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Uncovering whiteness as discourse: A critical discourse analysis of the in-state resident tuition debate for undocumented students in Texas (open access)

Uncovering whiteness as discourse: A critical discourse analysis of the in-state resident tuition debate for undocumented students in Texas

This article addresses the in-state resident tuition (ISRT) debate for undocumented college students in Texas and analyzes the implicit and explicit messages communicated in the policy and surrounding policy discourse. It uses a conceptual framework grounded in three constructs of critical whiteness studies including ontological expansiveness, color evasiveness, and individualization.
Date: April 19, 2021
Creator: Tapia-Fuselier, Nick; Jones, Veronica A. & Harbour, Clifford P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Cable-Less Seismograph with Functions of Real-Time Data Transmitting and High-Precision Differential Self-Positioning (open access)

A New Cable-Less Seismograph with Functions of Real-Time Data Transmitting and High-Precision Differential Self-Positioning

This article developed a new cable-less seismograph system, which can transmit seismic data in real-time and automatically perform high-precision differential self-positioning. Combining the ZigBee technology with the high-precision differential positioning module, this new seismograph system utilized the wireless personal area network (WPAN) and real-time kinematic (RTK) technologies to improve its on-site performances and to make the field quality control (QC) and self-positioning possible. With the advantages of low-cost, good scalability, and good compatibility, the proposed new cable-less seismograph system can improve the field working efficiency and data processing capability. It has potential applications in noise seismology and mobile seismic monitoring.
Date: July 19, 2020
Creator: Liu, Kang; You, Qingyu; Wang, Juan; Xu, Xiqiang; Shi, Pengcheng; Dai, Kaoshan et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fe/GeTe(111) heterostructures as an avenue towards spintronics based on ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors (open access)

Fe/GeTe(111) heterostructures as an avenue towards spintronics based on ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors

Article investigating the electronic structure of Fe/GeTe(111), a prototypical ferromagnetic/Rashba-ferroelectric interface, by performing density functional theory and Green's functions calculations complemented by x-ray photoemission spectroscopy.
Date: February 19, 2019
Creator: Sławińska, Jagoda; Di Sante, Domenico; Varotto, Sara; Rinaldi, Christian & Picozzi, Silvia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Persistent spin helix in Rashba-Dresselhaus ferroelectric CsBiNb2O7 (open access)

Persistent spin helix in Rashba-Dresselhaus ferroelectric CsBiNb2O7

Article reporting that CsBiNb₂O₇, a layered perovskite of Dion-Jacobson type, is a robust ferroelectric with sufficiently strong spin-orbit coupling and spin texture reversible by electric field. The study reveals that its topmost valence band's spin texture is quasi-independent from the momentum, as a result of the low symmetry of its ferroelectric phase. The peculiar spin-polarization pattern in the momentum space may yield the so-called “persistent spin helix,” a specific spin-wave mode which protects the spin from decoherence in the diffusive transport regime, potentially ensuring a very long spin lifetime in this material.
Date: August 19, 2019
Creator: Sławińska, Jagoda; Autieri, Carmine; Barone, Paolo & Picozzi, Silvia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bioresorbable stent to manage congenital heart defects in children (open access)

Bioresorbable stent to manage congenital heart defects in children

This article assembles large, pediatric-sized stents (Ø10 - Ø20 mm) from poly(L-lactide) fibers (DH-BDS) at two thicknesses, 250 µm and 300 µm. DH-BDS exhibiting hoop strength similar to metal stents and demonstrating minimal degradation and strength loss over the first year before completely disappearing within 3 to 4.5 years show promise as a pediatric interventional alternative to current strategies.
Date: March 19, 2021
Creator: Wright, Jamie; Nguyen, Annie; D'Souza, Nandika Anne, 1967-; Forbess, Joseph M.; Nugent, Alan; Reddy, Surenderanath R. Veeram et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
RNaseH-mediated simultaneous piggyback knockdown of multiple genes in adult zebrafish (open access)

RNaseH-mediated simultaneous piggyback knockdown of multiple genes in adult zebrafish

This article tests if it is possible to piggyback more than one antisense deoxyoligonucleotide (dO) with one vivo morpholino (VMO). The authors previously developed a piggyback knockdown method that was used to knockdown genes in adult zebrafish. In this article, the authors develop a method to knockdown three genes at one time, and by increasing the concentration of VMO by twofold, could knockdown six genes simultaneously. These multiple gene knockdowns will not only increase the efficiency of the method in whole genome-wide knockdowns but will also be useful to study multifactorial disorders.
Date: November 19, 2020
Creator: Raman, Revathi; Ryon, Mia & Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustainable and Innovative Packaging Solutions in the Fashion Industry: Global Report (open access)

Sustainable and Innovative Packaging Solutions in the Fashion Industry: Global Report

Article states it is the first global report on sustainable packaging innovation in the fashion sector using data-mining to gather a sample of 400 international fashion brands that advertise sustainable packaging solution across five continents. The report discusses the sustainability of the packaging of these fashion brands, testing the validity of their claims of sustainable packaging.
Date: October 19, 2022
Creator: Jestratijevic, Iva & Brodnjak-Vrabič, Urška
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
FlexiChain 3.0: Distributed Ledger Technology-Based Intelligent Transportation for Vehicular Digital Asset Exchange in Smart Cities (open access)

FlexiChain 3.0: Distributed Ledger Technology-Based Intelligent Transportation for Vehicular Digital Asset Exchange in Smart Cities

Article describes how, due to the enormous amounts of data being generated between users, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are complex Cyber-Physical Systems that necessitate a reliable and safe infrastructure. In this work, the authors explore Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and collect data about consensus algorithms and their applicability to be used in the IoV as the backbone of ITS.
Date: April 19, 2023
Creator: Alkhodair, Ahmad; Mohanty, Saraju P. & Kougianos, Elias
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molecular Simulation Strategies for Understanding the Degradation Mechanisms of Acrylic Polymers (open access)

Molecular Simulation Strategies for Understanding the Degradation Mechanisms of Acrylic Polymers

Article describes how acrylic polymers, commonly used in paints, can degrade over time by several different chemical and physical mechanisms, depending on structure and exposure conditions. In this work, the authors studied the effects of different degradation mechanisms and agents on properties of acrylic polymers found in artists’ acrylic paints for the first time using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations.
Date: April 19, 2023
Creator: Iscen, Aysenur; Forero-Martinez, Nancy C.; Valsson, Omar & Kremer, Kurt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metabolic and transcriptomic study of pennycress natural variation identifies targets for oil improvement (open access)

Metabolic and transcriptomic study of pennycress natural variation identifies targets for oil improvement

Article describes how, although pennycress, a winter annual, could be grown as a dedicated bioenergy crop, an increase in its seed oil content is required to improve its economic competitiveness. In this work, the authors combined biomass composition with metabolomic and transcriptomic studies of developing embryos from 22 pennycress natural variants to identify targets for oil improvement.
Date: June 19, 2023
Creator: Arias, Cintia Lucía; García Navarrete, Leidy Tatiana; Mukundi, Eric; Swanson, Tyler; Yang, Fan; Hernandez, Jonathan et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Barriers for pregnant women living in rural, agricultural villages to accessing antenatal care in Cambodia: A community-based cross-sectional study combined with a geographic information system (open access)

Barriers for pregnant women living in rural, agricultural villages to accessing antenatal care in Cambodia: A community-based cross-sectional study combined with a geographic information system

Article describes how morbidity and mortality is still a major public health issue in low- and middle-income countries such as Cambodia. This study examines the barriers for pregnant women living in rural, agricultural villages.
Date: March 19, 2018
Creator: Yasuoka, Junko; Nanishi, Keiko; Kikuchi, Kimiyo; Suzuki, Sumihiro; Ly, Po; Thavrin, Boukheng et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predicting psoriasis using routine laboratory tests with random forest (open access)

Predicting psoriasis using routine laboratory tests with random forest

Article describes how psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that affects approximately 125 million people worldwide. The goal of the authors' study is to derive a powerful predictive model for psoriasis disease based on only routine hospital tests.
Date: October 19, 2021
Creator: Zhou, Jing; Li, Yuzhen & Guo, Xuan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An unconventional proanthocyanidin pathway in maize (open access)

An unconventional proanthocyanidin pathway in maize

Article describes that proanthocyanidins (PAs), flavonoid polymers involved in plant defense, are also beneficial to human health and ruminant nutrition. The authors explore whether there is a functional PA biosynthesis pathway in maize using a combination of analytical chemistry and genetic approaches.
Date: July 19, 2023
Creator: Lu, Nan; Jun, Ji Hyung; Li, Ying & Dixon, R. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
When expectation fails and motivation prevails: the mediating role of awareness in bridging the expectancy-capability gap in mobile identity protection (open access)

When expectation fails and motivation prevails: the mediating role of awareness in bridging the expectancy-capability gap in mobile identity protection

Article describes how identity theft poses a significant threat to mobile users, yet mobile identity protection is often overlooked in cybersecurity literature. This study adopts a mixed-methods approach and draws on expectancy-value theory to address these gaps and explore the impact of expectations, capabilities, motivational values, technical measures, and awareness on individuals' intentions to achieve mobile identity protection.
Date: September 19, 2023
Creator: Alhelaly, Yasser; Dhillon, Gurpreet & Oliveira, Tiago
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mesenchymal stem cells aligned and stretched in self-assembling peptide hydrogels (open access)

Mesenchymal stem cells aligned and stretched in self-assembling peptide hydrogels

Article describes how the presented research highlights a novel approach using fmoc-protected peptide hydrogels for the encapsulation and stretching of mesenchymal stem cells. This study utilized a custom mechanical stretching device with a PDMS chamber to stretch human mesenchymal stem cells encapsulated in Fmoc hydrogels.
Date: December 19, 2023
Creator: Fouladgar, Farzaneh; Moslabeh, Forough G. Z.; Kasani, Yashesh V.; Rogozinski, Nick; Torres, Marc; Ecker, Melanie et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
DNA metabarcoding captures different macroinvertebrate biodiversity than morphological identification approaches across a continental scale (open access)

DNA metabarcoding captures different macroinvertebrate biodiversity than morphological identification approaches across a continental scale

Article describes how DNA-based aquatic biomonitoring methods show promise to provide rapid, standardized, and efficient biodiversity assessment to supplement and in some cases replace current morphology-based approaches that are often less efficient and can produce inconsistent results. The authors present a comparison of DNA metabarcoding and morphological identification, leveraging national-scale, open-source, ecological datasets from the National Ecological Observatory Network.
Date: July 19, 2023
Creator: Emmons, Sean C.; Compson, Zacchaeus Greg; Malish, Megan C.; Busch, Michelle H.; Saenz, Veronica; Higgins, Kierstyn T. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library