This report discusses the Z39.50 interoperability testbed and serves as an interim report for the Z-Interop Project as of December 31, 2003.

This article discusses the use of tree-based models to identify subgroups and increase power to detect linkage to cardiovascular disease traits.

In this article, the authors consider the low-frequency limit (homogenization) for propagation of sound waves in periodic elastic medium (phononic crystals).

Article describing the discovery of Vanadium and tracing the footsteps of the discoverers.

Article on signals for local and systemic responses of plants to pathogen attack.

This lecture script examines the nature and role of standards for the emerging 21st century library. Given the dynamic character of the networked environment, when are standards appropriate and how can they be developed in a manner consistent with the volatility of information technologies and changing library services? What are the roles and responsibilities of standards developing organizations, technology vendors, content creators, and librarians for standards? Do local practices of libraries threaten standards-based resource sharing and resource access technologies? Can local needs be balanced with broader library community responsibilities, and how do standards affect this balance? The speaker's assumption is that adherence to standards has never been more critical, yet his implementation experience with Z39.50 and MARC suggests that the commitment to national and international standards by librarians, technology vendors, and content creators are often an example of good intentions rather than actual practice. This standards disconnect threatens the emerging 21st century library's ability to deliver fundamental services in appropriate ways to their users.

Article on community-oriented policing in a multicultural milieu and the case of loitering and disorderly conduct in East Arlington, Texas.

The Dallas/Fort Worth Metropolitan Area, along with most other regions of the country, has witnessed some tough economic times. Telecom layoffs, the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, and the national economic downturn have reduced the region's employment by about 100,000 since 2000. Dallas' current economic stress is best evidenced by its declining per capita income. Still, as this report illustrates, even allowing for the region's current economic vicissitudes, the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex has been one of the most dynamic urban areas in the nation since 1990 and this report presents the information surrounding these topics with the figures and data found by the University of North Texas Center for Economic Development and Research.

Article on the reaction of OH with acetone and acetone-d₆ from 298 to 832 K and rate coefficients and mechanism.

This presentation discusses how XML can help store metadata. The University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Projects Unit developed the UNTL metadata element set with IndexData that tailored the data to meet their needs.

This article presents the intrinsic spectral energy distribution of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy Ark 564, constructed with contemporaneous data obtained during a multiwavelength, multisatellite observing campaign in 2000 and 2001.

This article discusses three-coordinate Au(I) phosphine complexes.

This presentation from the 2003 Internet Librarian Conference shares some experiences from two “real-life” Web site usability studies, including tips and tricks for carrying out a Web usability study.

This paper discusses building multilingual semantic networks.

This article discusses functional and phylogenetic analyses of a conserved regulatory program in the phloem of minor veins, which are developmentally and physiologically distinct from the phloem in the rest of the vascular system.

Paper exploring the composers and events that contributed to the creation of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.

Paper discussing the detection of invisible and crucial events.

Article summarizing major findings of the MetaArchive and AmericanSouth projects, two of the seven projects of the 2001 Mellon Metadata Harvesting Initiative.

Article on regiospecific hydroxylation of isoflavones by cytochrome P450 81E enzymes from Medicago truncatula.

Article discussing solubility in binary solvent mixtures and anthracene dissolved in alcohol + carbon tetrachloride mixtures at 298.2 K.

Article showing that knockdown Arabidopsis plants with suppressed expression of the key water-water cycle enzyme, thylakoid-attached copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (KD-SOD), are suppressed in their growth and development. This article provides e genetic evidence for the importance of the water-water cycle in protecting the photosynthetic apparatus of higher plants from photooxidative damage.

Article on a general treatment of solubility and the quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) correlation of solvation free energies of single solutes in series of solvents.

Article on a general treatment of solubility and quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) prediction of free energies of solvation of specified solutes in ranges of solvents.

This article discusses nanoparticle-assisted microwave absorption by single-wall carbon nanotubes.