Partition of Neutral Molecules and Ions from Water to o-Nitrophenyl Octyl Ether and of Neutral Molecules from the Gas Phase to o-Nitrophenyl Octyl Ether (open access)

Partition of Neutral Molecules and Ions from Water to o-Nitrophenyl Octyl Ether and of Neutral Molecules from the Gas Phase to o-Nitrophenyl Octyl Ether

This article sets out an equation for partition of 87 neutral molecules from water to o-nitrophenyl octyl ether, NPOE, an equation for partition of the 87 neutral molecules and 21 ionic species from water to NPOE, and an equation for partition of 87 neutral molecules from the gas phase to NPOE.
Date: February 16, 2018
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.); Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Liu, Xiangli
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prioritizing riparian corridors for ecosystem restoration in urbanizing watersheds (open access)

Prioritizing riparian corridors for ecosystem restoration in urbanizing watersheds

This article explores restoration, rather than protection, being the basis for developing a watershed level strategy for improving water quality in urbanizing watersheds.This study uses a geographical information system (GIS) approach that utilizes riparian characteristics extracted from 40-meter wide corridors centered on streams and rivers. The model was applied to 90 sub-watersheds in the watershed of an important drinking water reservoir in north central Texas, USA.
Date: February 4, 2020
Creator: Atkinson, Samuel F. & Lake, Matthew C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Promoting bioanalytical concepts in genetics: A TATA box molecularly imprinted polymer as a small isolated fragment of the DNA damage repairing system (open access)

Promoting bioanalytical concepts in genetics: A TATA box molecularly imprinted polymer as a small isolated fragment of the DNA damage repairing system

Article describes study which demonstrates that a new, stable, artificial TATA (T — thymine, A — adenine) box is recognized by amino acids recognizing the natural TATA box.
Date: February 13, 2019
Creator: Bartold, Katarzyna; Pietrzyk-Le, Agnieszka; Lisowski, Wojciech; Golebiewska, Karolina; Siklitskaya, Alexandra; Borowicz, Pawel et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reduced reflectance and altered color: The potential cost of external particulate matter accumulation on urban Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) feathers (open access)

Reduced reflectance and altered color: The potential cost of external particulate matter accumulation on urban Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) feathers

Authors of the article state that airborne particulate matter (PM) can accumulate on feather surfaces and alter feather appearance, so they quantified PM accumulation on Rock Pigeon feathers and analyzed the spectral properties of extracted particulates. Their findings suggest that wild birds could incur an urban pollution penalty as PM accumulation has the potential to alter feather properties.
Date: February 10, 2023
Creator: Ellis, Jennifer L.; Ponette-González, Alexandra G.; Fry, Matthew & Johnson, Jeff A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Salt-water acclimation of the estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus involves enhanced ion transport properties of the urodaeum and rectum (open access)

Salt-water acclimation of the estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus involves enhanced ion transport properties of the urodaeum and rectum

This article reports that in addition to the well-documented functional plasticity of the lingual salt glands, the middle of the three cloacal segments (i.e. the urodaeum) responds to increased ambient salinity to enhance solute-coupled water absorption in estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus).
Date: July 16, 2019
Creator: Grosell, Martin; Heuer, Rachael M.; Wu, N. C.; Cramp, Rebecca L.; Wang, Yadong; Mager, Edward M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soft Metal Cations Trigger Sandwich-Cluster Luminescence of a New Au(I)-Vinylimidazolate Cyclic Trinuclear Complex (open access)

Soft Metal Cations Trigger Sandwich-Cluster Luminescence of a New Au(I)-Vinylimidazolate Cyclic Trinuclear Complex

Article presenting results from a study where a new gold(I)-vinylimidazolate CTC, 1, was prepared and the formation of highly emissive sandwich adducts with the soft metal cations Cu+, Ag+, and Tl+, 2–4, respectively, was investigated.
Date: February 14, 2022
Creator: Lu, Zhou; Burini, Alfredo; McDougald, Roy N., Jr.; Ricci, Simone; Luciani, Lorenzo; Nesterov, Vladimir N. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soft Metal Cations Trigger Sandwich-Cluster Luminescence of a New Au(I)-Vinylimidazolate Cyclic Trinuclear Complex (open access)

Soft Metal Cations Trigger Sandwich-Cluster Luminescence of a New Au(I)-Vinylimidazolate Cyclic Trinuclear Complex

Article presenting research that obtained a new Au(I) CTC bearing the 1-vinylimidazolate ligand and furthered the controllable synthetic pathway to afford heterometallic sandwich-like clusters.
Date: February 14, 2022
Creator: Lu, Zhou; Burini, Alfredo; McDougald, Roy N., Jr.; Ricci, Simone; Luciani, Lorenzo; Nesterov, Vladimir N. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solvation Descriptors for Zwitterionic α-Aminoacids; Estimation of Water–Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities, and Hydrogen-Bond Acidity and Hydrogen-Bond Basicity (open access)

Solvation Descriptors for Zwitterionic α-Aminoacids; Estimation of Water–Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities, and Hydrogen-Bond Acidity and Hydrogen-Bond Basicity

This article uses the literature data on solubilities and water–solvent partition coefficients to obtain properties or “Absolv descriptors” for zwitterionic α-aminoacids: glycine, α-alanine (α-aminopropanoic acid), α-aminobutanoic acid, norvaline (α-aminopentanoic acid), norleucine (α-aminohexanoic acid), valine (α-amino-3-methylbutanoic acid), leucine (α-amino-4-methylpentanoic acid), and α-phenylalanine.
Date: February 8, 2019
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatially confined protein assembly in hierarchical mesoporous metal-organic framework (open access)

Spatially confined protein assembly in hierarchical mesoporous metal-organic framework

Article discusses how the immobilization of biomolecules into porous materials could lead to significantly enhanced performance in terms of stability towards harsh reaction conditions and easier separation for their reuse. To gain insights into the spatial arrangement of biomolecules within the nanopores, the authors used in situ small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) to probe deuterated green fluorescent protein (d-GFP) entrapped in a mesoporous MOF.
Date: February 21, 2023
Creator: Wang, Xiaoliang; He, Lilin; Sumner, Jacob; Qian, Shuo; Zhang, Qiu; O'Neill, Hugh et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sub-Antarctic Freshwater Invertebrate Thermal Tolerances: An Assessment of Critical Thermal Limits and Behavioral Responses (open access)

Sub-Antarctic Freshwater Invertebrate Thermal Tolerances: An Assessment of Critical Thermal Limits and Behavioral Responses

Describes study which assessed the upper (CTmax) and lower (CTmin) thermal limits of three freshwater macroinvertebrate taxa with restricted low elevation distribution (20 m a.s.l.) and three taxa restricted to upper elevations (480 and 700 m a.s.l.) in the Magellanic sub-Antarctic ecoregion of southern Chile, and argues that their low tolerance to temperature increase can make them useful as indicators of thermal alteration in their habitats.
Date: February 4, 2020
Creator: Rendoll Cárcamo, Javier; Contador, Tamara; Convey, Peter & Kennedy, James H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Survival, Growth, and Development in the Early Stages of the Tropical Gar Atractosteus tropicus: Developmental Critical Windows and the Influence of Temperature, Salinity, and Oxygen Availability (open access)

Survival, Growth, and Development in the Early Stages of the Tropical Gar Atractosteus tropicus: Developmental Critical Windows and the Influence of Temperature, Salinity, and Oxygen Availability

This article uses embryos and larvae of Atractosteus tropicus as a model to study fish survival, growth, and development as a function of temperature, salinity, and air saturation during developmental periods. Results suggest identifiable critical windows of development in the early ontogeny of A. tropicus and contribute to the knowledge of fish larval ecology and the interactions of individuals × stressors × time of exposure.
Date: February 12, 2021
Creator: Martínez, Gill; Peña, Emyr; Martínez, Rafael; Camarillo, Susana; Burggren, Warren W. & Álvarez, Alfonso
System: The UNT Digital Library
Targeting hydroxycinnamoyl CoA: shikimate hydroxycinnamoyl transferase for lignin modification in Brachypodium distachyon (open access)

Targeting hydroxycinnamoyl CoA: shikimate hydroxycinnamoyl transferase for lignin modification in Brachypodium distachyon

This article conducts a study to evaluate the utility of Hydroxycinnamoyl CoA: shikimate hydroxycinnamoyl transferase (HCT) as a target for lignin modification in a species with an “incomplete” shikimate shunt. Results imply that this gene is a preferred target for biotechnological improvement of grasses for bioprocessing.
Date: February 27, 2021
Creator: Serrani-Yarce, Juan Carlos; Escamilla-Treviño, Luis; Barros, Jaime; Gallego-Giraldo, Lina; Pu, Yunqiao; Ragauskas, Arthur J. (Arthur Jonas), 1957- et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Targeting the pattern-triggered immunity pathway to enhance resistance to Fusarium graminearum (open access)

Targeting the pattern-triggered immunity pathway to enhance resistance to Fusarium graminearum

Article describes study which shows that resistance against fusarium graminearum, the primary casual agent of fusarium head blight (FHB), can be enhanced by flg22, a bacterial microbe-associated molecular pattern (MAMP).
Date: February 6, 2019
Creator: Sarowar, Sujon; Alam, Syeda T.; Makandar, Ragiba; Lee, Hyeonju; Trick, Harold N.; Dong, Yanhong et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A theoretical study of M–M′ polar-covalent bonding in heterobimetallic multinuclear organometallic complexes of monovalent group 11 metal centres (open access)

A theoretical study of M–M′ polar-covalent bonding in heterobimetallic multinuclear organometallic complexes of monovalent group 11 metal centres

Article describes how complexes with closed-shell (d10–d10) interactions have been studied for their interesting luminescence properties in organic light-emitting diode (OLED) devices. The present computational study aims at understanding the chemical bonding/interactions in a series of molecules with unusually short metal–metal bond distances between monovalent coinage-metal (d10–d10) centres.
Date: February 8, 2023
Creator: Rabaâ, Hassan; Sundholm, Dage & Omary, Mohammad A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Topological mixing properties of rank‐one subshifts (open access)

Topological mixing properties of rank‐one subshifts

Article describes study examining the topological mixing properties and the maximal equicontinuous factor of rank‐one subshifts as topological dynamical systems
Date: February 7, 2019
Creator: Gao, Su & Ziegler, Caleb
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toward Best Management Practices for Ecological Corridors (open access)

Toward Best Management Practices for Ecological Corridors

This article summarizes the best available information about managing ecological corridor systems. The aim with is to provide managers with a convenient guidance document and tool to assist in applying scientific management principles to management of corridors. It does not cover issues related to corridor design or political buy in, but focuses on how a corridor should be managed once it has been established.
Date: February 1, 2021
Creator: Gregory, Andrew; Spence, Emma; Beier, Paul & Garding, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcriptome Analysis Uncovers the Gene Expression Profile of Hemileia vastatrix (Race XXXIII) during the Interactions with Resistant and Susceptible Coffee (open access)

Transcriptome Analysis Uncovers the Gene Expression Profile of Hemileia vastatrix (Race XXXIII) during the Interactions with Resistant and Susceptible Coffee

This article presents research to sequence the transcriptome of H. vastatrix race XXXIII to obtain a database for use as a reference in studies of the interaction between the fungus and coffee. In addition, the authors aim to identify differentially expressed genes that have the potential to act as effector proteins during the interaction.
Date: December 27, 2021
Creator: Castro, Isabel Samila Lima; Freitas-Lopes, Rejane do Livramento; de Siqueira Ferreira, Sávio; Maciel, Talles Eduardo Ferreira; Florez, Juan Carlos; Zambolim, Eunize Maciel et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tuning excited state electronic structure and charge transport in covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalytic performance (open access)

Tuning excited state electronic structure and charge transport in covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalytic performance

Article describes how covalent organic frameworks (COFs) represent an emerging class of organic photocatalysts. The authors use reticular chemistry to construct a family of isoreticular crystalline hydrazide-based COF photocatalysts, with the optoelectronic properties and local pore characteristics of the COFs modulated using different linkers.
Date: February 27, 2023
Creator: Chen, Zhongshan; Wang, Jingyi; Hao, Mengjie; Xie, Yinghui; Liu, Xiaolu; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Two-Layer High-Throughput: Effective Mass Calculations Including Warping (open access)

Two-Layer High-Throughput: Effective Mass Calculations Including Warping

Article performing and analyzing two-layer high-throughput calculations.
Date: February 26, 2022
Creator: Supka, Andrew; Mecholsky, Nicholas A.; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco; Curtarolo, Stefano & Fornari, Marco
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Unique Fold and Lability of the [2fe‑2s] Clusters of Neet Proteins Mediate Their Key Functions in Health and Disease (open access)

The Unique Fold and Lability of the [2fe‑2s] Clusters of Neet Proteins Mediate Their Key Functions in Health and Disease

This article discusses the NEET fold and its structural elements.
Date: February 12, 2018
Creator: Karmi, Ola; Marjault, Henri-Baptiste; Pesce, Luca; Carloni, Paolo; Onuchic, José N.; Jennings, Patricia A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unusual Properties of Hydrogen-Bonded Ferroelectrics: The Case of Cobalt Formate (open access)

Unusual Properties of Hydrogen-Bonded Ferroelectrics: The Case of Cobalt Formate

Article using first-principles simulations to predict room temperature ferroelectricity in a representative of the formate family, [NH₂NH₃][Co(HCOO)₃].
Date: February 18, 2022
Creator: Ghosh, P. S.; DeTellem, D.; Ren, J.; Witanachchi, S.; Ma, Shengqian; Lisenkov, S. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Urban Feature Extraction within a Complex Urban Area with an Improved 3D-CNN Using Airborne Hyperspectral Data (open access)

Urban Feature Extraction within a Complex Urban Area with an Improved 3D-CNN Using Airborne Hyperspectral Data

Article describes how airborne hyperspectral data has high spectral-spatial information, but mining and using this information effectively is still a great challenge. Therefore, a 3D-1D-CNN model was proposed for feature extraction in complex urban with hyperspectral images affected by cloud shadows.
Date: February 10, 2023
Creator: Ma, Xiaotong; Man, Qixia; Yang, Xinming; Dong, Pinliang; Yang, Zelong; Wu, Jingru et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Visualization of Lipid Droplet Composition by Direct Organelle Mass Spectrometry (open access)

Visualization of Lipid Droplet Composition by Direct Organelle Mass Spectrometry

Article reporting an approach that combines the visualization of individual lipid droplets (LDs), microphase extraction of lipid components from droplets, and the direct identification of lipid composition by nanospray mass spectrometry, even to the level of a single LD. The triacylglycerol (TAG) composition of LDs from several plant sources (mature cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) embryos, roots of cotton seedlings, and Arabidopsis thaliana seeds and leaves) were examined by direct organelle mass spectrometry and revealed the heterogeneity of LDs derived from different plant tissue sources.
Date: February 4, 2011
Creator: Horn, Patrick J.; Ledbetter, Nicole R.; James, Christopher N.; Hoffman, William D.; Case, Charlene R.; Verbeck, Guido F. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library