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Weak Line Quasars at High Redshift: Extremely High Accretion Rates or Anemic Broad-Line Regions?

Description: This article presents Gemini-North K-band spectra of two representative members of the class of high-redshift quasars with exceptionally weak rest-frame ultraviolet emission lines.
Date: September 8, 2010
Creator: Shemmer, Ohad; Trakhtenbrot, Benny; Anderson, Scott F.; Brandt, William Nielsen; Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.; Fan, Xiaohui et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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X-Ray and Multiwavelength Insights into the Nature of Weak Emission-Line Quasars at Low Redshift

Description: This article reports on the X-ray and multiwavelength properties of 11 radio-quiet quasars with weak or no emission lines identified by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with redshift.
Date: December 9, 2011
Creator: Wu, Jianfeng; Brandt, William Nielsen; Anderson, Scott F.; Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.; Hall, Patrick B.; Plotkin, Richard M. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Locating Star-Forming Regions in Quasar Host Galaxies

Description: This article presents a study of the morphology and intensity of star formation in the host galaxies of eight Palomar-Green quasars using observations with the Hubble Space Telescope.
Date: November 5, 2013
Creator: Young, Jason E.; Eracleous, Michael; Shemmer, Ohad; Netzer, Hagai; Gronwall, Caryl; Lutz, Dieter et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Investigation of Structural and Optical Properties of Ag Nanoclusters Formed in Si(100) After Multiple Implantations of Low Energies Ag Ions and Post-Thermal Annealing at a Temperature Below the Ag-Si Eutectic Point

Description: This paper investigates the synthesis of Ag NCs in Si(100) substrate by implanting multiple energies and fluences of Ag ions and subsequent thermal annealing.
Date: April 2, 2014
Creator: Dhoubhadel, Mangal; Rout, Bibhudutta; Lakshantha, Wickramaarachchige J.; Das, Sushanta K.; D'Souza, Francis; Glass, Gary A. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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A Population of X-Ray Weak Quasars: PHL 1811 Analogs at High Redshift

Description: This article reports the results from Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of a sample of 10 type 1 quasars selected to have unusual UV emission-line properties similar to those of PHL 1811.
Date: April 15, 2011
Creator: Wu, Jianfeng; Brandt, William Nielsen; Hall, Patrick B.; Gibson, Robert R.; Richards, Gordon T.; Schneider, Donald P. et al.
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On The Performance of Quasar Reverberation Mapping in the Era of Time-Domain Photometric Surveys

Description: This article quantitatively assesses, by means of comprehensive numerical simulations, the ability of broadband photometric surveys to recover the broad emission line region size in quasars under various observing conditions and for a wide range of object properties.
Date: February 2, 2014
Creator: Chelouche, Doron; Shemmer, Ohad; Cotlier, Gabriel I.; Barth, Aaron J. & Rafter, Stephen E.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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X-Ray Spectral Constraints for z ≈ 2 Massive Galaxies: The Identification of Reflection-Dominated Active Galactic Nuclei

Description: This article uses the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South survey to place direct constraints on the ubiquity of z ≈ 2 heavily obscured active galactic nuclei.
Date: June 6, 2011
Creator: Alexander, David M.; Bauer, Franz E.; Brandt, William Nielsen; Daddi, Emanuele; Hickox, Ryan; Lehmer, Bret et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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A Statistical Relation Between the X-ray Spectral Index and Eddington Ratio of Active Galactic Nuclei in Deep Surveys

Description: This article presents an investigation into how well the properties of the accretion flow on to a supermassive black hole may be coupled to those of the overlying hot corona.
Date: May 22, 2013
Creator: Brightman, M.; Silverman, John David; Mainieri, Vincenzo; Ueda, Yoshihiro; Schramm, Malte; Matsuoka, Kenta et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Variability-Selected Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei in the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South

Description: This article demonstrates that the observed variability cannot be explained by X-ray Binary populations or ultraluminous X-ray sources, so the variability is most likely caused by accretion onto a supermassive black hole.
Date: January 18, 2012
Creator: Young, Monica; Brandt, William Nielsen; Xue, Yongquan; Alexander, David M.; Bauer, Franz E.; Lehmer, Bret et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Comparison of different methods for monitoring glacier changes observed by Landsat images

Description: This paper presents three methods for classifying glacier boundaries, compares the three methods to provide advice on how to choose an appropriate method, and analyzes the relationship between glacier change and the trends of precipitation and temperature.
Date: March 18, 2014
Creator: Man, Qixia; Guo, Huadong; Liu, Guang & Dong, Pinliang
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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A rich Internet application for automated detection of road blockage in post-disaster scenarios

Description: This paper presents the development of a rich Internet application for automated detection of road blockage in post-disaster scenarios using volunteered geographic information from OpenStreetMap street centerlines and airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data.
Date: February 25, 2014
Creator: Liu, W.; Dong, Pinliang; Liu, S. & Liu, J.
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Surface core-level binding energy shifts for MgO(100)

Description: This article presents theoretical and experimental results for the surface core-level binding energy, BE, shifts, SCLS, for MgO(100) and the anomalous O(1s) SCLS is interpreted in terms of the surface electronic structure.
Date: July 29, 2014
Creator: Nelin, Connie J.; Uhl, Felix; Staemmler, Volker; Bagus, Paul S.; Fujimori, Yuichi; Sterrer, Martin et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Garcinol sensitizes human head and neck carcinoma to cisplatin in a xenoraft mouse model despite downregulation of proliferative biomarkers

Description: This article investigates whether garcinol, a polyisoprenylated benzophenone can chemosensitize HNSCC to cisplatin.
Date: February 28, 2015
Creator: Li, Feng; Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Siveen, Kodappully Sivaraman; Wang, Fan; Ong, Tina H.; Loo, Ser Yue et al.
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Ion exchanger in the brain: Quantitative analysis of perineuronally fixed anionic binding sites suggests diffusion barriers with ion sorting properties

Description: This article proposes that fixed charge-densities in the brain are involved in regulating ion mobility, the volume fraction of extracellular space and the viscosity of matrix components.
Date: December 1, 2015
Creator: Morawski, Markus; Reinert, Tilo; Meyer-Klaucke, Wolfram; Wagner, Friedrich E.; Tröger, Wolfgang; Reinert, Anja et al.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Phenotypic developmental plasticity induced by preincubation egg storage in chicken embryos (Gallus gallus domesticus)

Description: This article investigates how preincubation egg storage conditions (temperature, duration, hypoxia, and hypercapnia) affects viability, body mass, and physiological variables and functions in day 15 chicken embryos.
Date: January 23, 2016
Creator: Branum, Sylvia R.; Tazawa, Hiroshi & Burggren, Warren W.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Are Smoking Cessation Treatments Associated with Suicidality Risk? An Overview

Description: This article explores the relationship between smoking cessation interventions and suicidality and explore common treatments, their associated risks, and effectiveness in promoting smoking reduction and abstinence.
Date: January 27, 2016
Creator: Penberthy, J. Kim; Penberthy, J. Morgan; Harris, Marcus R.; Nanda, Sonali; Ahn, Jennifer; Martinez, Caridad Ponce et al.
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill as a Case Study for Interdisciplinary Cooperation within Developmental Biology, Environmental Sciences and Physiology

Description: This article makes the argument for interdisciplinary teams that bring together scientists with different specialties as an efficient way--and perhaps the only way--to unravel highly complex biological effects of marine oil spills.
Date: December 17, 2015
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Dubansky, Benjamin; Roberts, Aaron & Alloy, Matthew
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Cancer-Related NEET Proteins Transfer 2Fe-2S Clusters to Anamorsin, a Protein Required for Cytosolic Iron-Sulfur Cluster Biogenesis

Description: This article reports the first physiological 2Fe-2S cluster acceptor for both NEET proteins as human Anamorsin (also known as cytokine induced apoptosis inhibitor-1; CIAPIN-1).
Date: October 8, 2015
Creator: Lipper, Colin H.; Paddock, Mark L.; Onuchic, José N.; Mittler, Ron; Nechushtai, Rachel & Jennings, Patricia A.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Holographic Fabrication of Designed Functional Defect Lines in Photonic Crystal Lattice Using a Spatial Light Modulator

Description: This article reports the holographic fabrication of designed defect lines in photonic crystal lattices through phase engineering using a spatial light modulator.
Date: April 1, 2016
Creator: Lutkenhaus, Jeffrey; Lowell, David; George, David; Zhang, Hualiang; Lin, Yuankun & Lin, Yuankun
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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