On the standard L-function for GSp2n × GL1 and algebraicity of symmetric fourth L-values for GL2 (open access)

On the standard L-function for GSp2n × GL1 and algebraicity of symmetric fourth L-values for GL2

This article proves an explicit integral representation—involving the pullback of a suitable Siegel Eisenstein series—for the twisted standard L-function associated to a holomorphic vector-valued Siegel cusp form of degree n and arbitrary level.
Date: May 6, 2020
Creator: Pitale, Ameya; Saha, Abhishek & Schmidt, Ralf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cellular Plasticity in Response to Suppression of Storage Proteins in the Brassica napus Embryo (open access)

Cellular Plasticity in Response to Suppression of Storage Proteins in the Brassica napus Embryo

Article testing the tradeoff between protein and oil storage in oilseed crops by analyzing the effect of suppressing key genes encoding protein storage products (napin and cruciferin). This study provides mechanistic insights into the intriguing link between lipid and protein storage, which have implications for biotechnological strategies directed at improving oilseed crops.
Date: April 30, 2020
Creator: Rolletschek, Hardy; Schwender, Jorg; König, Christina; Chapman, Kent Dean; Romsdahl, Trevor; Lorenz, Christin et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editorial: Regulation of and by the Plant Cell Wall (open access)

Editorial: Regulation of and by the Plant Cell Wall

Editorial on the research topic Regulation of and by the Plant Cell Wall.
Date: April 29, 2020
Creator: Rao, Xiaolan; Bartley, Laura E.; Drakakaki, Georgia & Anderson, Charles T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
High-Throughput Computational Search for Half-Metallic Oxides (open access)

High-Throughput Computational Search for Half-Metallic Oxides

The article describes a high-throughput computational search for half-metallic compounds. The analysis of calculated electronic properties of thousands of materials from the inorganic crystal structure database allowed the authors to identify potential half metals. They found over two-hundred strong half-metallic oxides; several of them have never been reported before.
Date: April 25, 2020
Creator: Liyanage, Laalitha S. I.; Slawińska, Jagoda; Gopal, Priya; Curtarolo, Stefano; Fornari, Marco & Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco
System: The UNT Digital Library
Topological View of Flows Inside the BOLD Spontaneous Activity of the Human Brain (open access)

Topological View of Flows Inside the BOLD Spontaneous Activity of the Human Brain

Article describes study which found that persistent, recurring blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signals in triangulated rs-fMRI videoframes display previously undetected topological findings, i.e., vortex structures that cover brain activated regions.
Date: April 22, 2020
Creator: Don, Arjuna P. H.; Peters, James F.; Ramanna, Sheela & Tozzi, Arturo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Existence of solutions for semilinear problems on exterior domains (open access)

Existence of solutions for semilinear problems on exterior domains

Article proves the existence of an infinite number of radial solutions to ∆u+K(r)f(u) = 0 on ℝᶰ such that limᵣ →∞ u(r) = 0 with prescribed number of zeros on the exterior of the ball of radius R > 0 where f is odd with f < 0 on (0, β), f > 0 on (β, ∞) with f superlinear for large u, and K(r) ∼ r ⁻ᵅ with α > 2(N − 1).
Date: April 15, 2020
Creator: Iaia, Joseph A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Underlying Ossification Phenotype in a Murine Model of Metastatic Synovial Sarcoma (open access)

Underlying Ossification Phenotype in a Murine Model of Metastatic Synovial Sarcoma

This article presents the analysis of genetic mouse models of synovial sarcoma to determine the extent of ossification in the tumors and its relationship with morbidity. The authors noted higher ossification within their metastatic mouse model of synovial sarcoma. Their conclusion is that both metastasis and ossification are dependent on time, but that they are independent of one another.
Date: April 10, 2020
Creator: Kirkham, Matthew; Kalivas, Austen; Fatema, Kaniz; Luelling, Sarah; Dubansky, Brooke H.; Dubansky, Benjamin et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prescriptions for Correcting Ultraviolet-based Redshifts for Luminous Quasars at High Redshift (open access)

Prescriptions for Correcting Ultraviolet-based Redshifts for Luminous Quasars at High Redshift

This article presents near-infrared spectroscopy of 18 luminous quasars at 2.15 < z < 3.70 that allows the authors to obtain reliable systemic redshifts for these sources.
Date: April 8, 2020
Creator: Dix, Cooper; Shemmer, Ohad; Brotherton, Michael S.; Green, Richard F.; Mason, Michelle & Myers, Adam D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preferential intracellular pH regulation is a common trait amongst fishes exposed to high environmental CO2 (open access)

Preferential intracellular pH regulation is a common trait amongst fishes exposed to high environmental CO2

Article testing the hypothesis that preferential pHi regulation is a widespread strategy of acid–base regulation among fish by measuring pHi regulation in 10 different fish species that are broadly phylogenetically separated, spanning six orders, eight families and 10 genera.
Date: June 17, 2019
Creator: Shartau, R. B.; Baker, D. W.; Harter, T. S.; Aboagye, D. L.; Allen, P. J.; Val, A. L. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improved Yield and Photosynthate Partitioning in AVP1 Expressing Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Plants (open access)

Improved Yield and Photosynthate Partitioning in AVP1 Expressing Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Plants

Article presents data consistent with the positive effect that the expression of the Arabidopsis thaliana H+-PPase (AVP1) has on reduced carbon partitioning and yield increases in wheat.
Date: March 17, 2020
Creator: Regmi, Kamesh C.; Yogendra, Kalenahalli; Gomes Farias, Júlia; Li, Lin; Kandel, Raju; Yadav, Umesh P. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining priority areas for an Endangered cold-adapted snake on warming mountaintops (open access)

Determining priority areas for an Endangered cold-adapted snake on warming mountaintops

This article develops a spatial prioritization model based on accurate estimates of remotely-sensed data and maps of threats potentially affecting long-term species persistence to identify priority areas for the conservation of the Endangered Greek meadow viper Vipera graeca, a cold-adapted species inhabiting mountaintops in the Pindos Mountains of Greece and Albania.
Date: March 12, 2020
Creator: Mizsei, Edvárd; Szabolcs, Márton; Szabó, Loránd; Boros, Zoltán; Mersini, Kujtim; Roussos, Stephanos Antonios et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The genome of jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis): A taxonomically isolated species that directs wax ester accumulation in its seeds (open access)

The genome of jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis): A taxonomically isolated species that directs wax ester accumulation in its seeds

Article describes the high-quality, 887-Mb genome of jojoba assembled into 26 chromosomes with 23,490 protein-coding genes.
Date: March 11, 2020
Creator: Sturtevant, Drew; Lu, Shaoping; Zhou, Zhi-Wei; Shen, Yin; Wang, Shuo; Song, Jia-Ming et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Testing gene-environment interactions for rare and/or common variants in sequencing association studies (open access)

Testing gene-environment interactions for rare and/or common variants in sequencing association studies

Article describes study in which novel approaches to test the effects of gene-environment (GE) interactions of rare and/or common risk, and/or protective variants in sequencing association studies were developed.
Date: March 10, 2020
Creator: Zhao, Zihan; Zhang, Jianjun; Sha, Qiuying & Hao, Han
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electron Transfer Mediated by Iron Carbonyl Clusters Enhance Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution in Water by Quantum Dots (open access)

Electron Transfer Mediated by Iron Carbonyl Clusters Enhance Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution in Water by Quantum Dots

This article tests an assembly consisting of CdSe quantum dots and [Fe₃Te₂(CO)₉] as a catalytic system for proton reduction in aqueous solution.
Date: March 9, 2020
Creator: Richmond, Michael G.; Li, Chuanshuai; Rahaman, Ahibur; Lin, Weihua; Mourad, Hassan; Meng, Jie et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring NIR Aza-BODIPY-Based Polarity Sensitive Probes with ON-and-OFF Fluorescence Switching in Pluronic Nanoparticles (open access)

Exploring NIR Aza-BODIPY-Based Polarity Sensitive Probes with ON-and-OFF Fluorescence Switching in Pluronic Nanoparticles

The articles is about a study of the response of six NIR aza-BODIPY-based and structurally similar fluorophores to polarity and viscosity for incorporation inside Pluronic nanoparticles as switchable fluorescent probes (SFPs). Based on their results, all of these fluorophores were moderately to strongly sensitive to the polarity of the microenvironment. They concluded that attaching amine groups to the fluorophore is not necessary for having strong polarity sensitive probes.
Date: March 2, 2020
Creator: Saremi, Bahar; Bandi, Venugopal; Kazemi, Shahrzad; Hong, Yi; D'Souza, Francis & Yuan, Baohong
System: The UNT Digital Library
Asymmetric hydrogenation of an α-unsaturated carboxylic acid catalyzed by intact chiral transition metal carbonyl clusters – diastereomeric control of enantioselectivity (open access)

Asymmetric hydrogenation of an α-unsaturated carboxylic acid catalyzed by intact chiral transition metal carbonyl clusters – diastereomeric control of enantioselectivity

Article presenting research where twenty clusters of the general formula [(μ-H)₂Ru₃(μ₃-S)(CO)₇(μ-P–P*)] (P–P* = chiral diphosphine of the ferrocene-based Walphos or Josiphos families) have been synthesised and characterised.
Date: February 27, 2020
Creator: Richmond, Michael G.; Abdel-Magied, Ahmed F.; Theibich, Yusuf; Singh, Amrendra K.; Rahaman, Ahibur; Doverbratt, Isa et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nanomolecular singlet oxygen photosensitizers based on hemiquinonoid-resorcinarenes, the fuchsonarenes (open access)

Nanomolecular singlet oxygen photosensitizers based on hemiquinonoid-resorcinarenes, the fuchsonarenes

Article reports on singlet oxygen sensitization involving a class of hemiquinonoid-substituted resorcinarenes prepared from the corresponding 3,5-di-t-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl-substituted resorcinarenes.
Date: February 18, 2020
Creator: Payne, Daniel T.; Webre, W. A.; Gobeze, Habtom B.; Seetharaman, Sairaman; Matsushita, Yoshitaka; Karr, Paul A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Salt-water acclimation of the estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus involves enhanced ion transport properties of the urodaeum and rectum (open access)

Salt-water acclimation of the estuarine crocodile Crocodylus porosus involves enhanced ion transport properties of the urodaeum and rectum

This article reports that in addition to the well-documented functional plasticity of the lingual salt glands, the middle of the three cloacal segments (i.e. the urodaeum) responds to increased ambient salinity to enhance solute-coupled water absorption in estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus).
Date: July 16, 2019
Creator: Grosell, Martin; Heuer, Rachael M.; Wu, N. C.; Cramp, Rebecca L.; Wang, Yadong; Mager, Edward M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of a Thulium Fiber Laser for an Atomic Spectroscopy Experiment (open access)

Development of a Thulium Fiber Laser for an Atomic Spectroscopy Experiment

This article is a simplified analysis of a convenient thulium fiber laser source with 3 W of output power operating at a wavelength of 2059 nm with a slope efficiency of 49% with respect to input pump power and 60% with respect to absorbed pump power. The laser was applied in an atomic helium spectroscopy experiment to quench ³He (2058.63 nm) and ⁴He (2058.69 nm) meta-stable singlets (2¹S0), allowing for further investigation of the helium fine structure.
Date: February 15, 2020
Creator: Currey, Ronnie; Khademian, Ali & Shiner, David
System: The UNT Digital Library
Brassinosteroids Inhibit Autotropic Root Straightening by Modifying Filamentous-Actin Organization and Dynamics (open access)

Brassinosteroids Inhibit Autotropic Root Straightening by Modifying Filamentous-Actin Organization and Dynamics

Article describes study testing the hypothesis that epi-brassinolide (eBL) might enhance root gravitropism through its effects on filamentous-actin (F-actin) in plants.
Date: February 4, 2020
Creator: Bang, Louise de; Paez-Garcia, Ana; Cannon, Ashley E.; Chin, Sabrina; Kolape, Jaydeep; Liao, Fuqi et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prioritizing riparian corridors for ecosystem restoration in urbanizing watersheds (open access)

Prioritizing riparian corridors for ecosystem restoration in urbanizing watersheds

This article explores restoration, rather than protection, being the basis for developing a watershed level strategy for improving water quality in urbanizing watersheds.This study uses a geographical information system (GIS) approach that utilizes riparian characteristics extracted from 40-meter wide corridors centered on streams and rivers. The model was applied to 90 sub-watersheds in the watershed of an important drinking water reservoir in north central Texas, USA.
Date: February 4, 2020
Creator: Atkinson, Samuel F. & Lake, Matthew C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sub-Antarctic Freshwater Invertebrate Thermal Tolerances: An Assessment of Critical Thermal Limits and Behavioral Responses (open access)

Sub-Antarctic Freshwater Invertebrate Thermal Tolerances: An Assessment of Critical Thermal Limits and Behavioral Responses

Describes study which assessed the upper (CTmax) and lower (CTmin) thermal limits of three freshwater macroinvertebrate taxa with restricted low elevation distribution (20 m a.s.l.) and three taxa restricted to upper elevations (480 and 700 m a.s.l.) in the Magellanic sub-Antarctic ecoregion of southern Chile, and argues that their low tolerance to temperature increase can make them useful as indicators of thermal alteration in their habitats.
Date: February 4, 2020
Creator: Rendoll Cárcamo, Javier; Contador, Tamara; Convey, Peter & Kennedy, James H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Extreme X-Ray Variability Event of a Weak-line Quasar (open access)

An Extreme X-Ray Variability Event of a Weak-line Quasar

Article reports the discovery of an extreme X-ray flux rise (by a factor of ≳20) of the weak-line quasar Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) J153913.47+395423.4 (hereafter SDSS J1539+3954) at z = 1.935. SDSS J1539+3954 is the most-luminous object among radio-quiet type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) where such dramatic X-ray variability has been observed.
Date: February 3, 2020
Creator: Ni, Q.; Brandt, W. N.; Yi, W.; Luo, B.; Timlin, J. D., III; Hall, P. B. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Non-conventional pathways enable pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) embryos to achieve high efficiency of oil biosynthesis (open access)

Non-conventional pathways enable pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.) embryos to achieve high efficiency of oil biosynthesis

Article exploring how to improve oil production in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.).
Date: February 1, 2020
Creator: Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Alonso, Ana Paula & Tsogtbaatar, Enkhtuul
System: The UNT Digital Library