Miniature Mass Spectrometry: Theory, Development and Applications (open access)

Miniature Mass Spectrometry: Theory, Development and Applications

As mass analyzer technology has continued to improve over the last fifty years, the prospect of field-portable mass spectrometers has garnered interest from many research groups and organizations. Designing a field portable instrument entails more than the scaling down of current commercial systems. Additional considerations such as power consumption, vacuum requirements and ruggedization also play key roles. In this research, two avenues were pursued in the initial development of a portable system. First, micrometer-scale mass analyzers and other electrostatic components were fabricated using silicon on insulator-deep reactive ion etching, and tested. Second, the dimensions of an ion trap were scaled to the millimeter level and fabricated from common metals and commercially available vacuum plastics. This instrument was tested for use in ion isolation and collision induced dissociation for secondary mass spectrometry and confirmatory analyses of unknowns. In addition to portable instrumentation, miniature mass spectrometers show potential for usage in process and reaction monitoring. To this end, a commercial residual gas analyzer was used to monitor plasma deposition and cleaning inside of a chamber designed for laser ablation and soft landing-ion mobility to generate metal-main group clusters. This chamber was also equipped for multiple types of spectral analysis in order to …
Date: December 2013
Creator: Fox, James D.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Minority Stress, Spirituality and Psychological Quality of Life in a Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Sample (open access)

Minority Stress, Spirituality and Psychological Quality of Life in a Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Sample

Unique factors associated with the experience of spirituality and religiosity for many in lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) communities include minority stress. Using structural equation modeling, we examined whether minority stress mediates the relationship between spirituality and psychological quality of life (QOL). Results indicate minority stress mediates the relationship between spirituality and psychological QOL for gay men and bisexuals. However, minority stress is not a significant mediator for lesbians. Therefore, lesbians may experience minority stress and its relationship to psychological QOL differently than gay men and bisexuals due to higher societal acceptance. This study provides support for examining lesbians, gay men and bisexuals separately rather than as one sexual minority group.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Purser, Megan M.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 5, January 2013 (open access)

International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 5, January 2013

Monthly newsletter of the International Association of Panoramic Photographers discussing news and events, organizational updates, and articles on topics of interest to members, along with photographs and advertising.
Date: January 2013
Creator: International Association of Panoramic Photographers
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 6, February 2013 (open access)

International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 6, February 2013

Monthly newsletter of the International Association of Panoramic Photographers discussing news and events, organizational updates, and articles on topics of interest to members, along with photographs and advertising.
Date: February 2013
Creator: International Association of Panoramic Photographers
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 7, March 2013 (open access)

International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 7, March 2013

Monthly newsletter of the International Association of Panoramic Photographers discussing news and events, organizational updates, and articles on topics of interest to members, along with photographs and advertising.
Date: March 2013
Creator: International Association of Panoramic Photographers
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 8, April 2013 (open access)

International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 8, April 2013

Monthly newsletter of the International Association of Panoramic Photographers discussing news and events, organizational updates, and articles on topics of interest to members, along with photographs and advertising.
Date: April 2013
Creator: International Association of Panoramic Photographers
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 9, May 2013 (open access)

International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 9, May 2013

Monthly newsletter of the International Association of Panoramic Photographers discussing news and events, organizational updates, and articles on topics of interest to members, along with photographs and advertising.
Date: May 2013
Creator: International Association of Panoramic Photographers
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 10, June 2013 (open access)

International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 10, June 2013

Monthly newsletter of the International Association of Panoramic Photographers discussing news and events, organizational updates, and articles on topics of interest to members, along with photographs and advertising.
Date: June 2013
Creator: International Association of Panoramic Photographers
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 12, August 2013 (open access)

International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 12, August 2013

Monthly newsletter of the International Association of Panoramic Photographers discussing news and events, organizational updates, and articles on topics of interest to members, along with photographs and advertising.
Date: August 2013
Creator: International Association of Panoramic Photographers
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 11, July 2013 (open access)

International Association of Panoramic Photographers e-Monitor, Volume 3, Number 11, July 2013

Monthly newsletter of the International Association of Panoramic Photographers discussing news and events, organizational updates, and articles on topics of interest to members, along with photographs and advertising.
Date: July 2013
Creator: International Association of Panoramic Photographers
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mapping the Southwest Project: Putting the Region's Maps Online

This poster discusses the Mapping the Southwest Project, involving putting our region's maps online. The poster includes background information on the project, the project plan, workflow and equipment, and the impacts and lessons learned.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Jones, Jerrell; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Phillips, Mark Edward; Hodges, Ann; Huseman, Ben et al.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

[U.S. Patent OCR Files: Disk USP001]

This dataset contains the compiled Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text files for the content of patent grants issued by the United States Patent Office from 1 to 469,664 (inclusive).
Date: 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library