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Biocultural Calendars Across Four Ethnolinguistic Communities in Southwestern South America
Article describes how, since the mid-20th century, the so-called Great Acceleration has amplified processes of ecosystem degradation, extinction of biological species, displacement of local peoples, losses of languages, and cultural diversity. The authors examine cultural practices and socio-environmental changes across four contrasting ethnolinguistic communities in southwestern South America, from southern to northern Chile along a marked climatic gradient to show the broad application of the concept of biocultural calendars.
Date:
April 20, 2023
Creator:
Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Álvarez, Ricardo; Castro, Victoria; Núñez, David; Ojeda, Jaime & Tauro, Alejandra
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Shedding New Light on Weak Emission-Line Quasars in the CIV-Hβ Parameter Space
Article describes how weak emission-line quasars (WLQs) are a subset of Type 1 quasars that exhibit extremely weak Lyα+N V λ1240 and/or C IV λ1549 emission lines. The authors investigate the relationship between emission-line properties and accretion rate for a sample of 230 `ordinary' Type 1 quasars and 18 WLQs at z<0.5 and 1.5<z<3.5 that have rest-frame ultraviolet and optical spectral measurements.
Date:
April 10, 2023
Creator:
Ha, Trung; Dix, Cooper; Matthews, Brandon M.; Shemmer, Ohad; Brotherton, Michael S.; Myers, Adam D. et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Thyroid hormone manipulation influences development of endothermy and hatching in white leghorn chickens (Gallus gallus)
Data collected on metabolic rates, body temperatures, morphology, plasma T3, and hatching of developing chicken embryos and hatchlings. To understand the role thyroid hormones play in hatch timing and development of thermogenic capacity and metabolic rate plasma thyroid hormone levels were manipulated in chicken embryos beginning at 80% development (day 17 of a 21-day incubation) with either a single dose of triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) or the thyroperoxidase inhibitor methimazole (MMI).
Date:
April 2023
Creator:
Rippamonti, Jessica D. & Dzialowski, Edward M. (Edward Michael)
Object Type:
Dataset
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Replicate DNA metabarcoding can discriminate seasonal and spatial abundance shifts in river macroinvertebrate assemblages
Article asserts that the delivery of consistent and accurate fine-resolution data on biodiversity using metabarcoding promises to improve environmental assessment and research. The authors propose a novel hierarchical approach to recovering abundance information from metabarcoding, and demonstrate this technique using benthic macroinvertebrates.
Date:
March 31, 2023
Creator:
Bush, A.; Compson, Z.; Rideout, N. K.; Levenstein, B.; Kattilakoski, M.; Hajibabaei, M. et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Correction: Vu et al. Specific Changes in Arabidopsis thaliana Rosette Lipids during Freezing Can Be Associated with Freezing Tolerance. Metabolites 2022, 12, 385
Article is a correction to an error in the original publication. The enzymatic step catalyzed by oxophytodienoic acid reductase 3 was misstated. A correction has been made to Section 2. Results and Discussion, Subsection 2.13. Lipids of Plants with Mutations in Lipid-Related Genes, Paragraph 1.
Date:
March 30, 2023
Creator:
Vu, Hieu Sy; Shiva, Sunitha; Samarakoon, Thilani; Li, Maoyin; Sarowar, Sujon; Roth, Mary R. et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assembling Artificial Photosynthetic Models in Water Using β-Cyclodextrin-Conjugated Phthalocyanines as Building Blocks
Article describes how two water-soluble zinc(II) phthalocyanines substituted with two or four permethylated β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) moieties at the α positions have been utilized as building blocks for the construction of artificial photosynthetic models in water. The hydrophilic and bulky β-CD moieties not only can increase the water solubility of the phthalocyanine core and prevent its stacking in water but can also bind with a tetrasulfonated zinc(II) porphyrin (ZnTPPS) and/or sodium 2-anthraquinonesulfonate (AQ) in water through host–guest interactions.
Date:
March 29, 2023
Creator:
Chen, Xiao-Fei; Gobeze, Habtom B.; D'Souza, Francis & Ng, Dennis K. P.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Preferential Solvation Study of Rosuvastatin in the {PEG400 (1) + Water (2)} Cosolvent Mixture and GastroPlus Software-Based In Vivo Predictions
Article claims that rosuvastatin (RST) is a poorly water-soluble drug responsible for limited in vivo dissolution and subsequently low oral systemic absorption (poor bioavailability). The results of inverse Kirkwood–Buff integrals showed the PS of RST by PEG400 as observed in all studied ratios of the binary mixture.
Date:
March 28, 2023
Creator:
Hussain, Afzal; Afzal, Obaid; Yasmin, Sabina; Haider, Nazima; Alfawaz Altamimi, Abdulmalik Saleh; Martínez, Fleming et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Correction: A modified aeroponic system for growing small-seeded legumes and other plants to study root systems
This is a correction to an article. The affiliation of the first author was published incorrectly.
Date:
March 25, 2023
Creator:
Cai, Jingya; Veerappan, Vijaykumar; Arildsen, Kate; Sullivan, Catrina; Piehowicz, Megan; Frugoli, Julia et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Urinary Glycosaminoglycans Are Associated with Recurrent UTI and Urobiome Ecology in Postmenopausal Women
Article asserts that glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are linear, negatively charged polysaccharides composed of repeating disaccharide units of uronic acid and amino sugars. To investigate the relationship between GAGs and recurrent urinary tract infection (rUTI), the authors profiled urinary GAGs in a controlled cohort of postmenopausal women.
Date:
March 21, 2023
Creator:
Neugent, Michael L.; Hulyalkar, Neha V.; Kumar, Ashwani; Xing, Chao; Zimmern, Philippe E.; Shulaev, Vladimir et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Highly Contiguous and Annotated Genome Assembly of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)
Article asserts that the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus; LEPC) is an iconic North American prairie grouse, renowned for ornate and spectacular breeding season displays, a species that has been declining in population across much of its historical range, with corresponding precipitous declines in contemporary population abundance, largely due to climatic and anthropogenic factors. The authors describe an annotated reference genome that was generated from a LEPC sample collected from the southern DPS.
Date:
March 17, 2023
Creator:
Black, Andrew N.; Bondo, Kristin J.; Mularo, Andrew; Hernandez, Alvaro; Yu, Yachi; Stein, Carleigh M. et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
FERONIA and wall-associated kinases coordinate defense induced by lignin modification in plant cell walls
Article discusses authors' findings that through genetic screening for suppressors of defense gene induction in the low lignin ccr1-3 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana, we found that loss of function of the receptor-like kinase FERONIA, although not restoring growth, affected cell wall remodeling and blocked release of elicitor-active pectic polysaccharides as a result of the ccr1-3 mutation. They determine that engineering plant cell walls will require development of ways to bypass endogenous pectin signaling pathways.
Date:
March 10, 2023
Creator:
Liu, Chang; Yu, Hasi; Voxeur, Aline; Rao, Xiaolan & Dixon, R. A.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Effects of cultivar and nitrogen application rate on lint, seed, oil, and protein yields of field-grown cotton
Article describes how the objective of this study was to evaluate the lint, seed, oil, and protein yield responses of cultivars with different seed mass and composition to N application rates (0–168 kg N ha−1) for field-grown cotton. The authors conclude that variability in the distribution of photosynthates to fiber and seed as well as seed oil and protein composition can significantly alter trends in fiber, seed, and seed component yields in response to cultivar or N application rates for field-grown cotton.
Date:
March 9, 2023
Creator:
Parkash, Ved; Snider, John L.; Bruce, Aaron; Ermanis, Alessandro; Virk, Gurpreet; Kaur, Navneet et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Seeing plants as never before
Authors of the article assert that imaging has long supported our ability to understand the inner life of plants, their development, and response to a dynamic environment. The purpose of this review was to provide the scientific community with an overview of current imaging methods, which rely variously on either nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), mass spectrometry (MS) or infrared (IR) spectroscopy, and to present some examples of their application in order to illustrate their utility.
Date:
March 9, 2023
Creator:
Borisjuk, Ljudmilla; Horn, Patrick J.; Chapman, Kent Dean; Jakob, Peter M.; Gündel, Andre & Rolletschek, Hardy
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
POSMM: an efficient alignment-free metagenomic profiler that complements alignment-based profiling
Article presents POSMM, Python-Optimized Standard Markov Model classifier, which is a new incarnation of the Markov model approach to metagenomic sequence analysis. The authors claim that by combining POSMM with ultrafast classifiers such as Kraken2, their complementary strengths can be leveraged to produce higher overall accuracy in metagenomic sequence classification than by either as a standalone classifier. POSMM is a user-friendly and highly adaptable tool designed for broad use by the metagenome scientific community.
Date:
March 8, 2023
Creator:
Burks, David J.; Pusadkar, Vaidehi & Azad, Rajeev K.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A modified aeroponic system for growing small-seeded legumes and other plants to study root systems
Authors of the article state that various growth systems are available for studying plant root growth and plant–microbe interactions including hydroponics and aeroponics. The aim of their study is to present step-by-step instructions for fabricating an aeroponic system, also called a “caisson,” that has been in use in several legume research labs studying the development of symbiotic nitrogen fixing nodules, but for which detailed directions are not currently available.
Date:
March 3, 2023
Creator:
Cai, Jingya; Veerappan, Vijaykumar; Arildsen, Kate; Sullivan, Catrina; Piechowicz, Megan; Frugoli, Julia et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Genetic Differentiation of the South Florida Red-Shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus extimus) from the Nominate Subspecies (Buteo lineatus lineatus)
Article discusses how the south Florida subspecies of the Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus extimus) is distinctly paler and smaller than other subspecies, reproduces at a lower rate, and can occupy very different habitats such as open marshes and grasslands with only scattered trees. The authors evaluated population differentiation between the south Florida population of Red-shouldered Hawks and two populations of eastern Red-shouldered Hawks (B. l. lineatus) in suburban (Cincinnati) and rural (Hocking Hills) environments in southern Ohio.
Date:
March 1, 2023
Creator:
Dykstra, Madeline A.; Marain, Donna M.; Wrona, Anna M.; Dysktra, Cheryl R.; Farrington, Heather L.; Johnson, Jeff A. et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tuning excited state electronic structure and charge transport in covalent organic frameworks for enhanced photocatalytic performance
Article describes how covalent organic frameworks (COFs) represent an emerging class of organic photocatalysts. The authors use reticular chemistry to construct a family of isoreticular crystalline hydrazide-based COF photocatalysts, with the optoelectronic properties and local pore characteristics of the COFs modulated using different linkers.
Date:
February 27, 2023
Creator:
Chen, Zhongshan; Wang, Jingyi; Hao, Mengjie; Xie, Yinghui; Liu, Xiaolu; Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N. et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Linking random forest and auxiliary factors for extracting the major economic forests in the mountainous areas of southwestern Yunnan Province, China
Article describes how forests are generally extracted from remotely sensed images based on the spectral features, ignoring other important auxiliary information, and the techniques of precise extraction need to be further improved. By using the Sentinel–2 image and auxiliary factors (AFs) including site conditions (SCs) and vegetation indices (VIs), the random forest model with AFs (RF–AFs) was adopted for the extraction of the economic forests in Lancang County, which is a mountainous area with rich biodiversity and is witnessing rapid development of economic forests in Yunnan province of China.
Date:
February 24, 2023
Creator:
Huang, Pei; Zhao, Xiaoqing; Pu, Junwei; Gu, Zexian; Feng, Yan; Zhou, Shijie et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Linking random forest and auxiliary factors for extracting the major economic forests in the mountainous areas of southwestern Yunnan Province, China
Article describes how forests are generally extracted from remotely sensed images based on the spectral features, ignoring other important auxiliary information, and the techniques of precise extraction need to be further improved. By using the Sentinel–2 image and auxiliary factors (AFs) including site conditions (SCs) and vegetation indices (VIs), the random forest model with AFs (RF–AFs) was adopted for the extraction of the economic forests in Lancang County.
Date:
February 24, 2023
Creator:
Huang, Pei; Zhao, Xiaoqing; Pu, Junwei; Gu, Zexian; Feng, Yan; Zhou, Shijie et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Automated Approach to In Vitro Image-Guided Photothermal Therapy with Top-Down and Bottom-Up-Synthesized Graphene Quantum Dots
Article discusses how, based on recent studies, graphene quantum dots (GQDs) are expected to possess advantageous photothermal properties and facilitate fluorescence image-tracking in the visible and near-infrared (NIR), while surpassing other graphene-based materials in their biocompatibility. The combination of the photothermal and imaging modalities tested in vitro makes the GQDs developed in this work prospective agents for cancer theragnostics.
Date:
February 22, 2023
Creator:
Lee, Bong; Stokes, Gretel A.; Valimukhametova, Alina; Nguyen, Steven; Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Roberto; Bhaloo, Adam et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Spatially confined protein assembly in hierarchical mesoporous metal-organic framework
Article discusses how the immobilization of biomolecules into porous materials could lead to significantly enhanced performance in terms of stability towards harsh reaction conditions and easier separation for their reuse. To gain insights into the spatial arrangement of biomolecules within the nanopores, the authors used in situ small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) to probe deuterated green fluorescent protein (d-GFP) entrapped in a mesoporous MOF.
Date:
February 21, 2023
Creator:
Wang, Xiaoliang; He, Lilin; Sumner, Jacob; Qian, Shuo; Zhang, Qiu; O'Neill, Hugh et al.
Object Type:
Article
System:
The UNT Digital Library