Probiotics Function as Immunomodulators in the Intestine in C57Bl/6 Male Mice Exposed to Inhaled Diesel Exhaust Particles on a High-Fat Diet (open access)

Probiotics Function as Immunomodulators in the Intestine in C57Bl/6 Male Mice Exposed to Inhaled Diesel Exhaust Particles on a High-Fat Diet

Article investigating the role of diesel exhaust particles (DEP) in conjunction with a high-fat (HF) diet on intestinal integrity and inflammation.
Date: March 15, 2022
Creator: Phillippi, Danielle T.; Daniel, Sarah; Nguyen, Kayla N.; Penaredondo, Bea Angella & Lund, Amie K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Connecting Low- and High-redshift Weak Emission-line Quasars via Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy of Lyα Emission (open access)

Connecting Low- and High-redshift Weak Emission-line Quasars via Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy of Lyα Emission

Article presents ultraviolet spectroscopy covering the Lyα + N v complex of six candidate low-redshift (0.9 < z < 1.5) weak emission-line quasars (WLQs) based on observations with the Hubble Space Telescope.
Date: April 14, 2022
Creator: Paul, Jeremiah D.; Plotkin, Richard M.; Shemmer, Ohad; Anderson, Scott F.; Brandt, W. N.; Fan, Xiaohui et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Installation of synergistic binding sites onto porous organic polymers for efficient removal of perfluorooctanoic acid (open access)

Installation of synergistic binding sites onto porous organic polymers for efficient removal of perfluorooctanoic acid

Article reports a strategy to construct highly efficient perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) adsorbents by installing synergistic electrostatic/hydrophobic sites onto porous organic polymers (POPs).
Date: April 19, 2022
Creator: Liu, Xiongli; Zhu, Changjia; Yin, Jun; Li, Jixin; Zhang, Zhiyuan; Li, Jinli et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
High-Throughput Computational Search for Half-Metallic Oxides (open access)

High-Throughput Computational Search for Half-Metallic Oxides

The article describes a high-throughput computational search for half-metallic compounds. The analysis of calculated electronic properties of thousands of materials from the inorganic crystal structure database allowed the authors to identify potential half metals. They found over two-hundred strong half-metallic oxides; several of them have never been reported before.
Date: April 25, 2020
Creator: Liyanage, Laalitha S. I.; Slawińska, Jagoda; Gopal, Priya; Curtarolo, Stefano; Fornari, Marco & Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biophotons-and-emergence-of-quantum-coherencea-diffusion-entropy-analysisEntropy (open access)

Biophotons-and-emergence-of-quantum-coherencea-diffusion-entropy-analysisEntropy

This article studies the emission of photons from germinating seeds using an experimental technique designed to detect light of extremely small intensity. It analyzes the dark count signal without germinating seeds as well as the photon emission during the germination process.
Date: April 29, 2021
Creator: Benfatto, Maurizio; Pace, Elisabetta; Curceanu, Catalina; Scordo, Alessandro; Clozza, Alberto; Davoli, Ivan et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proton reduction by phosphinidene-capped triiron clusters (open access)

Proton reduction by phosphinidene-capped triiron clusters

This article prepares and examines Bis(phosphinidene)-capped triiron carbonyl clusters, including electron rich derivatives formed by substitution with chelating diphosphines as proton reduction catalysts.
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Rahaman, Ahibur; Lisensky, George C.; Haukka, Matti; Tocher, Derek A.; Richmond, Michael G.; Colbran, Stephen B. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Topologically driven linear magnetoresistance in helimagnetic FeP (open access)

Topologically driven linear magnetoresistance in helimagnetic FeP

Article presenting a series of high magnetic field experiments on high-quality single crystals of FeP. The study shows that resistance not only increases without saturation by up to several hundred times its zero-field value by 35 T, but that it also exhibits an anomalously linear field dependence over the entire range when the field is aligned precisely along the crystallographic c-axis.
Date: April 14, 2021
Creator: Campbell, D.J.; Collini, J.; Sławińska, Jagoda; Autieri, C.; Wang, L.; Wang, K. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prescriptions for Correcting Ultraviolet-based Redshifts for Luminous Quasars at High Redshift (open access)

Prescriptions for Correcting Ultraviolet-based Redshifts for Luminous Quasars at High Redshift

This article presents near-infrared spectroscopy of 18 luminous quasars at 2.15 < z < 3.70 that allows the authors to obtain reliable systemic redshifts for these sources.
Date: April 8, 2020
Creator: Dix, Cooper; Shemmer, Ohad; Brotherton, Michael S.; Green, Richard F.; Mason, Michelle & Myers, Adam D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integrative omics identification, evolutionary and structural analysis of low affinity nitrate transporters in diatoms, diNPFs (open access)

Integrative omics identification, evolutionary and structural analysis of low affinity nitrate transporters in diatoms, diNPFs

This article reports a comprehensive characterization of the Nitrate Transporter 1/Peptide Transporter Family (NPF) in diatoms, diNPFs.
Date: April 7, 2021
Creator: Santin, Anna; Caputi, Luigi; Longo, Antonella; Chiurazzi, Maurizio; d’Alcalà, Maurizio Ribera; Russo, Monia Teresa et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oxygen atom transfer catalysis by dioxidomolybdenum(VI) complexes of pyridyl aminophenolate ligands (open access)

Oxygen atom transfer catalysis by dioxidomolybdenum(VI) complexes of pyridyl aminophenolate ligands

This article synthesizes and characterizes a series of new cationic dioxidomolybdenum(VI) complexes [MoO₂(Lⁿ)]PF₆ (2–5) with the tripodal tetradentate pyridyl aminophenolate ligands HL²-HL⁵.
Date: April 21, 2021
Creator: Hossain, Kamal; Schachner, Jörg A.; Haukka, Matti; Richmond, Michael G.; Mösch-Zanetti, Nadia C.; Lehtonen, Ari et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A cytoskeletal function for PBRM1 reading methylated microtubules (open access)

A cytoskeletal function for PBRM1 reading methylated microtubules

This article shows that that the coordinated read-write activity of the epigenetic machinery extends to the cytoskeleton, with PBRM1 in the PBAF chromatin remodeling complex reading microtubule methyl marks written by the SETD2 histone methyltransferase. This article opens a previously unknown window into how chromatin remodeler defects can drive disease via both epigenetic and cytoskeletal dysfunction.
Date: April 2, 2021
Creator: Karki, Menuka; Jangid, Rahul K.; Anish, Ramakrishnan; Seervai, Riyad N. H.; Bertocchio, Jean-Phillipe; Hotta, Takashi et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cellular Plasticity in Response to Suppression of Storage Proteins in the Brassica napus Embryo (open access)

Cellular Plasticity in Response to Suppression of Storage Proteins in the Brassica napus Embryo

Article testing the tradeoff between protein and oil storage in oilseed crops by analyzing the effect of suppressing key genes encoding protein storage products (napin and cruciferin). This study provides mechanistic insights into the intriguing link between lipid and protein storage, which have implications for biotechnological strategies directed at improving oilseed crops.
Date: April 30, 2020
Creator: Rolletschek, Hardy; Schwender, Jorg; König, Christina; Chapman, Kent Dean; Romsdahl, Trevor; Lorenz, Christin et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spatial and temporal localization of SPIRRIG and WAVE/SCAR reveal roles for these proteins in actin-mediated root hair development (open access)

Spatial and temporal localization of SPIRRIG and WAVE/SCAR reveal roles for these proteins in actin-mediated root hair development

Article shows that SPIRRIG (SPI), a beige and Chediak Higashi domain-containing protein involved in membrane trafficking, and BRK1 and SCAR2, subunits of the WAVE/SCAR (W/SC) actin nucleating promoting complex, display polarized localizations in Arabidopsis thaliana root hairs during distinct developmental stages. Authors' work uncovers a role for SPI in facilitating actin-dependent root hair development in Arabidopsis through pathways that might intersect with W/SC.
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Chin, Sabrina; Kwon, Taegun; Khan, Bibi Rafeiza; Sparks, J. Alan; Mallery, Eileen L.; Szymanski, Daniel B. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exposure to diesel exhaust particulates and desert sand dust generates microvesicle particles and platelet-activating factor agonists (open access)

Exposure to diesel exhaust particulates and desert sand dust generates microvesicle particles and platelet-activating factor agonists

The authors address the editor in their article, stating that the majority of the general population, particularly, servicemen and women deployed across the globe are exposed to various airborne hazards, including diesel exhaust particulate (DEP) and desert sand dust (DSD). Studies, including the author's study, have shown that exposure to ROS-generating pro-oxidative stressors ranging from environmental carcinogens to pollutants, including cigarette smoke, produces a class of potent phospholipid mediators, Platelet-activating factor (PAF) and PAF-like agonists via oxidative cleavage of lipid membrane glycerophosphocholines (GPCs).
Date: April 8, 2023
Creator: Thyagarajan, Anita; Rapp, Christine M.; Schneider, Leah; Lund, Amie K.; Travers, Jeffrey B. & Sahu, Ravi P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Molecular Simulation Strategies for Understanding the Degradation Mechanisms of Acrylic Polymers (open access)

Molecular Simulation Strategies for Understanding the Degradation Mechanisms of Acrylic Polymers

Article describes how acrylic polymers, commonly used in paints, can degrade over time by several different chemical and physical mechanisms, depending on structure and exposure conditions. In this work, the authors studied the effects of different degradation mechanisms and agents on properties of acrylic polymers found in artists’ acrylic paints for the first time using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations.
Date: April 19, 2023
Creator: Iscen, Aysenur; Forero-Martinez, Nancy C.; Valsson, Omar & Kremer, Kurt
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Remarkable Difference in Pharmacokinetics of Fluorinated Versus Iodinated Photosensitizers Derived from Chlorophyll-a and a Direct Correlation between the Tumor Uptake and Anti-Cancer Activity (open access)

A Remarkable Difference in Pharmacokinetics of Fluorinated Versus Iodinated Photosensitizers Derived from Chlorophyll-a and a Direct Correlation between the Tumor Uptake and Anti-Cancer Activity

Article says that to investigate and compare the pharmacokinetic profile and anti-cancer activity of fluorinated and iodinated photosensitizers (PSs), the 3-(1′-(o-fluorobenzyloxy)ethyl pyropheophorbide and the corresponding meta-(m-) and para (p-) fluorinated analogs (methyl esters and carboxylic acids) were synthesized. According to the authors, the nature of the delivery vehicle and tumor types showed a significant difference in uptake and long-term cure by photodynamic therapy (PDT), especially in the iodinated PS.
Date: April 27, 2023
Creator: Pandurang, Taur Prakash; Cacaccio, Joseph; Durrani, Farukh A.; Dukh, Mykhaylo; Alsaleh, Ajyal Z.; Sajjad, Munawwar et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Acetaldehyde oxidation at elevated pressure (open access)

Acetaldehyde oxidation at elevated pressure

A detailed chemical kinetic model for oxidation of CH3CHO at intermediate to high temperature and elevated pressure has been developed and evaluated by comparing predictions to novel high-pressure flow reactor experiments as well as shock tube ignition delay measurements and jet-stirred reactor data from literature. The flow reactor experiments were conducted with a slightly lean CH3CHO/O2 mixture highly diluted in N2 at 600–900 K and pressures of 25 and 100 bar. This is the accepted manuscript version of the published article.
Date: April 10, 2021
Creator: Hashemi, Hamid; Christensen, Jakob M.; Marshall, Paul & Glarborg, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental and kinetic modeling study of oxidation of acetonitrile (open access)

Experimental and kinetic modeling study of oxidation of acetonitrile

Article asserts that oxidation of acetonitrile has been studied in a flow reactor in the absence and presence of nitric oxide. A detailed chemical kinetic model for oxidation of acetonitrile was developed, based on a critical evaluation of data from literature. This is the accepted manuscript version of the published article.
Date: April 10, 2021
Creator: Alzueta, María U.; Guerrero, Marta; Millera, Angela; Marshall, Paul & Glarborg, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library
A multiscale approach reveals elaborate circulatory system and intermittent heartbeat in velvet worms (Onychophora) (open access)

A multiscale approach reveals elaborate circulatory system and intermittent heartbeat in velvet worms (Onychophora)

Article describes how an antagonistic hemolymph-muscular system is essential for soft-bodied invertebrates. The authors analyzed the entire circulatory system of the peripatopsid Euperipatoides rowelli and claimed they discovered a surprisingly elaborate organization.
Date: April 28, 2023
Creator: Jahn, Henry; Hammel, Jörg U.; Göpel, Torben; Wirkner, Christian S. & Mayer, Georg
System: The UNT Digital Library
Small businesses and government assistance during COVID-19: Evidence from the paycheck protection program in the U.S. (open access)

Small businesses and government assistance during COVID-19: Evidence from the paycheck protection program in the U.S.

Article describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented losses for small businesses in cities across the globe. The authors' study examines the spatial distribution of PPP loans at the neighborhood level.
Date: April 3, 2023
Creator: Wang, Qingfang & Kang, Wei
System: The UNT Digital Library
An experimental and modeling study on auto-ignition kinetics of ammonia/methanol mixtures at intermediate temperature and high pressure (open access)

An experimental and modeling study on auto-ignition kinetics of ammonia/methanol mixtures at intermediate temperature and high pressure

Article describes how a rapid compression machine has been applied to measure the ignition delay times of NH3/CH3OH mixtures covering pressures of 20 and 40 bar, equivalence ratios of 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0, and temperatures between 845 and 1100 K. Analysis of the pressure profiles shows three distinct ignition modes for NH3/CH3OH mixtures, facilitated by the pre-ignition heat release from NH3 consumption. A detailed mechanism for ignition of NH3/CH3OH fuel blends has been developed, capable of reproducing the ignition behavior of mixtures with reasonable accuracy.
Date: April 29, 2022
Creator: Li, Mengdi; He, Xiaoyu; Hashemi, Hamid; Glarborg, Peter; Lowe, Vincent M.; Marshall, Paul et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library