Epigenetic reprogramming converts human Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cells into functional cardiomyocytes by differential regulation of Wnt mediators (open access)

Epigenetic reprogramming converts human Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cells into functional cardiomyocytes by differential regulation of Wnt mediators

This article studies the differentiation of human Wharton's jelly mesenchymal stem cells into the cardiomyocyte lineage via epigenetic manipulations.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: Bhuvanalakshmi, G.; Arfuso, Frank; Kumar, Alan Prem; Dharmarajan, Arunasalam & Warrier, Sudha R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inadequate thermal refuge constrains landscape habitability for a grassland bird species (open access)

Inadequate thermal refuge constrains landscape habitability for a grassland bird species

This article uses the northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) as a model species for studying how microclimates serve as refuge against severe weather conditions.
Date: April 11, 2017
Creator: Tomecek, John M.; Pierce, Brian L.; Reyna, Kelly S. & Peterson, Markus J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Updated Understanding of Texas Bumble Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Species Presence and Potential Distributions in Texas, Usa (open access)

An Updated Understanding of Texas Bumble Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Species Presence and Potential Distributions in Texas, Usa

This article aims to update existing Texas bumble bee presence databases, model statewide species distributions, and identify conservation target areas.
Date: August 10, 2017
Creator: Beckham, Jessica L. & Atkinson, Samuel F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Porphyrinoid rotaxanes: building a mechanical picket fence (open access)

Porphyrinoid rotaxanes: building a mechanical picket fence

This article describes the active template CuAAC synthesis of interlocked triazole functionalised porphyrinoids in excellent yield.
Date: August 3, 2017
Creator: Ngo, T. H.; Labuta, J.; Lim, G. N.; Webre, W. A.; D'Souza, Francis; Karr, P. A. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Descriptors for Pentane-2,4-dione and Its Derivatives (open access)

Descriptors for Pentane-2,4-dione and Its Derivatives

This article uses equations for partition coefficients of compounds from water and the gas phase to various solvents to obtain descriptors for pentane-2,4-dione and 21 of its derivatives.
Date: August 19, 2017
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extensive shared polymorphism at non-MHC immune genes in recently diverged North American prairie grouse (open access)

Extensive shared polymorphism at non-MHC immune genes in recently diverged North American prairie grouse

This article investigates the patterns of shared polymorphism and selection at non-MHC immune genes in five grouse species from Centrocercus and Tympanuchus genera.
Date: August 2, 2017
Creator: Minias, Piotr; Bateson, Zachary W.; Whittingham, Linda A.; Johnson, Jeff A.; Oyler-McCance, Sara & Dunn, Peter O.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral Spore-Based Probiotic Supplementation Was Associated With Reduced Incidence of Post-Prandial Dietary Endotoxin, Triglycerides, and Disease Risk Biomarkers (open access)

Oral Spore-Based Probiotic Supplementation Was Associated With Reduced Incidence of Post-Prandial Dietary Endotoxin, Triglycerides, and Disease Risk Biomarkers

This article contains a study to determine if 30-d of oral spore-based probiotic supplementation could reduce dietary endotoxemia.
Date: January 26, 2017
Creator: McFarlin, Brian K.; Henning, Andrea L.; Bowman, Erin M.; Gary, Melody A. & Carbajal, Kimberly M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Synthesis of Amorphous InSb Nanowires and a Study of the Effects of Laser Radiation and Thermal Annealing on Nanowire Crystallinity (open access)

Synthesis of Amorphous InSb Nanowires and a Study of the Effects of Laser Radiation and Thermal Annealing on Nanowire Crystallinity

This article presents a strategy to grow amorphous InSb (a-InSb) nanowires (NWs) in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system.
Date: August 9, 2018
Creator: Algarni, Zaina; Singh, Abhay & Philipose, Usha
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential-induced nanoclustering of metallic catalysts during electrochemical CO2 reduction (open access)

Potential-induced nanoclustering of metallic catalysts during electrochemical CO2 reduction

This article reveals the unique and general degradation mechanism of metallic nanocatalysts during electrochemical CO₂ reduction, exemplified by different sized copper nanocubes.
Date: August 6, 2018
Creator: Huang, Jianfeng; Hörmann, Nicolas; Oveisi, Emad; Loiudice, Anna; De Gregorio, Gian Luca; Andreussi, Oliviero et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
N-Doped graphene/C₆₀ covalent hybrid as a new material for energy harvesting applications (open access)

N-Doped graphene/C₆₀ covalent hybrid as a new material for energy harvesting applications

This article systematically investigates the degree of functionalization and the key structural features of the N-G/C₆₀ hybrid by a number of techniques including thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray photoelectron and Raman spectroscopies and transmission electron and atomic force microscopies.
Date: August 26, 2018
Creator: Barrejón, Myriam; Arellano, Luis M.; Gobeze, Habtom B.; Gómez-Escalonilla, María J.; Fierro, Jose Luis G.; D'Souza, Francis et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gene regulatory networks for lignin biosynthesis in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) (open access)

Gene regulatory networks for lignin biosynthesis in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum)

This article presents a combination of computational and experimental approaches to develop gene regulatory networks for lignin formation in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), which has been selected as a biofuel crop in the United States.
Date: May 11, 2018
Creator: Rao, Xiaolan; Chen, Xin; Shen, Hui; Ma, Qin; Li, Guifen; Tang, Yuhong et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Systematic Comparison of Power Corridor Classification Methods from ALS Point Clouds (open access)

Systematic Comparison of Power Corridor Classification Methods from ALS Point Clouds

Study examines factors that affect power corridor classification using LiDAR (light detection and ranging) point clouds, including the class distribution, feature selection, classifier type and neighborhood radius for classification feature extraction.
Date: August 21, 2019
Creator: Peng, Shuwen; Xi, Xiaohuan; Wang, Cheng; Dong, Pinliang; Wang, Pu & Nie, Sheng
System: The UNT Digital Library
p63 and SOX2 Dictate Glucose Reliance and Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Squamous Cell Carcinomas (open access)

p63 and SOX2 Dictate Glucose Reliance and Metabolic Vulnerabilities in Squamous Cell Carcinomas

Article identifies exceptional glucose reliance among squamous cell carcinomas (SCC)s dictated by hyperactive GLUT1-mediated glucose influx.
Date: August 13, 2019
Creator: Hsieh, Meng-Hsiung; Choe, Joshua H.; Gadhvi, Jashkaran; Kim, Yoon Jung; Arguez, Marcus A.; Palmer, Madison et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Occurrence of excited state charge separation in a N-doped graphene–perylenediimide hybrid formed via ‘click’ chemistry (open access)

Occurrence of excited state charge separation in a N-doped graphene–perylenediimide hybrid formed via ‘click’ chemistry

Article describes study in which researchers, using click chemistry, synthesized a donor–acceptor hybrid comprised of N-doped graphene and perylenediimide (PDI), a well-known electron-accepting photosensitizer.
Date: August 30, 2019
Creator: Gobeze, Habtom B.; Arellano, Luis M.; Gutiérrez-Vílchez, Ana María; Gómez-Escalonilla, María J.; Sastre-Santos, Ángela; Fernández-Lázaro, Fernando et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A gene based approach to test genetic association based on an optimally weighted combination of multiple traits (open access)

A gene based approach to test genetic association based on an optimally weighted combination of multiple traits

In this article, the authors propose a statistical method by Testing an Optimally Weighted Combination of Multiple traits (TOW-CM) to test the association between multiple traits and multiple variants in a genomic region (a gene or pathway). They investigate the performance of the proposed method through extensive simulation studies. Their simulation studies show that the proposed method has correct type I error rates and is either the most powerful test or comparable with the most powerful tests. Additionally, they illustrate the usefulness of TOW-CM based on a COPDGene study.
Date: August 9, 2019
Creator: Zhang, Jianjun; Sha, Qiuying; Liu, Guanfu & Wang, Xuexia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Permutation Complexity Related to the Letter Doubling Map (open access)

Permutation Complexity Related to the Letter Doubling Map

Article presented at the 8th International Conference Words 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic. This article investigates the combinatorial complexity of infinite permutations on N associated with the image of uniformly recurrent aperiodic binary words under the letter doubling map.
Date: August 17, 2011
Creator: Widmer, Steven
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dense Locally Finite Subgroups of Automorphism Groups of Ultraextensive Spaces (open access)

Dense Locally Finite Subgroups of Automorphism Groups of Ultraextensive Spaces

Article verifying a conjecture of Vershik by showing that Hall’s universal countable locally finite group can be embedded as a dense subgroup in the isometry group of the Urysohn space and in the automorphism group of the random graph. It shows the same for all automorphism groups of known infinite ultraextensive spaces.
Date: August 18, 2021
Creator: Etedadialiabadi, Mahmood; Gao, Su; Le Maître, François & Melleray, Julien
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deep Minimum and a Vortex for Positronium Formation in Low-Energy Positron-Helium Collisions (open access)

Deep Minimum and a Vortex for Positronium Formation in Low-Energy Positron-Helium Collisions

This article finds a zero in the positronium formation scattering amplitude and a deep minimum in the logarithm of the corresponding differential cross section for positron–helium collisions for an energy just above the positronium formation threshold. Results show that there is a valley in the logarithm of the positronium formation differential cross section that includes the deep minimum and also a minimum in the forward direction.
Date: August 6, 2021
Creator: Alrowaily, Albandari W.; Quintanilla, Sandra J. & Van Reeth, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Neutral Red as a pH/pCO2 Luminescent Sensor for Biological Systems (open access)

Development of Neutral Red as a pH/pCO2 Luminescent Sensor for Biological Systems

This article demonstrates for the first time that Neutral Red (NR) can also serve as a CO2 sensor, because of NR’s unique optical properties, which change with dissolved carbon dioxide (dCO2) concentrations. In this article optical sensitivity of NR was quantified as a function of changes in absorption and emission spectra to dCO2 in a pH 7.3 buffer medium at eight dCO2 concentrations.
Date: August 5, 2021
Creator: Ericson, Megan N.; Shankar, Sindhu K.; Chahine, Laya M.; Omary, Mohammad A.; Hunt von Herbing, Ione & Marpu, Sreekar
System: The UNT Digital Library
High degree of non-genetic phenotypic variation in the vascular system of crayfish: a discussion of possible causes and implications (open access)

High degree of non-genetic phenotypic variation in the vascular system of crayfish: a discussion of possible causes and implications

This article studies the hemolymph vascular system (HVS) in two cambarid crayfishes, i.e. the Marbled Crayfish, Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017 and the Spiny Cheek Crayfish, Faxonius limosus (Rafinesque, 1817) in regard to areas of non-genetic phenotypic variation.
Date: August 12, 2021
Creator: Scholz, Stephan; Göpel, Torben; Richter, Stefan & Wirkner, Christian S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inhibition of Very Long Chain Fatty Acids Synthesis Mediates PI3P Homeostasis at Endosomal Compartments (open access)

Inhibition of Very Long Chain Fatty Acids Synthesis Mediates PI3P Homeostasis at Endosomal Compartments

This article uses metazachlor, an inhibitor of VLCFA synthesis, to find that VLCFAs are involved in the TGN/MVB distribution of PI3P. This effect is independent from either synthesis of PI3P by PI3-kinase or degradation of PI(3,5)P2 into PI3P by the SUPPRESSOR OF ACTIN1 (SAC1) phosphatase. Results suggest that PI3P might be transferable from TGN to MVBs and that VLCFAs act in this process.
Date: August 6, 2021
Creator: Ito, Yoko; Esnay, Nicolas; Fougère, Louise; Platre, Matthieu Pierre; Cordelières, Fabrice; Jaillais, Yvon et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnesium and Fibromyalgia: A Literature Review (open access)

Magnesium and Fibromyalgia: A Literature Review

This article investigates if the widespread use of magnesium in fibromyalgia is supported by evidence in the literature. This review provides a layout of the studies examining the correlation between body magnesium levels and fibromyalgia and elaborates on the trials testing the effectiveness of magnesium in treating different clinical parameters of fibromyalgia.
Date: August 14, 2021
Creator: Boulis, Michael; Boulis, Mary & Clauw, Daniel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Model checking via testing for direct effects in Mendelian Randomization and transcriptome-wide association studies (open access)

Model checking via testing for direct effects in Mendelian Randomization and transcriptome-wide association studies

This article proposes a new and general goodness-of-fit (GOF) test, called TEDE (TEsting Direct Effects), applicable to both correlated and independent SNPs/IVs as commonly used in transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) and Mendelian randomization (MR) respectively.
Date: August 2, 2021
Creator: Deng, Yangqing & Pan, Wei
System: The UNT Digital Library
Patch characteristics and domestic dogs differentially affect carnivore space use in fragmented landscapes in southern Chile (open access)

Patch characteristics and domestic dogs differentially affect carnivore space use in fragmented landscapes in southern Chile

This article's aim is to determine whether (a) the spatial use of domestic dogs increases with habitat destruction, and (b) domestic dogs and habitat destruction drive the spatial use of native carnivores in a heavily degraded agricultural landscape. Conclusions highlight that domestic dog occupancy was positively correlated with habitat loss and future conditions of increased fragmentation and habitat loss will likely increase the potential contact between domestic dogs and native carnivores.
Date: August 30, 2021
Creator: Malhotra, Rumaan; Jiménez, Jaime E. & Harris, Nyeema C;
System: The UNT Digital Library