Visibility & Control in the Vendee (open access)

Visibility & Control in the Vendee

This article uses fieldwork and the concept of relative aging to argue that the system of canals within the Vendee region of western France were begun in the tenth and eleventh centuries in conjunction with the Maillezais Abbey relocation and rebuilding.
Date: 2016
Creator: Deines, Dory & Wilson-Chavez, Owen
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Lady of the Marshes: Place, Identity, and Coudrette’s Mélusine in Late-Medieval Poitou (open access)

The Lady of the Marshes: Place, Identity, and Coudrette’s Mélusine in Late-Medieval Poitou

This article discusses the use of the poetic romance, Mélusine or Le Roman de Parthenay, as a tale of identity, place, and the foundational role of women in the creation of dynastic, land-based legacies, supported through visual imagery analysis and theoretical models from cultural geography.
Date: 2016
Creator: Thompson, Shana
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrical properties of SnSe under high-pressure (open access)

Electrical properties of SnSe under high-pressure

This article investigates the pressure-induced phase transitions in SnSe using the first-principles density functional calculations.
Date: November 3, 2016
Creator: Ghosh, Angsula; Gusmão, M. S.; Chaudhuri, Puspitapallab; de Souza, S. Michielon; Mota, Cicero; Trichês, D. M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Medical Costs of Obesity for Fifth Graders in California and Texas (open access)

An Analysis of the Medical Costs of Obesity for Fifth Graders in California and Texas

This article uses data from FitnessGram® and previous studies to estimate the lifetime economic impact of childhood obesity for a single age cohort in the two most populous states: California and Texas.
Date: January 15, 2016
Creator: Levitt, Danielle E.; Jackson, Allen W. & Morrow, James R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reduced Inflammatory and muscle damage biomarkers following oral supplementation with bioavailable curcumin (open access)

Reduced Inflammatory and muscle damage biomarkers following oral supplementation with bioavailable curcumin

This article seeks to determine the effects of oral curcumin supplementation on muscle and activities of daily living soreness, creatine kinase, and inflammatory cytokines following exercise-induced muscle damage.
Date: February 18, 2016
Creator: McFarlin, Brian K.; Venable, Adam S.; Henning, Andrea L.; Best Sampson, Jill N.; Pennel, Kathryn; Vingren, Jakob L. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mouse fat storage-inducing transmembrance protein 2 (FIT2) promotes lipid droplet accumulation in plants (open access)

Mouse fat storage-inducing transmembrance protein 2 (FIT2) promotes lipid droplet accumulation in plants

This article discusses the test of the function of FIT2 in plant cells by ectopically expressing mouse (Mus musculus) FIT2 in Nicotiana tabacum suspension-cultured cells, Nicotiana benthamiana leaves and Arabidopsis thaliana plants.
Date: December 2, 2016
Creator: Cai, Yingqi; McClinchie, Elizabeth; Price, Ann; Nguyen, Thuy N.; Gidda, Satinder K.; Watt, Samantha C. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library