Extreme Empiricism: John Howard, Poetry, and the Thermometrics of Reform

This article examines an outpouring of printed poems and biographical publications in the 1780s and 1790s that sought to shape the public image of the celebrated prison reformer John Howard
Date: January 1, 2016
Creator: Cervantes, Gabriel & Porter, Dahlia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Phenotypic developmental plasticity induced by preincubation egg storage in chicken embryos (Gallus gallus domesticus) (open access)

Phenotypic developmental plasticity induced by preincubation egg storage in chicken embryos (Gallus gallus domesticus)

This article investigates how preincubation egg storage conditions (temperature, duration, hypoxia, and hypercapnia) affects viability, body mass, and physiological variables and functions in day 15 chicken embryos.
Date: January 23, 2016
Creator: Branum, Sylvia R.; Tazawa, Hiroshi & Burggren, Warren W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are Smoking Cessation Treatments Associated with Suicidality Risk? An Overview (open access)

Are Smoking Cessation Treatments Associated with Suicidality Risk? An Overview

This article explores the relationship between smoking cessation interventions and suicidality and explore common treatments, their associated risks, and effectiveness in promoting smoking reduction and abstinence.
Date: January 27, 2016
Creator: Penberthy, J. Kim; Penberthy, J. Morgan; Harris, Marcus R.; Nanda, Sonali; Ahn, Jennifer; Martinez, Caridad Ponce et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leukocyte Subset Changes in Response to a 164-km Road Cycle Ride in a Hot Environment (open access)

Leukocyte Subset Changes in Response to a 164-km Road Cycle Ride in a Hot Environment

This article determines the circulating leukocyte subset response to completing the 2013 Hotter'N Hell Hundred recreational 164-km road cycle event in a hot and humid environmental condition.
Date: January 15, 2016
Creator: Luk, Hui-Ying; McKenzie, Amy L.; Duplanty, Anthony A.; Budnar, Ronald; Levitt, Danielle; Fernandez, Alex et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Spin-Forbidden Reaction of Ground State Sulfur Atoms with Ethylene (open access)

The Spin-Forbidden Reaction of Ground State Sulfur Atoms with Ethylene

This article examines ground-state S-atoms generated by pulsed laser photolysis of OCS precursor, and monitored by time-resolved resonance fluorescence.
Date: January 25, 2016
Creator: Thompson, Kristopher; Gao, Yide & Marshall, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Way to Understand and Address Women’s Health in the Context of Complex Systems: Self-organizing Criticality (open access)

A New Way to Understand and Address Women’s Health in the Context of Complex Systems: Self-organizing Criticality

Article proposes applying concepts from nonlinear science developed and employed by physicists, economists, and meteorologists to women's health issues.
Date: January 1, 2016
Creator: Mancuso, Peggy; Liu, Fuqin; Restrepo, Elizabeth; Hamilton, Patricia; Grigolini, Paolo & Zou, Lin
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Way to Understand and Address Women's Health in the Context of Complex Systems: Self-organizing Criticality (open access)

A New Way to Understand and Address Women's Health in the Context of Complex Systems: Self-organizing Criticality

This article examines how self-organizing criticality can assist in answering complex questions in health and health care systems.
Date: January 1, 2016
Creator: Mancuso, Peggy; Liu, Fuqin; Restrepo, Elizabeth; Hamilton, Patricia; Grigolini, Paolo & Zou, Lin
System: The UNT Digital Library
ABA Is Required for Plant Acclimation to a Combination of Salt and Heat Stress (open access)

ABA Is Required for Plant Acclimation to a Combination of Salt and Heat Stress

This article highlights the important role abscisic acid plays in the acclimation of plants to a combination of two different abiotic stresses.
Date: January 29, 2016
Creator: Suzuki, Nobuhiro; Bassil, Elias; Hamilton, Jason S.; Inupakutika, Madhuri A.; Zandalinas, Sara I.; Tripathy, Deesha et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Minimization of Childhood Maltreatment Is Common and Consequential: Results from a Large, Multinational Sample Using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (open access)

Minimization of Childhood Maltreatment Is Common and Consequential: Results from a Large, Multinational Sample Using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire

This article discusses a study to investigate 3 aspects of minimization, as defined by the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire's (CTQ) Minimization-Denial (MD) scale: 1) its prevalence; 2) its latent structure; and finally 3) whether minimization moderates the CTQ's discriminative validity in terms of distinguishing between psychiatric patients and community volunteers.
Date: January 27, 2016
Creator: MacDonald, Kai; Thomas, Michael L.; Sciolla, Andres F.; Schneider, Beacher; Pappas, Katherine; Bleijenberg, Gijs et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcriptome analysis of secondary cell wall development in Medicago truncatula (open access)

Transcriptome analysis of secondary cell wall development in Medicago truncatula

This article describes a transcriptome microarray assay and high through-put quantitative real time PCR analysis of Medicago truncatula.
Date: January 5, 2016
Creator: Wang, Huanzhong; Yang, Jung Hyun; Chen, Fang; Torres-Jerez, Ivone; Tang, Yuhong; Wang, Mingyi et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library