yaxiong et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The psychosocial burden of women seeking treatment for breast and cervical cancers in Ghana’s major cancer hospitals (open access)

The psychosocial burden of women seeking treatment for breast and cervical cancers in Ghana’s major cancer hospitals

Article discusses how breast and cervical cancers remain the most common cancers and the leading cause of cancer deaths in Ghana. Authors state that there is a need for liaison psychiatrists and health psychologists to assist oncologists to provide psychological support such as free and routine counselling services for cancer patients and their caregivers.
Date: August 22, 2023
Creator: Okyere Asante, Patience Gyamenah; Owusu, Adobea Yaa; Oppong, Joseph R.; Amegah, Kingsley E. & Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
NextGen-Malloc: Giving Memory Allocator Its Own Room in the House (open access)

NextGen-Malloc: Giving Memory Allocator Its Own Room in the House

Article describes how memory allocation and management have a significant impact on performance and energy of modern applications. The authors observe that performance can vary by as much as 72% in some applications based on which memory allocator is used, and in this paper, the authors make a case for offloading memory allocation (and other similar management functions) from main processing cores to other processing units to boost performance, reduce energy consumption, and customize services to specific applications or application domains.
Date: June 22, 2023
Creator: Li, Ruihao; Wu, Qinzhe; Kavi, Krishna M.; Mehta, Gayatri; Yadwadkar, Neeraja J. & John, Lizy Kurian
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A beginner’s guide to library association service (open access)

A beginner’s guide to library association service

This article explains the immediate and long-term benefits of service to new librarians. It also covers finding and selecting service opportunities, serving effectively in those roles, and documenting service activities. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article.
Date: April 22, 2023
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative

Presentation highlighting the Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative at the University of North Texas Libraries. The Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative aims to remove some of the barriers trans individuals face accessing information and to provide more equitable access to our services and collections. The presentation shares the different phases of the project with guidance for others looking to start similar initiatives at their library, even if there is little administrative support.
Date: March 22, 2023
Creator: Condrey, Coby & Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automated Approach to In Vitro Image-Guided Photothermal Therapy with Top-Down and Bottom-Up-Synthesized Graphene Quantum Dots (open access)

Automated Approach to In Vitro Image-Guided Photothermal Therapy with Top-Down and Bottom-Up-Synthesized Graphene Quantum Dots

Article discusses how, based on recent studies, graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are expected to possess advantageous photothermal properties and facilitate fluorescence image-tracking in the visible and near-infrared (NIR), while surpassing other graphene-based materials in their biocompatibility. The combination of the photothermal and imaging modalities tested in vitro makes the GQDs developed in this work prospective agents for cancer theragnostics.
Date: February 22, 2023
Creator: Lee, Bong; Stokes, Gretel A.; Valimukhametova, Alina; Nguyen, Steven; Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Roberto; Bhaloo, Adam et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Webinar 4: Accessing and Using Oral History captions transcript

Webinar 4: Accessing and Using Oral History

Video recording of the fourth webinar from the Oral History Forum. The theme of the last webinar of the series explores innovative uses of oral history collections and pushes for equitable access to oral history collections.
Date: February 22, 2023
Creator: Marcus, Eric; Sullivan, Sady & Sielaff, Steven
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lipid Droplets: Packing Hydrophobic Molecules Within the Aqueous Cytoplasm (open access)

Lipid Droplets: Packing Hydrophobic Molecules Within the Aqueous Cytoplasm

Article discusses how lipid droplets, also known as oil bodies or lipid bodies, are plant organelles that compartmentalize neutral lipids as a hydrophobic matrix covered by proteins embedded in a phospholipid monolayer. The authors review the growing body of knowledge about lipid droplets in plant cells, describe the evolutionary similarity and divergence in their associated subcellular machinery, and point to gaps that deserve future attention.
Date: November 22, 2022
Creator: Guzha, Athanas; Whitehead, Payton; Ischebeck, Till & Chapman, Kent Dean
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Three-Dimensional Printed, Dual-Band, Dual-Circularly Polarized Antenna Array Using Gap Waveguide Technology (open access)

Three-Dimensional Printed, Dual-Band, Dual-Circularly Polarized Antenna Array Using Gap Waveguide Technology

Article proposes a gap waveguide (GW)-based 4 × 4 dual-band, dual-circularly polarized antenna array. The combination of dual-band, dual-circularly polarized capability, high gain, high efficiency, lightweight, low cost and compact size renders the proposed design a potential candidate for commercial millimeter wave communication applications.
Date: October 22, 2022
Creator: Wu, Sifan; Li, Jianxing; Cao, Yuanxi; Yan, Sen; Xu, Kaida & Luyen, Hung
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Constitution in the Digital Age: Data Technology, Surveillance, and Privacy [Flyer] (open access)

The Constitution in the Digital Age: Data Technology, Surveillance, and Privacy [Flyer]

Flyer for UNT's 2022 Constitution Day webinar event that featured a wide-ranging conversation on data technology, surveillance, cybersecurity, social media, privacy, and information freedom in honor of Constitution Day. The event was a moderated panel presentation with speakers Amy K. Sanders, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Media and School of Law, UT Austin; Scott H. Belshaw, founder and director, Cyber Forensics Lab, University of North Texas; Daniella Smith, Director of the Information Science Ph.D. program, University of North Texas; and moderated by Dr. Rafael Major and Dr. Catherine Borck, University of North Texas. A watch party for this webinar was held in 250H of Willis Library.
Date: September 22, 2022
Creator: Borck, Catherine A.; Sittel, Robbie & Henson, Brea
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Constitution in the Digital Age: Data Technology, Surveillance, and Privacy [Video] captions transcript

The Constitution in the Digital Age: Data Technology, Surveillance, and Privacy [Video]

Video recording of UNT's 2022 Constitution Day webinar event that featured a wide-ranging conversation on data technology, surveillance, cybersecurity, social media, privacy, and information freedom in honor of Constitution Day. The event was a moderated panel presentation with speakers Amy K. Sanders, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Media and School of Law, UT Austin; Scott H. Belshaw, founder and director, Cyber Forensics Lab, University of North Texas; Daniella Smith, Director of the Information Science Ph.D. program, University of North Texas; and moderated by Dr. Rafael Major and Dr. Catherine Borck, University of North Texas. A watch party for this webinar was held in 250H of Willis Library.
Date: September 22, 2022
Creator: Sanders, Amy K.; Belshaw, Scott H. & Smith, Daniella
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biochar aerogel-based electrocatalyst towards efficient oxygen evolution in acidic media (open access)

Biochar aerogel-based electrocatalyst towards efficient oxygen evolution in acidic media

Article argues that traditional acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts are more prone to be oxidized and corroded as results of unstable carrier structures and variable electronic states of active species, so a high-performing biochar aerogel (BA) based electrocatalyst was realistically designed and synthetized via joint utilization of the terrestrial lignin and seaweed polysaccharide as carbon sources. This work puts forward a novel and effective strategy towards the enhancement of the acidic OER process by rational regulations of the BA and the coupling effect in micro-interface.
Date: July 22, 2022
Creator: Hui, Bin; Chen, Hongjiao; Zhou, Chengfeng; Cai, Liping; Zhang, Kewei; Quan, Fengyu et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustaining Human Nutrition in an Increasingly Urban World (open access)

Sustaining Human Nutrition in an Increasingly Urban World

This article proposes an urban nutrition (UN) extension to the previously published urban ecological economic system. The proposed extension can be used by decision makers worldwide to evaluate how landscape configurations and agricultural production systems affect the nutritional needs of the local population while fostering sustainable practices.
Date: June 22, 2022
Creator: Torres, Angélica Valencia; Tiwari, Chetan & Atkinson, Samuel F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Associations between volunteering and cognitive impairment: The moderating role of race/ethnicity (open access)

Associations between volunteering and cognitive impairment: The moderating role of race/ethnicity

Article describes how although volunteering has been shown to benefit cognitive health, there is a paucity of evidence on informal volunteering and subjective measures of cognitive impairment. The author's study aimed to examine the associations of both formal and informal volunteering with older adults' objective and subjective cognition and explore the moderating role of race/ethnicity in such associations.
Date: May 22, 2022
Creator: Wang, Yi; Wong, Roger; Amano, Takashi & Shen, Huei-Wern
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Harm Minimisation Drug Policy Implementation Qualities: Their Efficacy with Australian Needle and Syringe Program Providers and People Who Inject Drugs (open access)

Harm Minimisation Drug Policy Implementation Qualities: Their Efficacy with Australian Needle and Syringe Program Providers and People Who Inject Drugs

Article examines the implementation quality priorities of Needle and Syringe Program (NSP) providers and PWID (people who inject drugs) in an Australian setting. This research presents novel findings guiding NSP harm reduction programmes for sustainability framed on provider and consumer implementation quality priorities and envisages future studies on boundary conditions of NSP harm reduction implementation in other jurisdictions.
Date: March 14, 2022
Creator: Resiak, Danielle; Mpofu, Elias & Rothwell, Roderick
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
COVID-19 Vaccination-Related Sentiments Analysis: A Case Study Using Worldwide Twitter Dataset (open access)

COVID-19 Vaccination-Related Sentiments Analysis: A Case Study Using Worldwide Twitter Dataset

Article is a study analyzing the global perceptions and perspectives towards COVID-19 vaccination using a worldwide Twitter dataset, natural language processing, and machine learning.
Date: December 20, 2021
Creator: Reshi, Aijaz Ahmad; Rustam, Furqan; Aljedaani, Wajdi; Shafi, Shabana; Alhossan, Abdulaziz; Alrabiah, Ziyad et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Ethnographic Study of Collaborative Fashion Consumption: The Case of Temporary Clothing Swapping (open access)

An Ethnographic Study of Collaborative Fashion Consumption: The Case of Temporary Clothing Swapping

This article is the first research that has examined temporary swapping, a form of collaborative fashion consumption, that involves clothing exchange between two people that does not require the transfer of product ownership or monetary compensation. In this ethnographic study the authors explored benefits, risks, and the meanings constructed by eight women before, during, and after exchanging parts of their wardrobes with a swap partner.
Date: December 26, 2021
Creator: Karpova, Elena E.; Jestratijevic, Iva; Lee, JuYoung & Wu, Juanjuan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cascading effects of COVID-19 on population mobility and air quality: An exploration including place characteristics using geovisualization (open access)

Cascading effects of COVID-19 on population mobility and air quality: An exploration including place characteristics using geovisualization

Article examining the population mobility and air quality before and after the lockdown (mandated restriction of activity) during the public health response to COVID-19. This article is part of the Special Issue on COVID-19.
Date: January 22, 2022
Creator: Atkinson, Samuel F.; Kala, Abhishek K. & Tiwari, Chetan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perception and Challenges of Preventive Measures of COVID-19 Among Nepalese Frontline Health Professionals: An Unexplored Realism (open access)

Perception and Challenges of Preventive Measures of COVID-19 Among Nepalese Frontline Health Professionals: An Unexplored Realism

Article examining Nepalese healthcare workers understanding of technology and preventative strategies during the COVID-19 epidemic. The research also looks at the problems experienced by frontline health care personnel (HCP) due to the COVID-19 strategic shift in work policy.
Date: July 25, 2021
Creator: Pathak, Krishna Prasad; Sanyam, Sandip Das; Gaire, Tara; Basnet, Pushpa Babu; Sah, Sanjay Kumar; Basnet, Buddha Bahadur et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: A Pioneering Process of Community-focused Experimental Design (open access)

Optimization of the Observing Cadence for the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: A Pioneering Process of Community-focused Experimental Design

This article is part of a Focus Issue on the topic of Rubin LSST Survey Strategy Optimization. The motivation, history, and decision-making process of the observing strategy optimization are detailed, giving context to the science-driven proposals and recommendations for the survey strategy included in this Focus Issue.
Date: December 22, 2021
Creator: Bianco, Federica B.; Ivezić, Željko; Jones, R. Lynne; Graham, Melissa L.; Marshall, Phil; Saha, Abhijit et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library