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Optomechanical Design for Precision Lens Positioning and Mounting (open access)

Optomechanical Design for Precision Lens Positioning and Mounting

This article presents a lens positioning and mounting in a few microns accuracy using a kinematic mount module.
Date: August 25, 2016
Creator: Wang, Shuping; Zhang, Chi; Alt, Mark; Davis, Colleen; Gardner, Michael L. & Ji, Zheng
System: The UNT Digital Library
Competition Between Resonant Plasmonic Coupling and Electrostatic Interaction in Reduced Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots (open access)

Competition Between Resonant Plasmonic Coupling and Electrostatic Interaction in Reduced Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots

This article presents a study of the plasmonic interaction that effects the optical properties of light emission from graphene oxide system.
Date: November 22, 2016
Creator: Karna, Sanjya; Mahat, M.; Choi, Tae-Youl; Shimada, Ryoko; Wang, Zhiming & Neogi, Arup
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
Centimeter Scale Patterned Growth of Vertically Stacked Few Layer Only 2D MoS₂/WS₂ van der Waals Heterostructure (open access)

Centimeter Scale Patterned Growth of Vertically Stacked Few Layer Only 2D MoS₂/WS₂ 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
Habitat Quantity of Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Picoides Borealis (Aves: Piciformes: Picidae) in its Former Historic Landscape Near the Big Thicket Naitonal Preserve, Texas, USA (open access)

Habitat Quantity of Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Picoides Borealis (Aves: Piciformes: Picidae) in its Former Historic Landscape Near the Big Thicket Naitonal Preserve, Texas, USA

This article quantifies pine-forested habitat suitable for Red-cockaded Woodpecker in the former historic range of the species to assess the potential for possible re-colonization.
Date: January 26, 2016
Creator: Thapa, Vivek & Acevedo, Miguel F.
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
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
Effect of Elevated Temperatures on Properties of Blended Cements with Clinoptilolite (open access)

Effect of Elevated Temperatures on Properties of Blended Cements with Clinoptilolite

Article investigates the effect of elevated temperature on properties of clinoptilolite blended cements. Clinoptilolite was used at 5 %, 10 %, 15 % and 20 % replacement by weight for Portland cement while sand and water quantities were kept constant in all mix designs. The mortars with 5 % or 10 % cliniptilolite substitution have compressive strength exceeding 42.5 MPa after being subjected to 400 °C and 500 °C.
Date: December 1, 2016
Creator: Beycioglu, Ahmet; Yılmaz Aruntaș, Hüseyin; Gencel, Osman; Hagg Lobland, Haley E.; Şamandar, Ayhan & Brostow, Witold, 1934-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attitudes and Behaviors Towards Risky Driving Among Adolescents in Saudi Arabia (open access)

Attitudes and Behaviors Towards Risky Driving Among Adolescents in Saudi Arabia

This article investigates perceptions and attitudes of school youth concerning risky driving behaviors in Saudi Arabia.
Date: May 14, 2016
Creator: Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini & Almakadma, Abdulkarim
System: The UNT Digital Library
Xurography as a Rapid Fabrication Alternative for Point-of-Care Devices: Assessment of Passive Micromixers (open access)

Xurography as a Rapid Fabrication Alternative for Point-of-Care Devices: Assessment of Passive Micromixers

This article evaluates the viability of xurography as a rapid fabrication tool for the development of ultra-low cost microfluidic technology for extreme Point-of-Care (POC) micromixing devices.
Date: February 20, 2016
Creator: Martínez-López, J. Israel; Mojica, Mauricio; Rodríguez, Ciro A. & Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seismic Response and Engineering of Cold-formed Steel Framed Buildings (open access)

Seismic Response and Engineering of Cold-formed Steel Framed Buildings

This article discusses a North American effort which formed as part of the NSF Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), known as Enabling Performance-Based Seismic Design of Multi-Story Cold-Formed Steel Structures (CFS-NEES), as it addresses seismic performance-based design for cold-formed steel framed buildings.
Date: May 26, 2016
Creator: Schafer, B. W.; Ayhan, D.; Leng, J.; Liu, P.; Padilla-Llano, D.; Peterman, K. D. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hybrid Boron Nitride-Natural Fiber Composites for Enhanced Thermal Conductivity (open access)

Hybrid Boron Nitride-Natural Fiber Composites for Enhanced Thermal Conductivity

This article finds that the synergy of natural fiber with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) could significantly improve thermal conductivity, compared with that solely using hBN.
Date: October 5, 2016
Creator: Xia, Changlei; Garcia, Andres C.; Shi, Sheldon Q.; Qiu, Ying; Warner, Nathaniel; Wu, Yingji et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling analysis of the impact of anthropogenic emission sources on ozone concentration over selected urban areas in Texas (open access)

Modeling analysis of the impact of anthropogenic emission sources on ozone concentration over selected urban areas in Texas

This article discusses a regional photochemical modeling experiment set up to simulate a high ozone episode of September 11-14, 2002 to evaluate the impact of various anthropogenic emissions sources on ozone concentrations.
Date: January 6, 2016
Creator: Farooqui, Zuber M.; John, Kuruvilla; Biswas, Jhumoor & Sule, Neelesh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of PEEK Coating on Hip Implant Stress Shielding: A Finite Element Analysis (open access)

Influence of PEEK Coating on Hip Implant Stress Shielding: A Finite Element Analysis

This article proposes a design concept for hip implants, using a combination of metallic stem with a polymer coating.
Date: February 7, 2016
Creator: Anguiano-Sanchez, Jesica; Martínez-Romero, Oscar; Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael; Díaz-Elizondo, José A.; Flores-Villalba, Eduardo & Rodríguez, Ciro A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oxidation behavior and microstructural decomposition of Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-4V-1B sheet (open access)

Oxidation behavior and microstructural decomposition of Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-4V-1B sheet

This article conducts a direct comparison between the oxidation behavior of Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-4V + 1B to elucidate whether the addition of boron to Ti-^Al-4V impacts the oxidation behavior.
Date: August 1, 2016
Creator: Brice, David A.; Samimi, P.; Ghamarian, I.; Liu, Yue; Brice, R. M.; Reidy, Richard F. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supervised Keyphrase Extraction as Positive Unlabeled Learning (open access)

Supervised Keyphrase Extraction as Positive Unlabeled Learning

This paper shows that performance of trained keyphrase extractors approximates a classifier trained on articles labeled by multiple annotators, leading to higher average F₁ scores and better rankings of keyphrases.
Date: November 2016
Creator: Sterckx, Lucas; Caragea, Cornelia; Demeester, Thomas & Develder, Chris
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optical method for distance and displacement measurements of the probe-sample separation in a scanning near-field optical microscope (open access)

Optical method for distance and displacement measurements of the probe-sample separation in a scanning near-field optical microscope

This article presents an alternative optical method to determine the probe-sample separation distance in a scanning near-field optical microscope.
Date: May 18, 2016
Creator: Santamaria, L.; Garcia-Ortiz, C. E.; Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael; Cortes, R. & Coello, V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uv-Induced Modification of Fused Silica: Insights From ReaxFF-Based Molecular Dynamics Simulations (open access)

Uv-Induced Modification of Fused Silica: Insights From ReaxFF-Based Molecular Dynamics Simulations

This article discusses molecular dynamics simulations performed to present evidence that silica structure in both short and medium ranges is directly modified by UV-induced defects.
Date: September 16, 2016
Creator: Tian, Ye; Du, Jincheng; Zu, Xiaotao; Han, Wei; Yuan, Xiaodong & Zheng, Wanguo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental study and finite element analysis of energy dissipating outriggers (open access)

Experimental study and finite element analysis of energy dissipating outriggers

This article uses experiments and finite element analyses to study the structural responses and energy dissipation capacities of three different outriggers of an actual tall building project.
Date: November 11, 2016
Creator: Yang, Qingshun; Lu, Xinzheng; Yu, Cheng & Gu, Donglian
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dual-Wavelength Terahertz Metasurfaces with Independent Phase and Amplitude Control at Each Wavelength (open access)

Dual-Wavelength Terahertz Metasurfaces with Independent Phase and Amplitude Control at Each Wavelength

This article describes the design of a dual-wavelength achromatic metasurface-based deflector deflecting the incident wave to the same direction at two selected wavelengths, which has circumvented the critical limitation of strong wavelength dependence in the planar metasurface-based devices caused by the resonant nature of the plasmonic structures.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Ding, Jun; Xu, Ningning; Ren, Han; Lin, Yuankun; Zhang, Weili & Zhang, Hualiang
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bioabsorbable zinc ion induced biphasic cellular responses in vascular smooth muscle cells (open access)

Bioabsorbable zinc ion induced biphasic cellular responses in vascular smooth muscle cells

This article explores the short-term effects of extracellular Zn²⁺ on human smooth muscle cells.
Date: January 6, 2016
Creator: Ma, Jun; Zhao, Nan & Zhu, Donghui
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design Concepts of Polycarbonate-Based Intervertebral Lumbar Cages: Finite Element Analysis and Compression Testing (open access)

Design Concepts of Polycarbonate-Based Intervertebral Lumbar Cages: Finite Element Analysis and Compression Testing

This article explores the viability of 3D printed intervertebral lumbar cages based on biocompatible polycarbonate (PC-ISO® material).
Date: April 18, 2016
Creator: Figueroa-Cavazos, J. Obedt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparing the Knotless Tension Band and the Traditional Stainless Steel Wire Tension Band Fixation for Medial Malleolus Fractures: A Retrospective Clinical Study (open access)

Comparing the Knotless Tension Band and the Traditional Stainless Steel Wire Tension Band Fixation for Medial Malleolus Fractures: A Retrospective Clinical Study

Article describes investigation which sought to to retrospectively compare this traditional wire technique to an innovative knotless tension band (KTB) technique in order to decrease costly complications.
Date: May 12, 2016
Creator: Downey, Michael W.; Duncan, Kyle; Kosmopoulos, Victor; Motley, Travis A.; Carpenter, Brian B.; Ogunyankin, Fadeke et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library