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District Reliance by Service Function: A Study of Public Financing of American Special Districts (open access)

District Reliance by Service Function: A Study of Public Financing of American Special Districts

This article provides an exploratory investigation of special district finance reliance from expenditure reliance of general–purpose governments on special districts’ service delivery and financing mode of special districts. The study shows that special districts have replaced the role of general-purpose governments and which revenue sources districts rely on the most.
Date: April 1, 2021
Creator: Park, HyungGun & Shi, Yu
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Targeted Metabolic Profiles of the Leaves and Xylem Sap of Two Sugarcane Genotypes Infected with the Vascular Bacterial Pathogen Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli (open access)

Targeted Metabolic Profiles of the Leaves and Xylem Sap of Two Sugarcane Genotypes Infected with the Vascular Bacterial Pathogen Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli

This article identifies discriminant metabolites between a resistant (R) and a susceptible (S) sugarcane variety at the early stages of pathogen colonization (30 and 120 days after inoculation—DAI) by untargeted and targeted metabolomics of leaves and xylem sap using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). The data represent a valuable resource of potential biomarkers for metabolite-assisted selection of resistant varieties to RS.
Date: April 12, 2021
Creator: Castro-Moretti, Fernanda R.; Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Cia, Maria C.; Cataldi, Thais R.; Labate, Carlos A.; Alonso, Ana Paula et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organization of knowledge and information in digital archives of language materials (open access)

Organization of knowledge and information in digital archives of language materials

This article reports the first empirical investigation of various dimensions of organization and representation of recorded knowledge and information in language archives. The study used a combination of semi-structured interviews and content analysis. Results demonstrate that, while some of the phenomena related to organization of information in language archives are specific to these types of archives, others are more typical and have been addressed by libraries in past research and practice.
Date: April 13, 2021
Creator: Burke, Mary; Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward & Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toward Next-Generation Robust Cryptosystems (open access)

Toward Next-Generation Robust Cryptosystems

Accepted Manuscript version of an article that presents thoughts on paradigm-shift next generation cryptosystems to overcome the vulnerabilities of the omnipresent conventional cryptosystems.
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Puthal, Deepak; Swain, Srinibas & Mohanty, Saraju P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Review of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education from 2010 to 2020 (open access)

A Review of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education from 2010 to 2020

This article provides a content analysis of studies from 2010 to 2020 aiming to disclose how artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied to the education sector and explore the potential research trends and challenges of AI in education. The content analysis shows that the research questions can be classified into development layer (classification, matching, recommendation, and deep learning), application layer (feedback, reasoning, and adaptive learning), and integration layer (affection computing, role-playing, immersive learning, and gamification).
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Zhai, Xuesong; Chu, Xiaoyan; Chai, Ching Sing; Jong, Morris Siu Yung; Istenic, Andreja; Spector, Michael et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the potential behavioral impact of methanol when used as a solvent: Dataset from zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavioral research (open access)

Analysis of the potential behavioral impact of methanol when used as a solvent: Dataset from zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavioral research

This article is a dataset that describes behavioral results in zebrafish (Danio rerio) individually exposed to methanol, a solvent which is capable of altering physiology and behavior high concentrations.
Date: April 1, 2021
Creator: Hamilton, Trevor J.; Szaszkiewicz, Joshua; Krook, Jeffrey & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Birth Order and Divergent Thinking: A Meta-Analysis (open access)

Birth Order and Divergent Thinking: A Meta-Analysis

This article is a meta-analysis examining the association of birth order and divergent thinking (DT). The main purpose was to examine how ordinal position (only, first, middle, or last-born) is related to creativity. Results showed that first-borns had higher DT scores than later-born children.
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Abdulla Alabbasi, Ahmed M.; Tadik, Harun; Acar, Selcuk & Runco, Mark A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Childhood Asthma and Smoking: Moderating Effect of Preterm Status and Birth Weight (open access)

Childhood Asthma and Smoking: Moderating Effect of Preterm Status and Birth Weight

Article exploring the association between second-hand smoke exposure, asthma, and asthma severity in children ages 6-17 as well as the effect of birth weight and prematurity (BWP) on parental smoking and asthma. Results indicate that focused asthma interventions in children should inquire about BWP status as well as parental smoking and household smoke exposure to reduce asthma morbidity and mortality.
Date: April 17, 2021
Creator: Ogbu, Chukwuemeka E.; Ogbu, Stella C.; Khadka, Dibya & Kirby, Russell S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering the Uniform Lying Helical Structure in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals: From Morphology Transition to Dimension Control (open access)

Engineering the Uniform Lying Helical Structure in Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals: From Morphology Transition to Dimension Control

This article varies the surface anchoring strength and achieves a uniform lying helical structure with long-range order as thermodynamically stable state without any external support in Chiral nematic liquid crystals (CLCs).
Date: April 12, 2021
Creator: Jia, Zhixuan; Pawale, Tejal; Guerrero-García, Guillermo I.; Hashemi, Sid; Martínez-González, José A. & Li, Xiao
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Establishing a Smooth Video Production Workflow

Presentation covers a 5-step video creation workflow to produce educational videos. It was presented at the 2021 Virtual Conference of the Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) held on April 20-23, 2021.
Date: April 22, 2021
Creator: Roy, Meranda M.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Utilizing TikTok for Library Peer-to-Peer Outreach

This poster will cover the results and experiences of using Tiktok as a form of peer-to-peer outreach to share research tips with other college students. Specific examples, learned best practices, and future plans for improvement will be discussed. It was presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Distance and Online Learning Virtual Poster Session held April 26-30, 2021.
Date: 2021-04-26/2021-04-30
Creator: Brents, Madison; Diaz, Sarah & Chung, Frances
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Growth Mechanisms of Nano-to Micro-Sized Lead Sulfate Particles (open access)

Growth Mechanisms of Nano-to Micro-Sized Lead Sulfate Particles

This article aims to determine the nucleation and growth mechanisms of PbSO4 nanoparticles in various solutions to potentially reduce or control the buildup of PbSO4 on battery electrodes over time.
Date: April 14, 2021
Creator: Wall, Michael T.; Smith, Jesse D.; Carl, Matthew; Young, Marcus L.; Hesterberg, Travis & Ellis, Tim
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preservice Teachers’ Acceptance of Virtual Reality to Plan Science  Instruction (open access)

Preservice Teachers’ Acceptance of Virtual Reality to Plan Science Instruction

Article examining individual concerns to integrate virtual reality into science instruction before and after a hands-on intervention with virtual reality to improve understanding of preservice teacher acceptance and integration of virtual reality into science.
Date: April 2021
Creator: Eutsler, Lauren & Long, Christopher S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Macroscale Superlubricity Accomplished by Sb2O3-MSH/C Under High Temperature (open access)

Macroscale Superlubricity Accomplished by Sb2O3-MSH/C Under High Temperature

Article reporting the high-temperature superlubricity phenomenon accomplished in coatings produced by burnishing powders of antimony trioxide (Sb₂O₃) and magnesium silicate hydroxide coated with carbon (MSH/C) onto the nickel superalloy substrate.
Date: April 15, 2021
Creator: Gao, Kai
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
On counting cuspidal automorphic representations for GSp(4) (open access)

On counting cuspidal automorphic representations for GSp(4)

Article
Date: April 15, 2021
Creator: Roy, Manami; Schmidt, Ralf & Yi, Shaoyun
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arabidopsis thaliana EARLY RESPONSIVE TO DEHYDRATION 7 Localizes to Lipid Droplets via Its Senescence Domain (open access)

Arabidopsis thaliana EARLY RESPONSIVE TO DEHYDRATION 7 Localizes to Lipid Droplets via Its Senescence Domain

This article includes a proteomics analysis of Lipid Droplets (LDs) isolated from drought-stressed Arabidopsis leaves and identifying EARLY RESPONSIVE TO DEHYDRATION 7 (ERD7) as a putative LD protein. Observations provide new insight to ERD7 and the SD-containing family of proteins in plants and suggest that ERD7 may be involved in functional aspects of plant stress response that also include localization to the LD surface.
Date: April 14, 2021
Creator: Doner, Nathan M.; Seay, Damien C.; Mehling, Marina; Sun, Siqi; Gidda, Satinder K.; Schmitt, Kerstin et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
CRISPR/Cas9-Induced fad2 and rod1 Mutations Stacked With fae1 Confer High Oleic Acid Seed Oil in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) (open access)

CRISPR/Cas9-Induced fad2 and rod1 Mutations Stacked With fae1 Confer High Oleic Acid Seed Oil in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.)

Article utilizing Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 technology to produce knockout mutations in the FATTY ACID DESATURASE2 (FAD2) and REDUCED OLEATE DESATURATION1 (ROD1) genes to increase oleic acid content in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.). Results suggest that combinatorial knockout of ROD1 and FAE1 may be a viable route to commercially increase oleic acid content in pennycress seed oil whereas mutations in FAD2 will likely require at least partial function to avoid fitness trade-offs.
Date: April 22, 2021
Creator: Jarvis, Brice A.; Romsdahl, Trevor B.; McGinn, Michaela G.; Nazarenus, Tara J.; Cahoon, Edgar B.; Chapman, Kent Dean et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dietary Exposure to Low Levels of Crude Oil Affects Physiological and Morphological Phenotype in Adults and Their Eggs and Hatchlings of the King Quail (Coturnix chinensis) (open access)

Dietary Exposure to Low Levels of Crude Oil Affects Physiological and Morphological Phenotype in Adults and Their Eggs and Hatchlings of the King Quail (Coturnix chinensis)

Article studying the king quail as an animal model to determine if chronic dietary exposure to crude oil in a parental population affects morpho-physiological phenotypic variables in their immediate offspring generation.
Date: April 9, 2021
Creator: Bautista, Naim M.; Do Amaral-Silva, Lara; Dzialowski, Edward M. (Edward Michael) & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluating spatial patterns of seasonal ozone exposure and incidence of respiratory emergency room visits in Dallas-Fort Worth (open access)

Evaluating spatial patterns of seasonal ozone exposure and incidence of respiratory emergency room visits in Dallas-Fort Worth

This article examines the relationships between spatial patterns of long-term ozone exposure and respiratory illness within Dallas-Fort Worth to better understand impacts on health outcomes.
Date: April 13, 2021
Creator: Northeim, Kari; Marks, Constant & Tiwari, Chetan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discovery of higher-order topological insulators using the spin Hall conductivity as a topology signature (open access)

Discovery of higher-order topological insulators using the spin Hall conductivity as a topology signature

This article shows a connection between spin Hall effect and HOTIs using a combination of ab initio calculations and tight-binding modeling. The model demonstrates how a non-zero bulk midgap spin Hall conductivity (SHC) emerges within the HOTI phase. This work guides novel experimental and theoretical advances towards higher-order topological insulator realization and applications.
Date: April 12, 2021
Creator: Costa, Marcio; Mera Acosta, Carlos; Padilha, Antonio C.M.; Cerasoli, Frank T.; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco & Fazzio, Adalberto
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ion-exchange mechanisms and interfacial reaction kinetics during aqueous corrosion of sodium silicate glasses (open access)

Ion-exchange mechanisms and interfacial reaction kinetics during aqueous corrosion of sodium silicate glasses

Article on the ion-exchange and associated interfacial reaction mechanisms of silicate glasses. This work reports findings that shed light on the complex ion-exchange mechanisms during glass hydration and enables more detailed understanding of the corrosion and glass-water interactions of silicate glasses which has the potential to impact both science and technology.
Date: April 8, 2021
Creator: Deng, Lu; Miyatani, Katsuaki; Suehara, Michinori; Amma, Shin-ichi; Ono, Madoka; Urata, Shingo et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vehicle emissions-exposure alters expression of systemic and tissue-specific components of the renin-angiotensin system and promotes outcomes associated with cardiovascular disease and obesity in wild-type C57BL/6 male mice (open access)

Vehicle emissions-exposure alters expression of systemic and tissue-specific components of the renin-angiotensin system and promotes outcomes associated with cardiovascular disease and obesity in wild-type C57BL/6 male mice

This article investigates the hypothesis that exposure to engine emissions increases systemic and local adipocyte RAS signaling, promoting the expression of factors involved in cardiovascular disease and obesity.
Date: April 15, 2021
Creator: Phipps, Benjamin L.; Suwannasual, Usa; Lucero, JoAnn; Mitchell, Nicholas A. & Lund, Amie K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Broadband Absorption in Patterned Metal/Weakly-Absorbing-Spacer/Metal with Graded Photonic Super-Crystal (open access)

Broadband Absorption in Patterned Metal/Weakly-Absorbing-Spacer/Metal with Graded Photonic Super-Crystal

Article studying high light absorption in two devices: a stack of Au-pattern/insulator/Au-film and a stack of Au-pattern/weakly-absorbing-material/Au-film where the Au-pattern was structured in graded photonic super-crystal. Multiple-band absorption, including one near 1500 nm, in a stack of Au-pattern/spacer/Au-film was observed.
Date: April 8, 2021
Creator: Kamau, Steve; Hassan, Safaa; Alnasser, Khadijah; Zhang, Hualiang; Cui, Jingbiao & Lin, Yuankun
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Branching of Titanium Nanorods (open access)

Branching of Titanium Nanorods

This article reports that Ti nanorod branching occurs at a low homologous temperature of 0.28 based on physical vapor deposition and characterizations using electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. The insight into conditions for branching, together with the determination of the morphology and crystal orientation of the branches, lay the foundation for further studies of branching mechanisms and driving force.
Date: April 22, 2021
Creator: Yussuf, Nosirudeen Abayomi & Huang, Hanchen
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library