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N-acylethanolamide metabolizing enzymes are upregulated in human neural progenitor-derived neurons exposed to sub-lethal oxidative stress (open access)

N-acylethanolamide metabolizing enzymes are upregulated in human neural progenitor-derived neurons exposed to sub-lethal oxidative stress

Article is a study determining whether ReN cells, a superior cell model system for studying neurodevelopment, differentiation, and neuroprotection, express proteins involved in canonical eCB NAE signaling and whether oxidative stress can induce their expression. This study is a first step toward determining how oxidative stress affects CB1, CB2, FAAH, NAAA, and NAPE-PLD expression and their potential defense against oxidative stress.
Date: August 8, 2022
Creator: Duncan, Scott R.; Riordan, Sean M.; Hall, Conner W.; Payne, Andrew J.; Chapman, Kent Dean & Koulen, Peter
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Amplification of photoacoustic effect in bimodal polymer particles by self-quenching of indocyanine green (open access)

Amplification of photoacoustic effect in bimodal polymer particles by self-quenching of indocyanine green

This article presents a new type of bimodal contrast agent that is based on the self-quenching of indocyanine green (ICG) encapsulated in a biocompatible and biodegradable polymer shell.
Date: August 23, 2019
Creator: Mokrousov, Maksim D.; Novoselova, Marina V.; Nolan, Jackie; Harrington, Walter; Rudakovskaya, Polina; Bratashov, Daniil N. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of Pectin-derived Monosaccharides from Arabidopsis Using GC–MS (open access)

Analysis of Pectin-derived Monosaccharides from Arabidopsis Using GC–MS

Article describes how pectin is a complex polysaccharide present in the plant cell wall, whose composition is constantly remodeled to adapt to environmental or developmental changes. Here, authors describe a quick and efficient gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS)-based method that allows the differential analysis of pectin monosaccharide composition in plants under different conditions or between mutant plants and their respective wild types.
Date: August 20, 2023
Creator: Scholz, Patricia; Chapman, Kent Dean; Ischebeck, Till & Guzha, Athanas
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A brief guide to polymer characterization: structure (IUPAC Technical Report) (open access)

A brief guide to polymer characterization: structure (IUPAC Technical Report)

Article states that to bolster the series of Brief Guides released by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, the authors introduce the first Brief Guide to Polymer Characterization. This article provides a concise overview of characterization methods for teachers, students, non-specialists, and newcomers to polymer science as well as being a useful manual for researchers and technicians.
Date: August 16, 2023
Creator: Topham, Paul D.; Boucher, Raymond J.; Chang, Taihyun; Smrčková, Miroslava D.; Farrell, Wesley S.; He, Jiasong et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Case report: Early-onset osteoporosis in a patient carrying a novel heterozygous variant of the WNT1 gene (open access)

Case report: Early-onset osteoporosis in a patient carrying a novel heterozygous variant of the WNT1 gene

Article presents a case study of a 35 year-old Caucasian woman who experienced multiple vertebral fractures two months after her second pregnancy. The results suggest a potential role of heterozygous WNT1 variants in the pathogenesis of early-onset osteoporosis. The authors suggest that teriparatide is one of the most appropriate available therapies for such cases.
Date: August 8, 2022
Creator: Campopiano, Maria Cristina; Fogli, Antonella; Michelucci, Angela; Mazoni, Laura; Longo, Antonella; Borsari, Simona et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cluster Transfer Function of AtNEET Supports the Ferredoxin–Thioredoxin Network of Plant Cells (open access)

The Cluster Transfer Function of AtNEET Supports the Ferredoxin–Thioredoxin Network of Plant Cells

This article develops an inducible expression system to study AtNEET function in mature plants using a time-course proteomics approach. The authors report that the suppression of AtNEET cluster transfer function results in drastic changes in the expression of different members of the ferredoxin (Fd), Fd-thioredoxin (TRX) reductase (FTR), and TRX network of Arabidopsis, as well as in cytosolic cluster assembly proteins.
Date: August 6, 2022
Creator: Zandalinas, Sara I.; Song, Luhua; Nechushtai, Rachel; Mendoza-Cózatl, David & Mittler, Ron
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Diet Analysis of Barn Owl (Tyto alba) and Long- Eared Owl (Asio otus) in a Habitat Island in North-Central Texas (open access)

Comparative Diet Analysis of Barn Owl (Tyto alba) and Long- Eared Owl (Asio otus) in a Habitat Island in North-Central Texas

Article filling the regional gap in knowledge of diet composition of the barn owl (Tyto alba) and the long-eared owl (Asio otus). The study was conducted at the Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area (LLELA) and examined the remains found in owl pellets collected September 2016 to March 2017.
Date: August 22, 2020
Creator: Jiménez, Jaime E.; Jones, Matthew K.; Stoddart, Kaitlyn; Dickson, Sentell; Chapman, Abigail; Baxter-Slye, Jaime L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Correlation consistent basis sets designed for density functional theory: Second-row (Al-Ar) (open access)

Correlation consistent basis sets designed for density functional theory: Second-row (Al-Ar)

Article presenting cc-pV(n+d)Z correlation consistent basis sets of double- through quintuple-ζ quality for the atoms Al-Ar that have been modified for use with density functional theory (DFT). These basis set modifications include truncation of high-angular momentum basis functions, recontraction of the s- and p-functions, and reoptimization of basis function exponents with generalized gradient approximation and hybrid-DFT functionals. The effects of basis set truncation, recontraction, and reoptimization are shown to improve convergence behavior in atomic energies as well as dissociation energies and enthalpies of formation.
Date: June 8, 2019
Creator: Mahler, Andrew; Determan, John J. & Wilson, Angela K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crucial Development: Criticality Is Important to Cell-to-Cell Communication and Information Transfer in Living Systems (open access)

Crucial Development: Criticality Is Important to Cell-to-Cell Communication and Information Transfer in Living Systems

This article is the fourth paper of the Special Issue Memory and Criticality. It bridges the the theoretical debate on the role of memory and criticality discussed in the three earlier manuscripts, with a review of key concepts in biology and focus on cell-to-cell communication in organismal development. The authors suggest that in conjunction with morphogenetic gradients, there exist gradients of information transfer creating cybernetic loops of stability and disorder, setting the stage for adaptive capability. Criticality, therefore, appears to be an important factor in the transmission, transfer and coding of information for complex adaptive system development.
Date: August 31, 2021
Creator: Hunt von Herbing, Ione; Tonello, Lucio; Benfatto, Maurizio; Pease, April & Grigolini, Paolo
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
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)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detection of Pancreatic Cancer miRNA with Biocompatible Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots (open access)

Detection of Pancreatic Cancer miRNA with Biocompatible Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Quantum Dots

Article detects the presence of a specific pancreatic cancer-derived miRNA (pre-miR-132) using the fluorescence properties of biocompatible nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots (NGQDs) synthesized using a bottom-up approach from a single glucosamine precursor. This non-invasive approach allows cancer-specific miRNA detection to facilitate early diagnosis of various forms of cancer.
Date: August 20, 2022
Creator: Ajgaonkar, Ryan; Lee, Bong; Valimukhametova, Alina; Nguyen, Steven; Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Roberto; Coffer, Jeffery et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of advanced biocatalyst tools and resources to enable biogas-based biomanufacturing (open access)

Development of advanced biocatalyst tools and resources to enable biogas-based biomanufacturing

Data management plan for the grant, "Development of advanced biocatalyst tools and resources to enable biogas-based biomanufacturing."
Date: 2022-08-15/2025-07-31
Creator: Henard, Calvin
Object Type: Text
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of Novel Approaches to Earth-abundant Methane Catalysis (open access)

Development of Novel Approaches to Earth-abundant Methane Catalysis

Data management plan for the grant "Development of Novel Approaches to Earth-abundant Methane Catalysis." Research on catalytic cycles for C–H activation and functionalization of light alkanes based on the CMD (concerted metalation deprotonation) mechanism will be modeled for Earth-abundant metal dicarboxylates and related complexes. The impact of inner and outer coordination sphere effects upon catalytic cycles for light alkane functionalization will be assessed using computational chemistry techniques. The aforementioned studies will be leveraged to identify promising, synthetically feasible lead catalysts for experimental collaborators.
Date: 2021-08-15/2024-08-14
Creator: Cundari, Thomas R., 1964-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Diverse values of nature for sustainability (open access)

Diverse values of nature for sustainability

Article describes how, twenty-five years since foundational publications on valuing ecosystems services for human well-being, addressing the global biodiversity crisis still implied confronting barriers to incorporating nature's diverse values into decision-making. The authors assert that a better understanding of how and why nature is (under)valued is more urgent than ever.
Date: August 9, 2023
Creator: Pascual, Unai; Balvanera, Patricia; Anderson, Christopher B.; Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca; Christie, Michael; González-Jiménez, David et al.
Object Type: Article
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editorial: Microbial C1 Metabolism and Biotechnology (open access)

Editorial: Microbial C1 Metabolism and Biotechnology

This article is an editorial on the research topic Microbial C1 Metabolism and Biotechnology. This special topic presents studies focused on the fundamental aspects of C1 metabolism in diverse microbial systems with the ability to convert anthropogenic greenhouse gases into valuable products.
Date: August 27, 2021
Creator: Xiong, Wei; Kalyuzhnaya, Marina G. & Henard, Calvin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electron Irradiation of Graphene in Air at Atmospheric Pressure: a Method for Hydrogenating Graphene for Hydrogen Storage Applications (open access)

Electron Irradiation of Graphene in Air at Atmospheric Pressure: a Method for Hydrogenating Graphene for Hydrogen Storage Applications

Data management plan for the grant, "Electron Irradiation of Graphene in Air at Atmospheric Pressure: a Method for Hydrogenating Graphene for Hydrogen Storage Applications."
Date: 2023-08-01/2026-07-31
Creator: Pérez, José M.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elucidating the role of negative parenting in the genetic v. environmental influences on adult psychopathic traits (open access)

Elucidating the role of negative parenting in the genetic v. environmental influences on adult psychopathic traits

Article states that though adult psychopathic traits emerge from both genetic and environmental risk, no studies have examined etiologic associations between adult psychopathic traits and experiences of parenting in childhood, or the extent to which parenting practices may impact the heritability of adult psychopathic traits using a genetically-informed design. Utilizing a genetically-informed design, the authors found that both genetic and non-shared environmental factors contribute to the emergence of psychopathic traits.
Date: August 12, 2021
Creator: Dotterer, Hailey L.; Vazquez, Alexandra Y.; Hyde, Luke W.; Neumann, Craig S.; Santtila, Pekka; Pezzoli, Patrizia et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Encroachment order and spatial patterns of broad-leaf tree species in the naturalization of a Cunninghamia lanceolata plantation (open access)

Encroachment order and spatial patterns of broad-leaf tree species in the naturalization of a Cunninghamia lanceolata plantation

Authors of the article state that the aim of this study was to understand the encroachment order, spatial patterns, interspecific associations, and species diversity of a Cunninghamia lanceolata plantation and to provide context for how to improve the spatial structure of C. lanceolata plantations. Their results show that the encroachment of broad-leaf trees into the C. lanceolata plantation followed a clear successional sequence of tree community assembly: intolerant tree species encroachment first, such as Alniphyllum fortunei and Liquidambar formosana, encroached; neutral tree species then encroachment, such as Daphniphyllum oldhamii and Schima superba, and shade-tolerant tree species encroachment last, such as Castanopsis eyrei and Castanopsis tibetana.
Date: August 3, 2022
Creator: Zeng, Xiaoxia; Chen, Lin; Compson, Zacchaeus Greg; Li, Jiejun; Peng, Qiaohua; Gong, Chao et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhanced Photoluminescence and Prolonged Carrier Lifetime through Laser Radiation Hardening and Self-Healing in Aged MAPbBr3 Perovskites Encapsulated in NiO Nanotubes (open access)

Enhanced Photoluminescence and Prolonged Carrier Lifetime through Laser Radiation Hardening and Self-Healing in Aged MAPbBr3 Perovskites Encapsulated in NiO Nanotubes

Article describes how organic-inorganic perovskites hold great promise as optoelectronic semiconductors for pure color light emitting and photovoltaic devices. This paper investigates the laser radiation hardening and self-healing-induced properties of aged MAPbBr3 perovskites encapsulated in NiO nanotubes (MAPbBr3@NiO) using photoluminescence (PL) and fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM). After deliberately subjecting the MAPbBr3@ NiO to atmospheric conditions for two years, the sample remains remarkably stable.
Date: August 31, 2023
Creator: Kamau, Steve; Rodriguez, Roberto Gonzalez; Jiang, Yan; Mondragon, Araceli Herrera; Varghese, Sinto; Hurley, Noah et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental filtering of macroinvertebrate traits influences ecosystem functioning in a large river floodplain (open access)

Environmental filtering of macroinvertebrate traits influences ecosystem functioning in a large river floodplain

Article describes how the biodiversity–ecosystem function hypothesis postulates that higher biodiversity is correlated with faster ecosystem process rates and increased ecosystem stability in fluctuating environments. The authors examined linkages among floodplain wetland habitats, invertebrate communities and their associated traits, and ecosystem function across 60 sites within the floodplain wetlands of the lower Wolastoq, Saint John River, New Brunswick.
Date: August 20, 2022
Creator: Rideout, Natalie K.; Compson, Zacchaeus Greg; Monk, Wendy A.; Brunce, Meghann R.; Hajibabaei, Mehrdad; Porter, Teresita M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library