Abraham Solvation Parameter Model: Calculation of L Solute Descriptors for Large C11 to C42 Methylated Alkanes from Measured Gas–Liquid Chromatographic Retention Data (open access)

Abraham Solvation Parameter Model: Calculation of L Solute Descriptors for Large C11 to C42 Methylated Alkanes from Measured Gas–Liquid Chromatographic Retention Data

This article determines Abraham model L solute descriptors for 149 additional C11 to C42 monomethylated and polymethylated alkanes based on published Kovat’s retention indices based upon gas–liquid chromatographic measurements.
Date: July 5, 2022
Creator: Wu, Emily; Sinha, Sneha; Yang, Chelsea; Zhang, Miles & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abraham Solvation Parameter Model: Examination of Possible Intramolecular Hydrogen-Bonding Using Calculated Solute Descriptors (open access)

Abraham Solvation Parameter Model: Examination of Possible Intramolecular Hydrogen-Bonding Using Calculated Solute Descriptors

This article calculates Abraham model solute descriptors using published solubility data for 4,5-dihydroxyanthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid dissolved in several organic solvents of varying polarity and hydrogen-bonding character.
Date: July 24, 2022
Creator: Sinha, Sneha; Yang, Chelsea; Wu, Emily & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acoustic Metasurface-Aided Broadband Noise Reduction in Automobile Induced by Tire-Pavement Interaction (open access)

Acoustic Metasurface-Aided Broadband Noise Reduction in Automobile Induced by Tire-Pavement Interaction

Article demonstrating a technique utilizing acoustic metasurfaces (AMSes) with high reflective characteristics using relatively lightweight materials for noise reduction without any change in mechanical strength or weight of the tire. The proposed design can significantly reduce the noise arising from tire–pavement interaction over a broadband of acoustic frequencies under 1000 Hz and over a wide range of vehicle speeds using a negative effective dynamic mass density approach.
Date: July 30, 2021
Creator: Heo, Hyeonu; Sofield, Matthew; Ju, Jaehyung & Neogi, Arup
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bibliometric Analysis of Integrated Pest Management Practices (open access)

Bibliometric Analysis of Integrated Pest Management Practices

Article discusses how integrated pest management (IPM) is a wide-ranging strategy that involves tactics for the structural control of pests and diseases, also known as integrated pest control (IPC). The authors' prime aim of this study is to explore global scientific publications regarding integrated pest management and map the recent global trends in this innovative research domain, thereby providing future research directions based on dynamic observations.
Date: July 26, 2023
Creator: Zhou, Xi; Yang, Chongxi; Yesmin, Sabina; Islam, Md Ashraful & Sarkar, Apurbo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparing Methods of Defining Priority Areas for Greater Sage-Grouse (open access)

Comparing Methods of Defining Priority Areas for Greater Sage-Grouse

Article comparing priority areas for wildlife species using different methods and data types. The authors used resource selection function (RSF) models to predict high priority areas and compared this to priority areas developed using two alternative methods: (1) modified conservation buffer, and (2) utilization distribution (UD) models.
Date: July 7, 2022
Creator: Parsons, Lindsey; Jenks, Jonathan; Runia, Travis & Gregory, Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complexity synchronization: a measure of interaction between the brain, heart and lungs (open access)

Complexity synchronization: a measure of interaction between the brain, heart and lungs

Authors of the article address the measurable consequences of the network effect (NE) on time series generated by different parts of the brain, heart, and lung organ-networks (ONs), which are directly related to their inter-network and intra-network interactions. The authors assert that these same physiologic ONs have been shown to generate crucial event (CE) time series, and herein are shown ,using modified diffusion entropy analysis (MDEA) to have scaling indices with quasiperiodic changes in complexity, as measured by scaling indices, over time.
Date: July 15, 2023
Creator: Mahmoodi, Korosh; Kerick, Scott E.; Grigolini, Paolo; Franaszczuk, Piotr J. & West, Bruce J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Converging Cooperative Functions into the Nanospace of Covalent Organic Frameworks for Efficient Uranium Extraction from Seawater (open access)

Converging Cooperative Functions into the Nanospace of Covalent Organic Frameworks for Efficient Uranium Extraction from Seawater

Article reports a new strategy for efficient extraction of uranium from seawater via converging the cooperative functions of adsorption–photocatalysis into the nanospace of covalent organic frameworks (COFs). This study establishes multicomponent COFs as promising candidates for efficient uranium extraction from seawater.
Date: July 14, 2022
Creator: Hao, Mengjie; Chen, Zhongshan; Liu, Xiaolu; Liu, Xianhai; Zhang, Juyao; Yang, Hui et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developmental thyroid disruption causes long-term impacts on immune cell function and transcriptional responses to pathogen in a small fish model (open access)

Developmental thyroid disruption causes long-term impacts on immune cell function and transcriptional responses to pathogen in a small fish model

This article explores the connection between thyroid hormones (THs) and immune systems in fish. This article is noteworthy as disruption of the thyroid system during development, which can occur in response to chemicals present in the environment, may have lasting effects on immune function in adulthood for fish.
Date: July 14, 2021
Creator: Thornton Hampton, Leah M.; Finch, Miranda G.; Martyniuk, Christopher J.; Venables, Barney J. & Jeffries, Marlo K. Sellin
System: The UNT Digital Library
DNA metabarcoding captures different macroinvertebrate biodiversity than morphological identification approaches across a continental scale (open access)

DNA metabarcoding captures different macroinvertebrate biodiversity than morphological identification approaches across a continental scale

Article describes how DNA-based aquatic biomonitoring methods show promise to provide rapid, standardized, and efficient biodiversity assessment to supplement and in some cases replace current morphology-based approaches that are often less efficient and can produce inconsistent results. The authors present a comparison of DNA metabarcoding and morphological identification, leveraging national-scale, open-source, ecological datasets from the National Ecological Observatory Network.
Date: July 19, 2023
Creator: Emmons, Sean C.; Compson, Zacchaeus Greg; Malish, Megan C.; Busch, Michelle H.; Saenz, Veronica; Higgins, Kierstyn T. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effective Mechanisms for Improving Seed Oil Production in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) Highlighted by Integration of Comparative Metabolomics and Transcriptomics (open access)

Effective Mechanisms for Improving Seed Oil Production in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) Highlighted by Integration of Comparative Metabolomics and Transcriptomics

Article presents comparative biomass, metabolomic, and transcriptomic analyses between a high oil accession (HO) and low oil accession (LO) of pennycress to assess potential factors required to optimize oil content.
Date: July 14, 2022
Creator: Johnston, Christopher; García Navarrete, Tatiana; Ortiz, Emmanuel; Romsdahl, Trevor B.; Guzha, Athanas; Chapman, Kent Dean et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electropolymerizable meso-Tetrakis Biphenyl-Bis(bithiophene) Zinc Porphyrin: Ground and Excited State Properties in Solution and in Films with Axially Coordinated C60 (open access)

Electropolymerizable meso-Tetrakis Biphenyl-Bis(bithiophene) Zinc Porphyrin: Ground and Excited State Properties in Solution and in Films with Axially Coordinated C60

Article presenting research where an electropolymerizable zinc porphyrin carrying eight entities of peripheral bithiophene, 4 was newly designed and synthesized.
Date: July 9, 2020
Creator: Ganesan, Ashwin; Shao, Shuai; Seetharaman, Sairaman; Perera, Wijayantha A. & D'Souza, Francis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of the Vibration Signal during Milling Vertical Thin-Walled Structures from Aerospace Materials (open access)

Evaluation of the Vibration Signal during Milling Vertical Thin-Walled Structures from Aerospace Materials

Article describes how the main functions of thin-walled structures are to reduce the weight of the finished product and to increase the rigidity of the structure. The authors compared the vibration signal for different approaches to machining thin walled-components with vertical walls made of Ti6AI4V titanium alloy and Inconel 625 nickel alloy.
Date: July 14, 2023
Creator: Kurpiel, Szymon; Zagrórski, Krzysztof; Skryzpkowski, Krzysztof & Brostow, Witold, 1934-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding new friends and revisiting old ones – how plant lipid droplets connect with other subcellular structures (open access)

Finding new friends and revisiting old ones – how plant lipid droplets connect with other subcellular structures

Article talks about how the number of described contact sites between different subcellular compartments and structures in eukaryotic cells has increased dramatically in recent years, which has substantially reinforced the well-known premise that these kinds of connections are essential for overall cellular organization. The authors discuss contact sites involving plant lipid droplets (LDs), including LD-endoplasmic reticulum (ER) connections that mediate the biogenesis of new LDs at the ER, LD-peroxisome connections.
Date: July 18, 2022
Creator: Scholz, Patricia; Chapman, Kent Dean; Mullen, Robert T. & Ischebeck, Till
System: The UNT Digital Library
Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward (open access)

Healthy cities initiative in China: Progress, challenges, and the way forward

Article discusses how China implemented the first phase of its National Healthy Cities pilot program from 2016-20. Authors recommend aligning the Healthy Cities initiative in China with strategic national and global level agendas such as Healthy China 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by providing an integrative governance framework to facilitate a coherent intersectoral program to systemically improve population health.
Date: July 15, 2022
Creator: Bai, Yuqi; Zhang, Yutong; Zotova, Olena; Pineo, Helen; Siri, José; Liang, Lu et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
In silico guided structural and functional analysis of genes with potential involvement in resistance to coffee leaf rust: A functional marker based approach (open access)

In silico guided structural and functional analysis of genes with potential involvement in resistance to coffee leaf rust: A functional marker based approach

Article presents novel insights into the molecular nature of the SH genes, thereby opening new avenues for coffee rust resistance molecular breeding.
Date: July 8, 2020
Creator: Ferreira, Svio Siqueira; Barka, Geleta Dugassa; Caixeta, Eveline Teixeira & Zambolim, Larcio
System: The UNT Digital Library
Incorporation of Chiral Frustrated Lewis Pair into Metal–Organic Framework with Tailored Microenvironment for Heterogeneous Enantio- and Chemoselective Hydrogenation (open access)

Incorporation of Chiral Frustrated Lewis Pair into Metal–Organic Framework with Tailored Microenvironment for Heterogeneous Enantio- and Chemoselective Hydrogenation

Article states that the development of efficient heterogeneous catalysts with multiselectivity (e.g., enantio- and chemoselectivity) has long been sought after but with limited progress being made so far. To achieve enantio- and chemoselectivity in a heterogeneous system, as inspired by enzymes, the authors illustrate herein an approach of creating an enzyme-mimic region (EMR) within the nanospace of a metal–organic framework (MOF) as exemplified in the context of incorporating a chiral frustrated Lewis pair (CFLP) into a MOF with a tailored pore environment.
Date: July 27, 2023
Creator: Zhang, Yin; Jiang, Yao; Nafady, Ayman; Tang, Zhiyong; Al-Enzini, Abdullah M.; Tan, Kui et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Knockdown screening of chromatin binding and regulatory proteins in zebrafish identified Suz12b as a regulator of tfpia and an antithrombotic drug target (open access)

Knockdown screening of chromatin binding and regulatory proteins in zebrafish identified Suz12b as a regulator of tfpia and an antithrombotic drug target

Article identifying novel epigenetic regulators for tfpia and exploiting this information to discover a drug that enhances tfpia mRNA levels and prolongation of TTO. This discovery provides the basis for testing whether UNC6852 could be used as an antithrombotic drug.
Date: July 27, 2021
Creator: Raman, Revathi; Fallatah, Weam; Al Qaryoute, Ayah; Dhinoja, Sanchi & Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
System: The UNT Digital Library
Large-Scale Synthesis of Covalent Organic Frameworks: Challenges and Opportunities (open access)

Large-Scale Synthesis of Covalent Organic Frameworks: Challenges and Opportunities

Article describes how connecting organic building blocks by covalent bonds to design porous crystalline networks has led to covalent organic frameworks (COFs), consequently transferring the flexibility of dynamic linkages from discrete architectures to extended structures. Authors state that this review article highlights the fundamental of COFs, including designing principles, coupling reactions, topologies, structural diversity, synthetic strategies, characterization, growth mechanism, and activation aspects of COFs.
Date: July 27, 2023
Creator: Vardhan, Harsh; Rummer, Grace; Deng, Angela & Ma, Shengqian
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leaf Lipid Alterations in Response to Heat Stress of Arabidopsis thaliana (open access)

Leaf Lipid Alterations in Response to Heat Stress of Arabidopsis thaliana

Article measuring lipid levels with mass spectrometry to confirm the previously observed changes in Arabidopsis thaliana leaf lipids under three heat stress regimens. Additionally, in response to heat, increased oxidation of the fatty acyl chains of leaf galactolipids, sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerols, and phosphatidylglycerols, and incorporation of oxidized acyl chains into acylated monogalactosyldiacylglycerols are shown. The authors also observed increased levels of digalactosylmonoacylglycerols and monogalactosylmonoacylglycerols. The hypothesis that a defect in sterol glycosylation would adversely affect regrowth of plants after a severe heat stress regimen was tested, but differences between wild-type and sterol glycosylation-defective plants were not detected.
Date: July 4, 2020
Creator: Shiva, Sunitha; Samarakoon, Thilani; Lowe, Kaleb A.; Roach, Charles; Vu, Hieu Sy; Colter, Madeline et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lipophilic signals lead to organ-specific gene expression changes in Arabidopsis seedlings (open access)

Lipophilic signals lead to organ-specific gene expression changes in Arabidopsis seedlings

Article presents a study where whole transcriptome sequencing (RNA-seq) and differential expression analysis were used to identify early (1–3 hr) transcriptional changes induced by the exogenous treatment of NAE 18:2 and NAE 18:3 in cotyledons, roots, and seedlings.
Date: July 15, 2020
Creator: Cannon, Ashley E.; Yan, Chengshi; Burks, David J.; Rao, Xiaolan; Azad, Rajeev K. & Chapman, Kent Dean
System: The UNT Digital Library
Machine Learning Quantitative Structure–Property Relationships as a Function of Ionic Liquid Cations for the Gas-Ionic Liquid Partition Coefficient of Hydrocarbons (open access)

Machine Learning Quantitative Structure–Property Relationships as a Function of Ionic Liquid Cations for the Gas-Ionic Liquid Partition Coefficient of Hydrocarbons

This article presents a study with the aim to develop quantitative structure–property relationships (QSPRs) that would allow the understanding of molecular interactions in ionic liquids based on the structure of the cationic moiety.
Date: July 7, 2022
Creator: Toots, Karl Marti; Sild, Sulev; Leis, Jaan; Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Maran, Uko, 1966-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manipulating microRNA miR408 enhances both biomass yield and saccharification efficiency in poplar (open access)

Manipulating microRNA miR408 enhances both biomass yield and saccharification efficiency in poplar

Article describes how the conversion of lignocellulosic feedstocks to fermentable sugar for biofuel production is inefficient, and most strategies to enhance efficiency directly target lignin biosynthesis, with associated negative growth impacts. The authors demonstrate, for both laboratory-and field-grown plants, that expression of Pag-miR408 in poplar significantly enhances saccharification, with no requirement for acid-pretreatment, while promoting plant growth.
Date: July 18, 2023
Creator: Guo, Yayu; Wang, Shufang; Yu, Keji; Wang, Hou-Ling; Xu, Huimin; Song, Chengwei et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mediterranean Spur-Thighed Tortoises (Testudo graeca) Have Optimal Speeds at Which They Can Minimise the Metabolic Cost of Transport, on a Treadmill (open access)

Mediterranean Spur-Thighed Tortoises (Testudo graeca) Have Optimal Speeds at Which They Can Minimise the Metabolic Cost of Transport, on a Treadmill

Article experimentally quantifies the metabolic cost of transport in Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoises walking on a treadmill while also quantifying the kinematics of their movement. Results found that tortoises move more efficiently than predicted and presents the first data demonstrating a curvilinear cost of transport over their speed range. The authors conclude that tortoises have an optimum speed at which they move to minimise their metabolic cost of locomotion.
Date: July 13, 2022
Creator: Ewart, Heather; Tickle, Peter; Nudds, Robert; Sellers, William; Crossley, Dane A., II & Codd, Jonathan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multitask deep-learning-based design of chiral plasmonic metamaterials (open access)

Multitask deep-learning-based design of chiral plasmonic metamaterials

This article presents an end-to-end functional bidirectional deep-learning (DL) model for three-dimensional chiral metamaterial design and optimization. This ML model utilizes multitask joint learning features to recognize, generalize, and explore in detail the nontrivial relationship between the metamaterials’ geometry and their chiroptical response, eliminating the need for auxiliary networks or equivalent approaches to stabilize the physically relevant output. This model efficiently realizes both forward and inverse retrieval tasks with great precision, offering a promising tool for iterative computational design tasks in complex physical systems. Other potential applications include photodetectors, polarization-resolved imaging, and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy.
Date: July 1, 2020
Creator: Ashalley, Eric; Acheampong, Kingsley; Besteiro, Lucas V.; Yu, Peng; Neogi, Arup; Govorov, Alexander O. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library