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Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolases and Chemical Communication in Plants (open access)

Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolases and Chemical Communication in Plants

Data management plan for the grant, "Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolases and Chemical Communication in Plants." Research seeking to understand how an evolutionarily-conserved group of plant enzymes utilizes chemical signals to regulate growth and to influence their microbial environment. Specific research aims include the discovery of new enzymes and their substrate molecules that act as communication signals. Broader applications of this research may offer new strategies to enhance agricultural outputs by manipulating plant-microbe interactions in crop and soil systems.
Date: 2021-07-01/2024-06-30
Creator: Chapman, Kent Dean; Aziz, Mina & Blancaflor, Elison B.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
IRES Track II - Cape Horn ASIs: Climate change and disease ecology at the southern end of the Americas (open access)

IRES Track II - Cape Horn ASIs: Climate change and disease ecology at the southern end of the Americas

Data management plan for the grant "IRES Track II - Cape Horn ASIs: Climate change and disease ecology at the southern end of the Americas." Research giving students the opportunity to be trained in quantitative experimental design and work as part of a multinational research collaboration to study infectious disease emergence in one of the few remaining pristine places on Earth. The Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve (CHBR) off the southern tip of South America protects pristine ecosystem is perfect for this type of graduate student training. The CHBR is part of the sub-Antarctic Magellanic ecoregion, which is globally significant because it houses the worlds southernmost forest biome, contains numerous endemic species, is remote, and is relatively free of anthropogenic impacts. The research questions themselves will be flexible, but organized thematically. Specifically, this IRES Track-II will focus on the merging molecular genetic analysis using a mobile next generation sequencing lab with mist netting and arthropod trapping to investigate the impacts of wildlife disease on local biodiversity and community structure. Secondarily, eDNA and traditional wildlife disease monitoring approaches will be applied to understand the potential for zoonosis and understanding ecological factors that contribute to, or inhibit, zoonosis. Resultantly, participation in this program …
Date: 2021-09-01/2024-08-31
Creator: Gregory, Andrew; Kennedy, James H. & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toward Best Management Practices for Ecological Corridors (open access)

Toward Best Management Practices for Ecological Corridors

This article summarizes the best available information about managing ecological corridor systems. The aim with is to provide managers with a convenient guidance document and tool to assist in applying scientific management principles to management of corridors. It does not cover issues related to corridor design or political buy in, but focuses on how a corridor should be managed once it has been established.
Date: February 1, 2021
Creator: Gregory, Andrew; Spence, Emma; Beier, Paul & Garding, Emily
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the potential behavioral impact of methanol when used as a solvent: Dataset from zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavioral research (open access)

Analysis of the potential behavioral impact of methanol when used as a solvent: Dataset from zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavioral research

This article is a dataset that describes behavioral results in zebrafish (Danio rerio) individually exposed to methanol, a solvent which is capable of altering physiology and behavior high concentrations.
Date: April 1, 2021
Creator: Hamilton, Trevor J.; Szaszkiewicz, Joshua; Krook, Jeffrey & Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multi-scale biodiversity drives temporal variability in macrosystems (open access)

Multi-scale biodiversity drives temporal variability in macrosystems

Article using decadal datasets that span aquatic and terrestrial macrosystems and structural equation modeling to show that local temporal variability and spatial synchrony increase temporal variability for entire macrosystems. This analysis is among the first to provide a quantitative argument for the value of regional species diversity.
Date: February 1, 2021
Creator: Patrick, Christopher J.; McCluney, Kevin E.; Ruhi, Albert; Gregory, Andrew; Sabo, John & Thorp, James H.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Encapsulated perovskite in NiO nanotube for topological meta-photonic devices (open access)

Encapsulated perovskite in NiO nanotube for topological meta-photonic devices

Data management plan for the grant, "Encapsulated perovskite in NiO nanotube for topological meta-photonic devices." Research studying meta-photonic devices with high absorption and topological photonic devices using encapsulated perovskites in NiO nanotubes. The goal is to achieve high-efficiency solar cells and electrically pumped laser in perovskite/NiO nanotubes patterned in the graded photonic super-crystal. The success of this project will lead to high-efficiency integrated lasers and solar cell devices. It also enhances the abilities in the education arena by enriching program offerings in nanotechnology, clean-energy, and photonics technology.
Date: 2021-09-01/2024-08-31
Creator: Cui, Jingbiao & Lin, Yuankun
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborative Research: A Systematic and Comprehensive Study of Black Hole-Driven Turbulence in Massive Galactic Systems (open access)

Collaborative Research: A Systematic and Comprehensive Study of Black Hole-Driven Turbulence in Massive Galactic Systems

Data management plan for the grant, "Collaborative Research: A Systematic and Comprehensive Study of Black Hole-Driven Turbulence in Massive Galactic Systems." This research team has developed a technique to measure gas turbulence in systems hosting giant central black holes and will directly evaluate the viability of this mechanism using a large sample of galaxies. This project will deliver a more complete view of the “feedback” provided by accreting SMBHs, leading to a better understanding of the black hole-host galaxy relation. More specifically, it will directly probe the energetics of the intra-cluster, circum-galactic, and interstellar media of massive early-type galaxies.
Date: 2021-09-01/2024-08-31
Creator: Li, Yuan
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Developing a Biomanufacturing Platform for the Site-Selective Functionalization and Structural Diversification of Cytochalasan-Based Carbon Skeletons (open access)

Developing a Biomanufacturing Platform for the Site-Selective Functionalization and Structural Diversification of Cytochalasan-Based Carbon Skeletons

Data management plan for the grant, "Developing a Biomanufacturing Platform for the Site-Selective Functionalization and Structural Diversification of Cytochalasan-Based Carbon Skeletons." This project will identify fungal enzymes that efficiently modify more than one substrate in a predictable way. Also, enzymes will be engineered to expand the range of substrates. A biomanufacturing platform to synthesize bioactive molecules at lower costs will be the end result. Fungi can synthesize small molecules with complex structures using a number of highly coordinated enzymes. These molecules are difficult to make synthetically, and they can aid in crop production or have beneficial human health effects. Cytochalasans are phytotoxic, cytotoxic and actin-binding natural products. Produced by fungi, over 400 variants have been described. The structural diversity is partly explained by the flexibility of the enzymes that introduce and modify functional groups. These enzymes structurally rearrange the core carbon skeleton in a site-selective manner, often on more than one substrate. Genome mining will be used to identify cytochalasan tailoring enzymes. Overproducing strains will be characterized chemically. Transcription factor over-expression will be investigated. Targeted gene knock-out will confirm the function and scope of the enzymes. The enzymes will be engineered to expand their substrate range. Synthetic biology and metabolic …
Date: 2021-03-01/2024-02-29
Creator: Skellam, Elizabeth
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
G-RISE at the University of North Texas (open access)

G-RISE at the University of North Texas

Data management plan for the grant "G-RISE at the University of North Texas." The University of North Texas (UNT) serves over 32,000 undergraduate and 7,000 graduate students of which 50% of the undergraduate population and 20% of the graduate population are underrepresented minority (URM). UNT is ranked by the Carnegie Classification as a Tier 1 institute, is a Hispanic Serving Institute, and is dedicated to providing quality mentoring to a diverse group of Ph.D. students. The UNT G-­RISE mission is to provide a biomedical Ph.D. training program that is inclusive, culturally responsive, increases diversity, enhances scientific skill sets, develops trainee career and professional skill sets, provides opportunities to participants, and increases faculty development as a mentor.
Date: 2021-05-01/2022-04-30
Creator: Padilla, Pamela A.; Burggren, Warren W.; Cisneros, Gerardo Andrés & Hughes, Lee E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cysne et al. Reply (open access)

Cysne et al. Reply

This article is a response to a comment on the authors' original article "Disentangling Orbital and Valley Hall Effects in Bilayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides." The authors' response concludes that they do not believe the main points of the original Letter are affected by the Comment.
Date: October 1, 2021
Creator: Cysne, Tarik P.; Costa, Marcio; Canonico, Luis M.; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco; Muniz, R. B. & Rappoport, Tatiana G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Functional Porous Organic Polymers as Advanced Decontamination Materials for Water Purification (open access)

Functional Porous Organic Polymers as Advanced Decontamination Materials for Water Purification

Data management plan for the grant "Functional Porous Organic Polymers as Advanced Decontamination Materials for Water Purification." This project seeks to develop and deploy a new class of porous organic polymers which have high capacity and selectivity to rapidly remove heavy metal contaminants well below parts per million level standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency. The project will engineer porosity and surface chemistry of porous organic polymers to clean inorganic heavy metal contaminants from both surface water and wastewater. Porous organic polymers are robust, chemically and thermally stable, scalable, and modular, with very high surface area. The modularity of these polymers allows for a molecular-level tuning of the pore structure and surface chemistry that allows for engineered site-specificity of binding sites that target the heavy metal contaminants. Recent data shows these new materials offer a significant increase in capacity relative to benchmark materials, with a rapid removal of mercury and other heavy metal ions. This project will advance the concept by exploring rational design of these porous polymers with different topologies by customizing the monomer with various binding groups. The objectives of the project include design, synthesis, and characterization, followed by assessment of these materials to remove inorganic contaminants …
Date: 2021-02-01/2021-07-31
Creator: Ma, Shengqian
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
LLELA Quail Program: Quail in the Park Cities? Restoring a functional quail population to a small rangeland system in the Dallas Metroplex (open access)

LLELA Quail Program: Quail in the Park Cities? Restoring a functional quail population to a small rangeland system in the Dallas Metroplex

Data management plan for the grant, "LLELA Quail Program: Quail in the Park Cities? Restoring a functional quail population to a small rangeland system in the Dallas Metroplex."
Date: 2021-10-01/2022-09-30
Creator: Gregory, Andrew
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regulators of von Willebrand Factor Levels (open access)

Regulators of von Willebrand Factor Levels

Data management plan for the grant "Regulators of von Willebrand Factor Levels." Von Willebrand Disease is the most prevalent bleeding disease. In one of the types called type 1 von Willebrand Disease, the disease-causing genes are not known. Using zebrafish as a model, this project proposes to identify genes that cause the disease by crippling the genes by knockdown methods, and such identification may lead to not only the identification of mutations in the corresponding human genes but also to a better diagnosis.
Date: 2021-08-01/2024-07-31
Creator: Jagadeeswaran, Pudur
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Hybrid Computer Cluster for Computational Modeling (open access)

MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Hybrid Computer Cluster for Computational Modeling

Data management plan for the grant, "MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Hybrid Computer Cluster for Computational Modeling." Research grant for the purchase, installation, and operation of a new high-performance computing (HPC) resource, called CRUNTCH4, to be deployed at the University of North Texas’ (UNT) Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Modeling (CASCaM). This much needed HPC resource combines different computing architectures and significant amounts of data storage, all connected via a high-speed communications fabric. This computing resource will provide the means for CASCaM investigators to continue research on a broad range of topics including quantum chemistry, materials design, biomolecular simulations, machine-learning based chemical discovery, and bioinformatics, among others.
Date: 2021-10-01/2024-09-30
Creator: Cundari, Thomas R., 1964-; Du, Jincheng; Andreussi, Oliviero & Yan, Hao
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding A Bilingual Trauma-Based Behavioral Health Workforce in Integrated Health Settings (open access)

Expanding A Bilingual Trauma-Based Behavioral Health Workforce in Integrated Health Settings

Data management plan for the grant "Expanding A Bilingual Trauma-Based Behavioral Health Workforce in Integrated Health Settings."
Date: 2021-07-01/2022-06-30
Creator: Ceballos, Peggy; Carey, Chandra Donnell; Cartwright, Angie D. & Mukherjee, Dhrubodhi
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimization for Thermal Protection of Firefighter’s Glove by Phase Change Material (open access)

Optimization for Thermal Protection of Firefighter’s Glove by Phase Change Material

Data management plan for the grant "Optimization for Thermal Protection of Firefighter’s Glove by Phase Change Material." Research project investigating improvements to firefighers gloves thermal protection.
Date: 2021-07-01/2023-06-30
Creator: Zhao, Weihuan
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal Oxynitrides: Tuning Metal-N and Metal-O Interactions for Improved Electrocatalytic Properties at the Liquid/Solid Interface (open access)

Metal Oxynitrides: Tuning Metal-N and Metal-O Interactions for Improved Electrocatalytic Properties at the Liquid/Solid Interface

Data management plan for the grant "Metal Oxynitrides: Tuning Metal-N and Metal-O Interactions for Improved Electrocatalytic Properties at the Liquid/Solid Interface." Research investigating the fundamental chemical interactions relevant to the conversion of dinitrogen to ammonia via more energy-efficient routes. The studies will help in understanding the chemical and material factors that are most important for optimizing new materials for ammonia production from dinitrogen, and applications to other important industrial reactions.
Date: 2021-08-01/2024-07-31
Creator: Kelber, Jeffry A.; Cundari, Thomas R., 1964- & D'Souza, Francis
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Structural Modeling and in planta Complementation Studies Link Mutated Residues of the Medicago truncatula Nitrate Transporter NPF1.7 to Functionality in Root Nodules (open access)

Structural Modeling and in planta Complementation Studies Link Mutated Residues of the Medicago truncatula Nitrate Transporter NPF1.7 to Functionality in Root Nodules

This article combines in silico structural predictions with in planta complementation of the severely defective mtnip-1 mutant plants to understand the role of a series of distinct amino acids in the transporter’s function. The findings add to the knowledge of the mechanism of alternative conformational changes as well as symport transport in NPFs and enhance knowledge of the mechanisms for nitrate signaling.
Date: July 1, 2021
Creator: Yu, Yao-Chuan; Dickstein, Rebecca & Longo, Antonella
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal Organic Frameworks Containing Frustrated Lewis Pairs for Hydrogen Storage at Ambient Temperature (open access)

Metal Organic Frameworks Containing Frustrated Lewis Pairs for Hydrogen Storage at Ambient Temperature

Data Management Plan for the research project: Metal Organic Frameworks Containing Frustrated Lewis Pairs for Hydrogen Storage at Ambient Temperature. Research to design, synthesize, and characterize novel sorbent materials for hydrogen storage. The materials are based on a Metal-Organic Framework and incorporate Frustrated Lewis Pairs (FLP-MOF). The project seeks to optimize the hydrogen storage capacity of the FLP-MOF systems at ambient temperature and under high pressure.
Date: 2021-07-01/2024-06-30
Creator: Ma, Shengqian
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library