Ab Initio Calculations and Kinetic Modeling of Thermal Conversion of Methyl Chloride: Implications for Gasification of Biomass

This article investigates the thermal conversion of CH₃Cl.
Date: November 8, 2017
Creator: Singla, Mellika; Rasmussen, Morten Lund; Hashemi, Hamid; Wu, Hao; Glarborg, Peter; Pelucchi, Matteo et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments on "Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Data of Cefpiramide in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvents" (open access)

Comments on "Solubility and Dissolution Thermodynamic Data of Cefpiramide in Pure Solvents and Binary Solvents"

Abstract: Errors are found in the mathematical correlation based on the combined Jouyban-Acree and Modified Apelblat model for describing the variation in the mole fraction solubility of cefpiramide with temperature and solvent composition for the binary aqueous-ethanol solvent system. The equation coefficents given by Tang and coworkers, when substituted into the model equation, do not yield the authors' calculated mole fraction solubilities of cefpiramide.
Date: January 24, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Draft Genome Sequence of the Cyanotroph Pseudomonas monteilii BCN3 (open access)

Draft Genome Sequence of the Cyanotroph Pseudomonas monteilii BCN3

This article reports the first draft genome of Pseudomonas monteilii BCN3, a cyanotroph isolated from sewage sludge.
Date: January 3, 2019
Creator: Jones, Lauren B. & Kunz, Daniel A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compartmentation of Triacylglycerol Accumulation in Plants (open access)

Compartmentation of Triacylglycerol Accumulation in Plants

Article studying an underappreciated complexity in pathways for synthesis and accumulation of Triacylglycerols from plants, familiar to most people as vegetable oils.
Date: January 20, 2012
Creator: Chapman, Kent Dean & Ohlrogge, John B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Domestic Carnivore Interactions With Wildlife in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile: Husbandry and Perceptions of Impact From a Community Perspective (open access)

Domestic Carnivore Interactions With Wildlife in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile: Husbandry and Perceptions of Impact From a Community Perspective

This article contains results of surveys to pet owners and non-owners living in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve in order to understand husbandry and perceptions of impacts by unconfined, domestic carnivores.
Date: June 2, 2017
Creator: Schüttler, Elke; Saavedra-Aracena, Lorena & Jiménez, Jaime E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineered nonlinear materials using gold nanoantenna array (open access)

Engineered nonlinear materials using gold nanoantenna array

This article describes the use of a gold nanoantenna array to enhance both the nonlinear refractive index and two-photon absorption (2PA) of the organic dye 4,4'-bis(diphenylamino)stilbene (BDPAS), which is known as a dye with relatively large 2PA.
Date: August 21, 2017
Creator: Drachev, Vladimir P.; Kildishev, Alexander V.; Borneman, Joshua D.; Chen, Kuo-Ping; Shalaev, Vladimir; Yamnitskiy, Konstantin et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Artificially structured boundary for confinement of effectively unmagnetized cryogenic antimatter plasmas (open access)

Artificially structured boundary for confinement of effectively unmagnetized cryogenic antimatter plasmas

The article is from conference proceedings that discuss an artificially structured boundary (ABS) considered to consist of a spatially periodic arrangement of electrostatically plugged magnetic cusps. As envisioned, a non-neutral positron plasma could be confined by an ASB along its edge, and the space charge of the positron plasma would serve to confine an antiproton plasma. If the conditions of the two-species plasma are suitable, production of antihydrogen via three-body recombination for antimatter gravity studies may be possible.
Date: January 23, 2018
Creator: Hedlof, R. M. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coprologic survey of endoparasites from Darwin’s fox (Pseudalopex fulvipes) in Chiloé, Chile (open access)

Coprologic survey of endoparasites from Darwin’s fox (Pseudalopex fulvipes) in Chiloé, Chile

Article on parasite presence in the critically endangered Darwin's fox (Pseudalopex fulvipes) in Chile. Parasites found include species and genera reported for the first time in Darwin's fox.
Date: January 1, 2012
Creator: Jiménez, Jaime E.; Briceño, C.; Alcaíno, H.; Vásquez, P.; Funk, S. & González-Acuña, D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eight Genome Sequences of Cluster BE1 Phages That Infect Streptomyces Species (open access)

Eight Genome Sequences of Cluster BE1 Phages That Infect Streptomyces Species

This article reports eight newly isolated Streptomyces bacteriophages recovered using either direct plating or enrichment on three Streptomyces hosts.
Date: January 11, 2018
Creator: Hughes, Lee E.; Shaffer, Christopher D.; Ware, Vassie C.; Aguayo, Issac; Aziz, Rahat M.; Bhuiyan, Swapan et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electrodynamics of superlattices with ultra-thin metal layers: quantum Landau damping and band gaps with nonzero density of states (open access)

Electrodynamics of superlattices with ultra-thin metal layers: quantum Landau damping and band gaps with nonzero density of states

This article develops a theory of electromagnetic transmission through dielectric-metal superlattices with ultra-thin metal films, in which electron motion in the direction perpendicular to the metal surfaces is quantized.
Date: October 16, 2018
Creator: Castillo-López, S. G.; Krokhin, Arkadii A.; Makarov, N. M. & Pérez-Rodríguez, F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Upper lethal temperatures of Northern Bobwhite embryos and the thermal properties of their eggs (open access)

Upper lethal temperatures of Northern Bobwhite embryos and the thermal properties of their eggs

This article explores the upper lethal temperature for Bobwhite eggs. Results find that thermal tolerances of Northern Bobwhite embryos are high, indicating an adaptation to the naturally occurring temperature extremes in the Bobwhite's environment. However, the results also indicate that high temperatures could have plausibly contributed to the population decline observed in the Bobwhite's semi-arid range.
Date: January 1, 2012
Creator: Reyna, Kelly S. & Burggren, Warren W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multiple levers for overcoming the recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass (open access)

Multiple levers for overcoming the recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass

The article evaluates the impacts of physical, chemical and genetic interventions to improve biomass processing singly and in combination. Based on their results and literature studies, some form of non-biological augmentation will likely be necessary for the foreseeable future to achieve high total carbohydrate solubilization (TCS) for most cellulosic feedstocks. The results show that this need not necessarily involve thermochemical processing, and need not necessarily occur prior to biological conversion.
Date: January 17, 2019
Creator: Holwerda, Evert; Worthen, Robert; Kothari, Ninad; Lasky, Ronald; Davison, Brian H. (Brian Henry), 1957-; Fu, Chunxiang et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnetic plasma expulsion (open access)

Magnetic plasma expulsion

The article presents one scheme for what is referred to as magnetic plasma expulsion, which would prevent the plasma from entering a given region. Magnetic plasma expulsion techniques may allow instrumentation access to the interiors of plasmas. Magnetic plasma expulsion techniques may also make alternative approaches for magnetic plasma confinement possible. Particle-in-cell simulation with the Warp code is used to study magnetic plasma expulsion. Some conditions for achieving magnetic plasma expulsion are reported.
Date: January 16, 2018
Creator: Phillips, R. E. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A novel benzimidazole derivative, MBIC inhibits tumor growth and promotes apoptosis via activation of ROS-dependent JNK signaling pathway in hepatocellular carcinoma (open access)

A novel benzimidazole derivative, MBIC inhibits tumor growth and promotes apoptosis via activation of ROS-dependent JNK signaling pathway in hepatocellular carcinoma

This study further explores a prior screening program carried out using MTT assay that identified a series of novel benzimidazole derivatives, among which Methyl 2-(5-fluoro-2-hydroxyphenyl)-1H-benzo[d]imidazole-5-carboxylate (MBIC) showed highest anticancer efficacy compared to that of chemotherapeutic agent, cisplatin. In this article, the authors find that MBIC inhibited cell viability in different hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cell lines without exerting significant cytotoxic effects on normal liver cells. The results of this study demonstrate that MBIC may inhibit cell proliferation via ROS-mediated activation of the JNK signaling cascade in HCC cells.
Date: January 12, 2017
Creator: Dai, Xiaoyun; Wang, Ling Zhi; Deivasigamni, Amudha; Looi, Chung Yeng; Karthikeyan, Chandrabose; Trivedi, Piyush et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grand canonical simulations of electrochemical interfaces in implicit solvation models (open access)

Grand canonical simulations of electrochemical interfaces in implicit solvation models

Article discussing grand canonical simulations based on density-functional theory to study the thermodynamic properties of electrochemical interfaces of metallic electrodes in aqueous environments.
Date: August 31, 2018
Creator: Hörmann, Nicolas; Andreussi, Oliviero & Marzari, Nicola
System: The UNT Digital Library