Evaluation of intermetallic compound layer at aluminum/steel interface joined by friction stir scribe technology (open access)

Evaluation of intermetallic compound layer at aluminum/steel interface joined by friction stir scribe technology

Article describes the results of friction stir welding of aluminum and steel, in which heat input and high strain rate deformation during resulted in the diffusion-based formation of a FexAly intermetallic compound (IMC) layer.
Date: April 12, 2019
Creator: Wang, Tianhao; Sidhar, Harpreet; Mishra, Rajiv; Hovanski, Yuri; Upadhyay, Piyush & Carlson, Blair
System: The UNT Digital Library
Entropy Balance in the Expanding Universe: A Novel Perspective (open access)

Entropy Balance in the Expanding Universe: A Novel Perspective

The article describes cosmic expansion as correlated with the standpoints of local observers’ co-moving horizons. In keeping with relational quantum mechanics, which claims that quantum systems are only meaningful in the context of measurements, the authors suggest that information gets ergodically “diluted” in our isotropic and homogeneous expanding Universe, so that an observer detects just a limited amount of the total cosmic bits.
Date: April 17, 2019
Creator: Tozzi, Arturo & Peters, James F.
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
Does flooding effect the apparent survival and body condition of a ground foraging migrant passerine? (open access)

Does flooding effect the apparent survival and body condition of a ground foraging migrant passerine?

This study demonstrates the vulnerability of species to extreme hydrological events, an increasing threat due to climate change.
Date: April 10, 2017
Creator: Reiley, Bryan M.; Benson, Thomas J.; Everitts, Jeremy & Bednarz, James C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantifying Impacts of Mean Annual Lake Bottom Temperature on Talik Development and Permafrost Degradation Below Expanding Thermokarst Lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (open access)

Quantifying Impacts of Mean Annual Lake Bottom Temperature on Talik Development and Permafrost Degradation Below Expanding Thermokarst Lakes on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Paper examines the impacts of variations in the mean annual lake bottom temperature (MALBT) on talik development and permafrost degradation beneath expanding thermokarst lakes in the Beiluhe Basin on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau.
Date: April 5, 2019
Creator: Ling, Feng & Pan, Feifei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Secretory IgA is Concentrated in the Outer Layer of Colonic Mucus along with Gut Bacteria (open access)

Secretory IgA is Concentrated in the Outer Layer of Colonic Mucus along with Gut Bacteria

Study demonstrates that antibodies of the secretory IgA (SIgA) class co-localizes with gut bacteria in the outer mucus layer; paper discusses the properties of SIgA.
Date: April 29, 2014
Creator: Rogier, Eric W.; Frantz, Aubrey L.; Bruno, Maria E. C. & Kaetzel, Charlotte S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining Millennials' Global Citizenship Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions to Engage in Environmental Volunteering (open access)

Examining Millennials' Global Citizenship Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions to Engage in Environmental Volunteering

Paper describes study explores how millennials' global citizenship attitudes affect their likelihood of participating in volunteer environmental projects, and in turn how prior involvement in these projects affects their global citizenship attitudes.
Date: April 18, 2019
Creator: Woosnam, Kyle M.; Strzelecka, Marianna; Nisbett, Gwendelyn S. & Keith, Samuel J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Religion Frames Health Norms: A Structural Theory Approach (open access)

How Religion Frames Health Norms: A Structural Theory Approach

This review looks at the religious communities influence health-related behaviors of adherents in important ways for public health promotion. Questions remain about the processes involved and resultant health promotion actions of the religious adherents.
Date: April 9, 2018
Creator: Mpofu, Elias
System: The UNT Digital Library