Computational Identification of Amino-Acid Mutations That Further Improve the Activity of a Chalcone-Flavonone Isomerase From Glycine Max (open access)

Computational Identification of Amino-Acid Mutations That Further Improve the Activity of a Chalcone-Flavonone Isomerase From Glycine Max

This article discusses a computational approach that combines multiple sequence alignment, positive selection detection, and molecular docking to identify and design beneficial amino-acid mutations that further improve the intramolecular-cyclization activity of a chalcone-flavonone isomerase from Glycine max (GmCHI).
Date: February 24, 2017
Creator: Yuan, Hui; Wu, Jiaqi; Wang, Xiaoqiang; Chen, Jiakuan; Zhong, Yang; Huang, Qiang et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radio-Frequency Actuated Polymer-Based Phononic Meta-Materials for Control of Ultrasonic Waves (open access)

Radio-Frequency Actuated Polymer-Based Phononic Meta-Materials for Control of Ultrasonic Waves

This article describes the achievement of radio-frequency control of a n ultrasonic phononic crystal by encapsulating it in a composite of high k-10% KF-doped BaTiO₃ dielectric nanoparticles with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIP Am)-based hydrogel.
Date: July 14, 2016
Creator: Walker, Ezekiel; Wang, Zhiming & Neogi, Arup
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development and Application of Wood Flour-Filled Polylactic Acid Composite Filament for 3D Printing (open access)

Development and Application of Wood Flour-Filled Polylactic Acid Composite Filament for 3D Printing

This article presents the development of wood flour (WF)-filled polylactic acid (PLA) composite filaments for a fused deposition modeling (FDM) process with the aim of application to 3D printing.
Date: March 24, 2017
Creator: Tao, Yubo; Wang, Honglei; Li, Zelong; Li, Peng & Shi, Sheldon Q.
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
Cardiorespiratory physiological phenotypic plasticity in developing air-breathing anabantid fishes (Betta splendens and Trichopodus trichopterus) (open access)

Cardiorespiratory physiological phenotypic plasticity in developing air-breathing anabantid fishes (Betta splendens and Trichopodus trichopterus)

This article discusses development plasticity of cardiorespiratory physiology in two air-breathing anabantid fishes.
Date: June 16, 2017
Creator: Mendez-Sanchez, Jose F. & Burggren, Warren W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is Print REALLY Dead? Exploring the Relationship between the Technology Acceptance Model and Use of E-books at a Large Research University (open access)

Is Print REALLY Dead? Exploring the Relationship between the Technology Acceptance Model and Use of E-books at a Large Research University

Poster presented at the 2017 ALA Annual Conference. This poster summarizes the application of the technology acceptance model to the use of e-books at a large research university.
Date: June 24, 2017
Creator: Smith, Susan; Rodriguez, Allyson; Dewitt-Miller, Erin; Xu, Lu & Billings, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluating the longitudinal risk of social vigilance on atherosclerosis: study protocol for the North Texas Heart Study (open access)

Evaluating the longitudinal risk of social vigilance on atherosclerosis: study protocol for the North Texas Heart Study

This article proposes a longitudinal measurement burst design to examine psychosocial determinants of subclinical atherosclerosis.
Date: August 24, 2017
Creator: Ruiz, John M.; Taylor, Daniel J.; Uchino, Bert N.; Smith, Timothy W.; Allison, Matthew; Ahn, Chul et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Permeability Study of Austenitic Stainless Steel Surfaces Produced by Selective Laser Melting (open access)

Permeability Study of Austenitic Stainless Steel Surfaces Produced by Selective Laser Melting

In this article, permeability properties and surface roughness of stainless steel (SS316L) surfaces were evaluated through experimentation with three different laser scanning patterns (chessboard, meander, and stripe), and different sloping angles between the fabricated surface and the laser beam incident on the process. Results showed that for each scanning pattern, the roughness decreased as the sloping angle increased consistently in all experimental trials.
Date: November 24, 2017
Creator: Segura-Cardenas, Emmanuel; Ramírez-Cedillo, Erick; Sandoval-Robles, Jesús Alejandro; Ruiz-Huerta, Leopoldo; Caballero-Ruiz, Alberto & Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tinker-HP: a massively parallel molecular dynamics package for multiscale simulations of large complex systems with advanced point dipole polarizable force fields (open access)

Tinker-HP: a massively parallel molecular dynamics package for multiscale simulations of large complex systems with advanced point dipole polarizable force fields

This article presents Tinker-HP, a massively MPI parallel package dedicated to classical molecular dynamics (MD) and to multiscale simulations, using advanced polarizable force fields (PFF) encompassing distributed multipoles electrostatics.
Date: November 24, 2017
Creator: Lagardère, Louis; Jolly, Luc-Henri; Lipparini, Filippo; Aviat, Félix; Stamm, Benjamin; Jing, Zhifeng F. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library