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Photonic Band Gaps and Resonance Modes in 2D Twisted Moiré Photonic Crystal (open access)

Photonic Band Gaps and Resonance Modes in 2D Twisted Moiré Photonic Crystal

Article studying 2D twisted moiré photonic crystals without physical rotation and simulating their photonic band gaps in photonic crystals formed at different twisted angles, different gradient levels, and different dielectric filling factors.
Date: September 23, 2021
Creator: Alnasser, Khadijah; Kamau, Steve; Hurley, Noah; Cui, Jingbiao & Lin, Yuankun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laser printed amorphous magnesium alloy: Microstructure, mechanical properties, and degradation behavior (open access)

Laser printed amorphous magnesium alloy: Microstructure, mechanical properties, and degradation behavior

Article describes how, amorphous magnesium alloy, especially Mg-Zn-Ca series, has been receiving continuous attention in biomedical field, because of its favorable corrosion resistance, suitable modulus and biocompatibility. In this work, laser powder bed fusing with unique characteristics of rapid solidification and layer-by-layer fashion was used to fabricate bulk Mg-Zn-Ca and Mg-Zn-Ca-Y amorphous parts.
Date: November 23, 2023
Creator: Chen, Cheng; Li, Shaoyu; Ling, Chenrong; Yang, Youwen; Gao, Chengde; Li, Yageng et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flexible and Stretchable Bioelectronics (open access)

Flexible and Stretchable Bioelectronics

Article reviewing several several flexible and stretchable materials used as substrate, stretchable electrical conduits and encapsulation, design modifications for stretchability, fabrication techniques, methods of signal transmission and monitoring, and the power sources for these stretchable bioelectronics. Ultimately, these bioelectronic devices can be used for wide range of applications from skin bioelectronics and biosensing devices, to neural implants for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
Date: December 20, 2021
Creator: Chitrakar, Chandani; Hedrick, Eric; Adegoke, Lauren & Ecker, Melanie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Theoretical modeling study of the reaction H + CF4 → HF + CF3 (open access)

Theoretical modeling study of the reaction H + CF4 → HF + CF3

This article determines the rate constant of the reaction H + CF₄ → HF + CF₃, characterizing its transition state by quantum-chemical methods.
Date: March 23, 2021
Creator: Cobos, Carlos J.; Knight, Gary; Marshall, Paul & Troe, Jürgen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Library Computing Services in Rural Texas during the COVID-19 Pandemic (open access)

Library Computing Services in Rural Texas during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Article analyzing the 2020 Texas Public Library Statistics and a portion of the 2019 and 2018 data. It examined various services from libraries located in the areas with a population of less than 5,000. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of a published article.
Date: June 23, 2022
Creator: Du, Yunfei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of transcribed sequences from young and mature zebrafish thrombocytes (open access)

Analysis of transcribed sequences from young and mature zebrafish thrombocytes

Article studying thrombocyte function and development in adult zebrafish. The authors performed single-cell RNA sequencing of the young and mature zebrafish thrombocytes and compared the two datasets for young and mature thrombocyte transcripts.
Date: September 19, 2021
Creator: Fallatah, Weam; De, Ronika; Burks, David J.; Azad, Rajeev K. & Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Arabidopsis Oxalyl-CoA Decarboxylase, AtOXC, Is Important for Oxalate Catabolism in Plants (open access)

An Arabidopsis Oxalyl-CoA Decarboxylase, AtOXC, Is Important for Oxalate Catabolism in Plants

This article identifies, in Arabidopsis, an oxalyl-CoA decarboxylase (AtOXC) that is capable of catalyzing the second step in the proposed pathway of oxalate catabolism.
Date: March 23, 2021
Creator: Foster, Justin; Cheng, Ninghui; Paris, Vincent; Wang, Lingfei; Wang, Jin; Wang, Xiaoqiang et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
ARABIDOPSIS DEHISCENCE ZONE POLYGALACTURONASE 1 (ADPG1) releases latent defense signals in stems with reduced lignin content (open access)

ARABIDOPSIS DEHISCENCE ZONE POLYGALACTURONASE 1 (ADPG1) releases latent defense signals in stems with reduced lignin content

Article highlights the importance of pectin in cell wall integrity and the value of lignin modification as a tool to interrogate the informational content of plant cell walls.
Date: January 23, 2020
Creator: Gallego-Giraldo, Lina; Liu, Chang; Pose-Albacete, Sara; Pattathil, Sivakumar; Peralta, Angelo Gabriel; Young, Jenna et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ordering-mediated local nano-clustering results in unusually large Hall-Petch strengthening coefficients in high entropy alloys (open access)

Ordering-mediated local nano-clustering results in unusually large Hall-Petch strengthening coefficients in high entropy alloys

This article reports a dramatic increase in the grain boundary strengthening or Hall-Petch coefficient, K, by systematically investigating the effect of Al addition on tensile yield strength in CoFeNi and CoCrFeNi high entropy alloys (HEAs) or complex concentrated alloys (CCAs). Such a trend is attributed to the ordering mediated nano-clustering in Al containing HEA/CCAs.
Date: January 23, 2021
Creator: Jagetia, Abhinav; Nartu, M. S. K. K. Y.; Dasari, S.; Sharma, A.; Gwalani, Bharat & Banerjee, Rajarshi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relaxation time approximations in PAOFLOW 2.0 (open access)

Relaxation time approximations in PAOFLOW 2.0

Article presents the implementation of relaxation time approximation models in the calculation of Boltzmann transport in PAOFLOW 2.0 and applies those to model band-structures. In addition, using a self-consistent fitting of the model parameters to experimental conductivity data, the authors provide a flexible tool to extract scattering rates with high accuracy. They illustrate the approximations using simple models and then apply the method to GaAs, Si, Mg₃Sb₂, and CoSb₃.
Date: March 23, 2022
Creator: Jayaraj, Anooja; Siloi, Ilaria; Fornari, Marco & Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vibrations Evaluation of Functionally Graded Porous Beams in Thermal Surroundings by Generalized Differential Quadrature Method (open access)

Vibrations Evaluation of Functionally Graded Porous Beams in Thermal Surroundings by Generalized Differential Quadrature Method

Article is a study investigating how to obtain the natural frequency of functionally graded porous beams simply supported on an elastic substrate in thermal surroundings by the theory of third-order shear deformation. This article is part of the special issue titled Dynamic Analysis and Vibration Control of Mechanical Structures Coupled with Rotational Systems.
Date: December 31, 2021
Creator: Khakpour, Mahdi; Bazargan-Lari, Yousef; Zahedinejad, Parham & Kazemzadeh-Parsi, Mohammad-Javad
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of dispersal strategy and migration history on genetic diversity and population structure of Antarctic lichens (open access)

Effects of dispersal strategy and migration history on genetic diversity and population structure of Antarctic lichens

Article studying the effects of dispersal strategy and migration history on lichen genetic structure to better understand the importance of these processes and their interplay in shaping population structure as well as their relevance for conservation.
Date: March 23, 2021
Creator: Lagostina, Elisa; Andreev, Mikhail; Dal Grande, Francesco; Grewe, Felix; Lorenz, Aline; Lumbsch, H. Thorsten et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Land Use Simulation of Guangzhou Based on Nighttime Light Data and Planning Policies (open access)

Land Use Simulation of Guangzhou Based on Nighttime Light Data and Planning Policies

This article employs nighttime light (NTL) information as a proxy indicator of gross domestic product(GDP), and a future land use simulation model (FLUS) to simulate the land use patterns in Guangzhou from 2015 to 2018 and 2018 to 2035 by incorporating planning policies. This study demonstrates that NTL is a suitable and feasible proxy indicator of GDP for the land use simulations, providing a scientific basis for the development of urban planning and construction policy.
Date: May 23, 2020
Creator: Lao, Jieying; Wang, Cheng; Wang, Jinliang; Pan, Feifei; Xi, Xiaohuan & Liang, Lei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of a Fundamental Motor Skill-Based Afterschool Program on Children’s Physical and Cognitive Health Outcomes (open access)

Effects of a Fundamental Motor Skill-Based Afterschool Program on Children’s Physical and Cognitive Health Outcomes

Paper describes study examining the effects of an 8-week fundamental motor skills-based afterschool program on physical and cognitive health outcomes among elementary children.
Date: January 23, 2020
Creator: Lee, Joonyoung; Zhang, Tao; Chu, Tsz Lun (Alan); Gu, Xiangli & Zhu, Ping
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temporal complexity measure of reaction time series: Operational versus event time (open access)

Temporal complexity measure of reaction time series: Operational versus event time

Article describes how detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is a well-established method to evaluate scaling indices of time series, which categorize the dynamics of complex systems. The authors propose treating each reaction time as a duration time that changes the representation from operational (trial number) time n to event (temporal) time t, or X(t).
Date: May 23, 2023
Creator: Mahmoodi, Korosh; Kerick, Scott E.; Grigolini, Paolo; Franaszczuk, Pitor J. & West, Bruce J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Extraction of Grasses and Individual Trees in Urban Areas Based on Airborne Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data (open access)

Automatic Extraction of Grasses and Individual Trees in Urban Areas Based on Airborne Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data

This article proposes a three-dimensional (3D) vegetation extraction workflow to extract urban grasses and trees at individual tree level in urban areas using airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data. Results suggest that two- and three-dimensional urban vegetation extraction could play a significant role in spatial layout optimization and scientific management of urban vegetation.
Date: August 23, 2020
Creator: Man, Qixia; Dong, Pinliang; Yang, Xinming; Wu, Quanyuan & Han, Rongqing
System: The UNT Digital Library
Can X-Ray Observations Improve Optical-UV-based Accretion-rate Estimates for Quasars? (open access)

Can X-Ray Observations Improve Optical-UV-based Accretion-rate Estimates for Quasars?

Article presents a study utilizing a carefully selected sample of 53 radio-quiet quasars that have Hβ and C iv λ1549 spectroscopy as well as Chandra coverage, to search for a robust accretion-rate indicator for quasars, particularly at the highest-accessible redshifts (z ∼ 6–7).
Date: May 23, 2022
Creator: Marlar, Andrea
System: The UNT Digital Library
Light-Controlled Cell–Cell Assembly Using Photocaged Oligonucleotides (open access)

Light-Controlled Cell–Cell Assembly Using Photocaged Oligonucleotides

Article asserts that while techniques that allow one to control the arrangement of cells and direct contact between different cell types have been developed that expand upon simple co-culture methods, specific control over heterojunctions that form between cells is not easily accomplished with current methods, such as 3D cell-printing. In this article, DNA-mediated cell interactions are combined with cell-compatible photolithographic approaches to control cell assembly.
Date: May 23, 2023
Creator: Mathis, Katelyn; Kohon, Agia Ibnat; Black, Stephen & Meckes, Brian
System: The UNT Digital Library
In vivo Evaluation of Non-viral NICD Plasmid-Loaded PLGA Nanoparticles in Developing Zebrafish to Improve Cardiac Functions (open access)

In vivo Evaluation of Non-viral NICD Plasmid-Loaded PLGA Nanoparticles in Developing Zebrafish to Improve Cardiac Functions

This article presents a study with the purpose to deliver a Notch Intracellular Domain (NICD)-encoded plasmid via poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanoparticles and to investigate the toxic environmental side effects for an in vivo experiment. This research demonstrates that PLGA nanoparticle-mediated target delivery to upregulate Notch related genes can be a potential therapeutic approach with minimum toxic effects.
Date: February 23, 2022
Creator: Messerschmidt, Victoria L.; Chintapula, Uday; Bonetesta, Fabrizio; Laboy-Segarra, Samantha; Naderi, Amir; Nguyen, Kytai T. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hyperemesis gravidarum and the risk of childhood cancer- A case-control study in Denmark (open access)

Hyperemesis gravidarum and the risk of childhood cancer- A case-control study in Denmark

Article describes how only a few studies have reported on the association between hyperemesis gravidarum and the risk of childhood cancer. The authors examined possible associations in this population-based study in Denmark.
Date: October 23, 2023
Creator: Orimoloye, Helen T.; Deng, Chuanjie; Hansen, Johnni; Olsen, Jorn; Saechao, Chai; Ritz, Beate et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
On Comparing the Similarity and Dissimilarity Between Two Distinct Vehicular Trajectories (open access)

On Comparing the Similarity and Dissimilarity Between Two Distinct Vehicular Trajectories

This article studies the problem of comparing the similarity and dissimilarity between two distinct vehicular trajectories by proposing an adjacency-based metric. This approach has a broad application in building truthfulness by comparing the similarity between two vehicles and evaluating the dissimilarity between two distinct paths in hazardous materials transportation.
Date: February 23, 2021
Creator: Qingge, Letu; Zhou, Peng; Dai, Lihui; Yang, Qing & Zhu, Binhai
System: The UNT Digital Library
Maternal anemia and childhood cancer: a population-based case-control study in Denmark (open access)

Maternal anemia and childhood cancer: a population-based case-control study in Denmark

Article asserts that anemia in pregnancy is a common condition, especially in low-income countries, but a possible association between maternal anemia and childhood cancer has not been widely studied. In a separate analysis within the years available (births 1995–2014), the authors examined cancer risks among mothers taking prescribed vitamin supplements, using data from the National Prescription Register.
Date: November 23, 2022
Creator: Qureshi, Naveen; Orimoloye, Helen; Hansen, Johnni; Saechao, Chai; Olsen, Jorn; Federman, Noah et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effect of pressure quenching on the structures and properties of borosilicate glasses: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations (open access)

Effect of pressure quenching on the structures and properties of borosilicate glasses: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations

Article describes how processes including hot compression, cold compression and subsequent annealing on the structures and properties are investigated and compared. They found that applying pressure up to 10 GPa at the glass transition temperature led to permanent densifications and a dramatic increase of elastic moduli by 90%, while thermal annealing reversed the increase and applying pressure at ambient temperature did not increase the modulus.
Date: August 23, 2022
Creator: Ren, Mengguo & Du, Jincheng
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scaling of axial muscle architecture in juvenile Alligator mississippiensis reveals an enhanced performance capacity of accessory breathing mechanisms (open access)

Scaling of axial muscle architecture in juvenile Alligator mississippiensis reveals an enhanced performance capacity of accessory breathing mechanisms

Article describing the anatomy of the trunk muscles, their properties that determine muscle performance (mass, length and physiological cross-sectional area [PCSA]) and investigating their scaling in juvenile Alligator mississippiensis spanning an order of magnitude in body mass (359 g–5.5 kg). Findings support existing anecdotal evidence that crocodilians shift their breathing mechanics as they increase in size.
Date: July 23, 2021
Creator: Rose, Kayleigh A. R.; Tickle, Peter G.; Elsey, Ruth M.; Sellers, William I.; Crossley, Dane A., II & Codd, Jonathan R.
System: The UNT Digital Library