This article studies the hygroscopicity of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) with a gradient fiber structure assessed by a dynamic vapor sorption (DVS) apparatus and fitted with a Haillwood–Horrobin (H–H) model. The effects of the chemical composition, gradient fiber structure, and mesopore structure of the bamboo were also investigated. The results demonstrate that the hygroscopicity of bamboo gradually increases from the outer to the inner layer along the thickness of the culm wall, which is related to the gradient distribution of the fibers. The structure–function relationships between the chemical composition, multi-scale structure, and hygroscopicity identified in this study provide a theoretical basis for bamboo drying and storage technology, as well as the processing and application of bamboo fiber-based composites.

This article evaluates the targeting strategy of a national-level program in Mexico that distributed agricultural support based on seven criteria that prioritized poor smallholder farming communities at high risk of cropland failure. The findings highlight the continued lack of financial support for smallholder agriculture in Mexico, despite program rules and priority statements that stress the vulnerability of this sector. The article also illustrates the important role of spatial targeting in better aligning agricultural support payments with stated policy priorities.

This article is a systematic review describing a set of practices that have evidence of positive effects with autistic children and youth. It is the third iteration of a review of the intervention literature (Odom et al. in J Autism Dev Disorders 40(4):425–436, 2010a; Prevent School Fail 54(4):275–282, 2010b; Wong et al. in https://autismpdc.fpg.unc.edu/sites/autismpdc.fpg.unc.edu/files/imce/documents/2014-EBP-Report.pdf; J Autism Dev Disorders 45(7):1951–1966, 2015), extending coverage to articles published between 1990 and 2017.

Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Photograph of Robyn Pereira attending the Sherwood Forest Renaissance Faire in McDade, Texas on May 15, 2021.

Article modeling Metal-based bifunctional methane activators using density functional theory. The research yields insight into possible avenues for bio-inspired methane activators.

Presentation on the creation and use of instructional videos in the UNT Libraries. This poster presentation describes their video production process, how these videos have supported student learning, and an example of an instructional video we created. Instructional videos are one major online resource that the University of North Texas Libraries provides to students. Librarians create a variety of online videos on topics that supplement course materials and instruction sessions. It was presented at the 2021 Texas Library Association (TLA) Library Instruction Round Table Annual Summit which was held virtually on October 15, 2021.

Article presenting electrical and multiphysics-based modeling approaches of REWOD energy harvester using structured rough surface electrodes. By enhancing the overall available surface area, an increase in the overall capacitance is achieved.

Article reporting the high-temperature superlubricity phenomenon accomplished in coatings produced by burnishing powders of antimony trioxide (Sb₂O₃) and magnesium silicate hydroxide coated with carbon (MSH/C) onto the nickel superalloy substrate.

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Data management plan for the grant, "Establishing a Journey of Inclusion, Identity and Intersectionality through Guided Pathways to Enhance Latinx Success in Engineering and Computer Science." This project will bring together the University of North Texas (UNT) and North Central Texas College (NCTC) to decrease the time to graduation for transfer students in engineering and computer science (ECS) and better meet the needs of Latinx students. Three research questions will guide the project efforts. 1) How do Latinx students navigate the engineering fields at an HSI and how do their opportunities and experiences at an HSI relate to their outcomes? 2) How do faculty and staff incorporate Latinx students’ collective cultural wealth into their curricular and co-curricular programs? 3) How do the community college experiences of Latinx students inform their pathways through engineering and computer science programs at an HSI? The project will disseminate a collection of best practices arising from their collaborative effort that can serve as a model for partnerships between community colleges and universities designed to increase representation of the Latinx community in the engineering and computer science workforce.

Data management plan for the grant "Development of Novel Approaches to Earth-abundant Methane Catalysis." Research on catalytic cycles for C–H activation and functionalization of light alkanes based on the CMD (concerted metalation deprotonation) mechanism will be modeled for Earth-abundant metal dicarboxylates and related complexes. The impact of inner and outer coordination sphere effects upon catalytic cycles for light alkane functionalization will be assessed using computational chemistry techniques. The aforementioned studies will be leveraged to identify promising, synthetically feasible lead catalysts for experimental collaborators.

Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference virtually held on June 14-16, 2021. This presentation introduces the content archived by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference virtually held on June 14-16, 2021. This presentation discusses the Internet Archive's Whole Earth Web Archive (WEWA) and its conceptual and technical work, including prior projects and technical work to provide improved access to specific, valuable subsets of the overall global web archive behind the Wayback Machine.

Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference virtually held on June 14-16, 2021. This presentation conveys the lessons learned from the construction of a quality assurance and control framework at Library and Archives Canada.

Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference virtually held on June 14-16, 2021. This presentation covers the technical challenges of archiving and providing access to Flash content, focusing on the architecture of the remote browser system.

Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference virtually held on June 14-16, 2021. This presentation explores the collaborative improvement of the Web Curator Tool (WCT) in quality management of web archiving.

Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference virtually held on June 14-16, 2021. This presentation explores the author's experience with teaching web archiving and shares what's worked and what hasn't.

Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference virtually held on June 14-16, 2021. This presentation explores the complexity of the types of web documents being created, by artists and arts organization, how they are captured, and their knowledge sharing strategies.

Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference virtually held on June 14-16, 2021. This presentation will highlight the response to the increase need for training by the Web Archiving Team at the Library of Congress and outline in more detail the audiences targeted and topics they focused their training on, and how they improved their internal training guides in 2020 and had to evolve as they moved to full-time telework and to shift training online, and added a mandatory annual review training for collection leaders.

Data management plan for the grant "Development of Genetic Sensors and Circuits for Creating Novel Cellular Behaviors." This research is expected to advance the capability to engineer organisms for biomedical uses. Specifically, the outcomes of this project include design principles for engineering regulators from different protein families, an extensive set of genetic sensors for detecting a broad range of signals, and novel genetic circuits that address uprising problems in biomedical fields. It uses a novel multidisciplinary approach to enhance the health of the nation by creating tools that facilitate both medical-related discoveries and the implementation of new strategies for biomedical applications.

Photograph of a crowd of students outside the University of North Texas Union. A street preacher, "Sister Cindy," is speaking to the crowd.

Photograph of a crowd of students outside the University of North Texas Union. A street preacher, "Sister Cindy," is speaking to the crowd.

Photograph of a crowd of students outside the University of North Texas Union. A street preacher, "Sister Cindy," is speaking to the crowd. Sister Cindy is visible in the center of the crowd wearing a polka dot skirt and a sun hat.