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Editorial: Catalysts for Clean Energy Conversion and Storage (open access)

Editorial: Catalysts for Clean Energy Conversion and Storage

An introduction to a series of research articles submitted on the topic of "Catalysts for Clean Energy Conversion and Storage".
Date: February 21, 2020
Creator: Xia, Zhenhai & Xiang, Zhonghua
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effectiveness of a Single Prolonged Aerobic Exercise Session on Executive Function Task Performance in Physically Active Adults (21–70 Years of Age) (open access)

Effectiveness of a Single Prolonged Aerobic Exercise Session on Executive Function Task Performance in Physically Active Adults (21–70 Years of Age)

Authors of the article sought to examine the effectiveness of an acute prolonged exercise session on post-exercise executive function in physically active adults and to assess if age or pre-exercise cognitive performance was predictive of the magnitude of change in executive task performance. Their results support the effectiveness of a single prolonged exercise bout to augment executive function in physically active adults, irrespective of age.
Date: February 4, 2023
Creator: Yates, Brandon A.; Armstrong, Lawrence E.; Lee, Elaine C.; Unverzagt, Frederick W.; Dadzie, Ekow Jr.; Williamson, Keith et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Efficient oral insulin delivery enabled by transferrin-coated acid-resistant metal-organic framework nanoparticles (open access)

Efficient oral insulin delivery enabled by transferrin-coated acid-resistant metal-organic framework nanoparticles

Article uses acid-resistant metal-organic framework nanoparticles (UiO-68-NH2) to encapsulate sufficient insulin and decorated the exterior with targeting proteins (transferrin) to realize highly efficient oral insulin delivery.
Date: September 20, 2021
Creator: Zou, Jun-Jie; Wei, Gaohui; Xiong, Chuxiao; Yu, Yunhao; Li, Sihui; Hu, Liefeng et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Ethnographic Study of Collaborative Fashion Consumption: The Case of Temporary Clothing Swapping (open access)

An Ethnographic Study of Collaborative Fashion Consumption: The Case of Temporary Clothing Swapping

This article is the first research that has examined temporary swapping, a form of collaborative fashion consumption, that involves clothing exchange between two people that does not require the transfer of product ownership or monetary compensation. In this ethnographic study the authors explored benefits, risks, and the meanings constructed by eight women before, during, and after exchanging parts of their wardrobes with a swap partner.
Date: December 26, 2021
Creator: Karpova, Elena E.; Jestratijevic, Iva; Lee, JuYoung & Wu, Juanjuan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evolutionary models of lateralization: Steps toward stigmergy? (open access)

Evolutionary models of lateralization: Steps toward stigmergy?

Article discusses an interesting approach to accounting for brain and behavioral asymmetry based on competition and cooperation in phenotypically asymmetric individuals. The model in question shows, in an almost fully analytical way, that under proper conditions, there exists an unequal number of equilibrium of left-and right-lateralized individuals.
Date: February 2, 2023
Creator: Tonello, Lucio & Vallortigara, Giorgio
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining Youth Conceptualizations of Water Safety Behaviors among Participants in a Learn-to-Swim Program (open access)

Examining Youth Conceptualizations of Water Safety Behaviors among Participants in a Learn-to-Swim Program

Article presents a qualitative-based study evaluating how youth apply learned water safety concepts when posed with a hypothetical aquatic scenario.
Date: February 15, 2022
Creator: Anderson, Austin; Anderson, Kristina R.; Ramos, William D. & Beale-Tawfeeq, Angela K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

External Funding, Infrastructures, and Digital Possibilities

Presentation discussing grant work, types of grants, and lessons learned by University of North Texas Libraries when working with grants. This presentation was given as part of the Texas State University Research Libraries 2022 Grant Series.
Date: February 16, 2022
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Extreme X-Ray Variability Event of a Weak-line Quasar (open access)

An Extreme X-Ray Variability Event of a Weak-line Quasar

Article reports the discovery of an extreme X-ray flux rise (by a factor of ≳20) of the weak-line quasar Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) J153913.47+395423.4 (hereafter SDSS J1539+3954) at z = 1.935. SDSS J1539+3954 is the most-luminous object among radio-quiet type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) where such dramatic X-ray variability has been observed.
Date: February 3, 2020
Creator: Ni, Q.; Brandt, W. N.; Yi, W.; Luo, B.; Timlin, J. D., III; Hall, P. B. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feasibility Study of Microsecond Pulsed Microwave Ablation Using a Minimally Invasive Antenna (open access)

Feasibility Study of Microsecond Pulsed Microwave Ablation Using a Minimally Invasive Antenna

Article establishing the feasibility of producing localized ablation zones using microsecond pulsed microwave ablation (MWA) as an alternative to conventional continuous wave (CW) MWA. Results open the opportunity for developing a coupled MWA treatment and imaging system using pulsed MWA and microwave-induced thermoacoustic signals for real-time monitoring of MWA.
Date: February 16, 2021
Creator: Evans, Audrey L.; Sawicki, James F.; Luyen, Hung; Mohtashami, Yahya; Behdad, Nader & Hagness, Susan C.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Haptoglobin Gene Expression and Anthracycline-Related Cardiomyopathy in Childhood Cancer Survivors: A COG-ALTE03N1 Report (open access)

Haptoglobin Gene Expression and Anthracycline-Related Cardiomyopathy in Childhood Cancer Survivors: A COG-ALTE03N1 Report

Article describes how anthracycline-related cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of premature death in childhood cancer survivors. The authors interrogated differentially expressed genes (DEGs) to identify genetic variants serving regulatory functions or genetic variants not easily identified when using genomewide array platforms.
Date: February 7, 2023
Creator: Singh, Purnima; Crossman, David K.; Zhou, Liting; Wang, Xuexia; Sharafeldin, Noha; Hageman, Lindsey et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health Information Behavior of Speakers of Endangered Languages (open access)

Health Information Behavior of Speakers of Endangered Languages

This article builds on health information behavior literature and participatory research models with indigenous communities to develop strategies for future work with indigenous communities of speakers of endangered languages, proposing a participatory methodology for future work with communities of endangered language speakers related to health using ethnographic interviews and focus groups.
Date: February 2, 2020
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
High-Temperature Nano-Indentation Creep Behavior of Multi-Principal Element Alloys under Static and Dynamic Loads (open access)

High-Temperature Nano-Indentation Creep Behavior of Multi-Principal Element Alloys under Static and Dynamic Loads

Paper describes the results of studies testing the creep resistance of two multi-principal element alloys, CoCrNi and CoCrFeMnNi.
Date: February 13, 2020
Creator: Sadeghilaridjani, Maryam & Mukherjee, Sundeep
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
High-Temperature Nano-Indentation Creep of Reduced Activity High Entropy Alloys Based on 4-5-6 Elemental Palette (open access)

High-Temperature Nano-Indentation Creep of Reduced Activity High Entropy Alloys Based on 4-5-6 Elemental Palette

In this article the time-dependent plastic deformation behavior of two refractory high entropy alloys was investigated, namely HfTaTiVZr and TaTiVWZr. These alloys are based on reduced activity metals from the 4-5-6 elemental palette that would allow easy post-service recycling after use in nuclear reactors. The creep behavior was investigated using nano-indentation over the temperature range of 298 K to 573 K under static and dynamic loads up to 5 N.
Date: February 18, 2020
Creator: Sadeghilaridjani, Maryam; Muskeri, Saideep; Pole, Mayur & Mukherjee, Sundeep
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
High-Throughput Investigation of Multiscale Deformation Mechanism in Additively Manufactured Ni Superalloy (open access)

High-Throughput Investigation of Multiscale Deformation Mechanism in Additively Manufactured Ni Superalloy

Article discusses how, in this paper, Inconel 718 (IN718) superalloy was processed by laser powder-bed fusion additive manufacturing (L-PBFAM), followed by heat treatment. Evidence of extensive deformation of twin networks and dislocation cells was revealed by transmission electron microscopy of the deformed region under the nanoindentation tip.
Date: February 17, 2023
Creator: Dhal, Abhijeet; Agrawal, Priyanka; Haridas, Ravi Sankar; Gaddam, Supreeth; Sharma, Aishani; Parganitha, Digvijay et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homologues and homology and their related terms in phylogenetic systematics (open access)

Homologues and homology and their related terms in phylogenetic systematics

Article describes how, in the field of phylogenetic systematics, the terms homology and homologue and their relationship to cladistic terms such as character, character state, synapomorphy and symplesiomorphy, as well as their relationships to each other, have been and are still discussed frequently. A recent re-emergence of concepts of homology/homologue free of any reference to explanatory hypotheses prompted the authors to explore these concepts and their relationships to each other as well as to the concept of morpheme, as introduced recently.
Date: February 4, 2023
Creator: Göpel, Torben & Richter, Stefan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impact of Leadership and Mobility on Consensus-Building in Sensor Networks (open access)

Impact of Leadership and Mobility on Consensus-Building in Sensor Networks

Paper investigates the mobility dynamics in wireless sensor networks analytically, and discusses the advantages of the leader-follower model.
Date: February 17, 2020
Creator: Norouzi Kandalan, Roya; Varanasi, Murali R.; Buckles, Bill P., 1942- & Namuduri, Kamesh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on physical activity in U.S. children (open access)

The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on physical activity in U.S. children

This article examines the impact of the pandemic on the physical activity and play behavior of U.S. children and to provide evidence based recommendations to improve their physical activity.
Date: February 28, 2021
Creator: Tulchin-Francis, Kirsten; Stevens Jr., Wilshaw; Gu, Xiangli; Zhang, Tao; Roberts, Heather; Keller, M. Jean et al.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Individual structure mapping over six million trees for New York City USA (open access)

Individual structure mapping over six million trees for New York City USA

Article asserts that individual tree structure mapping in cities is important for urban environmental studies. The authors produced an individual tree dataset including tree locations, height, crown area, crown volume, and biomass over the entire New York City, USA for 6,005,690 trees, which enables the evaluation of urban forest ecosystem services.
Date: February 20, 2023
Creator: Ma, Qin; Lin, Jian; Ju, Yang; Li, Wenkai; Liang, Li & Guo, Qinghua
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inhaled diesel exhaust particles result in microbiome‑related systemic inflammation and altered cardiovascular disease biomarkers in C57Bl/6 male mice (open access)

Inhaled diesel exhaust particles result in microbiome‑related systemic inflammation and altered cardiovascular disease biomarkers in C57Bl/6 male mice

Article discusses the authors' investigation the hypothesis that exposure to inhaled diesel exhaust particles alters the gut microbiome and promotes microbial-related inflammation and cardiovascular disease biomarkers. To determine whether probiotics could prevent diet or DEP exposure mediated alterations in the gut microbiome or systemic outcomes, a subset of animals on the HF diet were treated orally with 0.3 g/day (~ 7.5 × 108 CFU/day) of Winclove Ecologic® Barrier probiotics throughout the study.
Date: February 9, 2022
Creator: Phillippi, Danielle T.; Daniel, Sarah; Pusadkar, Vaidehi; Youngblood, Victoria L.; Nguyen, Kayla N.; Azad, Rajeev K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insights into the Bioinformatics and Transcriptional Analysis of the Elongator Complexes (ELPs) Gene Family of Wheat: TaELPs Contribute to Wheat Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Leaf Senescence (open access)

Insights into the Bioinformatics and Transcriptional Analysis of the Elongator Complexes (ELPs) Gene Family of Wheat: TaELPs Contribute to Wheat Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Leaf Senescence

Article states that elongator complexes (ELPs) are the protein complexes that promote transcription through histone acetylation in eukaryotic cells and interact with elongating RNA polymerase II. ELPs’ role in plant growth and development, signal transduction, and response to biotic and abiotic stresses have been confirmed in model plants, but the functions of the wheat ELP genes are not well documented. The present study identified 18 members of the ELPs from the wheat genome with a homology search.
Date: February 20, 2023
Creator: Guo, Feng; Islam, Md Ashraful; Lv, Chenxu; Jin, Xiujuan; Sun, Lili; Zhao, Kai et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kinetic fall-off behavior for the Cl + Furan-2,5-dione (C4H2O3, maleic anhydride) reaction (open access)

Kinetic fall-off behavior for the Cl + Furan-2,5-dione (C4H2O3, maleic anhydride) reaction

Article discusses how rate coefficients, k, for the gas-phase Cl + Furan-2,5-dione (C4H2O3, maleic anhydride) reaction were measured over the 15–500 torr (He and N2 bath gas) pressure range at temperatures between 283 and 323 K. An atmospheric degradation mechanism for C4H2O3 is proposed based on the observed product yields and theoretical calculations of ring-opening pathways and activation barrier energies at the CBS-QB3 level of theory. This is the accepted manuscript version of the published article.
Date: February 15, 2021
Creator: Chattopadhyay, Aparajeo; Gierczak, Tomasz; Marshall, Paul; Papadimitriou, Vassileios C. & Burkholder, James B. (James Bart), 1954-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laser surface engineering of B4C/Fe nano composite coating on low carbon steel: Experimental coupled with computational approach (open access)

Laser surface engineering of B4C/Fe nano composite coating on low carbon steel: Experimental coupled with computational approach

Article describes a study where laser surface engineering was successfully used to engineer a nano carbide composite coating on a low carbon steel substrate.
Date: February 19, 2020
Creator: Salloom, Riyadh; Joshi, Sameehan; Dahotre, Narendra B. & Srinivasan, S. G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library