Academic Librarians as STEM Retention Partners (open access)

Academic Librarians as STEM Retention Partners

This column article discusses how academic librarians can assist with increasing student retention in STEM fields.
Date: May 2017
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaboration in scholarly communication: Opportunities to normalize open access (open access)

Collaboration in scholarly communication: Opportunities to normalize open access

This article discusses scholarly communication from a holistic perspective and includes some strategies implemented at University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: May 2017
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of structural morphology and electrical properties of graphene-C₆₀ hybrids (open access)

Investigation of structural morphology and electrical properties of graphene-C₆₀ hybrids

This article reports on the electrophoretic deposition of C₆₀ on graphene. The results suggest that graphene based C₆₀ structures are attractive as flexible transparent electrodes and are excellent electron accepting/charge transport materials for the construction of efficient photovoltaic devices.
Date: May 2, 2017
Creator: Chugh, Srishti; Biswas, Chandan; Echegoyen, Luis & Kaul, Anupama
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inkjet printing of liquid-exfoliated, highly conducting graphene/poly(3,4 ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) nanosheets for organic electronics (open access)

Inkjet printing of liquid-exfoliated, highly conducting graphene/poly(3,4 ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) nanosheets for organic electronics

In this article, highly dispersive graphene inks are demonstrated by liquid-phase exfoliation of the bulk graphite crystal in the solvent N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP).
Date: May 4, 2017
Creator: Desai, Jay A.; Biswas, Chandan & Kaul, Anupama
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rapid Fabrication of Disposable Micromixing Arrays Using Xurography and Laser Ablation (open access)

Rapid Fabrication of Disposable Micromixing Arrays Using Xurography and Laser Ablation

This article presents a novel split-and-recombine (SAR) array design adapted for interfacing standardized dispensing (handheld micropipette) and sampling (microplate reader) equipment.
Date: February 28, 2017
Creator: Martínez-López, J. Israel; Betancourt, H. A.; García-López, Erika; Rodríguez, Ciro A. & Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Body shape differences in a pair of closely related Malawi cichlids and their hybrids: Effects of genetic variation, phenotypic plasticity, and transgressive segregation (open access)

Body shape differences in a pair of closely related Malawi cichlids and their hybrids: Effects of genetic variation, phenotypic plasticity, and transgressive segregation

Article describes study which investigated the contributions of both genetic and plastic components for differences in body shape in two species of Lake Malawi cichlids using wild‐caught specimens and a common garden experiment.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Husemann, Martin; Tobler, Michael; McCauley, Cagney; Ding, Baoqing & Danley, Patrick D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental vibrios represent a source of antagonistic compounds that inhibit pathogenic Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains (open access)

Environmental vibrios represent a source of antagonistic compounds that inhibit pathogenic Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains

This article predicts that marine-derived bacteria should inhibit Vibrio pathogens and may be a source of unique antibiotic compounds.
Date: March 10, 2017
Creator: Burks, David J.; Norris, Stephen; Kauffman, Kathryn M.; Joy, Abigail; Arevalo, Philip; Azad, Rajeev K. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Existence and Nonexistence of Solutions for Sublinear Problems With Prescribed Number of Zeros on Exterior Domains (open access)

Existence and Nonexistence of Solutions for Sublinear Problems With Prescribed Number of Zeros on Exterior Domains

This article proves the existence of radial solutions of Δu + K(r)ƒ(u) = 0 on the exterior of the ball, of radius R, centered at the origin in ℝᴺ such that limᵣ→∞u(r) = 0 if R > 0 is sufficiently small.
Date: May 16, 2017
Creator: Joshi, Janak
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brassinosteroid Mediated Cell Wall Remodeling in Grasses Under Abiotic Stress (open access)

Brassinosteroid Mediated Cell Wall Remodeling in Grasses Under Abiotic Stress

This article focuses on recent advances in brassinosteroid-regulated cell wall biosynthesis and remodeling in response to stresses, comparing the authors' understanding of the mechanisms in grass species with those in the more studied dicots.
Date: May 17, 2017
Creator: Rao, Xiaolan & Dixon, R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genetically engineered probiotic for the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU); assessment of a novel treatment in vitro and in the PAHᵉⁿᵘ² mouse model of PKU (open access)

Genetically engineered probiotic for the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU); assessment of a novel treatment in vitro and in the PAHᵉⁿᵘ² mouse model of PKU

This article describes the testing of a phenylalanine lyase gene from Anabaena variabilis (AvPAL) codon-optimized and cloned into a shuttle vector for expression in Lactobacillus reuteri 100-23C (pHENOMMenal).
Date: May 17, 2017
Creator: Durrer, Katherine E.; Allen, Michael S. & Hunt von Herbing, Ione
System: The UNT Digital Library

Commentary on "Correlation of solubility of hexamethylene-1,6-bisthiosulphate disodium salt dihydrate versus dielectric constants of water + ethanol mixtures"

This article discusses the finding that Apelblat model equation coefficients are found to give calculated mole fractions that exceed unity for the solubility of hexamethylene-1,6-bisthiosulphate disodium salt dihydrate dissolved in binary aqueous-ethanol solvent mixtures.
Date: May 19, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Yang, Chunhui
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sexual identity and risk behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Accra, Ghana and Lomẻ, Togo (open access)

Sexual identity and risk behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Accra, Ghana and Lomẻ, Togo

This article studies the impact of homonegativity on risky sexual behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Ghana and Togo (West Africa) using a mixed method approach.
Date: May 22, 2017
Creator: Moore, Ami R.; Driver, Nichola; Owusu, Gertrude Adobea & Amey, Foster
System: The UNT Digital Library
GaussianCpG: a Gaussian model for detection of CpG island in human genome sequences (open access)

GaussianCpG: a Gaussian model for detection of CpG island in human genome sequences

The article discusses crucial markers in identifying biological elements and processes in mammalian genomes, CpG islands (CGI) that play important roles in DNA methylation, gene regulation, epigenetic inheritance, gene mutation, chromosome inactivation and nuclesome retention. A novel Gaussian model, GaussianCpG, is developed for detection of CpG islands on human genome. Their Gaussian model aims to simplify the complex interaction between nucleotides.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: Yu, Ning; Guo, Xuan; Zelikovsky, Alexander & Pan, Yi
System: The UNT Digital Library

Further Calculations on Solubility of 2-Chloro-3-(Trifluoromethyl)Pyridine in Ethanol + 1-Propanol Solvent Mixtures at Various Temperatures

This article reports on the reanalysis of reported calculations on solubility data of 2-chloro-3-(trifluoromethyl)pyridine in binary ethanol + 1-propanol solvent mixtures at various temperatures, and several additional points regarding the correlations.
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Jouyban, Abolghasem; Martínez, Fleming & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perceived ease of use and usefulness of sustainability labels on apparel products: application of the technology acceptance model (open access)

Perceived ease of use and usefulness of sustainability labels on apparel products: application of the technology acceptance model

This article explores consumers' perceptions of sustainability labels on apparel products and examines sustainability labels as an effective means of determining consumers' purchase intentions using the technology acceptance model.
Date: May 28, 2017
Creator: Ma, Yoon Jin; Gam, Hae Jin & Banning, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library