Article on the draft genome sequence of Cupriavidus sp. strain SK-4, a di-ortho-substituted biphenyl-utilizing bacterium isolated from polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated sludge.

Erratum for the article "Draft Genome Sequence of Cupriavidus sp. Strain SK-3, a 4-Chlorobiphenyl- and 4-Chlorobenzoic Acid-Degrading Bacterium".

This article is a short biography of Cynthia Izaguirre, news anchor for the Channel 8 News, based on an oral history discussing her education and career.

This paper presents a numerical implementation and examination of new wind turbine blade finite element model based on Geometrically Exact Beam Theory (GEBT) and a high-order spectral finite element method. The displacement-based GEBT is presented, which includes the coupling effects that exist in composite structures and geometric nonlinearity. Legendre spectral finite elements (LSFEs) are high-order finite elements with nodes located at the Gauss-Legendre-Lobatto points. LSFEs can be an order of magnitude more efficient that low-order finite elements for a given accuracy level. Interpolation of the three-dimensional rotation, a major technical barrier in large-deformation simulation, is discussed in the context of LSFEs. It is shown, by numerical example, that the high-order LSFEs, where weak forms are evaluated with nodal quadrature, do not suffer from a drawback that exists in low-order finite elements where the tangent-stiffness matrix is calculated at the Gauss points. Finally, the new LSFE code is implemented in the new FAST Modularization Framework for dynamic simulation of highly flexible composite-material wind turbine blades. The framework allows for fully interactive simulations of turbine blades in operating conditions. Numerical examples showing validation and LSFE performance will be provided in the final paper.

Article describes how John Aaron, a boy from southwestern Oklahoma, became a NASA legend.

Article on the effect of secreted frizzled-related protein 4, a Wnt signaling antagonist, in chemosensitizing the glioma cell line U138MG and glioma stem cells enriched from U138MG to chemotherapeutics.

This article provides comments and reflection on the symbolic position of business anthropology with mainstream anthropology.

This article examines how ethics were learned in a design anthropology class.

Article on introducing name authority into a large electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) collection.

Notes and Documents column including prophecies from the Oklahoma Century Chest, hundred-year predictions written in 1913 about the fields of religion, journalism, medicine, law, and education, as well as letters addressed to the leaders of banking and court leaders in 2013.

Notes and Documents column including the previously unknown manuscript titled "The First Week in Oklahoma City" by Angelo C. Scott with an introduction by Chad Williams. The manuscript provides a firsthand account of the creation of Oklahoma City in the days immediately following the Land Run of 1889.

Paper discusses eugenics policies brought against Native Americans as explored in the young adult novel Hidden Roots.

Keynote address from Angela K. Wilson, who discusses four lessons she learned while doing undergraduate research.

Introduction to the special section on English Literature for the 2014 edition of The Eagle Feather, written by Kelly Wisecup.

Understanding the real-world power demand of modern automobiles is of critical importance to engineers using modeling and simulation to inform the intelligent design of increasingly efficient powertrains. Increased use of global positioning system (GPS) devices has made large scale data collection of vehicle speed (and associated power demand) a reality. While the availability of real-world GPS data has improved the industry's understanding of in-use vehicle power demand, relatively little attention has been paid to the incremental power requirements imposed by road grade. This analysis quantifies the incremental efficiency impacts of real-world road grade by appending high fidelity elevation profiles to GPS speed traces and performing a large simulation study. Employing a large real-world dataset from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Transportation Secure Data Center, vehicle powertrain simulations are performed with and without road grade under five vehicle models. Aggregate results of this study suggest that road grade could be responsible for 1% to 3% of fuel use in light-duty automobiles.

Paper explores questions about the efficacy of democracy in America.

An online article about a new minister in the Dallas area that will perform marriage rights for LGBT couples.

Article discussing pharmacodynamics of potassium channel openers in cultured neuronal networks.

Article on antioxidants L-carnitine and D-methionine modulate neuronal activity through GABAergic inhibition.

In this article, the authors use the zebrafish genome and potassium channels to study cardiac anomalies, epilepsy, convulsions, hearing loss, and tinnitus in humans.

Article describes study in which researchers carried out comprehensive evolutionary analyses of the GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS)-STING pathway.

There is a need to understand the intrinsic limit of radiofrequency (RF) surface impedance that determines the performance of superconducting RF cavities in particle accelerators. Here we present a field-dependent derivation of Mattis-Bardeen theory of the RF surface impedance of BCS superconductors based on the shifted density of states resulting from coherently moving Cooper pairs. Our theoretical prediction of the effective BCS RF surface resistance (Rs) of niobium as a function of peak surface magnetic field amplitude agrees well with recently reported record low loss resonant cavity measurements from JLab and FNAL with carefully, yet differently, prepared niobium material. The surprising reduction in resistance with increasing field is explained to be an intrinsic effect.

This article provides a spatialized database of scientific literature in English about land-cover mapping.

This article identifies and characterizes the omega-3 fatty acid desaturase gene family in Gossypium hirsutum, with an emphasis on identifying omega-3 fatty acid desaturase involved in cold temperature adaption.