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)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Commentary on "Solubility and solution thermodynamics of cetilistat in water and (acetone, isopropyl alcohol, acetonitrile) binary solvent mixtures"

This article reanalyzes experimental solubility data reported in the recent paper "Solubility and solution thermodynamics of cetilistat in water and (acetone, isopropyl alcohol, acetonitrile) binary solvent mixtures" in the Journal of Molecular Liquids.
Date: January 17, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
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)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Phase Transition Enthalpy Measurements of Organic and Organometallic Compounds and Ionic Liquids. Sublimation, Vaporization and Fusion Enthalpies From 1880 to 2015. Part 2. C11-C192.

This article updates the second part of a compendium of phase change enthalpies published in 2010 to include the period 1880-2015.
Date: March 8, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Chickos, James S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dry Season Limnological Conditions and Basin Geology Exhibit Complex Relationships With δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N of Carbon Sources in Four Neotropical Floodplains (open access)

Dry Season Limnological Conditions and Basin Geology Exhibit Complex Relationships With δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N of Carbon Sources in Four Neotropical Floodplains

This article assesses the potential for basin geology and local limnological conditions to predict stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values of six carbon sources at multiple locations in four Neotropical floodplain ecosystems (Paranaá , Pantanal, Araguaia, and Amazon).
Date: March 30, 2017
Creator: Alves, Gustavo H. Zaia; Hoeinghaus, David; Manetta, Gislaine I. & Benedito, Evanilde
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Erratum to: More Comprehensive Forensic Genetic Marker Analyses for Accurate Human Remains Identification Using Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing (open access)

Erratum to: More Comprehensive Forensic Genetic Marker Analyses for Accurate Human Remains Identification Using Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing

This article provides erratum for the article "More Comprehensive Forensic Genetic Marker Analyses for Accurate Human Remains Identification Using Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing," which incorrectly deleted an author from the author list.
Date: April 20, 2017
Creator: Ambers, Angie D.; Churchill, Jennifer D.; King, Jonathan L.; Stoljarova, Monika; Gill-King, Harrell; Assidi, Mourad et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Polynomial Harmonic Decompositions (open access)

Polynomial Harmonic Decompositions

Article on polynomial harmonic decompositions. For real polynomials in two indeterminates a classical polynomial harmonic decomposition is extended from square-norm divisors to conic ones.
Date: January 2017
Creator: Anghel, Nicolae
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
MALDI-MS Imaging of Urushiols in Poison Ivy Stem (open access)

MALDI-MS Imaging of Urushiols in Poison Ivy Stem

This article reports on the first analysis of urushiols in poison ivy stems by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI).
Date: April 29, 2017
Creator: Aziz, Mina; Sturtevant, Drew; Winston, Jordan; Collakova, Eva; Jelesko, John G. & Chapman, Kent D.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breast Cancer Stem-Like Cells Are Inhibited by Diosgenin, a Steroidal Saponin, by the Attenuation of the Wnt β-Catenin Signaling via the Wnt Antagonist Secreted Frizzled Related Protein-4 (open access)

Breast Cancer Stem-Like Cells Are Inhibited by Diosgenin, a Steroidal Saponin, by the Attenuation of the Wnt β-Catenin Signaling via the Wnt Antagonist Secreted Frizzled Related Protein-4

This article describes findings that demonstrate the affect of diosgenin (DG) on inhibiting the resilient breast cancer stem cells (CSCs) which could provide a benchmark for the development of DG-based therapies in breast cancer treatment.
Date: March 20, 2017
Creator: Bhuvanalakshmi, G.; Basappa; Rangappa, Kanchugarakoppal S.; Dharmarajan, Arunasalam; Sethi, Gautam; Kumar, Alan Prem et al.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ELL Teachers' Attitudes of Google Earth for Inquiry-Based Instruction on ELL Students' Language Development in a Rural New England State (open access)

ELL Teachers' Attitudes of Google Earth for Inquiry-Based Instruction on ELL Students' Language Development in a Rural New England State

This article contains an investigation of factors predicting the intentions of English Language Learner (ELL) teachers to use Google Earth for language development instruction.
Date: June 13, 2017
Creator: Congdon, Mark; Mette, Ian; Mercado, Andrea; Lindenfeld, Laura & Tupper, Emily
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Solubility and preferential solvation of some n-alkyl-parabens in methanol + water mixtures at 298.15 K

This article describes methyl, ethyl and propyl parabens equilibrium solubility as determined in (methanol + water) binary mixtures at 298.15 K.
Date: January 7, 2017
Creator: Cárdenas, Zaira J.; Jiménez, Daniel M.; Delgado, Daniel R.; Almanza, Ovidio A.; Jouyban, Abolghasem; Martínez, Fleming et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extremality and dynamically defined measures, part 1: Diophantine properties of quasi-decaying measures (open access)

Extremality and dynamically defined measures, part 1: Diophantine properties of quasi-decaying measures

This article presents a new method of proving the Diophantine extremality of various dynamically defined measures, vastly expanding the class of measures known to be extremal.
Date: April 7, 2017
Creator: Das, Tushar; Fishman, Lior; Simmons, David & Urbański, Mariusz
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law (open access)

Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law

This article demonstrates instances in which sacred site law was construed so narrowly as to a priori preclude indigenous ways of knowing, particularly in regards to the nature of land, use of sacred objects, and pollution.
Date: September 1, 2017
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Reward Questionaire--Adolescent Version and its association with callous-unemotional traits (open access)

Social Reward Questionaire--Adolescent Version and its association with callous-unemotional traits

This article describes a study in which the adult Social Reward Questionnaire is adapted for use with adolescents.
Date: March 20, 2017
Creator: Foulkes, Lucy; Neumann, Craig S.; Roberts, Ruth; McCrory, Eamon J. & Viding, Essi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coupling of Surface Plasmon Polariton in Al-Doped ZnO with Fabry-Pérot Resonance for Total Light Absorption (open access)

Coupling of Surface Plasmon Polariton in Al-Doped ZnO with Fabry-Pérot Resonance for Total Light Absorption

This article presents finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations on total light absorption (TLA) resulting from the coupling of a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) with Fabry-Pérot (F-P) resonance in a three-layer structure consisting of an AZO square lattice hole array, a spacer, and a layer of silver.
Date: April 27, 2017
Creator: George, David; Adewole, Murthada; Hassan, Safaa; Lowell, David; Cui, Jingbiao; Zhang, Hualiang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Redox Non-Innoence Permits Catalytic Nitrene Carbonylation by (dadi)Ti=NAd (Ad = Adamantyl) (open access)

Redox Non-Innoence Permits Catalytic Nitrene Carbonylation by (dadi)Ti=NAd (Ad = Adamantyl)

This article describes (dadi)Ti(X/L) species that manifest redox non-innocence (RNI), including a rare instance in which carbon monoxide does not affect redox activity at the metal, and does not bind, thus permitting its use as a substrate in catalysis.
Date: March 3, 2017
Creator: Heins, Spencer P.; Wolczanski, Peter T.; Cundari, Thomas R., 1964- & MacMillan, Samantha N.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adjusting Sowing Dates Improved Potato Adaptation to Climate Change in Semiarid Region, China (open access)

Adjusting Sowing Dates Improved Potato Adaptation to Climate Change in Semiarid Region, China

This article examines how potato production can be improved by altering planting date in China’s semiarid region, thus improving potato adaptation to climate change.
Date: April 17, 2017
Creator: Hu, Qi; Yang, Ning; Pan, Feifei; Pan, Xuebiao; Wang, Xiaoxiao & Yang, Pengyu
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library