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Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability (open access)

Self-Organized Temporal Criticality: Bottom-Up Resilience versus Top-Down Vulnerability

This article proposes a social model of spontaneous self-organization generating criticality and resilience, called Self-Organized Temporal Criticality (SOTC).
Date: March 26, 2018
Creator: Mahmoodi, Korosh; West, Bruce J. & Grigolini, Paolo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Direct Pcr Amplification of Dna From Human Bloodstains, Saliva, and Touch Samples Collected With Microfloq® Swabs (open access)

Direct Pcr Amplification of Dna From Human Bloodstains, Saliva, and Touch Samples Collected With Microfloq® Swabs

This article investigates the efficacy of direct amplification of DNA from bloodstains, saliva stains, and touch samples using microFLOQ® Direct swabs and the GlobalFiler™ Express system (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA).
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Ambers, Angie D.; Wiley, Rachel; Novroski, Nicole & Budowle, Bruce
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) promoters for green tissue‑specific expression of the MYB4 transcription factor for reduced‑recalcitrance transgenic switchgrass (open access)

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) promoters for green tissue‑specific expression of the MYB4 transcription factor for reduced‑recalcitrance transgenic switchgrass

This article describes the identification and functional characterization of three switchgrass green tissue-specific promoters in endogenous plant tissues as well as in transgenic rice.
Date: December 1, 2017
Creator: Liu, Wusheng; Mazarei, Mitra; Ye, Rongjian; Peng, Yanhui; Shao, Yuanhua; Baxter, Holly L. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mimicking the collective intelligence of human groups as an optimization tool for complex problems (open access)

Mimicking the collective intelligence of human groups as an optimization tool for complex problems

This article presents a novel optimization algorithm belonging to the class of swarm intelligence optimization methods.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: De Vincenzo, Ilario; Massari, Giovanni F.; Giannoccaro, Ilaria; Carbone, Giuseppe & Grigolini, Paolo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
On social sensitivity to either zealot or independent minorities (open access)

On social sensitivity to either zealot or independent minorities

This article uses the self-organized temporal criticality (SOTC) model to identify the timing of crucial events as a new mechanism with which to generate criticality, thereby establishing a way for the internal dynamics of the decision making process to suppresss the sensitivity of social opinion to either zealot or independent minorities.
Date: March 27, 2018
Creator: Mahmoodi, Korosh; Grigolini, Paolo & West, Bruce J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Calculation of the Surface Tension of Ordinary Organic and Ionic Liquids by Means of a Generally Applicable Computer Algorithm Based on the Group-Additivity Method (open access)

Calculation of the Surface Tension of Ordinary Organic and Ionic Liquids by Means of a Generally Applicable Computer Algorithm Based on the Group-Additivity Method

This article presents the calculation of the surface tension of ordinary organic and ionic liquids, based on a computer algorithm applying a refined group-additivity method.
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Naef, Rudolf
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relative Rate Studies of the Reactions of Atomic Chlorine with Acetone and Cyclic Ketones (open access)

Relative Rate Studies of the Reactions of Atomic Chlorine with Acetone and Cyclic Ketones

This article discusses the measurement of rate coefficients for CI atom reactions under ambient conditions with acetone and four cyclic ketones.
Date: November 23, 2017
Creator: Herath, Thushani N.; Orozco, Ivan & Marshall, Paul
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal Matrix Composite Coatings of Cupronickel Embedded with Nanoplatelets for Improved Corrosion Resistant Properties (open access)

Metal Matrix Composite Coatings of Cupronickel Embedded with Nanoplatelets for Improved Corrosion Resistant Properties

This article studies the effects of nanoplatelet reinforcement on the durability, corrosion resistance, and mechanical properties of copper-nickel coatings.
Date: June 3, 2018
Creator: Thurber, Casey; Ahmad, Yahia H.; Calhoun, Margaret C.; Al-Shenawa, Amaal; D'Souza, Nandika; Mohamed, Adel M. A. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Threshold Selection Methods for Adaptive Kernel Density Estimation in Disease Mapping (open access)

Evaluation of Threshold Selection Methods for Adaptive Kernel Density Estimation in Disease Mapping

This article assesses the relative performance of threshold selection methods in terms of resolution and reliability for disease mapping.
Date: May 8, 2018
Creator: Ruckthongsook, Warangkana; Tiwari, Chetan; Oppong, Joseph R. & Natesan, Prathiba
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Noncatalytic chalcone isomerase-fold proteins in Humulus lupulus are auxiliary components in prenylated flavonoid biosynthesis (open access)

Noncatalytic chalcone isomerase-fold proteins in Humulus lupulus are auxiliary components in prenylated flavonoid biosynthesis

This article characterizes two noncatalytic chalcone isomerase (CHI)-like proteins using engineered yeast harboring all genes required for demethylxanthohumol (DMX) production.
Date: February 6, 2018
Creator: Ban, Zhaonan; Qin, Hao; Mitchell, Andrew J.; Liu, Baoxiu; Zhang, Fengxia; Weng, Jing-Ke et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Infinitely Many Solutions for a Semilinear Problem on Exterior Domains With Nonlinear Boundary Condition (open access)

Infinitely Many Solutions for a Semilinear Problem on Exterior Domains With Nonlinear Boundary Condition

This article proves the existence of an infinite number of radial solutions to Δu + K(r)ƒ(u) = 0 with a nonlinear boundary condition on the exterior of the ball of radius R centered at the origin in ℝᴺ.
Date: May 8, 2018
Creator: Joshi, Janak & Iaia, Joseph A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Existence and Nonexistence of Solutions for Sublinear Equations on Exterior Domains (open access)

Existence and Nonexistence of Solutions for Sublinear Equations on Exterior Domains

This article studies radial solutions of Δu + K(r)ƒ(u) = 0 on the exterior of the ball of radius R > 0, BR, centered at the origin in ℝN with u = 0 on @BR where ƒ is odd with ƒ < 0 on (0; β), ƒ > 0 on (β;∞), f(u) ~ uᵖ with 0 < p < 1 for large u and K(r) ~ r⁻ᵅ for large r.
Date: September 13, 2017
Creator: Iaia, Joseph A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comments Concerning “Measurement of the Solubility of the Salt of 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole With Cyclohexylamine and Tert-Butylamine in Various Solvents at Low Temperatures: Models and Thermodynamic Parameters” (open access)

Comments Concerning “Measurement of the Solubility of the Salt of 2-Mercaptobenzothiazole With Cyclohexylamine and Tert-Butylamine in Various Solvents at Low Temperatures: Models and Thermodynamic Parameters”

This article identifies several errors in the published paper by Wongkaew and coworkers [Fluid Phase Equilibria 434 (2017) 141-151].
Date: February 15, 2018
Creator: Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Meditation-Induced Coherence and Crucial Events (open access)

Meditation-Induced Coherence and Crucial Events

This article emphasizes that 1/f noise has two different origins, one compatible with Laplace determinism and one determined by unpredictable crucial events.
Date: May 29, 2018
Creator: Tuladhar, Rohisha; Bohara, Gyanendra; Grigolini, Paolo & West, Bruce J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Descriptors for Cyclooctasulfur: Estimation of Water−Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities in Solvents, and Physicochemical Properties (open access)

Descriptors for Cyclooctasulfur: Estimation of Water−Solvent Partition Coefficients, Solubilities in Solvents, and Physicochemical Properties

This article uses literature data on the solubility of cyclooctasulfur in a number of solvents to drive Abraham descriptors for cyclooctasulfur.
Date: May 21, 2018
Creator: Abraham, M. H. (Michael H.) & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Warming Potential Estimates for the C₁–C₃ Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) Included in the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol (open access)

Global Warming Potential Estimates for the C₁–C₃ Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) Included in the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol

This article reports global warming potentials (GWPs) for all C₁-C₃ hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) based on estimated atmospheric lifetimes and theoretical methods used to calculate infrared absorption spectra.
Date: May 4, 2018
Creator: Papanastasiou, Dimitrios K.; Beltrone, Allison; Marshall, Paul & Burkholder, James B. (James Bart), 1954-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agronomic Performance and Lignin Content of HCT Down-Regulated Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) (open access)

Agronomic Performance and Lignin Content of HCT Down-Regulated Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)

This article evaluates HCT down-regulated alfalfa plants for their forage composition and agronomic performance in the greenhouse and under field conditions.
Date: May 5, 2018
Creator: Bhattarai, Kishor; Rajasekar, Shanmugam; Dixon, R. A. & Monteros, Maria J.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Shining Light on Chitosan: A Review on the Usage of Chitosan for Photonics and Nanomaterials Research (open access)

Shining Light on Chitosan: A Review on the Usage of Chitosan for Photonics and Nanomaterials Research

This article highlights the different molecular-nano systems that are prepared or stabilized using the Chitosan polymer.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Marpu, Sreekar & Benton, Erin N.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Solubility and Apparent Specific Volume of Sucrose in Some Aqueous Polyethylene Glycol Mixtures at 298.2 K (open access)

Solubility and Apparent Specific Volume of Sucrose in Some Aqueous Polyethylene Glycol Mixtures at 298.2 K

This article determines and correlates the equilibrium solubility of sucrose in {PEG 200 (or 400) + water} mixtures at 298.2 K.
Date: June 20, 2018
Creator: Tinjacá, Darío; Muñoz, María M.; Rahimpour, Elaheh; Jouyban, Abolghasem; Martínez, Fleming & Acree, William E. (William Eugene)
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cooperative bi-exponential decay of dye emission coupled via plasmons (open access)

Cooperative bi-exponential decay of dye emission coupled via plasmons

This article demonstrates that the relaxation in the sub-radiant system leads to the population of the sub-radiant states by dephasing the super-radiant Dicke states giving rise to the bi-exponential decay in agreement with the experiments.
Date: June 22, 2018
Creator: Lyvers, David P.; Moazzezi, Mojtaba; de Silva, Vashista C.; Brown, Dean P.; Urbas, Augustine M.; Rostovtsev, Yuri V. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Existence of Solutions for Sublinear Equations on Exterior Domains (open access)

Existence of Solutions for Sublinear Equations on Exterior Domains

This article proves the existence of an infinite number of radial solutions of Δu+K(r)ƒ(u) = 0, one with exactly n zeros for each nonnegative integer n on the exterior of the ball of radius R > 0, Bʀ, centered at the origin in ℝᴺ with u = 0 on ∂Bʀ and limᵣ→∞u(r) = 0 where N > 2, f is odd with ƒ < 0 on (0; β), ƒ > 0 on (β;∞), ƒ(u) ~ uᵖ with 0 < p < 1 for large u and K(r) ~ r-α with 0 < α < 2 for large r.
Date: October 10, 2017
Creator: Iaia, Joseph A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Existence and Nonexistence of Solutions for Sublinear Problems With Prescribed Number of Zeros on Exterior Domains (open access)

Existence and Nonexistence of Solutions for Sublinear Problems With Prescribed Number of Zeros on Exterior Domains

This article proves the existence of radial solutions of Δu + K(r)ƒ(u) = 0 on the exterior of the ball, of radius R, centered at the origin in ℝᴺ such that limᵣ→∞u(r) = 0 if R > 0 is sufficiently small.
Date: May 16, 2017
Creator: Joshi, Janak
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Deciphering pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance islands in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genomes (open access)

Deciphering pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance islands in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus genomes

This article explores the use of an information-entropy-based gene clustering method for genomic island detection in MRSA.
Date: November 16, 2017
Creator: Jani, Mehul; Sengupta, Soham; Hu, Kelsey & Azad, Rajeev K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library