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Guidelines for the standardization of preanalytic variables for blood‐based biomarker studies in Alzheimer's disease research (open access)

Guidelines for the standardization of preanalytic variables for blood‐based biomarker studies in Alzheimer's disease research

Review article which provides (1) a synopsis of selected preanalytical methods utilized in many international AD cohort studies, (2) initial draft guidelines/SOPs for preanalytical methods, and (3) a list of required methodological information and protocols to be made available for publications in the field to foster cross‐validation across cohorts and laboratories.
Date: September 30, 2014
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Gupta, Veer; Henriksen, Kim; Edwards, Melissa; Jeromin, Andreas; Lista, Simone et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Florigen and anti-florigen – a systemic mechanism for coordinating growth and termination in flowering plants (open access)

Florigen and anti-florigen – a systemic mechanism for coordinating growth and termination in flowering plants

Article describes study establishing FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) as a key flower-promoting gene in photoperiodic systems.
Date: September 16, 2014
Creator: Lifschitz, Eliezer; Ayre, Brian G. & Eshed, Yuval
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elevated CO2 increases energetic cost and ion movement in the marine fish intestine (open access)

Elevated CO2 increases energetic cost and ion movement in the marine fish intestine

Article describes study which aimed to gain resolution in assessing the energetic demand associated with acid-base regulation by examining ion movement and O2 consumption rates of isolated intestinal tissue from Gulf toadfish acclimated to control or 1900 μatm CO2 (projected for year 2300).
Date: September 29, 2016
Creator: Heuer, Rachael M. & Grosell, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cotton CENTRORADIALIS/TERMINAL FLOWER 1/SELF-PRUNING genes functionally diverged to differentially impact plant architecture (open access)

Cotton CENTRORADIALIS/TERMINAL FLOWER 1/SELF-PRUNING genes functionally diverged to differentially impact plant architecture

This article characterizes the CETS gene family from tetraploid cotton in order to understand the regulation of cotton architecture and exploit these principles to enhance crop productivity.
Date: September 10, 2018
Creator: Prewitt, Sarah F.; Ayre, Brian G. & McGarry, Roisin C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods to evaluate rare variants gene-age interaction for triglycerides (open access)

Methods to evaluate rare variants gene-age interaction for triglycerides

This article discusses the development of two statistical methods to test the gene environment interaction effect of rare variants.
Date: September 17, 2018
Creator: Huayang Gao, Tony; Zhang, Jianjun; Medina Miguelangel, Diaz & Wang, Xuexia
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Methods and results from the genome-wide association group at GAW20 (open access)

Methods and results from the genome-wide association group at GAW20

This article reports on promising statistical approaches and findings of the members of the Genome-wide Association Study group applied on real and simulated data which encompass the current topics of epigenetic and pharmacogenomics.
Date: September 17, 2018
Creator: Wang, Xuexia; Boekstegers, Felix & Brinster, Regina
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law (open access)

Legislative Ambiguity and Ontological Hierarchy in US Sacred Land Law

This article demonstrates instances in which sacred site law was construed so narrowly as to a priori preclude indigenous ways of knowing, particularly in regards to the nature of land, use of sacred objects, and pollution.
Date: September 1, 2017
Creator: Dunstan, Adam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bird watching in China reveals bird distribution changes (open access)

Bird watching in China reveals bird distribution changes

This article describes the development of the China Bird Watching Database and its use to understand bird distribution changes.
Date: September 15, 2012
Creator: Li, Xueyan; Liang, Lu; Gong, Peng; Liu, Yang & Liang, FeiFei
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Measurement of Group Delay Dispersion in Metamagnetics for Ultrafast Pulse Shaping (open access)

Direct Measurement of Group Delay Dispersion in Metamagnetics for Ultrafast Pulse Shaping

This article explores the use of magnetic resonant metamaterials, so called metamagnetics, as dispersive elements for optical pulse shaping.
Date: September 24, 2012
Creator: Brown, Dean P.; Walker, Mark A.; Urbas, Augustine M.; Kildishev, Alexander V.; Xiao, Shumin & Drachev, Vladimir P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Holographic fabrication of 3D photonic crystals through interference of multi-beams with 4 + 1, 5 + 1 and 6 + 1 configurations (open access)

Holographic fabrication of 3D photonic crystals through interference of multi-beams with 4 + 1, 5 + 1 and 6 + 1 configurations

This article fabricates 3D photonic crystals or quasi-crystals through single beam and single optical element based holographic lithography.
Date: September 9, 2014
Creator: George, David; Lutkenhaus, Jeffrey; Lowell, David; Moazzezi, Mojtaba; Adewole, Murthada; Philipose, Usha et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Holographically Formed Three-Dimensional Penrose-Type Photonic Quasicrystal Through a Lab-Made Single Diffractive Optical Element (open access)

Holographically Formed Three-Dimensional Penrose-Type Photonic Quasicrystal Through a Lab-Made Single Diffractive Optical Element

This describes the use of a holographic lithography method to fabricate large-area three-dimensional Penrose-type photonic quasicrystals.
Date: September 10, 2010
Creator: Harb, Ahmad; Torres, Faraon; Ohlinger, Kris; Lin, Yuankun; Lozano, Karen; Xu, Di et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spreading of Charged Micro-Droplets (open access)

Spreading of Charged Micro-Droplets

This article studies the spreading of a charged microdroplet using the lubrication approximation.
Date: September 16, 2013
Creator: Iaia, Joseph A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plant communities as bioclimate indicators on Isla Navarino, one of the southernmost forested areas of the world (open access)

Plant communities as bioclimate indicators on Isla Navarino, one of the southernmost forested areas of the world

This article focuses on Isla Navarino (Chile) to understand changes in plant community composition and plant diversity and their relation to climatic factors along an altitudinal gradient.
Date: September 29, 2016
Creator: Molina, José Antonio; Lumbreras, Ana; Benavent-González, Albert; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960- & Sancho, Leopoldo G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flora Vascular Y Musgos en La Zona Altoandina De La Isla Navarino (55ºS), Reserva De La Biosfera Cabo De Hornos, Chile (open access)

Flora Vascular Y Musgos en La Zona Altoandina De La Isla Navarino (55ºS), Reserva De La Biosfera Cabo De Hornos, Chile

This article identifies vascular plants and mosses in Cerro Bandera, Puerto Williams Chile.
Date: September 9, 2013
Creator: Méndez, Manuela; Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960- & Cavieres, Lohengrin A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Altered brain ion gradients following compensation for elevated CO2 are linked to behavioural alterations in a coral reef fish (open access)

Altered brain ion gradients following compensation for elevated CO2 are linked to behavioural alterations in a coral reef fish

This article pairs a behavioural assay with measurements of relevant intracellular and extracellular acid-base parameters in a coral reef fish exposed to elevated CO₂.
Date: September 13, 2016
Creator: Heuer, R.M.; Welch, M.J.; Rummer, J.L.; Munday, P.L. & Grosell, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Primera década de investigación y educación en la Reserva de la Biosfera Cabo de Hornos: el enfoque biocultural del Parque Etnobotánico Omora (open access)

Primera década de investigación y educación en la Reserva de la Biosfera Cabo de Hornos: el enfoque biocultural del Parque Etnobotánico Omora

This article discusses the historical context motivating the creation of the future Cape Horn Sub-Antarctic Center in 2017.
Date: September 22, 2015
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960- & Schüttler, Elke
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education and Employment Outcomes from the RSA Data File for Transition-Age African American, White, and Hispanic Youth with Learning Disabilities (open access)

Education and Employment Outcomes from the RSA Data File for Transition-Age African American, White, and Hispanic Youth with Learning Disabilities

This article examines relationships among consumer demographic variables, services, and employment outcomes for 15-18 year old youth with learning disabilities using the 2012 Rehabilitation Services Administration database.
Date: September 2015
Creator: Ji, Eun; Schaller, James; Pazey, Barbara L. & Glynn, Kate
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Neoteric Neodymium Model: Ground and Excited Electronic State Analysis of NdF²⁺ (open access)

A Neoteric Neodymium Model: Ground and Excited Electronic State Analysis of NdF²⁺

This article studies neodymium monofluoride dictation as a model of the Nd-F bond in NDFₓ.
Date: May 10, 2013
Creator: Schoendorff, George; South, Christopher & Wilson, Angela K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis, biological evaluation and in silico and in vitro mode-of-action analysis of novel dihydropyrimidones targeting PPAR-γ (open access)

Synthesis, biological evaluation and in silico and in vitro mode-of-action analysis of novel dihydropyrimidones targeting PPAR-γ

This article reports the synthesis and related biological activity of novel dihydropyrimidones.
Date: August 15, 2014
Creator: Bharathkumar, Hanumantharayappa; Paricharak, Shardul; Dinesh, K. R.; Siveen, Kodappully Sivaraman; Fuchs, Julian E.; Rangappa, Shobith et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of Bath Composition at Acidic pH on Electrodeposition of Nickel-Layered Silicate Nanocomposites for Corrosion Protection (open access)

Influence of Bath Composition at Acidic pH on Electrodeposition of Nickel-Layered Silicate Nanocomposites for Corrosion Protection

This article describes how nickel-layered silicate nanocomposite films were electrochemically deposited using pulsed potentiostatic conditions from an acidic plating bath containing exfoliated layered silicate to enhance adhesion to the substrate, corrosion resistance, and mechanical properties.
Date: September 25, 2013
Creator: Tientong, Jeerapan; Thurber, Casey; D'Souza, Nandika; Mohamed, Adel M. A. & Golden, Teresa
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrodeposition of Oriented Cerium Oxide Films (open access)

Electrodeposition of Oriented Cerium Oxide Films

This article discusses the process of depositing CeO₂ with a preferred crystalline orientation.
Date: September 13, 2013
Creator: Wang, Adele Qi & Golden, Teresa
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Psychophysiology to Assess Impact of Varying Levels of Simulation Fidelity in a Threat Environment (open access)

Psychophysiology to Assess Impact of Varying Levels of Simulation Fidelity in a Threat Environment

This article examines participant experience by examining psychophysiological responses of participants to their surroundings.
Date: September 13, 2012
Creator: Parsons, Thomas D.; Rizzo, Albert A.; Courtney, Christopher G. & Dawson, Michael E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Field-grown transgenic switchgras (Panicum virgatum L.) with altered lignin does not affect soil chemistry, microbiology, and carbon storage potential (open access)

Field-grown transgenic switchgras (Panicum virgatum L.) with altered lignin does not affect soil chemistry, microbiology, and carbon storage potential

This article describes a study to evaluate effects of two independent lines of caffeic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT) downregulated switchgrass plants on soils in terms of chemistry, microbiolgy, and carbon cycling when grown in the field.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: DeBruyn, Jennifer M.; Bevard, David A.; Essington, Michael E.; McKnight, Julie Y.; Schaeffer, Sean M.; Baxter, Holly L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis (open access)

Validation of a Non-Targeted LC-MS Approach for Identifying Ancient Proteins: Method Development on Bone to Improve Artifact Residue Analysis

This article discusses validation of the potential of an extraction and characterization approach via application to ancient bone proteins, as part of a larger method-development project for innovation and improvement of liquid chromatography - mass spectrometry analysis of protein residues from cooking pottery.
Date: September 4, 2015
Creator: Barker, Andrew; Dombrosky, Jonathan; Chaput, Dale; Venables, Barney J.; Wolverton, Steven J. & Stevens, Stanley M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library