A Soy Protein-Based Composite Film with a Hierarchical Structure Inspired by Nacre (open access)

A Soy Protein-Based Composite Film with a Hierarchical Structure Inspired by Nacre

This article develops a strategy to fabricate a novel bio-based film with excellent toughness and high strength.
Date: July 30, 2021
Creator: Xu, Yecheng; Xu, Chaojie; Chen, Mingsong; Li, Jianzhang; Zeng, Ling; Luo, Jing et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
GlobeChain: An Interoperable Blockchain for Global Sharing of Healthcare Data - A COVID-19 Perspective (open access)

GlobeChain: An Interoperable Blockchain for Global Sharing of Healthcare Data - A COVID-19 Perspective

Article introducing a Blockchain-based medical data-sharing framework (called GlobeChain) to overcome the technical challenges to handle outbreak records. The challenges that might arise due to the proposed Blockchain-based framework are also presented as a future direction that grabs the proposal's effectiveness. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article.
Date: September 1, 2021
Creator: Biswas, Sujit; Li, Fan; Latif, Zohaib; Sharif, Kashif; Bairagi, Anupam K. & Mohanty, Saraju P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measuring the impact of suspending Umrah, a global mass gathering in Saudi Arabia on the COVID‑19 pandemic (open access)

Measuring the impact of suspending Umrah, a global mass gathering in Saudi Arabia on the COVID‑19 pandemic

This article uses a stratified SEIR epidemic model to evaluate the impact of Umrah, a global Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, on the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic during the month of Ramadan, the peak of the Umrah season. The analyses provide insights into the effects of global mass gatherings on the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic locally and globally.
Date: September 6, 2021
Creator: Alshammari, Sultanah M.; Almutiry, Waleed K.; Gwalani, Harsha; Algarni, Saeed M. & Saeedi, Kawther
System: The UNT Digital Library
Natlog: a Lightweight Logic Programming Language with a Neuro-symbolic Touch (open access)

Natlog: a Lightweight Logic Programming Language with a Neuro-symbolic Touch

Article that introduces Natlog, a lightweight Logic Programming language, sharing Prolog's unification-driven execution model, but with a simplified syntax and semantics. The authors' proof-of-concept Natlog implementation is tightly embedded in the Python-based deep-learning ecosystem with focus on content-driven indexing of ground term datasets. As an overriding of the authors symbolic indexing algorithm, the same function can be delegated to a neural network, serving ground facts to Natlog's resolution engine. The open-source implementation is available as a Python package at t https://pypi.org/project/natlog/.
Date: September 17, 2021
Creator: Tarau, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library
Influence of high heating rates on evolution of oxides on directed laser energy additively fabricated IN718 (open access)

Influence of high heating rates on evolution of oxides on directed laser energy additively fabricated IN718

Article studying material response under dynamic short duration-high temperature oxidation.
Date: September 1, 2021
Creator: Mazumder, Sangram
System: The UNT Digital Library