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
Resonance modes in moiré photonic patterns for twistoptics (open access)

Resonance modes in moiré photonic patterns for twistoptics

Article studying twistoptics for manipulating optical properties in twisted moiré photonic patterns without physical rotations. The presented approach can lead toward the study of twistoptics for the manipulating of optical properties in moiré patterns with different twist angles.
Date: April 12, 2021
Creator: Alnasser, Khadijah; Kamau, Steve; Cui, Jingbiao & Lin, Yuankun
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
Traffic generated emissions alter the lung microbiota by promoting the expansion of Proteobacteria in C57Bl/6 mice placed on a high-fat diet (open access)

Traffic generated emissions alter the lung microbiota by promoting the expansion of Proteobacteria in C57Bl/6 mice placed on a high-fat diet

Article investigating exposure to traffic-generated emissions and the potential to alter lung microbiota and immune defenses. Results show that the combined effects of ME and HF diet result in decreased immune surveillance and lung bacterial dysbiosis, which is of significance in lung diseases.
Date: April 15, 2021
Creator: Daniel, Sarah; Pusadkar, Vaidehi; McDonald, Jacob D.; Mirpuri, Julie; Azad, Rajeev K.; Goven, Art et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Actinide tetra-N-heterocyclic carbene ‘sandwiches’ (open access)

Actinide tetra-N-heterocyclic carbene ‘sandwiches’

Article preparing highly-symmetrical, thorium and uranium octakis-carbene ‘sandwich’ complexes by ‘sandwiching’ the An(IV) cations between two anionic macrocyclic tetra-NHC ligands. The complexes are characterized by a range of experimental methods and DFT calculations.
Date: May 10, 2021
Creator: DeJesus, Joseph F.; Kerr, Ryan W. F.; Penchoff, Deborah A.; Carroll, Xian B.; Peterson, Charles C.; Arnold, Polly L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adaptation of Fluctuating Magnetoacoustic System to External Signals (open access)

Adaptation of Fluctuating Magnetoacoustic System to External Signals

Article studying the influence of microwave signals of different shapes on the magnetoacoustic wave system with a giant nonlinearity in canted antiferromagnet FeBO₃ at room temperature, which is close to its phase transition to the paramagnetic state. Results represent the first observation of the macroscopic quantum statistical phenomenon, Bose-Einstein condensation of magnetoacoustic wave quanta in a wave system with a high level of thermal fluctuations.
Date: June 2, 2021
Creator: Safonov, Vladimir L.; Bas, Derek A.; Berman, Diana; Rostovtsev, Yuri V.; Roberts, James A.; Mcconney, Michael E. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design and Assessment of a Task-Driven Introductory Data Science Course Taught Concurrently in Multiple Languages: Python, R, and MATLAB (open access)

Design and Assessment of a Task-Driven Introductory Data Science Course Taught Concurrently in Multiple Languages: Python, R, and MATLAB

This article is from the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education and discusses the design, effectiveness, and curricular impacts of an introductory data science course focused on practical programming skills and allowing students to concurrently complete the course in Python, R, or MATLAB. Students indicated a preference for the multi-language course design and the course became the recommended first programming course for a newly developed and approved undergraduate data science majors.
Date: June 26, 2021
Creator: Xiao, Ting; Greenberg, Ronald I. & Albert, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ultrasound Imaging by Thermally Tunable Phononic Crystal Lens (open access)

Ultrasound Imaging by Thermally Tunable Phononic Crystal Lens

This article demonstrates the detections and mappings of a solid object using a thermally tunable solid-state phononic crystal lens at low frequency for potential use in future long-distance detection.
Date: July 26, 2021
Creator: Jin, Yuqi & Neogi, Arup
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Older Adults’ Mental Health Through Leisure Activities During COVID-19: A Scoping Review (open access)

Older Adults’ Mental Health Through Leisure Activities During COVID-19: A Scoping Review

This article is a scoping review aimed to map emerging evidence on the types of leisure and recreation activities (LRA) adults, 60 years and older, are engaged in for their mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: August 9, 2021
Creator: Rivera-Torres, Solymar; Mpofu, Elias; Keller, M. Jean & Ingman, Stanley R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Review of Diagnostics Methodologies for Metal Additive Manufacturing Processes and Products (open access)

A Review of Diagnostics Methodologies for Metal Additive Manufacturing Processes and Products

This article is a review summarizing and discussing various ex-situ inspections and in-situ monitoring methods, including electron-based methods, thermal methods, acoustic methods, laser breakdown, and mechanical methods, for metal additive manufacturing.
Date: August 30, 2021
Creator: Yang, Teng; Mazumder, Sangram; Jin, Yuqi; Squires, Brian; Sofield, Matthew; Pantawane, Mangesh V. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dietary Polyphenol and Methylsulfonylmethane Supplementation Improves Immune, DAMP Signaling, and Inflammatory Responses During Recovery From All-Out Running Efforts (open access)

Dietary Polyphenol and Methylsulfonylmethane Supplementation Improves Immune, DAMP Signaling, and Inflammatory Responses During Recovery From All-Out Running Efforts

This article presents a study with the purpose to determine the effect of dietary supplementation with optimized curcumin, pomegranate ellagitannins, and MSM (R + MSM) on immune-associated mRNA during early recovery (i.e., up to 8 h post-exercise) following all-out running efforts (5-km, 10-km, and 21.1-km). The results demonstrate that supplementation with a combination of optimized curcumin, pomegranate ellagitannins, and methylsulfonylmethane resulted in changes that may improve biological recovery from all-out running efforts.
Date: August 31, 2021
Creator: McFarlin, Brian K.; Hill, David W.; Vingren, Jakob L.; Curtis, John H. & Tanner, Elizabeth A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thermally Tunable Acoustic Beam Splitter Based on Poly(vinyl alcohol) Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Hydrogel (open access)

Thermally Tunable Acoustic Beam Splitter Based on Poly(vinyl alcohol) Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Hydrogel

Article demonstrating a thermally tunable acoustic beam splitter using a poly(vinyl alcohol) poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogel (PVA-pNIPAM). The nature of PVA-pNIPAM hydrogel offers exceptional temperature-dependent physical properties due to its phase transition around its lower critical solution temperature. The acoustic impedance of the hydrogel can be tuned below, above, or matched to that of water by changing the environmental temperature. An acoustic wave propagating in water can be split into transmitted and reflected components by the PVA-pNIPAM hydrogel slab on varying its angle of incidence. The intensity ratio between the reflected and the transmitted componence can be adjusted by tuning the temperature of the medium. The acoustic beam can be entirely reflected at a temperature corresponding to the matched impedance between hydrogel and water. The beam-splitting behavior was observed for acoustic waves from both a monochromatic wave and broadband pulse source. In addition, the phase of beam split pulses can be reversed by selecting the hydrogel’s operating temperature.
Date: September 13, 2021
Creator: Jin, Yuqi; Zhou, Mi; Choi, Tae-Youl & Neogi, Arup
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Voter Access & Election Integrity: The 2021 Constitution Day Discussion [Flyer] (open access)

Voter Access & Election Integrity: The 2021 Constitution Day Discussion [Flyer]

Flyer for UNT's Constitution Day event for 2021 which highlights the calls for election reform being renewed around the country. The event was a moderated panel presentation with speakers Jan (Janice) Johnson, Co-President of the League of Women Voters of Denton; Linnie McAdams, Co-President of the League of Women Voters of Denton; and Dr. Matthew Wilson, Associate Professor of Political Science, Southern Methodist University; and moderated by Dr. Rafe Major, University of North Texas.
Date: September 16, 2021
Creator: Borck, Catherine A.; King, Kimi L.; Henson, Brea; Sittel, Robbie & Sylve, Joshua
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Voter Access & Election Integrity: The 2021 Constitution Day Discussion [Video] captions transcript

Voter Access & Election Integrity: The 2021 Constitution Day Discussion [Video]

Video recording of UNT's Constitution Day event for 2021 which highlights the calls for election reform being renewed around the country. The event was a moderated panel presentation with speakers Jan (Janice) Johnson, Co-President of the League of Women Voters of Denton; Linnie McAdams, Co-President of the League of Women Voters of Denton; and Dr. Matthew Wilson, Associate Professor of Political Science, Southern Methodist University; and moderated by Dr. Rafe Major, University of North Texas.
Date: September 16, 2021
Creator: Johnson, Janice; McAdams, Linnie & Wilson, Matthew
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Photonic Band Gaps and Resonance Modes in 2D Twisted Moiré Photonic Crystal (open access)

Photonic Band Gaps and Resonance Modes in 2D Twisted Moiré Photonic Crystal

Article studying 2D twisted moiré photonic crystals without physical rotation and simulating their photonic band gaps in photonic crystals formed at different twisted angles, different gradient levels, and different dielectric filling factors.
Date: September 23, 2021
Creator: Alnasser, Khadijah; Kamau, Steve; Hurley, Noah; Cui, Jingbiao & Lin, Yuankun
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bioengineering Systems for Modulating Notch Signaling in Cardiovascular Development, Disease, and Regeneration (open access)

Bioengineering Systems for Modulating Notch Signaling in Cardiovascular Development, Disease, and Regeneration

This article is a review summarizing the significant roles of Notch signaling in individual cardiac cell types. It covers the bioengineering systems of microfluidics, hydrogel, spheroid, and 3D bioprinting and provides insights into ancillary supports of bioengineering systems, varied types of cardiovascular cells, and advanced characterization approaches in further refining Notch signaling in cardiovascular development, disease, and regeneration.
Date: September 30, 2021
Creator: Huerta Gomez, Angello; Joshi, Sanika; Yang, Yong; Tune, Johnathan D. & Zhao, Ming-Tao
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unsupervised learning in images and audio to produce neural receptive fields: a primer and accessible notebook (open access)

Unsupervised learning in images and audio to produce neural receptive fields: a primer and accessible notebook

This article presents a consolidated review of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) as an efficient neural coding scheme with the ability to model early visual and auditory neural processing.
Date: October 19, 2021
Creator: Urs, Namratha; Behpour, Sahar; Georgaras, Angie & Albert, Mark
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating a Local Usage Collection System: PySUSHI (open access)

Creating a Local Usage Collection System: PySUSHI

Article discussing the design and implementation of a built-in-house usage collection system for electronic resource usage via release 4 and release 5 of the SUSHI protocol, as well as the design and integration of additional modules for the loading of manually downloaded COUNTER reports.
Date: November 2021
Creator: Hergert, Christopher; Harker, Karen & Byrne, Sephra
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communication Skills for the 21st Century (open access)

Communication Skills for the 21st Century

Coursebook developed for pre-intermediate to intermediate English language learners. The course focuses on improving students' reading, listening and speaking skills. There is a focus on teaching discreet skills such as main idea, supporting details, making inferences, identifying referents and using context clues while reading. Specific speaking strategies are taught to improve fluency. Academic vocabulary is taught explicitly and implicitly. Book A topics: sleep, fashion, historical figures Ruby Bridges and Harriet Tubman Book B topics: Distractions, family, and the World Cup
Date: 2022
Creator: Geary, Shannon
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians through Oral Histories (open access)

Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians through Oral Histories

Grant narrative for the grant, "Connecting Communities with Libraries, Archives, and Historians Through Oral Histories." The University of North Texas (UNT) Department of Information Science, partnering with the UNT Oral History Program, will host a series of forums to identify best practices and strategies to respond to challenges around building, implementing, preserving, and accessing community oral history projects. The project team will convene librarians, archivists, oral history practitioners, public historians, community-based memory workers, and others working in oral history to identify good practices, share challenges and lessons learned, and prepare an actionable roadmap for building, implementing, preserving, and sustaining community oral history projects.
Date: 2022
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun; Moye, J. Todd & Roeschley, Ana
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Multi-mode Stimuli of Feedforward and Eye Tracking on Metacognition— An Exploratory Study Using Digital Dictionaries (open access)

The Effect of Multi-mode Stimuli of Feedforward and Eye Tracking on Metacognition— An Exploratory Study Using Digital Dictionaries

Article presents a study employing multi-mode stimuli of learners’ eye movements and feedforward that aims to develop the effect of Stimulated Recall (SR) on activating learners’ metacognition in remote settings.
Date: January 2022
Creator: Zhai, Xuesong; Chu, Xiaoyan; Wang, Minjuan; Spector, J. Michael; Tsai, Chin-Chung & Liu, Hui
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correction to: Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism: Third Generation (open access)

Correction to: Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism: Third Generation

Correction to the article "Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism: Third Generation Review." The original article can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1007/ s10803-020-04844-2.Autism Spectrum Disorder
Date: January 20, 2022
Creator: Hume, Kara; Steinbrenner, Jessica R.; Odom, Samuel L.; Morin, Kristi L.; Nowell, Sallie W.; Tomaszewski, Brianne et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The extreme rainfall gradient of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve and its impact on forest bird richness (open access)

The extreme rainfall gradient of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve and its impact on forest bird richness

Article studying the effects of extreme rainfall variations on forest bird communities by monitoring the bird species richness in the different forest types present in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve (CHBR).
Date: January 20, 2022
Creator: Quilodrán, Claudio S.; Sandvig, Erik M.; Aguirre, Francisco; de Aguilar, Juan Rivero; Barroso, Omar; Vásquez, Rodrigo A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Formation and Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Porphyrin- and Phthalocyanine-Bearing N-Doped Graphene Hybrids Synthesized by Click Chemistry (open access)

Formation and Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Porphyrin- and Phthalocyanine-Bearing N-Doped Graphene Hybrids Synthesized by Click Chemistry

Article presents research where N-doped graphene (NG) has been covalently decorated with porphyrin and phthalocyanine moieties using click chemistry. Evidence of charge separation in these hybrids is secured from femtosecond transient absorption studies, acting NG as electron acceptor.
Date: March 7, 2022
Creator: Arellano, Luis M.; Gobeze, Habtom B.; Barrejón, Myriam; Parejo, Concepción; Álvarez, Julio C.; Gómez-Escalonilla, María J. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library