ThinkTech
ThinkTech is an online publishing and archival service for the Texas Tech University community that scholars may use to distribute and archive their scholarly works with no limitations on content or format. ThinkTech also provides access to materials that traditional publications cannot. Click here to submit a single item, or submit a CV for an open access evaluation:
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Sub-communities within this community
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Center for Geospatial Technology
Maps from the center, 2000-2003 -
Museum of Texas Tech University
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Public Domain Music
A Test Community for Public Domain Music Scores
Collections in this community
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AcademiCast
Podcast series dedicated to telling Texas Tech University's academic story -
All Things Texas Tech
The Texas Tech Journal of Higher Education -
Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Conference
Proceedings from the 2011 inaugural conference -
Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Transportation
Selection of published reports from the TechMRT -
Center for Nanophotonics
Publications from the center -
College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Water Center
Publications from the center -
Cotton Economics Research Institute
Publications from the institute -
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Graduate student research -
Faculty Research
Institutional repository of TTU faculty scholarly works -
Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute
Publications from the institute and issues of Textile Topics -
Honors College
Undergraduate research -
Identity and Resistance in Global Contexts
Publications from the undergraduate symposia -
International Center for Arid and Semiarid Land Studies (ICASALS)
Proceedings from ICASALS symposia -
International Conference on Environmental Systems
Annual technical conference focusing on human spaceflight technology and space human factors -
Nano Tech Center
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National Wind Institute
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Open Access Bench
A curated collection of studio art tools designed to be produced with 3D printing, laser-cutting and CNC milling. -
Open Textbooks and Educational Resources
Open textbooks and education Resources created or adapted at TTU -
School of Music
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Student Senate of Texas Tech University
Legislative Records of the Student Senate -
Texas Wine Marketing Research Institute
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The Portal
TTU Libraries newsletter -
Theater and Dance
Production programs and newspaper articles -
Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate theses, 1978-2005 -
Water Resources Center
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Wind Science and Engineering Research Center
Publications from the center
Recent Submissions
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Progesterone signaling in breast cancer
(2020-12)Progesterone (P4) is important for normal mammary gland development, function and menstrual control. However, P4 and its receptors (PRs) in breast cancer etiology continue to be understudied and its role in breast cancer ... -
Therapeutic drug intervention along with delayed voluntary exercise for motor recovery after ischemic stroke
(2020-12)Stroke associated disabilities have substantial socio-economic impact making it imperative to research and develop therapeutic interventions for post-stroke functional recovery. Currently, physical rehabilitation is the ... -
Armed conflict and HIV
(2013-05-10)This dissertation project asks the question, what are the effects of conflict on HIV prevalence? Scholars disagree about whether armed conflict affects HIV prevalence, and if it does in what ways. My dissertation seeks to ... -
A comprehensive model of perceived project team performance
(2012-05-09)This research uses meta-analysis to integrate the results across previous studies and also conducts a multi-site field study to identify the most important factors determining project team performance. A project team is a ... -
Characterization and optimization of a biosand filter
(2012-05-09)More than 800 million people worldwide do not have access to clean drinking water. The number though high, has recently been reduced thanks to technologies like the biosand filter (BSF), an intermittently operated household ... -
Ayiti Cherie, my darling Haiti
(2012-05-09)When it comes to Haiti, so much has been said; so much has been explored, dissected, and elaborated on, be it in the fields of fiction, nonfiction or poetry. Yet, there still remains a particular silence, a hole within ... -
An in-vitro study of joint geometry and loading effects on anterior cruciate ligament strain and knee kinematics
(2012-05-14)A frequent injury in both sport and recreational activities is a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament or ACL. The ACL is a ligament in the knee that connects the femur to the tibia. It prevents excessive anterior ... -
African American students’ college readiness: A qualitative study of their perceptions of contributing conditions
(2012-05-16)This study provided understanding of college readiness from the perspectives of African American college students who have successfully completed one to three years of college. College readiness is one of seven national ... -
Moore, Cole - Masters' Portfolio
(2012-07-17)This is a Masters' final portfolio for graduation from the Texas Tech Graduate School -
Anti-predatory behavior of northern bobwhite in the rolling plains of Texas
(2012-05-16)Northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus; hereafter bobwhites) are a species of great economic importance but have declining populations range-wide. As a result, bobwhites are a highly researched species. Flight behavior ... -
DETERMINING CO2/BRINE RELATIVE PERMEABILITY FOR RESERVOIRS WITH CO2 SEQUESTRATION POTENTIALS USING STEADY AND UNSTEADY STATE TECHINQUES
(2012-05-16)In recent years, capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from power plants and other sources of its emissions and injecting it into deep geologic formations for permanent storage purposes has become an important area of research. ... -
A content analysis of Green-Band and Red-Band trailers advertising R-rated feature films released in the United States in 2008
(2012-05-16)Content analyses of material in motion pictures considered inappropriate for young audiences have been conducted since the Payne Fund Studies in the 1930s, and content analyses of such material in film trailers have been ... -
Capillary pressure determination using the micropore membrane technique
(2012-05-16)Generation of capillary pressure curves is essential to the evaluation of fluid flow phenomenon in the multi-phase region of a reservoir. It is used chiefly for the determination of oil and gas water contacts, the location ... -
The Book of Manke: An original collection of poems
(2012-05-14)The Book of Manke is a collection of original poetry that consists of narratively interlocking poems about a middle-aged man, a dentist named Les Manke. When a series of losses brings up the pain of an unhealed trauma—the ... -
Pricing treasury inflation protected securities
(2012-05-09)Essay 1: Academics and practitioners perceive Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) to be tax disadvantaged relative to their nominal counterparts because the tax code requires investors to pay annual income taxes ... -
Effect of rate of gain during the stocker period on beef cattle skeletal muscle development, satellite cell activity, and marbling development
(2012-05-14)It is estimated that 76% of the yearling beef cattle calf crop enters a stocker management system. Stocker systems are used to prepare cattle for finishing by adapting them to drinking out of fountain waters and eating ... -
Coordinated measurements and estimation using quantized particle swarm optimization
(2012-05-13)The field of optimization is very vast and is growing by the hour, every day we use hundreds of optimization algorithms in various fields of sciences to solve and optimize problems with large variances in both degree of ... -
Cys-loop receptors: Investigating the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor transmembrane domain and overexpression of a prokaryotic homolog (Gloeobacter violaceus Ion Channel)
(2012-05-13)We investigated the thermal motion of the transmembrane domain in murine muscle type nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) and developed a bacterial expression system for the overexpression and purification of a ... -
Did the FED contribute to the housing price bubble? Evidence from Taylor Rule Deviations
(2012-05-14)I test the effects of two competing forces behind the housing price bubble that preceded the recent financial crisis. Using deviations from the Taylor Rule as a measure for whether target fed funds rates were low relative ... -
Home range, habitat use, and conservation of the Texas horned lizard (phrynosoma cornutum) in Central Texas
(2012-05-16)The Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) lives in a wide variety of habitats throughout its range. Although several studies have been conducted on the general ecology and home range for this species, none have been ...