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Quantifying Access Disparities in Response Plans (open access)

Quantifying Access Disparities in Response Plans

This article develops and explores data driven methods to quantify vulnerabilities in the context of response plans, addressing limitations on the availability, granularity, and currency of data to identify vulnerable populations.
Date: January 15, 2016
Creator: Indrakanti, Saratchandra; Mikler, Armin R.; O'Neil II, Martin & Tiwari, Chetan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Centimeter Scale Patterned Growth of Vertically Stacked Few Layer Only 2D MoS₂/WS₂ van der Waals Heterostructure (open access)

Centimeter Scale Patterned Growth of Vertically Stacked Few Layer Only 2D MoS₂/WS₂ van der Waals Heterostructure

This article reports the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of large-area (>2 cm²) patterned 2D vdW heterostructures composed of few layer, vertically-stacked molybdenum disulfide and tungsten disulfide.
Date: May 5, 2016
Creator: Choudhary, Nitin; Park, Juhong; Hwang, Jun Yeon; Chung, Hee-Suk; Dumas, Kenneth H.; Khondaker, Saiful I. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling immune response and its effect on infectious disease outbreak dynamics (open access)

Modeling immune response and its effect on infectious disease outbreak dynamics

This article presents a model that incorporates individuals' immune responses to further examine the role of the collective immune response of individuals in a population during an infectious outbreak.
Date: March 5, 2016
Creator: Reyes-Silveyra, Jorge & Mikler, Armin R.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fabrication of Wood-Rubber Composites Using Rubber Compound as a Bonding Agent Instead of Adhesives (open access)

Fabrication of Wood-Rubber Composites Using Rubber Compound as a Bonding Agent Instead of Adhesives

This article describes fabricating wood-rubber composites using rubber processing to improve water resistance and mechanical properties.
Date: June 14, 2016
Creator: Shao, Dongwei; Xu, Min; Cai, Liping & Shi, Sheldon Q.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Carbonization Temperature and Component Ratio on Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Effectiveness of Woodceramics (open access)

Effects of Carbonization Temperature and Component Ratio on Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Effectiveness of Woodceramics

This article explores the effects of carbonization temperature and mass ratio of wood/resin on electromagnetic interference, shielding effectiveness, and morphology of woodceramics.
Date: July 2, 2016
Creator: Tao, Yubo; Li, Peng & Shi, Sheldon Q.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optomechanical Design for Precision Lens Positioning and Mounting (open access)

Optomechanical Design for Precision Lens Positioning and Mounting

This article presents a lens positioning and mounting in a few microns accuracy using a kinematic mount module.
Date: August 25, 2016
Creator: Wang, Shuping; Zhang, Chi; Alt, Mark; Davis, Colleen; Gardner, Michael L. & Ji, Zheng
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dual-Wavelength Terahertz Metasurfaces with Independent Phase and Amplitude Control at Each Wavelength (open access)

Dual-Wavelength Terahertz Metasurfaces with Independent Phase and Amplitude Control at Each Wavelength

This article describes the design of a dual-wavelength achromatic metasurface-based deflector deflecting the incident wave to the same direction at two selected wavelengths, which has circumvented the critical limitation of strong wavelength dependence in the planar metasurface-based devices caused by the resonant nature of the plasmonic structures.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Ding, Jun; Xu, Ningning; Ren, Han; Lin, Yuankun; Zhang, Weili & Zhang, Hualiang
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hybrid Boron Nitride-Natural Fiber Composites for Enhanced Thermal Conductivity (open access)

Hybrid Boron Nitride-Natural Fiber Composites for Enhanced Thermal Conductivity

This article finds that the synergy of natural fiber with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) could significantly improve thermal conductivity, compared with that solely using hBN.
Date: October 5, 2016
Creator: Xia, Changlei; Garcia, Andres C.; Shi, Sheldon Q.; Qiu, Ying; Warner, Nathaniel; Wu, Yingji et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

An Interactive Model for Vector Borne Diseases: A Simulation for Zika in French Polynesia

Post presented at Contagion 2016, a satellite meeting at the 2016 Conference on Complex Systems. This poster presents a stochastic agent-based model that simulates the transmission of ZIKA via mosquitoes in 11 islands in the French Polynesia.
Date: September 21, 2016
Creator: Gwalani, Harsha; Alshammari, Sultanah M. & Mikler, Armin R.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Competition Between Resonant Plasmonic Coupling and Electrostatic Interaction in Reduced Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots (open access)

Competition Between Resonant Plasmonic Coupling and Electrostatic Interaction in Reduced Graphene Oxide Quantum Dots

This article presents a study of the plasmonic interaction that effects the optical properties of light emission from graphene oxide system.
Date: November 22, 2016
Creator: Karna, Sanjya; Mahat, M.; Choi, Tae-Youl; Shimada, Ryoko; Wang, Zhiming & Neogi, Arup
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Three-Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures for Advanced Lithium-Ion Batteries (open access)

Three-Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures for Advanced Lithium-Ion Batteries

This review contains the authors' recent progress on the design and fabrication of 3D carbon nanostructures, their performance in Li-ion batteries (LIBs), and their implementation into large-scale, lightweight, and flexible LIBs.
Date: October 26, 2016
Creator: Kang, Chiwon; Cha, Eunho; Patel, Mumukshu D.; Wu, H. Felix & Choi, Wonbong
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Attitudes and Behaviors Towards Risky Driving Among Adolescents in Saudi Arabia (open access)

Attitudes and Behaviors Towards Risky Driving Among Adolescents in Saudi Arabia

This article investigates perceptions and attitudes of school youth concerning risky driving behaviors in Saudi Arabia.
Date: May 14, 2016
Creator: Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini & Almakadma, Abdulkarim
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Modeling analysis of the impact of anthropogenic emission sources on ozone concentration over selected urban areas in Texas (open access)

Modeling analysis of the impact of anthropogenic emission sources on ozone concentration over selected urban areas in Texas

This article discusses a regional photochemical modeling experiment set up to simulate a high ozone episode of September 11-14, 2002 to evaluate the impact of various anthropogenic emissions sources on ozone concentrations.
Date: January 6, 2016
Creator: Farooqui, Zuber M.; John, Kuruvilla; Biswas, Jhumoor & Sule, Neelesh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oxidation behavior and microstructural decomposition of Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-4V-1B sheet (open access)

Oxidation behavior and microstructural decomposition of Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-4V-1B sheet

This article conducts a direct comparison between the oxidation behavior of Ti-6Al-4V and Ti-6Al-4V + 1B to elucidate whether the addition of boron to Ti-^Al-4V impacts the oxidation behavior.
Date: August 1, 2016
Creator: Brice, David A.; Samimi, P.; Ghamarian, I.; Liu, Yue; Brice, R. M.; Reidy, Richard F. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Uv-Induced Modification of Fused Silica: Insights From ReaxFF-Based Molecular Dynamics Simulations (open access)

Uv-Induced Modification of Fused Silica: Insights From ReaxFF-Based Molecular Dynamics Simulations

This article discusses molecular dynamics simulations performed to present evidence that silica structure in both short and medium ranges is directly modified by UV-induced defects.
Date: September 16, 2016
Creator: Tian, Ye; Du, Jincheng; Zu, Xiaotao; Han, Wei; Yuan, Xiaodong & Zheng, Wanguo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bioabsorbable zinc ion induced biphasic cellular responses in vascular smooth muscle cells (open access)

Bioabsorbable zinc ion induced biphasic cellular responses in vascular smooth muscle cells

This article explores the short-term effects of extracellular Zn²⁺ on human smooth muscle cells.
Date: January 6, 2016
Creator: Ma, Jun; Zhao, Nan & Zhu, Donghui
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Habitat Quantity of Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Picoides Borealis (Aves: Piciformes: Picidae) in its Former Historic Landscape Near the Big Thicket Naitonal Preserve, Texas, USA (open access)

Habitat Quantity of Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Picoides Borealis (Aves: Piciformes: Picidae) in its Former Historic Landscape Near the Big Thicket Naitonal Preserve, Texas, USA

This article quantifies pine-forested habitat suitable for Red-cockaded Woodpecker in the former historic range of the species to assess the potential for possible re-colonization.
Date: January 26, 2016
Creator: Thapa, Vivek & Acevedo, Miguel F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Extraction of Implicit Interpretations from Modal Constructions (open access)

Automatic Extraction of Implicit Interpretations from Modal Constructions

This paper presents an approach to extract implicit interpretations from modal constructions.
Date: November 2016
Creator: Sanders, Jordan & Blanco, Eduardo
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supervised Keyphrase Extraction as Positive Unlabeled Learning (open access)

Supervised Keyphrase Extraction as Positive Unlabeled Learning

This paper shows that performance of trained keyphrase extractors approximates a classifier trained on articles labeled by multiple annotators, leading to higher average F₁ scores and better rankings of keyphrases.
Date: November 2016
Creator: Sterckx, Lucas; Caragea, Cornelia; Demeester, Thomas & Develder, Chris
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Understanding Negation in Positive Terms Using Syntactic Dependencies (open access)

Understanding Negation in Positive Terms Using Syntactic Dependencies

This paper presents a two-step procedure to extract positive meaning from verbal negation.
Date: November 2016
Creator: Sarabi, Zahra & Blanco, Eduardo
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laser-Assisted Machining (LAM) of Hard Tissues and Bones (open access)

Laser-Assisted Machining (LAM) of Hard Tissues and Bones

Patent relating to a system and methods of machining hard tissues, such as bone.
Date: March 17, 2014
Creator: Dahotre, Narendra B. & Santhanakrishnan, Soundarapandian
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
911 Services and Vital Sign Measurement Utilizing Mobile Phone Sensors and Applications (open access)

911 Services and Vital Sign Measurement Utilizing Mobile Phone Sensors and Applications

Patent relating to improved methods for utilizing 911 services and for implementing 911 dispatch protocols by accessing mobile phone sensors and applications.
Date: September 20, 2012
Creator: Dantu, Ram; Chandrasekaran, Vikram & Gupta, Neeraj K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beyond Plain Spatial Knowledge: Determining Where Entities Are and Are Not Located, and For How Long (open access)

Beyond Plain Spatial Knowledge: Determining Where Entities Are and Are Not Located, and For How Long

This paper complements semantic role representations with spatial knowledge beyond indicating plain locations.
Date: August 2016
Creator: Vempala, Alakananda & Blanco, Eduardo
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automatic Generation and Classification of Minimal Meaningful Propositions in Educational Systems (open access)

Automatic Generation and Classification of Minimal Meaningful Propositions in Educational Systems

This paper introduces a new representation of sentences--Minimal Meaningful Propositions (MMPS), which allows significant improvement of the mapping between a learner's answer and the ideal response.
Date: December 2016
Creator: Godea, Andreea; Bulgarov, Florin & Nielsen, Rodney D.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library