Librarians and Technology: Things to Consider (open access)

Librarians and Technology: Things to Consider

Article on librarians and technology and things to consider.
Date: June 3, 2014
Creator: Monahan, Jo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Textbooks Weighing you Down? Check out our E-Readers (open access)

Textbooks Weighing you Down? Check out our E-Readers

Article discussing a project by the UNT Libraries to purchase e-book readers for students purchasing digital textbooks.
Date: June 13, 2014
Creator: Brannon, Sian & Sears, Suzanne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managing Serials in a Large Digital Library: Case Study of the UNT Libraries Digital Collections (open access)

Managing Serials in a Large Digital Library: Case Study of the UNT Libraries Digital Collections

Article discussing a case study of the UNT Libraries digital collections and managing serials in a large digital library.
Date: June 2014
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Waugh, Laura; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Controlling the length scale and distribution of the ductile phase in metallic glass composites through friction stir processing (open access)

Controlling the length scale and distribution of the ductile phase in metallic glass composites through friction stir processing

This article demonstrates the refinement and uniform distribution of the crystalline dendritic phase by friction stir processing of titanium based in situ ductile-phase reinforced metallic glass composite.
Date: June 24, 2014
Creator: Singh Arora, Harpreet; Mridha, Sanghita; Singh Grewal, Harpeet; Singh, Harpreet; Hofmann, Douglas C. & Mukherjee, Sundeep
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kinetic studies of the reaction of atomic sulfur with acetylene (open access)

Kinetic studies of the reaction of atomic sulfur with acetylene

Article on kinetic studies of the reaction of atomic sulfur with acetylene.
Date: June 25, 2014
Creator: Ayling, Sean; Gao, Yide & Marshall, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library
Longitudinal analysis of cognitive constructs fostered by STEM activities for middle school students (open access)

Longitudinal analysis of cognitive constructs fostered by STEM activities for middle school students

This article studies whether the changes found to occur pre- to post intervention in students' cognitive structures continued to persist two years later.
Date: June 2014
Creator: Christensen, Rhonda; Knezek, Gerald; Tyler-Wood, Tandra L. & Gibson, David C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exceptional Friction Mitigation via Subsurface Plastic Shear in Defective Nanocrystalline Ceramics (open access)

Exceptional Friction Mitigation via Subsurface Plastic Shear in Defective Nanocrystalline Ceramics

This article reports that atomic layer deposition {0002}-textured ZnO films, with nanocolumnar grains and defective sub-stoichiometric structure, exhibit nanocrystalline plasticity and exceptionally low sliding friction and wear.
Date: June 13, 2014
Creator: Mohseni, Hamidreza; Mensah, B. A.; Gupta, N.; Srinivasan, S. G. & Scharf, Thomas W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solubility Determination of Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane in Water + Methanol Mixtures at Various Temperatures Using a Laser Monitoring Technique (open access)

Solubility Determination of Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane in Water + Methanol Mixtures at Various Temperatures Using a Laser Monitoring Technique

Article on solubility determination of tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane in water + methanol mixtures at various temperatures using a laser monitoring technique.
Date: June 10, 2014
Creator: Jouyban-Gharamaleki, Vahid; Jouyban-Gharamaleki, Karim; Soleymani, Jafar; Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Jouyban, Abolghasem
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Namastey London”: Bollywood Movies and Their Impact on how Indians Perceive European Destinations (open access)

“Namastey London”: Bollywood Movies and Their Impact on how Indians Perceive European Destinations

This article analyzes the perception of European destinations through the eyes of Indian Bollywood film viewers to determine how perception is influenced by what is viewed in films. Results indicate differences in destination preference among Bollywood viewers and worldwide tourist trends. Findings indicate that prominently featuring a landscape within Bollywood films can significantly impact Indians’ perception on the destinations’ image.
Date: June 2014
Creator: Josiam, Bharath M.; Spears, Daniel L.; Dutta, Kirti; Pookulangara, Sanjukta & Kinley, Tammy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Meta-discoveries from a synthesis of satellite-based land-cover mapping research (open access)

Meta-discoveries from a synthesis of satellite-based land-cover mapping research

This article provides a spatialized database of scientific literature in English about land-cover mapping.
Date: June 19, 2014
Creator: Yu, Le; Liang, Lu; Wang, Jie; Zhao, Yuanyuan; Cheng, Qu; Hu, Luanyun et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping Mountain Pine Beetle Mortality through Growth Trend Analysis of Time-Series Landsat Data (open access)

Mapping Mountain Pine Beetle Mortality through Growth Trend Analysis of Time-Series Landsat Data

This article presents a forest growth trend analysis method that integrates Landsat temporal trajectories and decision tree techniques to derive annual forest disturbance maps over an 11-year period.
Date: June 18, 2014
Creator: Liang, Lu; Chen, Yanlei; Hawbaker, Todd J.; Zhu, Zhiliang & Gong, Peng
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermochemical Properties of 4-N,N-Dialkylamino-7-Nitrobenzofurazan Derivatives (Alkyl = Methyl, Ethyl) (open access)

Thermochemical Properties of 4-N,N-Dialkylamino-7-Nitrobenzofurazan Derivatives (Alkyl = Methyl, Ethyl)

Article discussing the thermochemical properties of 4-N,N-dialkylamino-7-nitrobenzofurazan derivatives (alkyl = methyl, ethyl).
Date: June 2014
Creator: Santos, Ana Filipa Lima Osório de Magalhães; Silva, Ana L. R.; Santiago, Otília D. F.; Gonçalves, Jorge M.; Pandey, Siddharth; Acree, William E. (William Eugene) et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supplementary materials: Thermochemical Properties of 4-N,N-Dialkylamino-7-Nitrobenzofurazan Derivatives (Alkyl = Methyl, Ethyl) (open access)

Supplementary materials: Thermochemical Properties of 4-N,N-Dialkylamino-7-Nitrobenzofurazan Derivatives (Alkyl = Methyl, Ethyl)

Supplementary data accompanying an article on thermochemical properties of 4-N,N-dialkylamino-7-nitrobenzofurazan derivatives (alkyl = methyl, ethyl).
Date: June 2014
Creator: Santos, Ana Filipa Lima Osório de Magalhães; Silva, Ana L. R.; Santiago, Otília D. F.; Gonçalves, Jorge M.; Pandey, Siddharth; Acree, William E. (William Eugene) et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pharmacodynamics of potassium channel openers in cultured neuronal networks (open access)

Pharmacodynamics of potassium channel openers in cultured neuronal networks

Article discussing pharmacodynamics of potassium channel openers in cultured neuronal networks.
Date: June 5, 2014
Creator: Wu, Calvin; Gopal, Kamakshi V.; Lukas, Thomas J.; Gross, Guenter W. & Moore, Ernest J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neighborhood Impact of Foreclosure: A Quantile Regression Approach (open access)

Neighborhood Impact of Foreclosure: A Quantile Regression Approach

This article uses quantile regression to examine the simultaneous space-time impact of foreclosures on neighborhood property values.
Date: July 4, 2013
Creator: Zhang, Lei & Leonard, Tammy
System: The UNT Digital Library
First evidence of bryophyte diaspores in the plumage of transequatorial migrant birds (open access)

First evidence of bryophyte diaspores in the plumage of transequatorial migrant birds

Article on the first evidence of bryophyte diaspores in the plumage of transequatorial migrant birds.
Date: April 8, 2014
Creator: Lewis, Lily R.; Behling, Emily; Gousse, Hannah; Qian, Emily; Elphick, Chris S.; Lamarre, Jean-François et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction: International Information Issues and ASIS&T (open access)

Introduction: International Information Issues and ASIS&T

Article introducing a special section of the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) featuring interviews, discussions of ASIS&T chapters and SIGs roles, networking activities, and past and current organizational initiatives.
Date: June 19, 2014
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Rorissa, Abebe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interviews with SIG/III Co-founders: Reflections of Toni Carbo and Michel Menou (open access)

Interviews with SIG/III Co-founders: Reflections of Toni Carbo and Michel Menou

Article discussing interviews with the Special Interest Group/International Information Issues (SIG/III) co-founders Toni Carbo and Michel Menou.
Date: June 19, 2014
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molecular evolutionary and structural analysis of the cytosolic DNA sensor cGAS and STING (open access)

Molecular evolutionary and structural analysis of the cytosolic DNA sensor cGAS and STING

Article describes study in which researchers carried out comprehensive evolutionary analyses of the GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS)-STING pathway.
Date: June 30, 2014
Creator: Wu, Xiaomei; Wu, Fei-Hua; Wang, Xiaoqiang; Wang, Lilin; Siedow, James N.; Zhang, Weiguo et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library