Concept Raps versus Concept Maps: A Culturally Responsive Approach to STEM Vocabulary Development (open access)

Concept Raps versus Concept Maps: A Culturally Responsive Approach to STEM Vocabulary Development

This article argues that the development of rap song lyrics or lyrical concept mapping can be a viable pedagogical alternative to the development of concept maps as a means to reinforce STEM vocabulary.
Date: July 31, 2018
Creator: Young, Jamaal; Young, Jemimah L.; Cason, Marti; Ortiz, Nickolaus; Foster, Marquita & Hamilton, Christina
System: The UNT Digital Library
Barriers to Food Security and Community Stress in an Urban Food Desert (open access)

Barriers to Food Security and Community Stress in an Urban Food Desert

This article describes how residents in urban food deserts access food, the barriers they experience in accessing nutritious, affordable food, and how community food insecurity exacerbates prior social, built, and economic stressors.
Date: May 31, 2018
Creator: Crowe, Jessica; Lacy, Constance & Columbus, Yolanda
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes-4 (open access)

Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes-4

The article is part of a series of Editorials published biannually that highlights a number of recently published articles that describe crucial findings. This article highlights 25 different articles that range from asthma treatment to new oral β-lactamase inhibitor (BLI).
Date: December 31, 2018
Creator: Mangoni, Arduino A; Guillou, Catherine; Vanden Eynde, Jean Jacques; Hulme, Christopher; Jampilek, Josef; Li, Wei et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polarizable ab initio QM/MM Study of the Reaction Mechanism of N-tert-Butyloxycarbonylation of Aniline in [EMIm][BF4] (open access)

Polarizable ab initio QM/MM Study of the Reaction Mechanism of N-tert-Butyloxycarbonylation of Aniline in [EMIm][BF4]

This article presents the use of AMOEBA-based polarizable ab initio AM/MM simulations to investigate the reaction mechanism of the N-tert-butoxycarbonylation of aniline in a water/1-ethyl, 3-methyl imidazolium/tetrafluoroborate mixture.
Date: October 31, 2018
Creator: Vázquez-Montelongo, Erik Antonio; Vázquez-Cervantes, José Enrique & Cisneros, Gerardo Andrés
System: The UNT Digital Library