• What Does Rejection Have to Do With It? Toward an Innovative, Kinesthetic Analysis of Qualitative Data 

  Sharp, Elizabeth (TTU); Durham DeCesaro, Genevieve (TTU) (2013)

  Responding to the need for detailed descriptions of analytical practices in transdisciplinary projects and to showcase a way to use qualitative data in secondary analysis, the authors delineate their respective analytic ...

• Development Cycle Modeling and Risk Calculation 

  Denard, Samuel; 0000-0002-0655-590X (2021-05-04)

  For every development project, a development agent takes on the responsibility for and assumes the risk of completing that project successfully. This is a daunting task because, at the moment, there is no objective and/or ...

• The Novel Characteristics of Pterosaurs: Biological Inspiration for Robotic Vehicles 

  Chatterjee, Sankar (TTU); Lind, R.; Roberts, B. (2013)

  Bioinspiration and biomimetic have led to a variety of robotic designs, especially small autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles for urban environment that have taken cues from birds, bats, and insects. The ease with which ...

• Nano-mechanical Compliance of Müller Cells Investigated by Atomic Force Microscopy 

  Park, Soyeun (TTU); Lee, Yong J. (2013)

  It has been known that a single Müller cell displays a large variation in the cytoskeletal compositions along its cell body, suggesting different mechanical properties in different segments. Müller cells are thought to be ...

• Heart Motion Prediction in Robotic-Assisted Beating Heart Surgery: A Nonlinear Fast Adaptive Approach 

  Liang, Fan; Yu, Yang (TTU); Wang, Haizhong; Meng, Xiaofeng (2013)

  Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery outperforms traditional on-pump surgery because the assisted robotic tools can alleviate the relative motion between the beating heart and robotic tools. Therefore, it ...

• Multivariate Autoregressive Model Based Heart Motion Prediction Approach for Beating Heart Surgery 

  Liang, Fan; Meng, Xiaofeng; Yu, Yang (TTU) (2013)

  A robotic tool can enable a surgeon to conduct off-pump coronary artery graft bypass surgery on a beating heart. The robotic tool actively alleviates the relative motion between the point of interest (POI) on the heart ...

• Use of trace element abundances in augite and hornblende to determine the size, connectivity, timing, and evolution of magma batches in a tilted batholith 

  Coint, N. (TTU); Barnes, Calvin (TTU); Yoshinobu, Aaron S. (TTU); Barnes, Matthew A. (TTU) (2013)

  The tilted Wooley Creek batholith (Klamath Mountains, California, USA) consists of three main zones. Field and textural relationships in the older lower zone suggest batch-wise emplacement. However, compositions of augite ...

• Finite Element Model-based Assessment of the Female Cervical Spine in a Rear-End Impact Simulation 

  Love, Brittany M; 0000-0001-8444-7368 (2022-06-30)

  One of the most common cervical injuries caused by car accidents is called whiplash injury or Whiplash-Associated Disorder (WAD). The WAD injury mechanism has had considerable effort towards its understanding, but it still ...

• Batch-wise assembly and zoning of a tilted calc-alkaline batholith: Field relations, timing, and compositional variation 

  Coint, N. (TTU); Barnes, Calvin (TTU); Yoshinobu, Aaron S. (TTU); Chamberlain, Kevin; Barnes, Matthew A. (TTU) (2013)

  The Wooley Creek batholith is a tilted, zoned, calc-alkaline plutonic complex in the Klamath Mountains, northern California, USA. It consists of three main compositional-temporal zones. The lower zone consists of gabbro ...

• Batholith tectonics: Formation and deformation of ghost stratigraphy during assembly of the mid-crustal Andalshatten batholith, central Norway 

  Anderson, Heather S. (TTU); Yoshinobu, Aaron S. (TTU); Nordgulen, Øystein; Chamberlain, Kevin (2013)

  The Andalshatten batholith (322 km2, >700 km3) is a predominantly granodioritic high-K, calc-alkaline igneous body that was assembled in the mid-crust across four lithologically distinct nappes within the Helge land ...

• TRENDS IN MUSIC TEACHER PREPARATION IN UGANDA FROM 1950 – 2020: AN HISTORICAL STUDY 

  Wabyona, Milton (2021-05-05)

  Formal teacher preparation in Uganda was a Western education ideology first introduced by European missionaries in the late-nineteenth century. By this time, African indigenous education already existed, with the teaching ...

• Weibull Analysis of Fracture Test Data on Bovine Cortical Bone: Influence of Orientation 

  Khandaker, Morshed; Ekwaro-Osire, Stephen (TTU) (2013)

  The fracture toughness, KIC, of a cortical bone has been experimentally determined by several researchers. The variation of KIC values occurs from the variation of specimen orientation, shape, and size during the experiment. ...

• Analysis and correction of crosstalk effects in pathway analysis 

  Donato, Michele; Xu, Zhonghui; Tomoiaga, Alin (TTU); Granneman, James G.; MacKenzie, Robert G.; Bao, Riyue; Than, Nandor Gabor; Westfall, Peter H. (TTU); Romero, Roberto; Draghici, Sorin (2013)

  Identifying the pathways that are significantly impacted in a given condition is a crucial step in understanding the underlying biological phenomena. All approaches currently available for this purpose calculate a P-value ...

• Socio-ecology of the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) and the spatio-temporal distribution of Bayou virus in coastal Texas 

  Holsomback, Tyla S. (TTU); Van Nice, Christopher J. (TTU); Clark, Rachel N. (TTU); McIntyre, Nancy E. (TTU); Abuzeineh, Alisa A.; Salazar-Bravo, Jorge (TTU) (2013)

  Along the southeastern coast of the United States of America (USA), the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) is the primary host for the hantavirus genotype Bayou. According to the socio-ecological model for a territorial, ...

• Dietary Lipid during Late-Pregnancy and Early-Lactation to Manipulate Metabolic and Inflammatory Gene Network Expression in Dairy Cattle Liver with a Focus on PPARs 

  Akbar, Haji; Schmitt, Eduardo; Ballou, Michael A. (TTU); Corrêa, Marcio A.; DePeters, Edward J.; Loor, Juan J. (2013)

  Polyunsaturated (PUFA) long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs) are more potent in eliciting molecular and tissue functional changes in monogastrics than saturated LCFA. From –21 through 10 days relative to parturition dairy cows ...

• The Southeast Asian Shophouse as a Model for Sustainable Urban Environments 

  Aranha, J. (TTU) (2013)

  The search for innovative ideas and sustainable solutions for urban housing in Southeast Asia as well as other parts of the world should include reexamining and rediscovering traditional urban dwellings such as the shophouse. ...

• Ventral-subgenual anterior cingulate cortex and self-transcendence 

  Tang, Yi-Yuan (TTU); Tang, Rongxiang (2013)

  Self-transcendence (ST) is one of specific human experiences often related to harmony with nature or feeling oneness with others or the self as an integral part of the whole universe. The Temperament and Character Inventory ...

• Associations between Tissue Visfatin/Nicotinamide, Phosphoribosyltransferase (Nampt), Retinol Binding Protein-4, and Vaspin Concentrations and Insulin Resistance in Morbidly Obese Subjects 

  Goktas, Zeynep (TTU); Owens, Shannon (TTU); Boylan, Mallory (TTU); Syn, David (TTUHSC); Shen, Chwan-Li (TTUHSC); Reed, Debra B. (TTU); San Francisco, Susan (TTU); Wang, Shu (TTU) (2013)

  Visfatin/Nampt, vaspin, and retinol binding protein-4 (RBP-4) play an important role in insulin resistance. The objectives of this study were to measure visfatin/Nampt, vaspin, and RBP-4 concentrations in blood, liver, ...

• Children's physical activity levels and psychological correlates in interactive dance versus aerobic dance 

  Gao, Zan; Zhang, Tao; Stodden, David (TTU) (2013)

  Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare children's physical activity (PA) levels, self-efficacy, and enjoyment when experiencing dance-exergaming (Dance Dance Revolution, DDR) and aerobic dance in physical ...

• Streamlines simulation of barrier fracture as a novel water shutoff technique 

  Al-Najem, Abdullah (TTU); Pirayesh, E. (TTU); Soliman, M. Y. (TTU); Siddiqui, S. (TTU) (2013)

  Excessive water production has been a problem in the oil industry for many years. To handle this problem, many research projects have focused on developing conformance control systems. Conformance fracturing, a combination ...

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