Abraham Model Descriptors for Melatonin; Prediction of Solution, Biological and Thermodynamic Properties (open access)

Abraham Model Descriptors for Melatonin; Prediction of Solution, Biological and Thermodynamic Properties

Article using literature solubilities to obtain properties or descriptors of melatonin.
Date: January 27, 2022
Creator: Liu, Xiangli; Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accuracy of long-term volunteer water monitoring data: A multiscale analysis from a statewide citizen science program (open access)

Accuracy of long-term volunteer water monitoring data: A multiscale analysis from a statewide citizen science program

Article describes study which assesses the relative accuracy of volunteer water quality data collected by the Texas Stream Team (TST) citizen science program from 1992–2016 across the State of Texas by comparing it to professional data from corresponding stations during the same time period.
Date: January 29, 2020
Creator: Albus, Kelly Hibbeler; Thompson, Rudi; Mitchell, Forrest; Kennedy, James H. & Ponette-González, Alexandra G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of the Fe 2p XPS for hematite 𝛂 Fe2O3: Consequences of covalent bonding and orbital splittings on multiplet splittings (open access)

Analysis of the Fe 2p XPS for hematite 𝛂 Fe2O3: Consequences of covalent bonding and orbital splittings on multiplet splittings

Article analyzes the origins of the complex Fe 2p X-Ray Photoelectron Spectra (XPS) of hematite (α-Fe₂O₃) and is related to the character of the bonding in this compound. This analysis provides a new and novel view of the reasons for XPS binding energies (BEs) and BE shifts, which deepens the current understanding and interpretation of the physical and chemical significance of the XPS. This article is part of the JCP Special Topic on Oxide Chemistry and Catalysis.
Date: January 2, 2020
Creator: Bagus, Paul S.; Nelin, Connie J.; Brundle, C. R.; Lahiri, N.; Ilton, Eugene S. & Rosso, Kevin M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Application of Genome Editing in Tomato Breeding: Mechanisms, Advances, and Prospects (open access)

Application of Genome Editing in Tomato Breeding: Mechanisms, Advances, and Prospects

This article is a review presenting examples of gene editing responsible for conferring both biotic and abiotic stresses in tomato simultaneously. The literature on using this powerful technology to improve fruit quality, yield, and nutritional aspects in tomato is highlighted.
Date: January 12, 2021
Creator: Salava, Hymavathi; Thula, Sravankumar; Mohan, Vijee; Kumar, Rahul & Maghuly, Fatemeh
System: The UNT Digital Library
ARABIDOPSIS DEHISCENCE ZONE POLYGALACTURONASE 1 (ADPG1) releases latent defense signals in stems with reduced lignin content (open access)

ARABIDOPSIS DEHISCENCE ZONE POLYGALACTURONASE 1 (ADPG1) releases latent defense signals in stems with reduced lignin content

Article highlights the importance of pectin in cell wall integrity and the value of lignin modification as a tool to interrogate the informational content of plant cell walls.
Date: January 23, 2020
Creator: Gallego-Giraldo, Lina; Liu, Chang; Pose-Albacete, Sara; Pattathil, Sivakumar; Peralta, Angelo Gabriel; Young, Jenna et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Can Market-Oriented Reform of Agricultural Subsidies Promote the Growth of Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity? Empirical Evidence from Maize in China (open access)

Can Market-Oriented Reform of Agricultural Subsidies Promote the Growth of Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity? Empirical Evidence from Maize in China

Article asserts that green agriculture is the future of agricultural development. The policy implication of this paper is that developing countries should actively promote the market-oriented reform of agricultural subsidies to promote green agricultural development.
Date: January 20, 2023
Creator: Ye, Feng; Yang, Zhongna; Yu, Mark; Watson, Susan & Lovell, Ashley
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cascading effects of COVID-19 on population mobility and air quality: An exploration including place characteristics using geovisualization (open access)

Cascading effects of COVID-19 on population mobility and air quality: An exploration including place characteristics using geovisualization

Article examining the population mobility and air quality before and after the lockdown (mandated restriction of activity) during the public health response to COVID-19. This article is part of the Special Issue on COVID-19.
Date: January 22, 2022
Creator: Atkinson, Samuel F.; Kala, Abhishek K. & Tiwari, Chetan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of the Nit6803 nitrilase homolog from the cyanotroph Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 11764 (open access)

Characterization of the Nit6803 nitrilase homolog from the cyanotroph Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 11764

This article reports the purification and characterization of a nitrilase (E.C. 3.5.5.1) (Nit11764) essential for the assimilation of cyanide as the sole nitrogen source by the cyanotroph, Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 11764.
Date: January 16, 2021
Creator: Jones, Lauren B.; Wang, Xiaoqiang; Gullapalli, Jaya S. & Kunz, Daniel A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diffusion Entropy vs. Multiscale and Rényi Entropy to Detect Progression of Autonomic Neuropathy (open access)

Diffusion Entropy vs. Multiscale and Rényi Entropy to Detect Progression of Autonomic Neuropathy

This article reviews the literature to argue the importance of the occurrence of crucial events in the dynamics of physiological processes. Crucial events are interpreted as short time intervals of turbulence, and the time distance between two consecutive crucial events is a waiting time distribution density with an inverse power law (IPL) index µ, with µ < 3 generating non-stationary behavior.
Date: January 14, 2021
Creator: Jelinek, Herbert F.; Tuladhar, Rohisha; Culbreth, Garland; Bohara, Gyanendra; Cornforth, David; West, Bruce J. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editorial Feature: Meet the PCP Editor—Ana Paula Alonso (open access)

Editorial Feature: Meet the PCP Editor—Ana Paula Alonso

This article is an editorial feature highlighting editor of Plant & Cell Physiology Dr. Ana Paula Alonso. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and serves as the Director of the BioAnalytical Facility at the University of North Texas.
Date: January 13, 2021
Creator: Alonso, Ana Paula
System: The UNT Digital Library
The exact consistency strength of the generic absoluteness for the universally Baire sets (open access)

The exact consistency strength of the generic absoluteness for the universally Baire sets

Article describes how a set of reals is universally Baire if all of its continuous preimages in topological spaces have the Baire property. The authors show that over some mild large cardinal theory, sealing is equiconsistent with LSA-over-uB.
Date: January 18, 2023
Creator: Sargsyan, Grigor & Trang, Nam
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exposure to diesel exhaust particles results in altered lung microbial profiles, associated with increased reactive oxygen species/reactive nitrogen species and inflammation, in C57Bl/6 wildtype mice on a high-fat diet (open access)

Exposure to diesel exhaust particles results in altered lung microbial profiles, associated with increased reactive oxygen species/reactive nitrogen species and inflammation, in C57Bl/6 wildtype mice on a high-fat diet

Article investigating if the exposure to diesel exhaust particles (DEP) can alter commensal lung microbiota, thereby promoting alterations in the lung’s immune and inflammatory responses. This article also explores if diet contributes to the alteration of the commensal lung microbiome.
Date: January 8, 2021
Creator: Daniel, Sarah; Phillippi, Danielle; Schneider, Leah J.; Nguyen, Kayla N.; Mirpuri, Julie & Lund, Amie K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gas-Phase Chemistry of 1,1,2,3,3,4,4-Heptafluorobut-1-ene Initiated by Chlorine Atoms (open access)

Gas-Phase Chemistry of 1,1,2,3,3,4,4-Heptafluorobut-1-ene Initiated by Chlorine Atoms

This article uses the relative rate method to determine the rate constant for the reaction of heptafluorobut-1-ene (CF₂=CFCF₂CF₂H) with chlorine atoms in air.
Date: December 29, 2021
Creator: Sapkota, Ramesh & Marshall, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library
A gene based combination test using GWAS summary data (open access)

A gene based combination test using GWAS summary data

Article describes how gene-based association tests provide a useful alternative and complement to the usual single marker association tests, especially in genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The authors propose a test named OWC based on summary statistics from GWAS data.
Date: January 3, 2023
Creator: Zhang, Jianjun; Liang, Xiaoyu; Gonzales, Samantha; Liu, Jianguo; Gao, Xiaoyi Raymond & Wang, Xuexia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Heterogeneous Distribution of Erucic Acid in Brassica napus Seeds (open access)

Heterogeneous Distribution of Erucic Acid in Brassica napus Seeds

Article describes study examining low- and high-erucic acid accessions of B. napus seeds for the distribution of erucic acid-containing lipids and the gene transcripts encoding the enzymes involved in pathways for its incorporation into triacylglycerols (TAGs) across the major tissues of the seeds.
Date: January 29, 2020
Creator: Lu, Shaoping; Aziz, Mina; Sturtevant, Drew; Chapman, Kent Dean & Guo, Liang
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identification of Pueraria spp. through DNA barcoding and comparative transcriptomics (open access)

Identification of Pueraria spp. through DNA barcoding and comparative transcriptomics

This article presents research where various kudzu accessions were analyzed through barcoding and comparative transcriptomics, generating tools for identification and molecular pathway analysis.
Date: January 3, 2022
Creator: Adolfo, Laci M.; Rao, Xiaolan & Dixon, R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ignition delay times of NH3/DME blends at high pressure and low DME fraction: RCM experiments and simulations (open access)

Ignition delay times of NH3/DME blends at high pressure and low DME fraction: RCM experiments and simulations

Authors of the article describe how autoignition delay times of ammonia/dimethyl ether (NH3/DME) mixtures were measured in a rapid compression machine with DME fractions of 0, 2 and 5 and 100% in the fuel. Analysis of the mechanism indicates that this 'early DME oxidation' generates reactive species that initiate the oxidation of ammonia, which in turn begins heat release that raises the temperature and accelerates the oxidation process towards ignition. This is the accepted manuscript version of the published article.
Date: January 14, 2021
Creator: Dai, Liming; Glarborg, Peter; Gersen, Sander; Marshall, Paul; Mokhov, Anatoli & Levinsky, Howard
System: The UNT Digital Library
The impact of multifactorial stress combination on plant growth and survival (open access)

The impact of multifactorial stress combination on plant growth and survival

Article studying seedlings of wild-type and different mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana plants subjected to a multifactorial stress combination of six different stresses, each applied at a low level, and their survival, physiological and molecular responses. Findings reveal that further polluting our environment could result in higher complexities of multifactorial stress combinations that in turn could drive a critical decline in plant growth and survival.
Date: January 26, 2021
Creator: Zandalinas, Sandra I.; Sengupta, Soham; Fritschi, Felix B.; Azad, Rajeev K.; Nechushtai, Rachel & Mittler, Ron
System: The UNT Digital Library
Instructional Models for Course-Based Research Experience (CRE) Teaching (open access)

Instructional Models for Course-Based Research Experience (CRE) Teaching

This article presents a study that was done over a period of 3 years to explicate the instructional processes involved in teaching an undergraduate course-based research experience (CRE). The study presented here delineated a set of specific instructional practices used by active CRE instructors and modeled the relations between the use of these practices and specified outcomes. The resultant educational models should provide clarification of the ways in which the aims of CRE can be effectively achieved by instructors.
Date: January 3, 2022
Creator: Hanauer, David I.; Graham, Mark J.; Arnold, Rachel J.; Ayuk, Mary A.; Balish, Mitchell F.; Beyer, Andrea R. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An investigation of steric influence on the reactivity of FeV(O)(OH) tautomers in stereospecific C–H hydroxylation (open access)

An investigation of steric influence on the reactivity of FeV(O)(OH) tautomers in stereospecific C–H hydroxylation

Article describes how two new tetradentate N4 ligands (LN4), LN4 = Me2,Me2PyzTACN (1-(2-(3,5-dimethyl-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)ethyl)-4,7-dimethyl-1,4,7-triazacyclononane) and Me2,MeImTACN (1-((1-methyl-1H-imidazol-1-yl)methyl)-4,7-dimethyl-1,4,7-triazacyclononane) have been synthesized and their corresponding Fe(II) complexes [FeII(Me2,Me2PyzTACN)(CF3SO3)2], 1Pz, and [FeII(Me2,MeImTACN)(CF3SO3)2], 1Im, have been prepared and characterized. Based on these labelling studies, the steric influence exerted by each of the ligands towards the relative reactivity of the oxo ligands of the corresponding pair of Fe(V)(O)(OH) tautomers can be derived.
Date: January 5, 2023
Creator: Mitra, Mainak; Brinkmeier, Alexander; Li, Yong; Borrell, Margarida; Call, Arnau; Fillol, Julio Lloret et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Larval Development in Tropical Gar (Atractosteus tropicus) Is Dependent on the Embryonic Thermal Regime: Ecological Implications under a Climate Change Context (open access)

Larval Development in Tropical Gar (Atractosteus tropicus) Is Dependent on the Embryonic Thermal Regime: Ecological Implications under a Climate Change Context

Article presents research on how temperature affects fish populations. The study shows how changes in temperature may induce craniofacial and morphological alterations in fish during early stages and contribute to understanding the possible effects of global warming in early development of fish and its ecological implications.
Date: December 14, 2021
Creator: Cordova-de la Cruz, Simrith E.; Riesco, Marta F.; Martínez-Bautista, Gil; Calzada-Ruiz, Daniel; Martínez-Burguete, Talhia; Peña-Marín, Emyr S. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Quantification of ¹³C-Labeling in Sugars (open access)

Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Quantification of ¹³C-Labeling in Sugars

This article describes a new methodology for monitoring sucrose labeling using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). To date, the most commonly used method to monitor sucrose labeling is by nuclear magnetic resonance, which requires substantial amounts of biological sample.
Date: January 10, 2020
Creator: Cocuron, Jean-Christophe; Ross, Zacchary & Alonso, Ana P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping Health Fragility and Vulnerability in Air Pollution–Monitoring Networks in Dallas–Fort Worth (open access)

Mapping Health Fragility and Vulnerability in Air Pollution–Monitoring Networks in Dallas–Fort Worth

Article describes how environmental air pollution remains a major contributor to negative health outcomes and mortality, but the relationship between socially vulnerable populations and air pollution is not well understood. This paper seeks to understand how air pollution monitor placement strategies and policy may neglect social vulnerabilities and therefore potentially underestimate exposure burdens in vulnerable populations.
Date: January 18, 2023
Creator: Northeim, Kari & Oppong, Joseph R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The metabolic cost of turning right side up in the Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca) (open access)

The metabolic cost of turning right side up in the Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca)

Article examining the the metabolic cost of self-righting in the terrestrial Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise using respirometry and kinematic video analysis and comparing this to the metabolic cost of locomotion at a moderate, easily sustainable speed. The results found that self-righting is, relatively, metabolically expensive and costs around two times the mass-specific power required to walk.
Date: January 10, 2022
Creator: Ewart, Heather E.; Tickle, Peter G.; Sellers, William I.; Lambertz, Markus; Crossley, Dane A., II & Codd, Jonathan R.
System: The UNT Digital Library