• Amplification of downstream flood stage due to damming of fine-grained rivers 

  Ma, Hongbo; Nittrouer, Jeffrey A (TTU); Fu, Xudong; Parker, Gary; Zhang, Yuanfeng; Wang, Yuanjian; Wang, Yanjun; Lamb, Michael P; Cisneros, Julia; Best, Jim; Parsons, Daniel R; Wu, Baosheng (2022)

  River dams provide many benefits, including flood control. However, due to constantly evolving channel morphology, downstream conveyance of floodwaters following dam closure is difficult to predict. Here, we test the ...

• Orbital selective Kondo effect in heavy fermion superconductor UTe2 

  Kang, Byungkyun; Choi, Sangkook; Kim, Hyunsoo (TTU) (2022)

  Heavy fermion systems emerge from the collective Kondo effect, and their superconductivity can serve as a promising platform for realizing next-generation quantum technologies. However, it has been a great challenge to ...

• Microrheology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms grown in wound beds 

  Rahman, Minhaz Ur (TTU); Fleming, Derek F (TTUHSC); Wang, Liyun; Rumbaugh, Kendra P (TTUHSC); Gordon, Vernita D; Christopher, Gordon F (TTU) (2022)

  A new technique was used to measure the viscoelasticity of in vivo Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. This was done through ex vivo microrheology measurements of in vivo biofilms excised from mouse wound beds. To our knowledge, ...

• Nanomechanical variability in the early evolution of vertebrate dentition 

  Shohel, Mohammad; Ray, Kamal K; Tivanski, Alexei V; McAdams, Neo E. B (TTU); Bancroft, Alyssa M; Cramer, Bradley D; Forbes, Tori Z (2022)

  Conodonts are an extinct group of primitive jawless vertebrates whose elements represent the earliest examples of a mineralized feeding apparatus in vertebrates. Their relative relationship within vertebrates remains ...

• Presidential Strategies in Statements of Administration Policy 

  Sievert, Joel (TTU); Ostrander, Ian (2022)

  Presidents routinely employ Statements of Administration Policy (SAPs) to inform Congress about the executive's thoughts and position on pending legislation. Such statements are used for a variety of purposes, including ...

• Warming-induced increase in carbon uptake is linked to earlier spring phenology in temperate and boreal forests 

  Gu, Hongshuang; Qiao, Yuxin; Xi, Zhenxiang; Rossi, Sergio; Smith, Nicholas G (TTU); Liu, Jianquan; Chen, Lei (TTU) (2022)

  Under global warming, advances in spring phenology due to rising temperatures have been widely reported. However, the physiological mechanisms underlying the advancement in spring phenology still remain poorly understood. ...

• Mitochondrial ATP synthase c-subunit leak channel triggers cell death upon loss of its F1 subcomplex 

  Mnatsakanyan, Nelli; Park, Han-A; Wu, Jing; He, Xiang; Llaguno, Marc C.; Latta, Maria; Miranda, Paige; Murtishi, Besnik; Graham, Morven; Weber, Joachim (TTU); Levy, Richard J.; Pavlov, Evgeny V.; Jonas, Elizabeth A. (2022)

  Mitochondrial ATP synthase is vital not only for cellular energy production but also for energy dissipation and cell death. ATP synthase c-ring was suggested to house the leak channel of mitochondrial permeability transition ...

• Heat Stress During Gametogenesis Irreversibly Damages Female Reproductive Organ in Rice 

  Shi, Wanju; Yang, Juan; Kumar, Ritesh; Zhang, Xinzheng; Impa, Somayanda M (TTU); Xiao, Gui; Jagadish, S. V. Krishna (TTU) (2022)

  Heat stress during gametogenesis leads to spikelet sterility. To ascertain the role of female reproductive organ (pistil), two rice genotypes N22 and IR64 with contrasting heat stress responses were exposed to control (30 ...

• Impact of COVID-19 among people who use drugs: A qualitative study with harm reduction workers and people who use drugs 

  Conway, Fiona N; Samora, Jake; Brinkley, Katlyn; Jeong, Haelim; Clinton, Nina (TTU); Claborn, Kasey R (2022)

  Background Fatal drug overdoses in the USA hit historical records during the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the pandemic, people who used drugs had greater odds of contracting COVID-19, increased drug use due to COVID-related ...

• Female terminalia morphology and cladistic relations among Tok-Tok beetles (Tenebrionidae: Sepidiini) 

  Kaminski, Marcin J; Gearner, Olivia M; Ras, Marcin; Hunsinger, Elliot T; Smith, Amelia L; Mas-Peinadoc, Paloma; Giron, Jennifer C (TTU); Bilska, Aleksandra G; Strumpher, Werner P; Wirth, Christopher C; Kanda, Kojun; Swichtenberg, Kali; Iwan, Dariusz; Smith, Aaron D (2022)

  Tok-tokkies are one of the most iconic lineages within Tenebrionidae. In addition to containing some of the largest darkling beetles, this tribe is recognized for its remarkable form of sexual communication known as ...

• Rapid divergence of a gamete recognition gene promoted macroevolution of Eutheria 

  Roberts, Emma K (TTU); Tardif, Steve (TTUHSC); Wright, Emily A (TTU); II, Roy N. Platt; Bradley, Robert D (TTU); Hardy, Daniel M (TTUHSC) (2022)

  Background Speciation genes contribute disproportionately to species divergence, but few examples exist, especially in vertebrates. Here we test whether Zan, which encodes the sperm acrosomal protein zonadhesin that ...

• Authoritarian or Simply Disillusioned? Explaining Democratic Skepticism in Central and Eastern Europe 

  Auerbach, Kiran; Petrova, Bilyana (TTU) (2022)

  Survey research has revealed that post-communist citizens are skeptical towards democracy. Despite a substantial body of literature that has researched the origins and determinants of these attitudes, consensus has not ...

• Projecting the compound effects of climate change and white-nose syndrome on North American bat species 

  McClure, Meredith L; Hranac, Carter R; Haase, Catherine G; McGinnis, Seth; Dickson, Brett G; Hayman, David T.S; McGuire, Liam P (TTU); Lausen, Cori L; Plowright, Raina K; Fuller, N (TTU); Olson, Sarah H (2022)

  Climate change and disease are threats to biodiversity that may compound and interact with one another in ways that are difficult to predict. White-nose syndrome (WNS), caused by a cold-loving fungus (Pseudogymnoascus ...

• Increasing vitamin C through agronomic biofortifcation of arugula microgreens 

  Kathi, Shivani (TTU); Laza, Haydee (TTU); Singh, Sukhbir (TTU); Thompson, Leslie (TTU); Li, Wei (TTU); Simpson, Catherine (TTU) (2022)

  Vitamin C (Vit C) is an essential micronutrient and antioxidant for human health. Unfortunately, Vit C cannot be produced in humans and is ingested through diet while severe deficiencies can lead to scurvy. However, ...

• Evolving norms: social media data analysis on parks and greenspaces perception changes before and after the COVID 19 pandemic using a machine learning approach 

  Park, Sohyun; Kim, Seungman (TTU); Lee, Jaehoon (TTU); Heo, Biyoung (2022)

  This study provides a novel approach to understand human perception changes in their experiences of and interactions with public greenspaces during the early months of COVID-19. Using social media data and machine learning ...

• When sexual selection in hosts benefits parasites 

  Aavani, Pooya (TTU); Rice, Sean H. (TTU) (2022)

  In host-parasite coevolution, the parasite is selected to increase its infectivity while host is selected to resist the parasite infection. It is widely held that parasite-mediated sexual selection can further amplify the ...

• Prediction of methane per unit of dry matter intake in growing and finishing cattle from the ratio of dietary concentrations of starch to neutral detergent fiber alone or in combination with dietary concentration of ether extract 

  Galyean, Michael L. (TTU); Hales, Kristin E. (TTU) (2022)

  Previous research demonstrated that a fixed value of 0.2433 (SE = 0.0134) Mcal of CH4/kg of dry matter intake (DMI) could be used to predict CH4 production with accuracy and precision on par with similar equations in the ...

• Iron mobilization during lactation reduces oxygen stores in a diving mammal 

  Shero, Michelle R; Kirkham, Amy L; Costa, Daniel P; Burns, Jennifer M (TTU) (2022)

  The profound impacts that maternal provisioning of finite energy resources has on offspring survival have been extensively studied across mammals. This study shows that in addition to calories, high hemoprotein concentrations ...

• Carbon-oxygen surface formation enhances secondary electron yield in Cu, Ag and Au 

  Brown, M (TTU); Diaz, L (TTU); Aslan, A (TTU); Sanati, M (TTU); Portillo, S; Schamiloglu, E; Joshi, R.P (TTU) (2022)

  First-principles calculations coupled with Monte Carlo simulations are used to probe the role of a surface CO monolayer formation on secondary electron emission (SEE) from Cu, Ag, and Au (110) materials. It is shown that ...

• Carbidopa, an activator of aryl hydrocarbon receptor, suppresses IDO1 expression in pancreatic cancer and decreases tumor growth 

  Korac, Ksenija (TTUHSC); Rajasekaran, Devaraja (TTUHSC); Sniegowski, Tyler (TTUHSC); Schniers, Bradley K. (TTUHSC); Ibrahim, Andrew F. (TTU); Bhutia, Yangzom D. (TTUHSC) (2022)

  IDO1 is an immunomodulatory enzyme responsible for tryptophan catabolism. Its expression in immune cells, especially the DCs, has attracted attention because it leads to tryptophan depletion at the immunological synapse, ...

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