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Dry Season Limnological Conditions and Basin Geology Exhibit Complex Relationships With δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N of Carbon Sources in Four Neotropical Floodplains (open access)

Dry Season Limnological Conditions and Basin Geology Exhibit Complex Relationships With δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N of Carbon Sources in Four Neotropical Floodplains

This article assesses the potential for basin geology and local limnological conditions to predict stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values of six carbon sources at multiple locations in four Neotropical floodplain ecosystems (Paranaá , Pantanal, Araguaia, and Amazon).
Date: March 30, 2017
Creator: Alves, Gustavo H. Zaia; Hoeinghaus, David; Manetta, Gislaine I. & Benedito, Evanilde
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Least Squares Regression and Geographically Weighted Regression Modeling of West Nile Virus Risk Based on Environmental Parameters (open access)

A Comparison of Least Squares Regression and Geographically Weighted Regression Modeling of West Nile Virus Risk Based on Environmental Parameters

This article discusses the effectiveness of utilizing local spatial variations in environmental data to uncover the statistical relationships between West Nile Virus (WNV) risk and environmental factors.
Date: March 28, 2017
Creator: Kala, Abhishek K.; Tiwari, Chetan; Mikler, Armin R. & Atkinson, Samuel F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate change and human infectious diseases: A synthesis of research findings from global and spatio-temporal perspectives (open access)

Climate change and human infectious diseases: A synthesis of research findings from global and spatio-temporal perspectives

This article shows that over the past few decades, the reported negative or uncertain responses of infectious diseases to climate change has been growing.
Date: March 23, 2017
Creator: Liang, Lu & Gong, Peng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breast Cancer Stem-Like Cells Are Inhibited by Diosgenin, a Steroidal Saponin, by the Attenuation of the Wnt β-Catenin Signaling via the Wnt Antagonist Secreted Frizzled Related Protein-4 (open access)

Breast Cancer Stem-Like Cells Are Inhibited by Diosgenin, a Steroidal Saponin, by the Attenuation of the Wnt β-Catenin Signaling via the Wnt Antagonist Secreted Frizzled Related Protein-4

This article describes findings that demonstrate the affect of diosgenin (DG) on inhibiting the resilient breast cancer stem cells (CSCs) which could provide a benchmark for the development of DG-based therapies in breast cancer treatment.
Date: March 20, 2017
Creator: Bhuvanalakshmi, G.; Basappa; Rangappa, Kanchugarakoppal S.; Dharmarajan, Arunasalam; Sethi, Gautam; Kumar, Alan Prem et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Reward Questionaire--Adolescent Version and its association with callous-unemotional traits (open access)

Social Reward Questionaire--Adolescent Version and its association with callous-unemotional traits

This article describes a study in which the adult Social Reward Questionnaire is adapted for use with adolescents.
Date: March 20, 2017
Creator: Foulkes, Lucy; Neumann, Craig S.; Roberts, Ruth; McCrory, Eamon J. & Viding, Essi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Novel transcriptome assembly and comparative toxicity pathway analysis in mahi-mahi (Coryphaena  hippurus) embryos and larvae exposed to Deepwater Horizon oil (open access)

Novel transcriptome assembly and comparative toxicity pathway analysis in mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus) embryos and larvae exposed to Deepwater Horizon oil

This article establishes the de novo transcriptomic database from the embryos and larvae of mahi-mahi exposed to water accommodated fractions (HEWAFs) of two Deepwater Horizon oil types (weathered and source oil) in an effort to advance understanding of the molecular aspects involved during specific toxicity responses.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Xu, Elvis Genbo; Mager, Edward M.; Grosell, Martin; Hazard, E. Starr; Hardiman, Gary & Schlenk, Daniel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Representing Global Reactive Potential Energy Surfaces Using Gaussian Processes (open access)

Representing Global Reactive Potential Energy Surfaces Using Gaussian Processes

This article presents a detailed study on constructing potential energy surfaces using a machine learning method, namely, Gaussian process regression.
Date: February 6, 2017
Creator: Kolb, Brian; Marshall, Paul; Zhao, Bin; Jiang, Bin & Guo, Hua
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adsorption and molecular siting of CO₂, water, and other gases in the superhydrophobic, flexible pores of FMOF-1 from experiment and simulation (open access)

Adsorption and molecular siting of CO₂, water, and other gases in the superhydrophobic, flexible pores of FMOF-1 from experiment and simulation

This article discusses the use of neutron diffraction and molecular simulations to investigate the framework expansion behaviour and the accessibility of the small pockets to N₂, O₂, and CO₂.
Date: March 9, 2017
Creator: Moghadam, Peyman Z.; Ivy, Joshua F.; Arvapally, Ravi K.; dos Santos, Antonio M.; Pearson, John C.; Zhang, Li et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Phase Transition Enthalpy Measurements of Organic and Organometallic Compounds and Ionic Liquids. Sublimation, Vaporization and Fusion Enthalpies From 1880 to 2015. Part 2. C11-C192.

This article updates the second part of a compendium of phase change enthalpies published in 2010 to include the period 1880-2015.
Date: March 8, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene) & Chickos, James S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Redox Non-Innoence Permits Catalytic Nitrene Carbonylation by (dadi)Ti=NAd (Ad = Adamantyl) (open access)

Redox Non-Innoence Permits Catalytic Nitrene Carbonylation by (dadi)Ti=NAd (Ad = Adamantyl)

This article describes (dadi)Ti(X/L) species that manifest redox non-innocence (RNI), including a rare instance in which carbon monoxide does not affect redox activity at the metal, and does not bind, thus permitting its use as a substrate in catalysis.
Date: March 3, 2017
Creator: Heins, Spencer P.; Wolczanski, Peter T.; Cundari, Thomas R., 1964- & MacMillan, Samantha N.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pharmaceuticals Solubility is Still Nowadays Widely Studied Everywhere (open access)

Pharmaceuticals Solubility is Still Nowadays Widely Studied Everywhere

This editorial discusses the importance of equilibrium solubility in pharmaceutical areas.
Date: March 2017
Creator: Martínez, Fleming
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computational Identification of Amino-Acid Mutations That Further Improve the Activity of a Chalcone-Flavonone Isomerase From Glycine Max (open access)

Computational Identification of Amino-Acid Mutations That Further Improve the Activity of a Chalcone-Flavonone Isomerase From Glycine Max

This article discusses a computational approach that combines multiple sequence alignment, positive selection detection, and molecular docking to identify and design beneficial amino-acid mutations that further improve the intramolecular-cyclization activity of a chalcone-flavonone isomerase from Glycine max (GmCHI).
Date: February 24, 2017
Creator: Yuan, Hui; Wu, Jiaqi; Wang, Xiaoqiang; Chen, Jiakuan; Zhong, Yang; Huang, Qiang et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Radio-Frequency Actuated Polymer-Based Phononic Meta-Materials for Control of Ultrasonic Waves (open access)

Radio-Frequency Actuated Polymer-Based Phononic Meta-Materials for Control of Ultrasonic Waves

This article describes the achievement of radio-frequency control of a n ultrasonic phononic crystal by encapsulating it in a composite of high k-10% KF-doped BaTiO₃ dielectric nanoparticles with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIP Am)-based hydrogel.
Date: July 14, 2016
Creator: Walker, Ezekiel; Wang, Zhiming & Neogi, Arup
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ALKBH7 Variant Related to Prostate Cancer Exhibits Altered Substrate Binding (open access)

ALKBH7 Variant Related to Prostate Cancer Exhibits Altered Substrate Binding

This article reports a targeted search for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and functional impact characterization of human ALKBH family dioxygenases related to prostate cancer.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Walker, Alice R.; Silvestrov, Pavel; Müller, Tina A.; Podolsky, Robert H.; Dyson, Gregory; Hausinger, Robert P. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Delta-Flux: An Eddy Covariance Network for a Climate-Smart Lower Mississippi Basin (open access)

Delta-Flux: An Eddy Covariance Network for a Climate-Smart Lower Mississippi Basin

This article describes the rationale to create the new Delta-Flux network, which will coordinate efforts to quantify carbon and water budgets at seventeen eddy covariance flux tower sites in the Lower Mississippi River Basin.
Date: February 23, 2017
Creator: Runkle, Benjamin R. K.; Rigby, James R.; Reba, Michele L.; Anapalli, Saseendran S.; Bhattacharjee, Joydeep; Krauss, Ken W. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transgenic Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Targeted for Reduced Recalcitrance to Bioconversion: A 2-Year Comparative Analysis of Field-Grown Lines Modified for Target Gene or Genetic Element Expression (open access)

Transgenic Switchgrass (Panicum Virgatum L.) Targeted for Reduced Recalcitrance to Bioconversion: A 2-Year Comparative Analysis of Field-Grown Lines Modified for Target Gene or Genetic Element Expression

This article discusses the investigation of clones of plants representing independent transgenic events and their respective nontransgenic control lines for biomass yield, carbohydrate composition and recalcitrance to bioconversion via separate hydrolysis and fermentation to yield ethanol.
Date: August 18, 2016
Creator: Dumitrache, Alexandru; Natzke, Jace; Rodriguez, Miguel, Jr.; Yee, Kelsey L.; Thompson, Olivia A.; Poovaiah, Charleson R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotic NEET proteins uncovers a link between a key gene duplication event and the evolution of vertebrates (open access)

Phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotic NEET proteins uncovers a link between a key gene duplication event and the evolution of vertebrates

This article describes the use of three members of the human NEET protein family (CISD1, mitoNEET; CISD2, NAF-1 or Miner 1; and CISD3, Miner2) as guides to conduct a phylogenetic analysis of eukaryotic NEET proteins and their evolution.
Date: February 16, 2017
Creator: Inupakutika, Madhuri A.; Sengupta, Soham; Nechushtai, Rachel; Jennings, Patricia A.; Onuchic, José N.; Azad, Rajeev K. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A new, faint population of X-ray transients (open access)

A new, faint population of X-ray transients

This article reports on the detection of a remarkable new fast high-energy transient found in the Chandra Deep Field-South, robustly associated with a faint host in the CANDELS survey.
Date: February 15, 2017
Creator: Bauer, Franz E.; Treister, Ezequiel; Schawinski, K.; Schulze, S.; Luo, Bin; Alexander, David M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Physical activity counseling in primary care: Insights from public health and behavioral economics

This article evaluates pertinent literature from the fields of medicine/public health and economics/psychology to suggest a comprehensive approach to physical activity counseling at the primary care level.
Date: February 15, 2017
Creator: Shuval, Kerem; Leonard, Tammy; Drope, Jeffrey; Katz, David L.; Patel, Alpa V.; Maitin-Shepard, Melissa et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metabolic rate and hypoxia tolerance are affected by group interactions and sex in the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster): new data and a literature survey (open access)

Metabolic rate and hypoxia tolerance are affected by group interactions and sex in the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster): new data and a literature survey

This article characterizes the effects of fly density and sex on both mass-specific routine oxygen consumption and hypoxia tolerance.
Date: February 14, 2017
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Souder, BriAnna M. & Ho, Dao H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Mechanisms and Biomedical Applications of an NIR BODIPY-Based Switchable Fluorescent Probe (open access)

The Mechanisms and Biomedical Applications of an NIR BODIPY-Based Switchable Fluorescent Probe

This article investigates the switching mechanism of a recently reported near-infrared environment-sensitive fluorophore, ADP(CA)₂.
Date: February 11, 2017
Creator: Cheng, Bingbing; Bandi, Venugopal; Yu, Shuai; D'Souza, Francis; Nguyen, Kytai T.; Hong, Yi et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evidence for the Involvement of Electrical, Calcium and ROS Signaling in the Systemic Regulation of Non-Photochemical Quenching and Photosynthesis (open access)

Evidence for the Involvement of Electrical, Calcium and ROS Signaling in the Systemic Regulation of Non-Photochemical Quenching and Photosynthesis

Article presents study in which pulse amplitude-modulated Chl fluorescence imaging and surface electrical potential measurements accompanied by pharmacological treatments were employed to study stimuli-induced electrical signals in leaves from a broad range of plant species and in Arabidopsis thaliana mutants.
Date: February 10, 2017
Creator: Białasek, Maciej; Górecka, Magdalena; Mittler, Ron & Karpiński, Stanisław
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatial and Temporal Mapping of Key Lipid Species in Brassica napus Seeds (open access)

Spatial and Temporal Mapping of Key Lipid Species in Brassica napus Seeds

This article describes the use of matrix-assisted laser/desorption ionization-mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) to study the spatial distribution of two major lipid species, triacylglycerols and phosphatidylcholines.
Date: February 10, 2017
Creator: Woodfield, Helen K.; Sturtevant, Drew; Borisjuk, Ljudmilla; Munz, Eberhard; Guschina, Irina A.; Chapman, Kent D. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Commentary on "Effect of β-alanine and the solvent composition on the solubility of solvate of calcium D-pantothenate containing four molecules of methanol and one molecule of water (D-PC·4MeOH·1H₂O)"

This article points out problems associated with two of the mathematical treatments used by authors Han et al. (2017) for the solubility behavior of calcium D-panthenate solvate as the mole fraction concentration β-alanine approaches zero.
Date: February 7, 2017
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library