Commentary on "Effect of β-alanine and the solvent composition on the solubility of solvate of calcium D-pantothenate containing four molecules of methanol and one molecule of water (D-PC·4MeOH·1H₂O)"

This article points out problems associated with two of the mathematical treatments used by authors Han et al. (2017) for the solubility behavior of calcium D-panthenate solvate as the mole fraction concentration β-alanine approaches zero.
Date: February 7, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library

Commentary on "Thermodynamic equilibrium of hydroxyacetic acid in pure and binary solvent systems"

This article discusses published mathematical representations by Huant et al. (2017) for describing how the measured mole fraction solubility varies with solvent composition in the binary (ethanol + ethyl acetate) and binary (acetone + ethanol) solvent systems.
Date: February 2, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Observation of Phonon Condensate (open access)

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Observation of Phonon Condensate

This article discusses results showing that the effective radius of these phonon quasi-bound states, the real-space distribution of phonon standing wave amplitudes, the scattering phase shifts, and the nonlinear intermode coupling strongly depend on the presence of defect-induced scattering resonance.
Date: February 22, 2017
Creator: Altfeder, Igor; Voevodin, Andrey A.; Check, Michael H.; Eichfeld, Sarah M.; Robinson, Joshua A. & Balatsky, Alexander V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A new, faint population of X-ray transients (open access)

A new, faint population of X-ray transients

This article reports on the detection of a remarkable new fast high-energy transient found in the Chandra Deep Field-South, robustly associated with a faint host in the CANDELS survey.
Date: February 15, 2017
Creator: Bauer, Franz E.; Treister, Ezequiel; Schawinski, K.; Schulze, S.; Luo, Bin; Alexander, David M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evidence for the Involvement of Electrical, Calcium and ROS Signaling in the Systemic Regulation of Non-Photochemical Quenching and Photosynthesis (open access)

Evidence for the Involvement of Electrical, Calcium and ROS Signaling in the Systemic Regulation of Non-Photochemical Quenching and Photosynthesis

Article presents study in which pulse amplitude-modulated Chl fluorescence imaging and surface electrical potential measurements accompanied by pharmacological treatments were employed to study stimuli-induced electrical signals in leaves from a broad range of plant species and in Arabidopsis thaliana mutants.
Date: February 10, 2017
Creator: Białasek, Maciej; Górecka, Magdalena; Mittler, Ron & Karpiński, Stanisław
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metabolic rate and hypoxia tolerance are affected by group interactions and sex in the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster): new data and a literature survey (open access)

Metabolic rate and hypoxia tolerance are affected by group interactions and sex in the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster): new data and a literature survey

This article characterizes the effects of fly density and sex on both mass-specific routine oxygen consumption and hypoxia tolerance.
Date: February 14, 2017
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Souder, BriAnna M. & Ho, Dao H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mechanisms and Biomedical Applications of an NIR BODIPY-Based Switchable Fluorescent Probe (open access)

The Mechanisms and Biomedical Applications of an NIR BODIPY-Based Switchable Fluorescent Probe

This article investigates the switching mechanism of a recently reported near-infrared environment-sensitive fluorophore, ADP(CA)₂.
Date: February 11, 2017
Creator: Cheng, Bingbing; Bandi, Venugopal; Yu, Shuai; D'Souza, Francis; Nguyen, Kytai T.; Hong, Yi et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transgenic Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Targeted for Reduced Recalcitrance to Bioconversion: A 2-Year Comparative Analysis of Field-Grown Lines Modified for Target Gene or Genetic Element Expression (open access)

Transgenic Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Targeted for Reduced Recalcitrance to Bioconversion: A 2-Year Comparative Analysis of Field-Grown Lines Modified for Target Gene or Genetic Element Expression

This article discusses the investigation of clones of plants representing independent transgenic events and their respective nontransgenic control lines for biomass yield, carbohydrate composition and recalcitrance to bioconversion via separate hydrolysis and fermentation to yield ethanol.
Date: August 18, 2016
Creator: Dumitrache, Alexandru; Natzke, Jace; Rodriguez, Miguel, Jr.; Yee, Kelsey L.; Thompson, Olivia A.; Poovaiah, Charleson R. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The impact agenda and the search for a good life (open access)

The impact agenda and the search for a good life

This article is published as part of a collection on the future of research assessment. It explores the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle concerning the impact agenda and how philosophy can assist policy questions. Together, their work suggests that policy-sensitive philosophers can help decision makers be more self-conscious about the assumptions underlying their work.
Date: February 14, 2017
Creator: Frodeman, Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Centering Information Literacy (as) Skills and Civic Engagement in the Basic Communication Course: An Integrated Course Library Collaboration (open access)

Centering Information Literacy (as) Skills and Civic Engagement in the Basic Communication Course: An Integrated Course Library Collaboration

This article describes a course-library partnership to integrate information literacy instruction with a basic communication course.
Date: February 2017
Creator: Herakova, Liliana; Bonnet, Jennifer & Congdon, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotic NEET proteins uncovers a link between a key gene duplication event and the evolution of vertebrates (open access)

Phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotic NEET proteins uncovers a link between a key gene duplication event and the evolution of vertebrates

This article describes the use of three members of the human NEET protein family (CISD1, mitoNEET; CISD2, NAF-1 or Miner 1; and CISD3, Miner2) as guides to conduct a phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotic NEET proteins and their evolution.
Date: February 16, 2017
Creator: Inupakutika, Madhuri A.; Sengupta, Soham; Nechushtai, Rachel; Jennings, Patricia A.; Onuchic, José N.; Azad, Rajeev K. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Dual-Modality System for Both Multi-Color Ultrasound-Switchable Fluorescence and Ultrasound Imaging (open access)

A Dual-Modality System for Both Multi-Color Ultrasound-Switchable Fluorescence and Ultrasound Imaging

This article discusses the development of a dual-modality imaging system by combining recently developed ultrasound-switchable fluorescence (USF) imaging technology with the conventional ultrasound (US) B-mode imaging.
Date: February 4, 2017
Creator: Kandukuri, Jayanth; Yu, Shuai; Cheng, Bingbing; Bandi, Venugopal; D'Souza, Francis; Nguyen, Kytai T. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bold-Independent Computational Entropy Assesses Functional Donut-Like Structures in Brain fMRI Images (open access)

Bold-Independent Computational Entropy Assesses Functional Donut-Like Structures in Brain fMRI Images

This article introduces a novel technique of fMRI images analysis, called computational proximity method, i.e., nucleus clustering in Voronoï tessellations.
Date: February 1, 2017
Creator: Peters, James F.; Ramanna, Sheela; Tozzi, Arturo & Inan, Ebubekir
System: The UNT Digital Library
Delta-Flux: An Eddy Covariance Network for a Climate-Smart Lower Mississippi Basin (open access)

Delta-Flux: An Eddy Covariance Network for a Climate-Smart Lower Mississippi Basin

This article describes the rationale to create the new Delta-Flux network, which will coordinate efforts to quantify carbon and water budgets at seventeen eddy covariance flux tower sites in the Lower Mississippi River Basin.
Date: February 23, 2017
Creator: Runkle, Benjamin R. K.; Rigby, James R.; Reba, Michele L.; Anapalli, Saseendran S.; Bhattacharjee, Joydeep; Krauss, Ken W. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Physical activity counseling in primary care: Insights from public health and behavioral economics

This article evaluates pertinent literature from the fields of medicine/public health and economics/psychology to suggest a comprehensive approach to physical activity counseling at the primary care level.
Date: February 15, 2017
Creator: Shuval, Kerem; Leonard, Tammy; Drope, Jeffrey; Katz, David L.; Patel, Alpa V.; Maitin-Shepard, Melissa et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
ALMA Observations Show Major Mergers Among the Host Galaxies of Fast-growing, High-redshift, Supermassive Black Holes (open access)

ALMA Observations Show Major Mergers Among the Host Galaxies of Fast-growing, High-redshift, Supermassive Black Holes

This article presents new ALMA band-7 data for a sample of six luminous quasars at z ≃ 4.8, powered by fast-growing supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with rather uniform properties.
Date: February 3, 2017
Creator: Trakhtenbrot, Benny; Lira, Paulina; Netzer, Hagai; Cicone, Claudia; Maiolino, Roberto & Shemmer, Ohad
System: The UNT Digital Library
ALKBH7 Variant Related to Prostate Cancer Exhibits Altered Substrate Binding (open access)

ALKBH7 Variant Related to Prostate Cancer Exhibits Altered Substrate Binding

This article reports a targeted search for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and functional impact characterization of human ALKBH family dioxygenases related to prostate cancer.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Walker, Alice R.; Silvestrov, Pavel; Müller, Tina A.; Podolsky, Robert H.; Dyson, Gregory; Hausinger, Robert P. 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
Lophozonia tree cavities used for nesting by Slender-billed Parakeets (Enicognathus leptorhynchus) in the central valley of southern Chile: a potentially vanishing keystone resource (open access)

Lophozonia tree cavities used for nesting by Slender-billed Parakeets (Enicognathus leptorhynchus) in the central valley of southern Chile: a potentially vanishing keystone resource

This article describes and quantifies characteristics of southern beech (Lophoonia obliqua) trees and their associated cavities used for nesting by Slender-billed Parakeets in the central valley of southern Chile.
Date: February 6, 2017
Creator: White, Thomas H., Jr. & Jiménez, Jaime E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatial and Temporal Mapping of Key Lipid Species in Brassica napus Seeds (open access)

Spatial and Temporal Mapping of Key Lipid Species in Brassica napus Seeds

This article describes the use of matrix-assisted laser/desorption ionization-mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) to study the spatial distribution of two major lipid species, triacylglycerols and phosphatidylcholines.
Date: February 10, 2017
Creator: Woodfield, Helen K.; Sturtevant, Drew; Borisjuk, Ljudmilla; Munz, Eberhard; Guschina, Irina A.; Chapman, Kent D. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
Assessing the Media Visibility of China's President Xi Jinping's First 3-Year Governance in the New York Times (open access)

Assessing the Media Visibility of China's President Xi Jinping's First 3-Year Governance in the New York Times

This article assesses the media visibility, a composite measure of attention and prominence, of China's President Xi Jinping's first 3-year governance in The New York Times.
Date: February 1, 2017
Creator: Zhang, Xiaoqun
System: The UNT Digital Library