Brain Inflammation, Blood Brain Barrier dysfunction and Neuronal Synaptophysin Decrease after Inhalation Exposure to Titanium Dioxide Nano-aerosol in Aging Rats (open access)

Brain Inflammation, Blood Brain Barrier dysfunction and Neuronal Synaptophysin Decrease after Inhalation Exposure to Titanium Dioxide Nano-aerosol in Aging Rats

This article focuses on the consequences of TiO₂ distribution on the central nervous system and particularly on the blood-brain barrier functions.
Date: June 15, 2017
Creator: Disdier, Clémence; Chalansonnet, Monique; Gagnaire, François; Gaté, Laurent; Cosnier, Frédéric; Devoy, Jérôme et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization (open access)

An “ideal lignin” facilitates full biomass utilization

This article describes the ideal nature of the Catechyl lignin (C-lignin) via a revised compositional characterization of the vanilla seed coat fiber, new features of the C-lignin's reactivity and stability, and successful attempts at converting it to monomers in near-quantitative yields.
Date: September 28, 2018
Creator: Li, Yanding; Shuai, Li; Kim, Hoon; Hussain Motagamwala, Ali; Mobley, Justin K.; Yue, Fengxia et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mechanical Properties of Chemically Modified Clay (open access)

Mechanical Properties of Chemically Modified Clay

Article uses first principles methods to compare the mechanical properties of lizardite Mg3(Si2O5)(OH)4, a polymorph of serpentine family, with the new compounds derived by substituting Mg ions with isovalent elements from different chemical groups.
Date: September 23, 2019
Creator: Gusmão, M. S.; Gopal, Priya; Siloi, Ilaria; Curtarolo, Stefano; Fornari, Marco & Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tunable Hybrid Phononic Crystal Lens Using Thermo-Acoustic Polymers (open access)

Tunable Hybrid Phononic Crystal Lens Using Thermo-Acoustic Polymers

Article describes a study where a tunable hybrid solid ultrasonic lens is realized by combining a PnC lens with PVA-PNIPAm thermoacoustic hydrogel to modify the transmission and dispersion properties of transient acoustic waves.
Date: September 30, 2019
Creator: Walker, Ezekiel; Reyes-Contreras, Delfino; Jin, Yuqi & Neogi, Arup
System: The UNT Digital Library
GAW20: methods and strategies for the new frontiers of epigenetics and pharmacogenomics (open access)

GAW20: methods and strategies for the new frontiers of epigenetics and pharmacogenomics

Article presents an overview of the data sets and the contributions analyzing data related to human lipid-related phenotypes, DNA methylation, and single-nucleotide markers in a study involving a pharmaceutical intervention.
Date: September 17, 2018
Creator: Tintle, Nathan L.; Fardo, David W.; de Andrade, Mariza; Aslibekyan, Stella; Bailey, Julia N.; Bermejo, Justo Lorenzo et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
State of the world's raptors: Distributions, threats, and conservation recommendations (open access)

State of the world's raptors: Distributions, threats, and conservation recommendations

Article exploring the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List to examine the conservation status, distributions, threats, and conservation recommendations for all 557 raptor species.
Date: September 6, 2018
Creator: McClure, Christopher J.W.; Westrip, James R.S.; Johnson, Jeff A.; Schulwitz, Sarah; Virani, Munir Z.; Davies, Robert et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A dynamic model of lignin biosynthesis in Brachypodium distachyon (open access)

A dynamic model of lignin biosynthesis in Brachypodium distachyon

Article proposes a dynamic mathematical model that integrates various datasets and other information regarding the lignin pathway in Brachypodium distachyon and permits explanations for some counterintuitive observations.
Date: September 19, 2018
Creator: Faraji, Mojdeh; Fonseca, Luis L.; Escamilla-Treviño, Luis; Barros-Rios, Jaime; Engle, Nancy L.; Yang, Zamin K. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A dynamic model of lignin biosynthesis in Brachypodium distachyon (open access)

A dynamic model of lignin biosynthesis in Brachypodium distachyon

This article proposes a dynamic mathematical model that integrates various datasets and other information regarding the lignin pathway in Brachypodium distachyon and permits explanations for some counterintuitive observations.
Date: September 19, 2018
Creator: Faraji, Mojdeh; Fonseca, Luis L.; Escamilla-Treviño, Luis; Barros, Jaime; Engle, Nancy L.; Yang, Zamin K. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revisiting surface core-level shifts for ionic compounds (open access)

Revisiting surface core-level shifts for ionic compounds

Article establishing a theoretical method which is able to relate the binding energy shifts to the electronic structure of a material. In order to establish such a methodology, the CaO(100) surface to bulk core-level binding energy shifts are studied with Hartree-Fock and density-functional theory methods using both cluster and periodic slab models.
Date: September 12, 2019
Creator: Bagus, Paul S.; Nelin, Connie J.; Zhao, Xunhua; Levchenko, Sergey V.; Davis, Earl; Weng, Xuefei et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library