A Soy Protein-Based Composite Film with a Hierarchical Structure Inspired by Nacre (open access)

A Soy Protein-Based Composite Film with a Hierarchical Structure Inspired by Nacre

This article develops a strategy to fabricate a novel bio-based film with excellent toughness and high strength.
Date: July 30, 2021
Creator: Xu, Yecheng; Xu, Chaojie; Chen, Mingsong; Li, Jianzhang; Zeng, Ling; Luo, Jing et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
GlobeChain: An Interoperable Blockchain for Global Sharing of Healthcare Data - A COVID-19 Perspective (open access)

GlobeChain: An Interoperable Blockchain for Global Sharing of Healthcare Data - A COVID-19 Perspective

Article introducing a Blockchain-based medical data-sharing framework (called GlobeChain) to overcome the technical challenges to handle outbreak records. The challenges that might arise due to the proposed Blockchain-based framework are also presented as a future direction that grabs the proposal's effectiveness. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article.
Date: September 1, 2021
Creator: Biswas, Sujit; Li, Fan; Latif, Zohaib; Sharif, Kashif; Bairagi, Anupam K. & Mohanty, Saraju P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measuring the impact of suspending Umrah, a global mass gathering in Saudi Arabia on the COVID‑19 pandemic (open access)

Measuring the impact of suspending Umrah, a global mass gathering in Saudi Arabia on the COVID‑19 pandemic

This article uses a stratified SEIR epidemic model to evaluate the impact of Umrah, a global Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, on the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic during the month of Ramadan, the peak of the Umrah season. The analyses provide insights into the effects of global mass gatherings on the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic locally and globally.
Date: September 6, 2021
Creator: Alshammari, Sultanah M.; Almutiry, Waleed K.; Gwalani, Harsha; Algarni, Saeed M. & Saeedi, Kawther
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Natlog: a Lightweight Logic Programming Language with a Neuro-symbolic Touch (open access)

Natlog: a Lightweight Logic Programming Language with a Neuro-symbolic Touch

Article that introduces Natlog, a lightweight Logic Programming language, sharing Prolog's unification-driven execution model, but with a simplified syntax and semantics. The authors' proof-of-concept Natlog implementation is tightly embedded in the Python-based deep-learning ecosystem with focus on content-driven indexing of ground term datasets. As an overriding of the authors symbolic indexing algorithm, the same function can be delegated to a neural network, serving ground facts to Natlog's resolution engine. The open-source implementation is available as a Python package at t https://pypi.org/project/natlog/.
Date: September 17, 2021
Creator: Tarau, Paul
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborative Research: Framework Implementations: CSSI: CANDY: Cyberinfrastructure for Accelerating Innovation in Network Dynamics (open access)

Collaborative Research: Framework Implementations: CSSI: CANDY: Cyberinfrastructure for Accelerating Innovation in Network Dynamics

Data management for the grant, "Collaborative Research: Framework Implementations: CSSI: CANDY: Cyberinfrastructure for Accelerating Innovation in Network Dynamics." Research addressing the lack of a comprehensive cyberinfrastructure that supports innovative research challenges in large-scale, complex, dynamic networks by developing a novel platform, called CANDY (Cyberinfrastructure for Accelerating Innovation in Network Dynamics), based on efficient, scalable parallel algorithm design for dynamic networks and high-performance software development with performance optimization.
Date: 2021-09-01/2025-08-31
Creator: Bhowmick, Sanjukta
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing a cylindrical-type wireless high temperature pressure sensor for rocket propulsion system test (open access)

Developing a cylindrical-type wireless high temperature pressure sensor for rocket propulsion system test

Data management plan for the grant "Developing a cylindrical-type wireless high temperature pressure sensor for rocket propulsion system test."
Date: 2021-09-01/2022-08-31
Creator: Zhang, Haifeng
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of high heating rates on evolution of oxides on directed laser energy additively fabricated IN718 (open access)

Influence of high heating rates on evolution of oxides on directed laser energy additively fabricated IN718

Article studying material response under dynamic short duration-high temperature oxidation.
Date: September 1, 2021
Creator: Mazumder, Sangram
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Process and Materials Development for Additive Manufacturing (AM) of Tungsten-Based Alloys with Superior High Temperature Performance and Good Room Temperature Ductility (open access)

Process and Materials Development for Additive Manufacturing (AM) of Tungsten-Based Alloys with Superior High Temperature Performance and Good Room Temperature Ductility

Data management plan for the grant "Process and Materials Development for Additive Manufacturing (AM) of Tungsten-Based Alloys with Superior High Temperature Performance and Good Room Temperature Ductility." Research on CALPHAD simulations will be conducted to optimize the chemical composition of tungsten based alloys towards 3D printability while boosting mechanical performance through solid solution and dispersion strengthening. This will followed by powder prototyping to validate the simulation results experimentally and to finalize the chemical composition of interest. Process parameter optimization and post-process heat treatment design will help to achieve optimal low-to-high temperature mechanical properties. Mechanical testing and microstructural characterization will be performed to establish process-microstructure-property relationships.
Date: 2021-09-01/2022-08-31
Creator: Mishra, Rajiv & Imandoust, Aidin
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2021 NCAE-C-002 University of North Texas (open access)

2021 NCAE-C-002 University of North Texas

Data management plan for the grant "2021 NCAE-C-002 University of North Texas."
Date: 2021-09-22/2024-12-31
Creator: Dantu, Ram
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modulating 3D Cellular Connectivity Via Spatially-Controlled Programmable Bonding (open access)

Modulating 3D Cellular Connectivity Via Spatially-Controlled Programmable Bonding

Data management plan for the grant "Modulating 3D Cellular Connectivity Via Spatially-Controlled Programmable Bonding." This project seeks to demonstrate proof-of-concept for technology that allows one to systematically place cells on substrates to create complex 3D assemblies with precise control over individual cellular interactions. The technology generated within this proposal will open new avenues for studying multicellular communication pathways, stem cell differentiation, and understanding developmental processes. Spatially-defined cell-cell communication plays a critical role in numerous disease and developmental processes that include osteoarthritic degeneration, cancer metastasis, and organ regeneration.
Date: 2021-09-01/2023-08-31
Creator: Meckes, Brian
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Genetic Sensors and Circuits for Creating Novel Cellular Behaviors (open access)

Development of Genetic Sensors and Circuits for Creating Novel Cellular Behaviors

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.
Date: 2021-09-15/2026-08-31
Creator: Chan, Clement T. Y.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multi-body interactions and carrier dynamics in WSe2 for high-performance quantum-enabled devices (open access)

Multi-body interactions and carrier dynamics in WSe2 for high-performance quantum-enabled devices

Data management plan for the grant "Multi-body interactions and carrier dynamics in WSe2 for high-performance quantum-enabled devices."
Date: 2021-09-15/2024-09-14
Creator: Kaul, Anupama
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enabling Multi-scale Modeling by Deciphering Fundamental Mechanisms Underlying Phase Stability, Deformation and Oxidation in Refractory Complex Concentrated Alloys (RCCAs) and Intermetallics (open access)

Enabling Multi-scale Modeling by Deciphering Fundamental Mechanisms Underlying Phase Stability, Deformation and Oxidation in Refractory Complex Concentrated Alloys (RCCAs) and Intermetallics

Data management plan for the research project "Enabling Multi-scale Modeling by Deciphering Fundamental Mechanisms Underlying Phase Stability, Deformation and Oxidation in Refractory Complex Concentrated Alloys (RCCAs) and Intermetallics."
Date: 2021-09-15/2025-09-25
Creator: Banerjee, Rajarshi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of Aortic Valve Hemodynamics and LVAD on bio-transport processes in Calcific Aortic Valve Disease (open access)

The Influence of Aortic Valve Hemodynamics and LVAD on bio-transport processes in Calcific Aortic Valve Disease

Data management plan for the grant "The Influence of Aortic Valve Hemodynamics and LVAD on bio-transport processes in Calcific Aortic Valve Disease." One of the most common valvular heart diseases is the development of calcific aortic valve (CAV). The goal of this research is to understand the transport and near-wall accumulation of Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDL), which play a key role in the CAV development, with and without altered transvalvular pressure gradient due to LVADs. This will be achieved by developing the first computational model of biochemical transport near the highly deforming aortic valve, in which the hemodynamics and LDL mass transport are coupled with the biomechanical response of the valve, using a FSI framework formed around an innovative supreme immersed boundary (SIB) method.
Date: 2021-09-01/2024-08-31
Creator: Sadat-Hosseini, Hamid
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
2021 GenCyber Grant Program University of North Texas (open access)

2021 GenCyber Grant Program University of North Texas

Data management plan for the University of North Texas GenCyber Academy grant. The GenCyber Cybersecurity Program at the University of North Texas is part of the GenCyber program. The program is hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The mission as part of the GenCyber program is to engage students at an early age in cybersecurity field and inspire them to become skilled cybersecurity professionals. This is provided by free summer cybersecurity camps for North Texas middle and high school students (7th-11th grade). The goals of the summer camps are to help students at an early age to understand correct and safe on-line behavior, increase students' interest in cybersecurity careers and improve diversity in the cybersecurity workforce of the nation.
Date: 2021-09-13/2024-12-31
Creator: Fu, Song
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library