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Cache-Aided General Linear Function Retrieval (open access)

Cache-Aided General Linear Function Retrieval

This article designs a novel coded caching scheme that outperforms uncoded caching schemes that either use unicast transmissions or let each user recover all files in the library. It extends the scope of the authors’ past work that only considered the class of linear functions that operate element-wise over the files.
Date: December 26, 2020
Creator: Wan, Kai; Sun, Hua; Ji, Mingyue; Tuninetti, Daniela & Caire, Giuseppe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Novel Terahertz Spectroscopy Technology for Crystallinity and Crystal Structure Analysis of Cellulose (open access)

Novel Terahertz Spectroscopy Technology for Crystallinity and Crystal Structure Analysis of Cellulose

This article probes the absorption peak of wood cellulose, microcrystalline cellulose, wood nano cellulose, and cotton nano cellulose in the terahertz band to calculate the crystallinity, and the result compared with XRD and FT-IR analysis.
Date: December 22, 2020
Creator: Yang, Rui; Dong, Xianyin; Chen, Gang; Lin, Feng; Huang, Zhenhua; Manzo, Maurizio et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correlating work hardening with co-activation of stacking fault strengthening and transformation in a high entropy alloy using in-situ neutron diffraction (open access)

Correlating work hardening with co-activation of stacking fault strengthening and transformation in a high entropy alloy using in-situ neutron diffraction

Article using in-situ neutron diffraction to correlate SF strengthening to work hardening behavior in a low SFE Fe40Mn20Cr15Co20Si5 (at%) high entropy alloy, SFE ~ 6.31 mJ m−2. Cooperative activation of multiple mechanisms was indicated by increases in SF strengthening and γ-f.c.c. → ε-h.c.p. transformation leading to a simultaneous increase in strength and ductility. The present study demonstrates the application of in-situ, neutron or X-ray, diffraction techniques to correlating SF strengthening to work hardening.
Date: December 17, 2020
Creator: Frank, M.; Nene, Saurabh S.; Chen, Y.; Gwalani, B.; Kautz, E. J.; Devaraj, A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Performance Study of Some Approximation Algorithms for Computing a Small Dominating Set in a Graph (open access)

A Performance Study of Some Approximation Algorithms for Computing a Small Dominating Set in a Graph

Article implements and tests the performances of several approximation algorithms for computing the minimum dominating set of a graph. This article belongs to the Special Issue: Algorithms for Hard Graph Problems.
Date: December 14, 2020
Creator: Shahrokhi, Farhad; Li, Jonathan & Potru, Rohan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insights into the mechanisms controlling the residual corrosion rate of borosilicate glasses (open access)

Insights into the mechanisms controlling the residual corrosion rate of borosilicate glasses

Article examining the glass durability and residual rate of borosilicate glass. The authors focus on the behavior of the soluble elements of the International Simple Glass (B, Na, and Ca) to show that the residual rate is controlled by the behavior of B, a glass former supposed to dissolve instantaneously when in contact with water and thus widely considered as an ideal tracer. The article demonstrates that B release is controlled by multiple processes highly dependent on the pH. A new paradigm, including B as a key element of the system, is proposed to develop a comprehensive model for the corrosion of borosilicate glass.
Date: December 11, 2020
Creator: Gin, Stéphane; Guo, Xiaolei; Delaye, Jean-Marc; Angeli, Frédéric; Damodaran, Kamalesh; Testud, Véronique et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hollow Mesoporous Microspheres Coating for Super-Hydrophobicity Wood with High Thermostability and Abrasion Performance (open access)

Hollow Mesoporous Microspheres Coating for Super-Hydrophobicity Wood with High Thermostability and Abrasion Performance

Article investigating the formation of hydrophobic layers on wood surface without breaking the wood’s original structure. Results suggested that the nano and micron hollow mesoporous microsphere coating was an effective method to fabricate extremely hydrophobic wood products.
Date: November 29, 2020
Creator: Yang, Rui; Zuo, Shida; Song, Beibei; Mao, Haiyan; Huang, Zhenhua; Wu, Yingji et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Additive friction stir deposition: a deformation processing route to metal additive manufacturing (open access)

Additive friction stir deposition: a deformation processing route to metal additive manufacturing

This article outlines key advantages of additive friction stir deposition, e.g. rendering fully-dense material in the as-printed state with fine, equiaxed microstructures, identifies its niche engineering uses, and points out future research needs in process physics and materials innovation.
Date: November 24, 2020
Creator: Yu, Hang Z. & Mishra, Rajiv
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Natural Language Inference Benchmarks through the Lens of Negation (open access)

An Analysis of Natural Language Inference Benchmarks through the Lens of Negation

Article presents a new benchmark for natural language inference in which negation plays a critical role and shows that state-of-the-art transformers struggle making inference judgments with the new pairs.
Date: November 2020
Creator: Hossain, Md Mosharaf; Dutta, Pranoy; Kao, Tiffany; Wei, Elizabeth; Blanco, Eduardo & Kovatchev, Venelin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining Event Outcomes: The Case of #fail (open access)

Determining Event Outcomes: The Case of #fail

Article presents research determining event outcomes in social media.
Date: November 2020
Creator: Murugan, Srikala; Chinnappa, DhivyaAssociation for Computational Linguistics & Blanco, Eduardo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Helpful or Hierarchical? Predicting the Communicative Strategies of Chat Participants, and their Impact on Success (open access)

Helpful or Hierarchical? Predicting the Communicative Strategies of Chat Participants, and their Impact on Success

Article studies the communication styles present in chat interactions of thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs who discuss and develop business models. The authors find that these styles can be reliably predicted, and that the communication styles can be used to predict a number of indices of business success.
Date: November 2020
Creator: Rashid, Farzana; Blanco, Eduardo; Fornaciari, Tommaso; Hovy, Dirk & Vega-Redondo, Fernando
System: The UNT Digital Library
JS-MA: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Based Method for Mapping Genome-Wide Associations on Multiple Diseases (open access)

JS-MA: A Jensen-Shannon Divergence Based Method for Mapping Genome-Wide Associations on Multiple Diseases

Article develops a a simple, fast, and powerful method, named JS-MA, based on Jensen-Shannon divergence and agglomerative hierarchical clustering, to detect the genome-wide multi-locus interactions associated with multiple diseases.
Date: October 30, 2020
Creator: Guo, Xuan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of Soft Tooling Photopolymers and Processes for Micromixing Devices with Variable Cross-Section (open access)

Characterization of Soft Tooling Photopolymers and Processes for Micromixing Devices with Variable Cross-Section

Article characterizing an assortment of photopolymers and stereolithography processes to produce 3D-printed molds and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) castings of micromixing devices. The study shows that 3D-printed soft tooling can provide other benefits such as multiple cross-sections and other potential layouts on a single mold.
Date: September 29, 2020
Creator: Martínez-López, J. Israel; Cervantes, Héctor Andrés Betancourt; Iturbe, Luis Donaldo Cuevas; Vázquez, Elisa; Naula, Edisson A.; Martínez López, Alejandro et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sodium Lignosulfonate Modified Polystyrene for the Removal of Phenol from Wastewater (open access)

Sodium Lignosulfonate Modified Polystyrene for the Removal of Phenol from Wastewater

Article synthesizing an eco-friendly and novel water treatment material using sodium lignosulfonate modified polystyrene (SLPS), which can be used to eliminate phenols in aqueous solution. Results show that SLPS displayed a great potential for eliminating phenol from polluted water as a kind of novel and effective adsorbent.
Date: October 27, 2020
Creator: Yang, Keyan; Xing, Jingchen; Chang, Jianmin; Gu, Fei; Li, Zheng; Huang, Zhenhua et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study on emission spectral lines of hematite and magnetite for purity’s differentiation (open access)

Study on emission spectral lines of hematite and magnetite for purity’s differentiation

Article proposes using emission spectra to investigate the purity of hematite (α-Fe₂O₃) and magnetite (Fe₃O₄).
Date: October 22, 2020
Creator: Manzo, Maurizio; Ahmed, Hossain & Nasrazadani, Seifollah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compostable, fully biobased foams using PLA and micro cellulose for zero energy buildings (open access)

Compostable, fully biobased foams using PLA and micro cellulose for zero energy buildings

Article examining foams made from polylactic acid (PLA) and micro cellulose fibrils (MCF) to address the need for bio-resourced foams for the building industry.
Date: October 20, 2020
Creator: Oluwabunmi, Kayode; D'Souza, Nandika Anne, 1967-; Zhao, Weihuan; Choi, Tae-Youl & Theyson, Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correlation between bonding, vacancy migration mechanisms, and creep in model binary and ternary hcp-Mg solid solutions (open access)

Correlation between bonding, vacancy migration mechanisms, and creep in model binary and ternary hcp-Mg solid solutions

Article compares in-plane (IP) and out-of-plane (OOP) vacancy migration mechanisms in binary Mg–X (Ca, Y, and Gd) and ternary Mg–X (Ca, Y, and Gd)–Zn alloys using density functional theory based first principles computations.
Date: October 13, 2020
Creator: Paranjape, Priyanvada; Srinivasan, S. G. & Choudhuri, Deep
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accelerometer-Based Automated Counting of Ten Exercises without Exercise-Specific Training or Tuning (open access)

Accelerometer-Based Automated Counting of Ten Exercises without Exercise-Specific Training or Tuning

Article presents research that creates an automatic repetition counting system that is flexible enough to measure multiple distinct and repeating movements during physical therapy without being trained on the specific motion.
Date: October 10, 2020
Creator: Zelman, Samuel; Dow, Michael; Tabashum, Thasina; Xiao, Ting & Albert, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sol-gel synthesized indium tin oxide as a transparent conducting oxide with solution-processed black phosphorus for its integration into solar-cells (open access)

Sol-gel synthesized indium tin oxide as a transparent conducting oxide with solution-processed black phosphorus for its integration into solar-cells

This article describes the synthesis of indium tin oxide (ITO) thin films using solgel processing with a mixture of InCl₃, methanol, and SnCl₂, where the solutions were spin coated onto glass substrates. The combined architecture of black phosphorus on ITO thin films shows promise in its use for transparent electronics, which can also serve as a stepping stone for future solar cell platforms.
Date: October 9, 2020
Creator: Mehta, Ravindra; Min, Misook & Kaul, Anupama
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deriving Theorems in Implicational Linear Logic, Declaratively (open access)

Deriving Theorems in Implicational Linear Logic, Declaratively

This article aims to generate all theorems of a given size in the implicational fragment of propositional intuitionistic linear logic. It was presented at the 36th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP).
Date: September 19, 2020
Creator: Tarau, Paul & de Paiva, Valeria
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complex Concentrated Alloys (CCAs)—Current Understanding and Future Opportunities (open access)

Complex Concentrated Alloys (CCAs)—Current Understanding and Future Opportunities

Article providing an overview of the special issue titled Complex Concentrated Alloys (CCAs) - Current Understanding and Future Opportunities. The published papers in this special issue aim to report on the current state of research in complex concentrated alloys (CCAs) as well as compelling future opportunities in wide ranging applications.
Date: September 11, 2020
Creator: Mukherjee, Sundeep
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selective H2 sensing using lanthanum doped zinc oxide thin film: A study of temperature dependence H2 sensing effect on carrier reversal activity (open access)

Selective H2 sensing using lanthanum doped zinc oxide thin film: A study of temperature dependence H2 sensing effect on carrier reversal activity

Article demonstrates a highly sensitive H₂ gas sensor using a lanthanum doped ZnO (La_ZnO) thin film operated at 300 °C. Pure and lanthanum doped (1–10 at. %) ZnO thin films were successfully synthesized using the sol-gel route.
Date: September 4, 2020
Creator: Zhang, Chen; Ju, Shuai; Zhang, Haifeng & Ghosh, Abhishek
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preparation of Surface-Modified Nanocellulose from Sugarcane Bagasse by Concurrent Oxalic Acid-Catalyzed Reactions (open access)

Preparation of Surface-Modified Nanocellulose from Sugarcane Bagasse by Concurrent Oxalic Acid-Catalyzed Reactions

Article presenting research where concurrent oxalic acid-catalyzed reactions, including cellulose hydrolysis and esterification of the hydrolyzed cellulose, were performed to prepare the nanocellulose from sugarcane bagasse.
Date: September 1, 2020
Creator: Brostow, Witold, 1934-; Sriruangrungkamol, Arisara; Wongjaiyen, Thipsirin & Chonkaew, Wunpen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extended CT Void Analysis in FDM Additive Manufacturing Components (open access)

Extended CT Void Analysis in FDM Additive Manufacturing Components

This article provides an extended analysis of void shape by means of X-ray computed tomography (CT) applied to fused deposition modeling (FDM) samples. Furthermore, a relation between the tensile mechanical properties and digital void measurements is established. The results lead to the formulation of a novel criterion that predicts the mechanical behavior of AM components.
Date: July 26, 2020
Creator: Hernandez-Contreras, Adriana; Ruiz-Huerta, Leopoldo; Caballero-Ruiz, Alberto; Moock, Verena & Siller Carrillo, Héctor Rafael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fabrication and characterization of inkjet-printed 2D perovskite optoelectronic devices (open access)

Fabrication and characterization of inkjet-printed 2D perovskite optoelectronic devices

Article presents the large scale synthesis of solution-processed 2D (CH₃(CH₂)₃NH₃)₂(CH₃NH₃)ₙ − 1PbₙI₃ₙ + 1 (n = 2, 3, and 4) perovskites, a family of layered compounds with composition-tunable bandgap, where inkjet printing was used to fabricate heterostructure, flexible photodetector devices. The flexible, inkjet-printed perovskite 2D heterostructures have significant potential for optoelectronic devices, which can enable broad possibilities with compositional tunability and versatility of the organohalide perovskites.
Date: August 24, 2020
Creator: Min, Misook; Hossain, Ridwan F.; Ma, Liang-Chieh & Kaul, Anupama
System: The UNT Digital Library