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Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, Comte De Guibert: Father of the Grande Armée (open access)

Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, Comte De Guibert: Father of the Grande Armée

Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert (1743-1790) dedicated his life and career to creating a new doctrine for the French army. Little about this doctrine was revolutionary. Indeed, Guibert openly decried the anarchy of popular participation in government and looked askance at the early days of the Revolution. Rather, Guibert’s doctrine marked the culmination of an evolutionary process that commenced decades before his time and reached fruition in the Réglement of 1791, which remained in force until the 1830s. Not content with military reform, Guibert demanded a political and social constitution to match. His reforms required these changes, demanding a disciplined, service-oriented society and a functional, rational government to assist his reformed military. He delved deeply, like no other contemporary writer, into the linkages between society, politics, and the military throughout his career and his writings. Guibert exerted an overwhelming influence on military thought across Europe for the next fifty years. His military theories provided the foundation for military reform during the twilight of the Old Regime. The Revolution, which adopted most of Guibert’s doctrine in 1791, continued his work. A new army and way of war based on Guibert’s reforms emerged to defeat France’s major enemies. In Napoleon’s hands, Guibert’s army …
Date: August 2014
Creator: Abel, Jonathan, 1985-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Cost-Effective Wireless Sensor Network System for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Applications (open access)

A Cost-Effective Wireless Sensor Network System for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring Applications

This paper from the 9th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications, FNC 2014 conference proceedings presents a low-cost indoor air quality monitoring wireless sensor network system developed using Arduino, XBee modules, and micro gas sensors.
Date: August 15, 2014
Creator: Abraham, Sherin & Li, Xinrong
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Processing, Structure and Tribological Property Relations of Ternary Zn-Ti-O and Quaternary Zn-Ti-Zr-O Nanocrystalline Coatings (open access)

Processing, Structure and Tribological Property Relations of Ternary Zn-Ti-O and Quaternary Zn-Ti-Zr-O Nanocrystalline Coatings

Conventional liquid lubricants are faced with limitations under extreme cyclic operating conditions, such as in applications that require lubrication when changing from atmospheric pressure to ultrahigh vacuum and ambient air to dry nitrogen (e.g., satellite components), and room to elevated (>500°C) temperatures (e.g., aerospace bearings). Alternatively, solid lubricant coatings can be used in conditions where synthetic liquid lubricants and greases are not applicable; however, individual solid lubricant phases usually perform best only for a limited range of operating conditions. Therefore, solid lubricants that can adequately perform over a wider range of environmental conditions are needed, especially during thermal cycling with temperatures exceeding 500°C. One potential material class investigated in this dissertation is lubricious oxides, because unlike other solid lubricant coatings they are typically thermodynamically stable in air and at elevated temperatures. While past studies have been focused on binary metal oxide coatings, such as ZnO, there have been very few ternary oxide and no reported quaternary oxide investigations. The premise behind the addition of the third and fourth refractory metals Ti and Zr is to increase the number of hard and wear resistant phases while maintaining solid lubrication with ZnO. Therefore, the major focus of this dissertation is to investigate …
Date: August 2014
Creator: Ageh, Victor
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Debate (open access)

Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Debate

This report discusses the ongoing debate regarding the Export-Import Bank of the United States, a federal government corporation which is the the official export credit agency (ECA) of the U.S. Government. The bank's statutory charter expires on September 30, 2014, meaning that its authority to obligations generally would cease and a wind-down of operations would be required. The report gives four possible scenarios for approaches Congress could take in regards to approaching the bank's future authorization status.
Date: August 18, 2014
Creator: Akhtar, Shayerah Ilias
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Export-Import Bank Reauthorization: Frequently Asked Questions (open access)

Export-Import Bank Reauthorization: Frequently Asked Questions

This report addresses frequently asked questions about Ex-Im Bank, grouped in the following categories: congressional interest and the Ex-Im Bank reauthorization debate; market context; international context; organizational structure and management; programs; statutory requirements and policies; risk management; budget and appropriations; implications of a sunset in authority; and historical and current approaches to reauthorization.
Date: August 1, 2014
Creator: Akhtar, Shayerah Ilias; Carpenter, David H.; Levit, Mindy R. & Taylor, Julia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Export-Import Bank Reauthorization: Frequently Asked Questions (open access)

Export-Import Bank Reauthorization: Frequently Asked Questions

This report addresses frequently asked questions about Ex-Im Bank, grouped in the following categories: congressional interest and the Ex-Im Bank reauthorization debate; market context; international context; organizational structure and management; programs; statutory requirements and policies; risk management; budget and appropriations; implications of a sunset in authority; and historical and current approaches to reauthorization.
Date: August 1, 2014
Creator: Akhtar, Shayerah Ilias; Levit, Mindy R. & Taylor, Julia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 26, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 3, 2014 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 26, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 3, 2014

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 3, 2014
Creator: Aldaz, Gina
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 27, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 10, 2014 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 27, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 10, 2014

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 10, 2014
Creator: Aldaz, Gina
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 28, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 17, 2014 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 28, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 17, 2014

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 17, 2014
Creator: Aldaz, Gina
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 29, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 24, 2014 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 29, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 24, 2014

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 24, 2014
Creator: Aldaz, Gina
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 29, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 31, 2014 (open access)

The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 29, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 31, 2014

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 31, 2014
Creator: Aldaz, Gina
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Role of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Asymmetric Cell Division in Maize (open access)

The Role of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Asymmetric Cell Division in Maize

Stomata are specialized plant structures required for gaseous exchange with the outer environment. During stomata formation, the cytoskeleton plays an important role in controlling the division of the individual cells leading to the generation of the stomata complex. Two mutants that affect microfilament and microtubule organization in subsidiary mother cells include brk1 and dcd1. While only 20% of the subsidiary cells in the brk1 and dcd1 single mutants are abnormally shaped, it was reported that there is a synergistic effect between the brk1 and dcd1 mutations in the brk1; dcd1 double mutant since 100% of the subsidiary cells are abnormal. The focus of this research is to try to understand this synergistic effect by investigating the actin cytoskeleton and nuclear position in the single and double mutants. The reported results include the observation that the size of actin patch was largest in the wild-type subsidiary mother cells (SMCs) and smallest in dcd1 and brk1; dcd1 SMCs and that brk1 and brk1; dcd1 double mutants had fewer actin patches than wild-type and dcd1 SMCs. Additionally, we observed that some SMCs that did not have actin patches still underwent nuclear migration suggesting that nuclear migration may not be solely dependent on actin …
Date: August 2014
Creator: Alhassan, Hassan Hamdan
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Necessity of Movement (open access)

The Necessity of Movement

This dissertation is a collection of poems preceded by a critical preface. The preface considers emotional immediacy—or the idea of enacting in readers an emotional drama that appears genuine and simultaneous with the speaker's experience—and furthermore argues against the common criticism that accessibility means simplicity, ultimately reifying the importance of accessibility in contemporary poetry. The preface is divided into an introduction and three sections, each of which explores a different technique for creating immediacy, exemplified by Robert Lowell’s "Waking in the Blue,” Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus,” and Louise Gluck's "Eros." The first section examines "Waking in the Blue,” and the poem's systematic inflation and deflation of persona as a means of revealing complexity a ambiguity. The second section engages in a close reading of "Lady Lazarus,” arguing that the poem's initially deliberately false erodes into sincerity, creating immediacy. The third section considers the continued importance of persona beyond confessionalism, and argues that in "Eros," it is the apparent lack of drama, and the focus on the cognitive process, that facilitates emotional immediacy.
Date: August 2014
Creator: Allen, Emily
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1, August 2014 (open access)

Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1, August 2014

Newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant and Dallas County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date: August 2014
Creator: Alvarado, Felix
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Investigation of Strategies for Improving STR Typing of Degraded and Low Copy DNA from Human Skeletal Remains and Bloodstains (open access)

Investigation of Strategies for Improving STR Typing of Degraded and Low Copy DNA from Human Skeletal Remains and Bloodstains

Forensic STR analysis is limited by the quality and quantity of DNA. Significant damage or alteration to the molecular structure of DNA by depurination, crosslinking, base modification, and strand breakage can impact typing success. Two methods that could potentially improve STR typing of challenged samples were explored: an in vitro DNA repair assay (PreCR™ Repair Mix) and whole genome amplification. Results with the repair assay showed trends of improved performance of STR profiling of bleach-damaged DNA. However, the repair assay did not improve DNA profiles from environmentally-damaged bloodstains or bone, and in some cases resulted in lower RFU values for STR alleles. The extensive spectrum of DNA damage and myriad combinations of lesions that can be present in forensic samples appears to pose a challenge for the in vitro PreCR™ assay. The data suggest that the use of PreCR™ in casework should be considered with caution due to the assay’s varied results. As an alternative to repair, whole genome amplification (WGA) was pursued. The DOP-PCR method was selected for WGA because of initial primer design and greater efficacy for amplifying degraded samples. Several modifications of the original DOP-PCR primer were evaluated. These modifications allowed for an overall more robust amplification …
Date: August 2014
Creator: Ambers, Angie D.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Use of Containers to Carry Bulk and Break Bulk Commodities and Its Impact on Gulf Region Ports and International Trade (open access)

Use of Containers to Carry Bulk and Break Bulk Commodities and Its Impact on Gulf Region Ports and International Trade

A report on the use of containers to carry bulk and break bulk commodities in Gulf Coast ports in Louisiana after the completion of the Panama Canal expansion.
Date: August 2014
Creator: Amdal, James R. & Howlett, Marc
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Engineered Microbial Consortium for the Efficient Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (open access)

Engineered Microbial Consortium for the Efficient Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels

Current energy and environmental challenges are driving the use of cellulosic materials for biofuel production. A major obstacle in this pursuit is poor ethanol tolerance among cellulolytic Clostridium species. The first objective of this work was to establish a potential upper boundary of ethanol tolerance for the cellulosome itself. The hydrolytic function of crude cellulosome extracts from C. cellulolyticum on carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) with 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25% (v/v) ethanol was determined. Results indicated that the endoglucanase activity of the cellulosome incubated in 5% and 10% ethanol was significantly different from a control without ethanol addition. Furthermore a significant difference was observed in endoglucanase activity for cellulosome incubated in 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% ethanol in a standalone experiment. Endoglucanase activity continued to be observed for up to 25% ethanol, indicating that cellulosome function in ethanol will not be an impediment to future efforts towards engineering increasing production titers to levels at least as high as the current physiological limits of the most tolerant ethanologenic microbes. The second objective of this work was to study bioethanol production by a microbial co-culture involving Clostridium cellulolyticum and a recombinant Zymomonas mobilis engineered for the utilization of oligodextrans. The …
Date: August 2014
Creator: Anieto, Ugochukwu Obiakornobi
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 151, Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 2014 (open access)

Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 151, Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 2014

Daily newspaper from Mount Pleasant, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 1, 2014
Creator: Antonelli, Lou & Borders, Gary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 152, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 3, 2014 (open access)

Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 152, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 3, 2014

Daily newspaper from Mount Pleasant, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 3, 2014
Creator: Antonelli, Lou & Borders, Gary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 153, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 5, 2014 (open access)

Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 153, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Daily newspaper from Mount Pleasant, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 5, 2014
Creator: Antonelli, Lou & Borders, Gary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 154, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 6, 2014 (open access)

Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 154, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Daily newspaper from Mount Pleasant, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 6, 2014
Creator: Antonelli, Lou & Borders, Gary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 155, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 7, 2014 (open access)

Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 155, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 7, 2014

Daily newspaper from Mount Pleasant, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 7, 2014
Creator: Antonelli, Lou & Borders, Gary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 156, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 2014 (open access)

Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 156, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 2014

Daily newspaper from Mount Pleasant, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 8, 2014
Creator: Antonelli, Lou & Borders, Gary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 157, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 10, 2014 (open access)

Daily Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 157, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 10, 2014

Daily newspaper from Mount Pleasant, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 10, 2014
Creator: Antonelli, Lou & Borders, Gary
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History