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Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolases and Chemical Communication in Plants

Description: Data management plan for the grant, "Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolases and Chemical Communication in Plants." Research seeking to understand how an evolutionarily-conserved group of plant enzymes utilizes chemical signals to regulate growth and to influence their microbial environment. Specific research aims include the discovery of new enzymes and their substrate molecules that act as communication signals. Broader applications of this research may offer new strategies to enhance agricultural output… more
Date: 2021-07-01/2024-06-30
Creator: Chapman, Kent Dean; Aziz, Mina & Blancaflor, Elison B.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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IRES Track II - Cape Horn ASIs: Climate change and disease ecology at the southern end of the Americas

Description: Data management plan for the grant "IRES Track II - Cape Horn ASIs: Climate change and disease ecology at the southern end of the Americas." Research giving students the opportunity to be trained in quantitative experimental design and work as part of a multinational research collaboration to study infectious disease emergence in one of the few remaining pristine places on Earth. The Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve (CHBR) off the southern tip of South America protects pristine ecosystem is perfect … more
Date: 2021-09-01/2024-08-31
Creator: Gregory, Andrew; Kennedy, James H. & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Partner: UNT College of Science
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District Reliance by Service Function: A Study of Public Financing of American Special Districts

Description: This article provides an exploratory investigation of special district finance reliance from expenditure reliance of general–purpose governments on special districts’ service delivery and financing mode of special districts. The study shows that special districts have replaced the role of general-purpose governments and which revenue sources districts rely on the most.
Date: April 1, 2021
Creator: Park, HyungGun & Shi, Yu
Partner: UNT College of Health and Public Service
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The digitisation and commercial licensing of local television news as a model for preservation and access: A case study

Description: Article looks at the history of the NBC5 news collection maintained by the Special Collections Department of the University of North Texas Libraries. It examines the workflows required to prepare film and video for digitisation, perform quality control on digital files, and apply metadata keywords and content description to make footage easier for filmmakers to discover online. The paper will also discuss the licensing workflows in place at UNTL and how footage has been licensed for use in a va… more
Date: January 1, 2021
Creator: Esparza, Anna & Gieringer, Morgan Davis
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Formulating a Scalable Approach to Patron-Requested Digitization in Archives

Description: This article examines how archives were forced to rethink their modes of providing access to physical collections because of the coronavirus of 2019 (COVID-19). Whereas difficult copyright questions raised by reproducing items could previously be skirted by requiring researchers to work with materials in person, the long-term closure of reading rooms and decrease in long-distance travel mean that archives need a workflow for handling user digitization requests that is scalable and requires cons… more
Date: June 1, 2021
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S. & Judkins, Julie
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Pilgrimage and Textual Culture

Description: This article considers issues of reading and writing before, during, and after medieval pilgrimages, as well as the methodological and historical issues at stake for both pilgrim writers and modern scholars. In particular, the articles address the vexed issue of where — and how much — reading and writing took place around historically attested pilgrimages.
Date: January 1, 2021
Creator: Bale, Anthony & Beebe, Kathryne
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Toward Best Management Practices for Ecological Corridors

Description: This article summarizes the best available information about managing ecological corridor systems. The aim with is to provide managers with a convenient guidance document and tool to assist in applying scientific management principles to management of corridors. It does not cover issues related to corridor design or political buy in, but focuses on how a corridor should be managed once it has been established.
Date: February 1, 2021
Creator: Gregory, Andrew; Spence, Emma; Beier, Paul & Garding, Emily
Partner: UNT College of Science
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GlobeChain: An Interoperable Blockchain for Global Sharing of Healthcare Data - A COVID-19 Perspective

Description: Article introducing a Blockchain-based medical data-sharing framework (called GlobeChain) to overcome the technical challenges to handle outbreak records. The challenges that might arise due to the proposed Blockchain-based framework are also presented as a future direction that grabs the proposal's effectiveness. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article.
Date: September 1, 2021
Creator: Biswas, Sujit; Li, Fan; Latif, Zohaib; Sharif, Kashif; Bairagi, Anupam K. & Mohanty, Saraju P.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Description: Article providing a brief review about various approaches of continuous glucose measurement with noninvasive manner. This article covers the state-of-the-art glucose measurement methods and its control mechanism. The study of various consumer products have also been discussed along with the open challenges. This is the Accepted Manuscript version.
Date: November 1, 2021
Creator: Joshi, Amit M. & Mohanty, Saraju P.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Who Is Purged? Determinants of Elite Purges in North Korea

Description: This article argues that elite purges in consolidated dictatorships have a different purpose and logic. Dictators, who have consolidated their position, seek to maximize the efficiency of rule by making the elite obedient through purges. For this purpose, dictators carefully select the purge target by considering various factors. To test this theory, the article examines the pattern of elite purges in North Korea based on an original individual-level dataset, which contains the personal backgro… more
Date: September 1, 2021
Creator: Kim, Taekbin
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Confronting Russia: How Do the Citizens of Countries of the Near Abroad Perceive Their State’s Role?

Description: Article providing an explanation as to why citizens of some states differ from others in their role conceptions, especially those states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. The authors offer a novel theoretical explanation that accounts for variation in roles, based on each country’s historic relationship with Russia, its emerging relationship with the West and China, and domestic ethnopolitical conditions.
Date: September 1, 2021
Creator: Ishiyama, John T. & Breuning, Marijke
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Analysis of the potential behavioral impact of methanol when used as a solvent: Dataset from zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavioral research

Description: This article is a dataset that describes behavioral results in zebrafish (Danio rerio) individually exposed to methanol, a solvent which is capable of altering physiology and behavior high concentrations.
Date: April 1, 2021
Creator: Hamilton, Trevor J.; Szaszkiewicz, Joshua; Krook, Jeffrey & Burggren, Warren W.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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The effect of laser shock peening with and without protective coating on intergranular corrosion of sensitized AA5083

Description: Article applies Laser Shock Peening with (LSP) and without protective coating (LPwC) to sensitized AA5083 followed by electrochemical analysis.
Date: November 1, 2021
Creator: Kaufman, Jan; Racek, Jan; Cieslar, Miroslav; Minárik, Peter; Steiner, Matthew A.; Mannava, Seetha R. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering

Creating a Local Usage Collection System: PySUSHI

Description: Presentation discussing the design and implementation of a built-in-house usage collection system for electronic resource usage via release 4 and release 5 of the SUSHI protocol, as well as the design and integration of additional modules for the loading of manually downloaded COUNTER reports.
Date: 2021-11-01/2021-11-04
Creator: Hergert, Christopher; Harker, Karen & Byrne, Sephra
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine Share Similar Philosophical Approaches to Fight COVID-19

Description: This article is a commentary exploring the disciplines of Western medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine's philosophical methods to fight COVID-19 to understand their philosophical theories that could achieve the maximum benefits for treatment of COVID-19 and other diseases.
Date: August 1, 2021
Creator: Zhao, Fangfang; Yang, Zhenhong; Wang, Ningqun; Jin, Kunlin & Luo, Yumin
Partner: UNT Health Science Center
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SSOR Preconditioned Gauss-Seidel Detection and Its Hardware Architecture for 5G and beyond Massive MIMO Networks

Description: This article proposes a novel preconditioned and accelerated Gauss–Siedel algorithm referred to as Symmetric Successive Overrelaxation Preconditioned Gauss-Seidel (SSORGS) to address the signal detection challenges associated with massive MIMO technology.
Date: March 1, 2021
Creator: Chataut, Robin; Akl, Robert G.; Dey, Utpal Kumar & Robaei, Mohammadreza
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Multi-scale biodiversity drives temporal variability in macrosystems

Description: Article using decadal datasets that span aquatic and terrestrial macrosystems and structural equation modeling to show that local temporal variability and spatial synchrony increase temporal variability for entire macrosystems. This analysis is among the first to provide a quantitative argument for the value of regional species diversity.
Date: February 1, 2021
Creator: Patrick, Christopher J.; McCluney, Kevin E.; Ruhi, Albert; Gregory, Andrew; Sabo, John & Thorp, James H.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Discovering Potential for Sense of Community, Social Support, and Wellness Impacts within Interscholastic Sports Officials

Description: Data management plan for the grant "Discovering Potential for Sense of Community, Social Support, and Wellness Impacts within Interscholastic Sports Officials." Research seeking to provide an in-depth exploratory look at the behaviors of interscholastic sport officials as they relate to motivation for initial and continued participation, barriers to participation as an interscholastic sport official, and the social, community and health impacts of participation.
Date: 2021-05-01/2021-12-31
Creator: Anderson, Austin
Partner: UNT College of Education
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Collaborative Research: Framework Implementations: CSSI: CANDY: Cyberinfrastructure for Accelerating Innovation in Network Dynamics

Description: Data management for the grant, "Collaborative Research: Framework Implementations: CSSI: CANDY: Cyberinfrastructure for Accelerating Innovation in Network Dynamics." Research addressing the lack of a comprehensive cyberinfrastructure that supports innovative research challenges in large-scale, complex, dynamic networks by developing a novel platform, called CANDY (Cyberinfrastructure for Accelerating Innovation in Network Dynamics), based on efficient, scalable parallel algorithm design for dyn… more
Date: 2021-09-01/2025-08-31
Creator: Bhowmick, Sanjukta
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Digitize and Preserve Recordings of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters

Description: Data management plan for the National Archives grant for Access to Historical Records: Archival Projects, "Digitize and Preserve Recordings of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters." This project will digitize 1,804 hours of audio-visual material from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters and transcribe 250 hours of speeches, lectures and literary readings drawn from African, African American and Caribbean arts and letters recorded between 1977 and 2013.
Date: 2021-09-01/2023-08-31
Creator: Gieringer, Morgan Davis
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Process and Materials Development for Additive Manufacturing (AM) of Tungsten-Based Alloys with Superior High Temperature Performance and Good Room Temperature Ductility

Description: Data management plan for the grant "Process and Materials Development for Additive Manufacturing (AM) of Tungsten-Based Alloys with Superior High Temperature Performance and Good Room Temperature Ductility." Research on CALPHAD simulations will be conducted to optimize the chemical composition of tungsten based alloys towards 3D printability while boosting mechanical performance through solid solution and dispersion strengthening. This will followed by powder prototyping to validate the simulat… more
Date: 2021-09-01/2022-08-31
Creator: Mishra, Rajiv & Imandoust, Aidin
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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