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A Corpus of Metaphor Novelty Scores for Syntactically-Related Word Pairs

Description: Article introduces a large corpus of metaphor novelty scores for syntactically related word pairs, and releases it freely to the research community. This article describes the corpus, includes an analysis of its score distribution and the types of word pairs included in the corpus, and provides a brief overview of standard metaphor detection corpora.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Parde, Natalie & Nielsen, Rodney D.
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Identity Management at the University of North Texas

Description: Brief history of name authority in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Collections, including the development and use of a local name authority database for creators associated with the UNT community. This text was part of the article "Who Is This: Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management" published in the May/June 2018 issue of AALL Spectrum.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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"Who Is This?": Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management

Description: Article describing name authority practices in institutional repositories at three universities -- University of North Texas, Texas A&M University, and the University of Arizona -- and how processes have been adapted in digital libraries to incorporate or be more compatible with linked data.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Graham, Suzanne
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Contribution of active atrial contraction to cardiac output in anesthetized American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis)

Description: Article describes study which investigated the importance of atrial contraction in filling of the ventricle in American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) by bypassing both atria (with the use of ligatures to prevent atrial filling) and measuring the resultant effects on cardiac output in anesthetized animals.
Date: April 30, 2018
Creator: Williams, Joyce E.; Crossley, Janna; Elsey, Ruth M.; Wang, Tobias & Crossley, Dane A., II
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Uniformly de Bruijn Sequences and Symbolic Diophantine Approximation on Fractals

Description: Article expanding the Intrinsic Diophantine approximation on fractals first proposed by K. Mahler (1984). This article describes and develops the theory of infinite de Bruijn sequences and answers questions related to Hausdorff dimension, Diophantine approximation, Dirichlet function, and height function.
Date: April 27, 2018
Creator: Fishman, Lior; Merrill, Keith & Simmons, David
Partner: UNT College of Science
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The XMM-SERVS survey: new XMM–Newton point-source catalogue for the XMM-LSS field

Description: This article presents an X-ray point-source catalogue from the XMM-Large Scale Structure (XMMLSS) survey region, one of the XMM-Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (XMM-SERVS) fields.
Date: April 25, 2018
Creator: Chen, C. -T. J.; Brandt, William Nielsen; Luo, Bin; Ranalli, P.; Yang, G.; Alexander, David M. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Crystal structure of bis­(aceto­nitrile-κN)(4,4′-di-tert-butyl-2,2′-bi­pyridine-κ2N,N′)platinum(II) bis­(tetra­fluorido­borate) packing as head-to-head dimers

Description: Article discusses the crystal structure of a platinum(II) supra­molecular building block, [Pt(dbbpy)(NCCH3)2](BF4)2 (dbbpy = 4,4′-di-tert-butyl-2,2′-bi­pyridine, C18H24N2).
Date: April 24, 2018
Creator: Joseph, Chris; Nesterov, Vladimir N. & Smucker, Bradley W.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) promoters for green tissue‑specific expression of the MYB4 transcription factor for reduced‑recalcitrance transgenic switchgrass

Description: 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: April 24, 2018
Creator: Liu, Wusheng; Mazarei, Mitra; Ye, Rongjian; Peng, Yanhui; Shao, Yuanhua; Baxter, Holly L. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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New-Student Orientations: Supporting Success and Socialization in Graduate Programs

Description: This article describes the use of an orientation logic model to examine whether certain orientation program characteristics, such as resources and tenets, are associated with student retention, grade achievement, and socialization.
Date: April 18, 2018
Creator: Benavides, Abraham David & Keyes, Laura
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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The cisd gene family regulates physiological germline apoptosis through ced-13 and the canonical cell death pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans

Description: This article examines how the disruption of the cisd-1 gene function, using RNA interference (RNAi), or mutant alleles [cisd-1(tm4993) deletion mutant, cisd-1(pnIs27) insertion mutant] led to germline abnormalities including an increase in the number of cell corpses and distal tip cell migration defects.
Date: April 17, 2018
Creator: King, Skylar D.; Gray, Chipo F.; Song, Luhua; Nechushtai, Rachel; Gumienny, Tina L; Mittler, Ron et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Crystal structure of bis(acetonitrile-𝖪N)(4,4'-di-tert-butyl-2,2'-bipyridine-𝖪²N,N')platinum(II) bis(tetra-fluoridoborate) packing as head-to-head dimers

Description: This article describes the crystal structure of a platinum(II) supramolecular building block, [Pt-(dbbpy)NNCCH₃)₂](BF₄)₂ (dbbpy = 4,4'-di-tert-butyl-2,2'-bipyridine, C₁₈H₂₄N₂).
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Joseph, Chris; Nesterov, Vladimir N. & Smucker, Bradley W.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Effect of Length, Diameter, Chirality, Deformation, and Strain on Contact Thermal Conductance Between Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Description: This article explores the role of various geometrical and structural (length, diameter, chirality) as well as external (deformation and strain) carbon nanotube (CNT) parameters to estimate total as well as area-normalized thermal conductance across cross-contact interconnects.
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Varshney, Vikas; Lee, Jonghoon; Brown, Joshua S.; Farmer, Barry L.; Voevodin, Andrey A. & Roy, Ajit
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Waveguide Coupling via Magnetic Gratings with Effective Strips

Description: This article provides an overview of an approach convenient for describing intermediate gratings for two types of applications: both metafilms and the coupling of incident waves to waveguide modes or diffraction orders.
Date: April 14, 2018
Creator: Roccapriore, Kevin M.; Lyvers, David P.; Brown, Dean P.; Poutrina, Ekaterina; Urbas, Augustine M.; Germer, Thomas A. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Correction: Role of novel histone modifications in cancer

Description: Correction to the article "Role of novel histone modifications in cancer".
Date: April 10, 2018
Creator: Shanmugam, Muthu K.; Arfuso, Frank; Arumugam, Surendar; Chinnathambi, Arunachalam; Jinsong, Bian; Warrier, Sudha R. et al.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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How Religion Frames Health Norms: A Structural Theory Approach

Description: This review looks at the religious communities influence health-related behaviors of adherents in important ways for public health promotion. Questions remain about the processes involved and resultant health promotion actions of the religious adherents.
Date: April 9, 2018
Creator: Mpofu, Elias
Partner: University of North Texas
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Running Head: Faithful Health Norms

Description: This article applies a structural theory analysis to understand the ways by which religious adherents adopt and enact health norms.
Date: April 9, 2018
Creator: Mpofu, Elias
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service
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Effect of Substrate Support on Dynamic Graphene/Metal Electrical Contacts

Description: This article investigates the stability of dynamic electrical contacts at a graphene/metal interface using atomic force microscopy (AFM), under static conditions with variable normal loads and under sliding conditions with variable speeds.
Date: April 7, 2018
Creator: Lee, Jihyung; Hu, Xiaoli; Voevodin, Andrey A.; Martini, Ashlie & Berman, Diana
Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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Data on whole length myosin binding protein C stabilizes myosin S2 as measured by gravitational force spectroscopy

Description: This article relates to the research article entitled "Whole length myosin binding protein C stabilized myosin subfragment-2 (s2) flexibility as measured by gravitational force spectroscopy" (Singh et al., 2018) [1]. The data exhibited the purified skeletal myosin binding protein (MyBPC) from rabbit back muscle was of slow skeletal type confirmed by chromatography and in unphosphorylated state based on its isoelectric point (pI) by chromatofocussing.
Date: April 5, 2018
Creator: Singh, Rohit R.; Dunn, James W.; Qadan, Motamed M.; Hall, Nakiuda; Wang, Kathy K. & Root, Douglas D.
Partner: UNT College of Science
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Potential Niche Expansion of the American Mink Invading a Remote Island Free of Nativepredatory Mammals

Description: This article evaluates whether the lack of potential predators and competitors, together with a more diurnal and terrestrial prey, have resulted in the mink expanding its spatial and temporal niche on Navarino Island as compared to that in its native habitats,
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Crego, Ramiro D.; Jiménez, Jaime E. & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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