Prescriptions for Correcting Ultraviolet-based Redshifts for Luminous Quasars at High Redshift (open access)

Prescriptions for Correcting Ultraviolet-based Redshifts for Luminous Quasars at High Redshift

This article presents near-infrared spectroscopy of 18 luminous quasars at 2.15 < z < 3.70 that allows the authors to obtain reliable systemic redshifts for these sources.
Date: April 8, 2020
Creator: Dix, Cooper; Shemmer, Ohad; Brotherton, Michael S.; Green, Richard F.; Mason, Michelle & Myers, Adam D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broadband Absorption in Patterned Metal/Weakly-Absorbing-Spacer/Metal with Graded Photonic Super-Crystal (open access)

Broadband Absorption in Patterned Metal/Weakly-Absorbing-Spacer/Metal with Graded Photonic Super-Crystal

Article studying high light absorption in two devices: a stack of Au-pattern/insulator/Au-film and a stack of Au-pattern/weakly-absorbing-material/Au-film where the Au-pattern was structured in graded photonic super-crystal. Multiple-band absorption, including one near 1500 nm, in a stack of Au-pattern/spacer/Au-film was observed.
Date: April 8, 2021
Creator: Kamau, Steve; Hassan, Safaa; Alnasser, Khadijah; Zhang, Hualiang; Cui, Jingbiao & Lin, Yuankun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ion-exchange mechanisms and interfacial reaction kinetics during aqueous corrosion of sodium silicate glasses (open access)

Ion-exchange mechanisms and interfacial reaction kinetics during aqueous corrosion of sodium silicate glasses

Article on the ion-exchange and associated interfacial reaction mechanisms of silicate glasses. This work reports findings that shed light on the complex ion-exchange mechanisms during glass hydration and enables more detailed understanding of the corrosion and glass-water interactions of silicate glasses which has the potential to impact both science and technology.
Date: April 8, 2021
Creator: Deng, Lu; Miyatani, Katsuaki; Suehara, Michinori; Amma, Shin-ichi; Ono, Madoka; Urata, Shingo et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exposure to diesel exhaust particulates and desert sand dust generates microvesicle particles and platelet-activating factor agonists (open access)

Exposure to diesel exhaust particulates and desert sand dust generates microvesicle particles and platelet-activating factor agonists

The authors address the editor in their article, stating that the majority of the general population, particularly, servicemen and women deployed across the globe are exposed to various airborne hazards, including diesel exhaust particulate (DEP) and desert sand dust (DSD). Studies, including the author's study, have shown that exposure to ROS-generating pro-oxidative stressors ranging from environmental carcinogens to pollutants, including cigarette smoke, produces a class of potent phospholipid mediators, Platelet-activating factor (PAF) and PAF-like agonists via oxidative cleavage of lipid membrane glycerophosphocholines (GPCs).
Date: April 8, 2023
Creator: Thyagarajan, Anita; Rapp, Christine M.; Schneider, Leah; Lund, Amie K.; Travers, Jeffrey B. & Sahu, Ravi P.
System: The UNT Digital Library