Holographic Fabrication of Designed Functional Defect Lines in Photonic Crystal Lattice Using a Spatial Light Modulator (open access)

Holographic Fabrication of Designed Functional Defect Lines in Photonic Crystal Lattice Using a Spatial Light Modulator

This article reports the holographic fabrication of designed defect lines in photonic crystal lattices through phase engineering using a spatial light modulator.
Date: April 1, 2016
Creator: Lutkenhaus, Jeffrey; Lowell, David; George, David; Zhang, Hualiang; Lin, Yuankun & Lin, Yuankun
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior as risk factors for human papillomavirus infection in Saudi Arabia (open access)

Sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior as risk factors for human papillomavirus infection in Saudi Arabia

This article seeks to determine the prevalence and the sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior risk factors for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in a hospital-based cohort of women in Saudi Arabia.
Date: April 3, 2016
Creator: Alhamlan, F. S.; Khayat, H. H.; Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini; Al-Muammar, T. A.; Tulbah, A. M.; Al-Badawi, I. A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Portal to Texas History: Building a Partnership Model for a Statewide Digital Library (open access)

The Portal to Texas History: Building a Partnership Model for a Statewide Digital Library

This chapter describes aspects of establishing the collaborations to create The Portal to Texas History, including the background of the project, marketing the initiative to potential partners, partnership roles and agreements, preservation of all digital master files, technical infrastructure to support partnership models, promoting standards and good practice, funding issues and development, research studies to understand partner benefits and user groups, sustainability issues, and future research directions.
Date: April 2016
Creator: Belden, Dreanna; Phillips, Mark Edward; Carlisle, Tara & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cardiovascular function, compliance, and connective tissue remodeling in the turtle, Trachemys scripta, following thermal acclimation (open access)

Cardiovascular function, compliance, and connective tissue remodeling in the turtle, Trachemys scripta, following thermal acclimation

This article suggests that cold acclimation alters cardiac shunting patterns with an increased R-L shunt flow, achieved through reducing systemic resistance and increasing systemic blood flow.
Date: April 13, 2016
Creator: Keen, Adam N.; Shiels, Holly A. & Crossley, Dane A., II
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optical method for distance and displacement measurements of the probe-sample separation in a scanning near-field optical microscope (open access)

Optical method for distance and displacement measurements of the probe-sample separation in a scanning near-field optical microscope

This article presents an alternative optical method to determine the probe-sample separation distance in a scanning near-field optical microscope.
Date: May 18, 2016
Creator: Santamaria, L.; Garcia-Ortiz, C. E.; Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael; Cortes, R. & Coello, V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Augmenting Sulfur Metabolism and Herbivore Defense in Arabidopsis by Bacterial Volatile Signaling (open access)

Augmenting Sulfur Metabolism and Herbivore Defense in Arabidopsis by Bacterial Volatile Signaling

Article reports on a previously unidentified mechanism by which the growth-promoting rhizobacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (GB03) transcriptionally activates genes responsible for sulfur assimilation, increasing sulfur uptake and accumulation in Arabidopsis.
Date: April 8, 2016
Creator: Aziz, Mina; Nadipalli, Ranjith K.; Xie, Xitao; Sun, Yan; Surowiec, Kazimierz; Zhang, Jin-Lin et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
RelacióN Entre Violencia De Pareja Y Estrés Parental en Población Mexicana (open access)

RelacióN Entre Violencia De Pareja Y Estrés Parental en Población Mexicana

This article explores the relationship between intimate Domestic Violence and Parental Stress in Mexican women.
Date: April 2016
Creator: Brito-Tinajero, Carlos Adrián; Delgadillo-Guzmán, Leonor Guadalupe & Nievar, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gelsolin-mediated activation of PI3K/Akt pathway is crucial for  hepatocyte growth factor-induced cell scattering in gastric carcinoma (open access)

Gelsolin-mediated activation of PI3K/Akt pathway is crucial for hepatocyte growth factor-induced cell scattering in gastric carcinoma

This article highlights gelsolin as an important pro-disseminative factor contributing to the aggressive phenotype of diffuse gastric cancer.
Date: April 5, 2016
Creator: Huang, Baohua; Deng, Shuo; Loo, Ser Yue; Datta, Arpita; Yap, Yan Lin; Yan, Benedict et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
ANXA1 inhibits miRNA-196a in a negative feedback loop through  NF-kB and c-Myc to reduce breast cancer proliferation (open access)

ANXA1 inhibits miRNA-196a in a negative feedback loop through NF-kB and c-Myc to reduce breast cancer proliferation

This article shows that miR196a was highly expressed in ER+MCF-7 breast cancer cells when compared to normal mammary gland cells, with expression levels negatively correlating to ANXA1.
Date: April 20, 2016
Creator: Yuan, Yi; Anbalagan, Durkeshwari; Lee, Lay Hoon; Samy, Ramar Perumal; Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Kumar, Alan Prem et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hawk Mountain: A Conservation Success Story (open access)

Hawk Mountain: A Conservation Success Story

Book review of "Hawk Mountain: A Conservation Success Story" by James J. Brett and Keith L. Bildstein.
Date: April 27, 2016
Creator: Bednarz, James C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Reviews, Then You Get the Internet Comments: A Quantitative Examination of the Relationship Between Critics, Viewers, and Box Office Success (open access)

First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Reviews, Then You Get the Internet Comments: A Quantitative Examination of the Relationship Between Critics, Viewers, and Box Office Success

This article examines the relationships between a movie's perceived artistic merit as ranked by critics, a movie's quality as ranked by viewers, a movie's gross box office take, and its release date.
Date: April 28, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy & Raddick, M. Jordan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design Concepts of Polycarbonate-Based Intervertebral Lumbar Cages: Finite Element Analysis and Compression Testing (open access)

Design Concepts of Polycarbonate-Based Intervertebral Lumbar Cages: Finite Element Analysis and Compression Testing

This article explores the viability of 3D printed intervertebral lumbar cages based on biocompatible polycarbonate (PC-ISO® material).
Date: April 18, 2016
Creator: Figueroa-Cavazos, J. Obedt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy of P₂N₃⁻: Electron Affinity and Electronic Structures of  P₂N₃˙ (open access)

Negative Ion Photoelectron Spectroscopy of P₂N₃⁻: Electron Affinity and Electronic Structures of P₂N₃˙

This article reports a negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy (NIPES) and ab initio study of the recently synthesized planar aromatic inorganic ion P₂N₃⁻, to investigate the electronic structures of P₂N₃⁻ and its neutral P₂N₃˙ radical.
Date: April 5, 2016
Creator: Hou, Gao-Lei; Chen, Bo; Transue, Wesley J.; Hrovat, David A.; Cummins, Christopher C.; Borden, Weston T. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library