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Inks of dielectric h-BN and semiconducting WS₂ for capacitive structures with graphene (open access)

Inks of dielectric h-BN and semiconducting WS₂ for capacitive structures with graphene

This article presents dispersions of WS₂ and h-BN using cyclohexanone and terpineol as the solvent to subsequently print prototype capacitive nanodevices.
Date: July 30, 2020
Creator: Desai, Jay A.; Mazumder, Sangram; Hossain, Ridwan Fayaz & Kaul, Anupama
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using an Adjunctive Treatment to Address Psychological Distress in a National Weight Management Program: Results of an Integrated Pilot Study (open access)

Using an Adjunctive Treatment to Address Psychological Distress in a National Weight Management Program: Results of an Integrated Pilot Study

Article examining weight loss and physical functioning of obese veterans with comorbid psychological symptoms when participating in weight management programs. The MOVE! program aims to increase healthy eating and physical activity to promote weight loss in obese veterans. Adequately addressing psychological barriers is necessary to maximize outcomes in MOVE! for veterans with PTSD, depression, and anxiety. This study examined the preliminary outcomes of administering the Healthy Emotions and Improving Health BehavioR Outcomes (HERO) intervention. HERO is adjunctive cognitive-behavioral therapy to MOVE! that addresses PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptom barriers to engagement in physical activity.
Date: July 30, 2020
Creator: Evans-Hudnall, Gina; Odafe, Mary O.; Johnson, Adrienne; Armenti, Nicholas; O'Neil, Jennifer; Lawson, Evan et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A comparative study of electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride and poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) fiber webs: Mechanical properties, crystallinity, and piezoelectric properties (open access)

A comparative study of electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride and poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) fiber webs: Mechanical properties, crystallinity, and piezoelectric properties

Article is a study examining the fabrication and characterization of electrospun randomly oriented and aligned grooved polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) (PVDF-TrFE) fiber webs.
Date: July 29, 2020
Creator: Xu, Bugao; Zhang, Wenxin; Zaarour, Bilal; Zhu, Lei; Huang, Chen & Jin, Xiangyu
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Disasters on a Heritage Tourist Destination: A Case Study of Nepal Earthquakes (open access)

The Impact of Disasters on a Heritage Tourist Destination: A Case Study of Nepal Earthquakes

Article examining the degree of macroeconomic recovery of the Nepal tourism industry after a natural disaster using the autoregressive integrated moving average model (ARIMA). The study investigated the case of Nepal’s earthquakes in 2015 and examined the impact of the earthquakes on tourism inflows and GDP using time series data from 1990 to 2018.
Date: July 29, 2020
Creator: Min, Jihye Ellie; KC, Birendra; Kim, Seungman & Lee, Jaehoon
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mortality salience, effort, and cardiovascular response to a bar-press challenge: Remarkably nuanced effects of a death prime on heart performance (open access)

Mortality salience, effort, and cardiovascular response to a bar-press challenge: Remarkably nuanced effects of a death prime on heart performance

Article is a study that presented participants with a bar-pressing challenge relevant to their identity after having exposed them to a prime that made their mortality more or less salient. This study adds substantively to a new line of support for terror management theory and documents the predictive utility of a proposed blended analysis of associated effort processes.
Date: July 29, 2020
Creator: Reza, Ariel; Whitted, Melissa; Wright, Rex A. & Mlynski, Christopher
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring the socio-economic and environmental components of infectious diseases using multivariate geovisualization: West Nile Virus (open access)

Exploring the socio-economic and environmental components of infectious diseases using multivariate geovisualization: West Nile Virus

Article focusing on West Nile Virus (WNV), a mosquito borne pathogen, as a case study for spatial data visualization of environmental characteristics of a vector’s habitat alongside human demographic composition for understanding potential public health risks of infectious disease.
Date: March 2, 2020
Creator: Kala, Abhishek K.; Atkinson, Samuel F. & Tiwari, Chetan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
High School Adolescents’ Physical Activity and Physical Fitness: A 3 × 2 Achievement Goal Approach (open access)

High School Adolescents’ Physical Activity and Physical Fitness: A 3 × 2 Achievement Goal Approach

Article examining the influence of six goal orientations on physical activity (PA) and physical fitness (PF) in high school students in China using the latest 3 × 2 achievement goal model. Results show fostering self- and other-approach-oriented environments with developmentally appropriate content in physical education may have implications for enhancing high school students’ PA and PF.
Date: July 27, 2020
Creator: Shen, Liang; Lee, Joonyoung; Chen, Changzhou & Zhang, Tao
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
MYB30 Orchestrates Systemic Reactive Oxygen Signaling and Plant Acclimation (open access)

MYB30 Orchestrates Systemic Reactive Oxygen Signaling and Plant Acclimation

This article explores the relationship among MYB30, the ROS wave, and systemic acclimation in Arabidopsis by determining the SAA response to HL stress of MYB30 mutants and wild-type plants.
Date: July 22, 2020
Creator: Fichman, Yosef; Zandalinas, Sara I.; Sengupta, Soham; Burks, David J.; Meyers, Ronald J., Jr.; Azad, Rajeev K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The utility of zooarchaeological data to guide listing efforts for an imperiled mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Pleurobema riddellii) (open access)

The utility of zooarchaeological data to guide listing efforts for an imperiled mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionidae: Pleurobema riddellii)

Article presents research that demonstrates Pleurobema riddellii, Louisiana Pigtoe, was likely present in the Trinity River basin during the late Holocene, which indicates questions about its taxonomic validity or presence in this basin are unfounded.
Date: July 22, 2020
Creator: Wolverton, Steven J.; Randklev, Charles R.; Johnson, Nathan A.; Smith, Chase H.; DuBose, Traci P.; Robertson, Clinton R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relating size and functionality in human social networks through complexity (open access)

Relating size and functionality in human social networks through complexity

Article argues that the Dunbar number arises as a consequence of a natural phase transition in the dynamic self-organization among N individuals within a social system. The authors provide a theoretical basis for the value of the Dunbar number and establish a theory-based bridge spanning the gap between sociology and psychology.
Date: July 20, 2020
Creator: Massari, Giovanni F.; Culbreth, Garland; Failla, Roberto; Grigolini, Paolo; West, Bruce J. & Bologna, Mauro
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
SEIPIN Isoforms Interact with the Membrane-Tethering Protein VAP27-1 for Lipid Droplet Formation (open access)

SEIPIN Isoforms Interact with the Membrane-Tethering Protein VAP27-1 for Lipid Droplet Formation

Article demonstrating that part of the function of two SEIPIN isoforms in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), AtSEIPIN2 and AtSEIPIN3, may depend on their interaction with the vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP)–associated protein (VAP) family member AtVAP27-1. The authors used a combination of biochemical, cell biology, and genetics approaches to show that AtVAP27-1 interacts with the N termini of AtSEIPIN2 and AtSEIPIN3 and likely supports the normal formation of LDs. This insight indicates that the ER membrane tethering machinery in plant cells could play a role with select SEIPIN isoforms in LD biogenesis at the ER, and additional experimental evidence in Saccharomyces cerevisiae supports the possibility that this interaction may be important in other eukaryotic systems.
Date: July 20, 2020
Creator: Greer, Michael Scott; Cai, Yingqi; Gidda, Satinder K.; Esnay, Nicolas; Kretzschmar, Franziska K.; Seay, Damien C. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Microstructurally flexible high entropy alloys: Linkages between alloy design and deformation behavior (open access)

Microstructurally flexible high entropy alloys: Linkages between alloy design and deformation behavior

Article presents research where metastability based alloy design led to flexible microstructural evolution in which either thermodynamically stable γ-phase or unstable ε-phase was obtained at room temperature.
Date: July 19, 2020
Creator: Nene, Saurabh S.; Frank, M.; Agrawal, P.; Sinha, Subhasis; Liu, Kaimiao; Shukla, Shivakant et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Cable-Less Seismograph with Functions of Real-Time Data Transmitting and High-Precision Differential Self-Positioning (open access)

A New Cable-Less Seismograph with Functions of Real-Time Data Transmitting and High-Precision Differential Self-Positioning

This article developed a new cable-less seismograph system, which can transmit seismic data in real-time and automatically perform high-precision differential self-positioning. Combining the ZigBee technology with the high-precision differential positioning module, this new seismograph system utilized the wireless personal area network (WPAN) and real-time kinematic (RTK) technologies to improve its on-site performances and to make the field quality control (QC) and self-positioning possible. With the advantages of low-cost, good scalability, and good compatibility, the proposed new cable-less seismograph system can improve the field working efficiency and data processing capability. It has potential applications in noise seismology and mobile seismic monitoring.
Date: July 19, 2020
Creator: Liu, Kang; You, Qingyu; Wang, Juan; Xu, Xiqiang; Shi, Pengcheng; Dai, Kaoshan et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A practical guide for assessing respiratory burst and phagocytic cell activity in the fathead minnow, an emerging model for immunotoxicity (open access)

A practical guide for assessing respiratory burst and phagocytic cell activity in the fathead minnow, an emerging model for immunotoxicity

Article is a study with the goal of optimizing and validating the use of a colorimetric plate-based respiratory burst and fluorometric plate-based phagocytic cell activity assays for use with kidney cells from the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas), an emerging immunotoxicity model.
Date: July 18, 2020
Creator: Thornton Hampton, Leah M.; Venables, Barney J. & Jeffries, Marlo K. Sellin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developing a Metadata Ecosystem at the UNT Libraries

Presentation for Drexel University's "Metadata Mixers" series describing some of the features and tools that UNT Libraries have been implementing for metadata creation and assessment in the Digital Collections and how they all work together to support metadata activities.
Date: July 16, 2020
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plasmon-resonance emission tailoring of “origami” graphene-covered photonic gratings (open access)

Plasmon-resonance emission tailoring of “origami” graphene-covered photonic gratings

Article focusing on the modification of optical properties through folding, or “origami,” of graphene covering a plasmonic metal channel grating. This work is especially critical to understanding tailored deep plasmon emission from geometrically-modulated conducting sheets such as graphene.
Date: July 16, 2020
Creator: Araki, Ken & Zhang, Richard Z.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lipophilic signals lead to organ-specific gene expression changes in Arabidopsis seedlings (open access)

Lipophilic signals lead to organ-specific gene expression changes in Arabidopsis seedlings

Article presents a study where whole transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) and differential expression analysis were used to identify early (1–3 hr) transcriptional changes induced by the exogenous treatment of NAE 18:2 and NAE 18:3 in cotyledons, roots, and seedlings.
Date: July 15, 2020
Creator: Cannon, Ashley E.; Yan, Chengshi; Burks, David J.; Rao, Xiaolan; Azad, Rajeev K. & Chapman, Kent Dean
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seedling Chloroplast Responses Induced by N-Linolenoylethanolamine Require Intact G-Protein Complexes (open access)

Seedling Chloroplast Responses Induced by N-Linolenoylethanolamine Require Intact G-Protein Complexes

This article shows that the activity of N-linolenoylethanolamine (NAE 18:3) requires an intact G-protein complex. Specifically, genetic ablation of the Gβγ dimer or loss of the full set of atypical Gα subunits strongly attenuates an NAE-18:3–induced degreening of cotyledons in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) seedlings. This effect involves, at least in part, transcriptional regulation of chlorophyll biosynthesis and catabolism genes. In addition, there is feedforward transcriptional control of G-protein signaling components and G-protein interactors. These results are consistent with NAE 18:3 being a lipid signaling molecule in plants with a requirement for G-proteins to mediate signal transduction, a situation similar, but not identical, to the action of NAE endocannabinoids in animal systems.
Date: July 14, 2020
Creator: Yan, Chengshi; Cannon, Ashley E.; Watkins, Justin; Keereetaweep, Jantana; Khan, Bibi Rafeiza; Jones, Alan M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Structural equation modeling of the associations between amygdala activation, personality, and internalizing, externalizing symptoms of psychopathology (open access)

Structural equation modeling of the associations between amygdala activation, personality, and internalizing, externalizing symptoms of psychopathology

Article examining how amygdala activation to facial expressions was linked with self-report of personality traits and clinical interviews of internalizing and externalizing symptoms of psychopathology. Structural equation modeling results revealed direct associations of amygdala activation with personality trait expression, as well as indirect associations (though personality) with symptoms of psychopathology.
Date: July 14, 2020
Creator: Neumann, Craig S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inkjet-printed MoS₂-based field-effect transistors with graphene and hexagonal boron nitride inks (open access)

Inkjet-printed MoS₂-based field-effect transistors with graphene and hexagonal boron nitride inks

This article reports the design, fabrication, and characterization of an all inkjet-printed field-effect transistor (FET).
Date: July 10, 2020
Creator: Hossain, Ridwan F. & Kaul, Anupama
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prolate and oblate chiral liquid crystal spheroids (open access)

Prolate and oblate chiral liquid crystal spheroids

Article examining the palette of morphologies that arises when microdroplets are deformed into nonspherical shapes in a controllable manner. Specifically, geometrical confinement and mechanical strain are used to manipulate orientational order, phase transitions, and topological defects that arise in chiral liquid crystal droplets. The reported structures and assemblies offer potential for applications in smart coatings, smart fabrics, and wearable sensors.
Date: July 10, 2020
Creator: Sadati, Monirosadat; Martínez-González, José A.; Zhou, Ye; Qazvini, Nader Taheri; Kurtenbach, Khia; Li, Xiao et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electropolymerizable meso-Tetrakis Biphenyl-Bis(bithiophene) Zinc Porphyrin: Ground and Excited State Properties in Solution and in Films with Axially Coordinated C60 (open access)

Electropolymerizable meso-Tetrakis Biphenyl-Bis(bithiophene) Zinc Porphyrin: Ground and Excited State Properties in Solution and in Films with Axially Coordinated C60

Article presenting research where an electropolymerizable zinc porphyrin carrying eight entities of peripheral bithiophene, 4 was newly designed and synthesized.
Date: July 9, 2020
Creator: Ganesan, Ashwin; Shao, Shuai; Seetharaman, Sairaman; Perera, Wijayantha A. & D'Souza, Francis
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Private patient rooms and hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A hospital-level analysis of administrative data from the United States (open access)

Private patient rooms and hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A hospital-level analysis of administrative data from the United States

Article presents research using hospital-level data from the US to determine whether private patient rooms (PPRs) are associated with fewer in hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) infections.
Date: July 9, 2020
Creator: O'Neill, Liam; Stockbridge, Erica L.; Miller, Thaddeus L. & Park, Sae-Hwan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
In silico guided structural and functional analysis of genes with potential involvement in resistance to coffee leaf rust: A functional marker based approach (open access)

In silico guided structural and functional analysis of genes with potential involvement in resistance to coffee leaf rust: A functional marker based approach

Article presents novel insights into the molecular nature of the SH genes, thereby opening new avenues for coffee rust resistance molecular breeding.
Date: July 8, 2020
Creator: Ferreira, Svio Siqueira; Barka, Geleta Dugassa; Caixeta, Eveline Teixeira & Zambolim, Larcio
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library