Weak Emission-Line Quasars in the Context of a Modified Baldwin Effect (open access)

Weak Emission-Line Quasars in the Context of a Modified Baldwin Effect

This article tests whether the modified Baldwin effect remains strong across the wides possible of ranges of redshift and luminosity.
Date: May 28, 2015
Creator: Shemmer, Ohad
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

THATCamp: The Humanities and Technology Camp

Presentation for the first Open Data Hackathon at UNT, organized as part of International Open Data Day. This presentation discusses The Humanities and Technology (THAT) Camp.
Date: February 21, 2015
Creator: Laredo, Jeanette Ann
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Data Access and Research Transparency in Political Science Journals

Presentation for the first Open Data Hackathon at UNT, organized as part of International Open Data Day. This presentation discusses data access and research transparency in political science journals.
Date: February 21, 2015
Creator: Ishiyama, John T., 1960-
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dynamics of Epigenetic Phenomena: Intergenerational and Intragenerational Phenotype 'Washout' (open access)

Dynamics of Epigenetic Phenomena: Intergenerational and Intragenerational Phenotype 'Washout'

This review contains a discussion of epigenetic dynamics in comparative biology with a focus on a more organismal level perspective, befitting of comparative physiology, that considers complex phenotypic changes.
Date: January 7, 2015
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ion Beam Analysis of Microcrystalline Quartz Artifacts from the Reed Mound Site, Delaware County, Oklahoma (open access)

Ion Beam Analysis of Microcrystalline Quartz Artifacts from the Reed Mound Site, Delaware County, Oklahoma

This paper from the 23rd Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings evaluates the potential of particle induced X-ray emission spectrometry as a tool for future Ozarks chert provenance studies based on its ability to facilitate discrimination of Ozarks chert materials from different geological formations and identification of discrete groups of artifacts from the same geological formation.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Younger-Mertz, S. B.; Manuel, J. E.; Reinert, Tilo; Szilasi, S. Z.; Hammerstedt, S. W. & Glass, Gary A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pseudopotential-Based Correlation Consistent Composite Approach (rp-ccCA) for First- and Second-Row Transition Metal Thermochemistry (open access)

Pseudopotential-Based Correlation Consistent Composite Approach (rp-ccCA) for First- and Second-Row Transition Metal Thermochemistry

This article uses the relativistic-pseudopotential correlation consistent approach (rp-ccCA) to determine the enthalpy of formation of 24 first row (3d) transition metal compounds.
Date: May 22, 2015
Creator: Manivasagam, Sindhu; Laury, Marie L. & Wilson, Angela K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reformulation of DFT + U as a Pseudohybrid Hubbard Density Funcitonal for Accelerated Materials Discovery (open access)

Reformulation of DFT + U as a Pseudohybrid Hubbard Density Funcitonal for Accelerated Materials Discovery

This article introduces ACBN0, a pseudohybrid Hubbard density functional that yields an improved prediction of the band structure of insulators such as transition-metal oxides, with only a negligible increase in computational cost.
Date: January 28, 2015
Creator: Agapito, Luis A.; Curtarolo, Stefano & Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Artificially Structured Boundary as a Charged Particle Beam Deflector Shield (open access)

Artificially Structured Boundary as a Charged Particle Beam Deflector Shield

This paper from the 23rd Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings studies the possibility of using a planar artificially structured boundary as a charged particle beam deflector shield via classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulation.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Hedlof, R. M. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multiple Aperture-Based Antihydrogen Parallel Plate Gravity Experiment (open access)

Multiple Aperture-Based Antihydrogen Parallel Plate Gravity Experiment

This paper from the 23rd Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings describes an experiment that could be carried out at the CERN Antiproton Decelerator facility to determine the direction of acceleration of antihydrogen in the earth's gravitational field.
Date: June 8, 2015
Creator: Treacher, A. H.; Hedlof, R. M. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ultra-Fast Alterations in mRNA Levels Uncover Multiple Players in Light Stress Acclimation in Plants (open access)

Ultra-Fast Alterations in mRNA Levels Uncover Multiple Players in Light Stress Acclimation in Plants

This article contains RNA sequencing analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana plants subjected to light stress in order to identify and characterize rapid changes in the steady-state level of different transcripts in response to light stress.
Date: September 26, 2015
Creator: Suzuki, Nobuhiro; Devireddy, Amith R.; Inupakutika, Madhuri A.; Baxter, Aaron; Miller, Gad; Song, Luhua et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Particle Transport along Magnetic Null Lines as Sputter or Antihydrogen Source (open access)

Particle Transport along Magnetic Null Lines as Sputter or Antihydrogen Source

This paper from the 23rd Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings investigates particle transport along null magnetic lines using classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulations, described as a traveling wave and through diffusion equations.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Lane, Ryan A. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Garcinol sensitizes human head and neck carcinoma to cisplatin in a xenoraft mouse model despite downregulation of proliferative biomarkers (open access)

Garcinol sensitizes human head and neck carcinoma to cisplatin in a xenoraft mouse model despite downregulation of proliferative biomarkers

This article investigates whether garcinol, a polyisoprenylated benzophenone can chemosensitize HNSCC to cisplatin.
Date: February 28, 2015
Creator: Li, Feng; Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Siveen, Kodappully Sivaraman; Wang, Fan; Ong, Tina H.; Loo, Ser Yue et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ion exchanger in the brain: Quantitative analysis of perineuronally fixed anionic binding sites suggests diffusion barriers with ion sorting properties (open access)

Ion exchanger in the brain: Quantitative analysis of perineuronally fixed anionic binding sites suggests diffusion barriers with ion sorting properties

This article proposes that fixed charge-densities in the brain are involved in regulating ion mobility, the volume fraction of extracellular space and the viscosity of matrix components.
Date: December 1, 2015
Creator: Morawski, Markus; Reinert, Tilo; Meyer-Klaucke, Wolfram; Wagner, Friedrich E.; Tröger, Wolfgang; Reinert, Anja et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill as a Case Study for Interdisciplinary Cooperation within Developmental Biology, Environmental Sciences and Physiology (open access)

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill as a Case Study for Interdisciplinary Cooperation within Developmental Biology, Environmental Sciences and Physiology

This article makes the argument for interdisciplinary teams that bring together scientists with different specialties as an efficient way--and perhaps the only way--to unravel highly complex biological effects of marine oil spills.
Date: December 17, 2015
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Dubansky, Benjamin; Roberts, Aaron & Alloy, Matthew
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rooting the Study of Communication Activism in an Attempted Book Ban (open access)

Rooting the Study of Communication Activism in an Attempted Book Ban

This article discusses how strong, sustained university-community partnerships can mitigate criticism and skepticism when scholars and their students delve into political and contested questions.
Date: 2015
Creator: Jovanovic, Spoma; Congdon, Mark; Miller, Crawford & Richardson, Garrett
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Avoiding the Resource Curse: Challenges of the Policy Process in a Nascent-Oil-Producing Country in West Africa

Presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This presentation discusses avoiding the resource curse and challenges of the policy process in a nascent-oil-producing country in West Africa.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Akon-Yamga, Gordon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Characteristics of Actors Involved in Social Protest: An Extension of the Social Conflict Analysis Database (SCAD) [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This presentation discusses characteristics of actors involved in social protest and an extension of the social conflict analysis database (SCAD).
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Naughton, Kelsey Ann
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characteristics of Actors Involved in Social Protest: An Extension of the Social Conflict Analysis Database (SCAD) (open access)

Characteristics of Actors Involved in Social Protest: An Extension of the Social Conflict Analysis Database (SCAD)

Paper accompanying a presentation for the 2015 University of North Texas (UNT) Student and Faculty Research Symposium on African Studies. This paper discusses characteristics of actors involved in social protest and an extension of the social conflict analysis database.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: Naughton, Kelsey Ann
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Who Cares If Rhetoricians Landed on the Moon? Or, a Plea for Reviving the Politics of Historiography (open access)

Who Cares If Rhetoricians Landed on the Moon? Or, a Plea for Reviving the Politics of Historiography

This article discusses a plea for reviving the politics of historiography.
Date: March 26, 2015
Creator: Skinnell, Ryan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cancer-Related NEET Proteins Transfer 2Fe-2S Clusters to Anamorsin, a Protein Required for Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis (open access)

Cancer-Related NEET Proteins Transfer 2Fe-2S Clusters to Anamorsin, a Protein Required for Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis

This article reports the first physiological 2Fe-2S cluster acceptor for both NEET proteins as human Anamorsin (also known as cytokine induced apoptosis inhibitor-1; CIAPIN-1).
Date: October 8, 2015
Creator: Lipper, Colin H.; Paddock, Mark L.; Onuchic, José N.; Mittler, Ron; Nechushtai, Rachel & Jennings, Patricia A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scattering Suppression in Epsilon-Near-Zero Plasmonic Fractal Shells (open access)

Scattering Suppression in Epsilon-Near-Zero Plasmonic Fractal Shells

This article studies silica-gold core-shell microspheres with plasmonic fractal shells to show that the forward scattering of the silica microspheres is strongly suppressed.
Date: October 12, 2015
Creator: de Silva, Vashista C.; Nyga, Piotr & Drachev, Vladimir P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Riemann hypothesis illuminated by the Newton flow of ζ (open access)

The Riemann hypothesis illuminated by the Newton flow of ζ

This article analyzes the Newton flow of the Riemann zeta function and rederives in an elementary way the Riemann-von Mangoldt estimate of the number of non-trivial zeros below a given imaginary part.
Date: October 1, 2015
Creator: Neuberger, J. W.; Feiler, C.; Maier, H. & Schleich, W. P.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Health and Climate Change: policy responses to protect public health (open access)

Health and Climate Change: policy responses to protect public health

This article summarizes key messages from the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, accompanied by ten underlying recommendations to accelerate action in the next 5 years.
Date: June 22, 2015
Creator: Watts, Nick; Adger, W. Neil; Agnolucci, Paolo; Blackstock, Jason; Byass, Peter; Cai, Wenjia et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Association between Hantavirus Infection and Selenium Deficiency in Mainland China (open access)

The Association between Hantavirus Infection and Selenium Deficiency in Mainland China

This article studies the role of selenium concentration in hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) caused by hantaviruses, using a multidisciplinary approach combining ecological analysis with preliminary experimental data.
Date: January 20, 2015
Creator: Fang, Liqun; Goeijenbier, Marco; Zuo, Shu-Qing; Wang, Li-Ping; Liang, Song; Klein, Sabra L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library