• Experimental measurement of bulk thermal conductivity of activated carbon with adsorbed natural gas for Ang energy storage tank design application 

  Ertas, Atila (TTU); Boyce, Christopher T.R.; Gulbulak, Utku (TTU) (2020)

  The development of adsorptive natural gas storage tanks for vehicles requires the synthesis of many technologies. The design for an effective Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) tank requires that the tank be filled isothermally ...

• Dynamic pore-scale network modeling of spontaneous water imbibition in shale and tight reservoirs 

  Wang, Xiukun; Sheng, James J. (TTU) (2020)

  Spontaneous water imbibition plays an imperative role in the development of shale or tight oil reservoirs. Spontaneous water imbibition is helpful in the extraction of crude oil from the matrix, although it decreases the ...

• Robustness and unpredictability for double arbiter pufs on silicon data: Performance evaluation and modeling accuracy 

  Alamro, Meznah A. (TTU); Mursi, Khalid T. (TTU); Zhuang, Yu (TTU); Aseeri, Ahmad O.; Alkatheiri, Mohammed Saeed (2020)

  Classical cryptographic methods that inherently employ secret keys embedded in non-volatile memory have been known to be impractical for limited-resource Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Physical Unclonable Functions ...

• A fast deep learning method for security vulnerability study of XOR PUFs 

  Mursi, Khalid T. (TTU); Thapaliya, Bipana (TTU); Zhuang, Yu (TTU); Aseeri, Ahmad O.; Alkatheiri, Mohammed Saeed (2020)

  Physical unclonable functions (PUF) are emerging as a promising alternative to traditional cryptographic protocols for IoT authentication. XOR Arbiter PUFs (XPUFs), a group of well-studied PUFs, are found to be secure ...

• Bat ensembles differ in response to use zones in a tropical biosphere reserve 

  Yoh, Natalie; Azhar, Isham (TTU); Fitzgerald, Katheryn V. (TTU); Yu, Rieka; Smith-Butler, Tenaja (TTU); Mahyudin, Azniza; Kingston, Tigga (TTU) (2020)

  Biosphere reserves, designated under The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Man and Biosphere Programme, aim to sustainably integrate protected areas into the biological and economic ...

• Citizen science confirms the rarity of fruit bat pollination of baobab (Adansonia digitata) flowers in Southern Africa 

  Taylor, Peter J.; Vise, Catherine; Krishnamoorthy, Macy A. (TTU); Kingston, Tigga (TTU); Venter, Sarah (2020)

  The iconic African baobab tree (Adansonia digitata) has "chiropterophilous" flowers that are adapted for pollination by fruit bats. Although bat pollination of baobabs has been documented in east and west Africa, it has ...

• Design and mechanical testing of 3d printed hierarchical lattices using biocompatible stereolithography 

  Moniruzzaman, Md (TTU); O’neal, Christopher (TTU); Bhuiyan, Ariful; Egan, Paul F. (TTU) (2020)

  Emerging 3D printing technologies are enabling the rapid fabrication of complex designs with favorable properties such as mechanically efficient lattices for biomedical applications. However, there is a lack of biocompatible ...

• An evolutionary approach for the hierarchical scheduling of safety-and security-critical multicore architectures 

  Woolley, Brandon; Mengel, Susan (TTU); Ertas, Atila (TTU) (2020)

  The aerospace and defense industry is facing an end-of-life production issue with legacy embedded uniprocessor systems. Most, if not all, embedded processor manufacturers have already moved towards system-on-a-chip multicore ...

• Spectral Characterization of Stem Cell-Derived Myelination within the Injured Adult PNS Using the Solvatochromic Dye Nile Red 

  Grochmal, Joey (TTU); Teo, Wulin; Gambhir, Hardeep; Kumar, Ranjan; Stratton, Jo Anne; Dhaliwal, Raveena; Brideau, Craig; Biernaskie, Jeff; Stys, Peter; Midha, Rajiv (2020)

  BACKGROUND: Myelin is an essential component of the peripheral and central nervous system, enabling fast axonal conduction and supporting axonal integrity; limited tools exist for analysis of myelin composition in-vivo. ...

• Circulating Brain Injury Exosomal Proteins following Moderate-To-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Temporal Profile, Outcome Prediction and Therapy Implications 

  Mondello, Stefania; Guedes, Vivian A.; Lai, Chen; Czeiter, Endre; Amrein, Krisztina; Kobeissy, Firas; Mechref, Yehia (TTU); Jeromin, Andreas; Mithani, Sara; Martin, Carina; Wagner, Chelsea L.; Czigler, Andras; Tóth, Luca; Fazekas, Bálint; Buki, Andras; Gill, Jessica (2020)

  Brain injury exosomal proteins are promising blood biomarker candidates in traumatic brain injury (TBI). A better understanding of their role in the diagnosis, characterization, and management of TBI is essential for ...

• Role of microRNA 690 in Mediating Angiotensin II Effects on Inflammation and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress 

  Menikdiwela, Kalhara R. (TTU); Ramalingam, Latha (TTU); Abbas, Mostafa M.; Bensmail, Halima; Scoggin, Shane (TTU); Kalupahana, Nishan S. (TTU); Palat, Asha; Gunaratne, Preethi; Moustaid-Moussa, Naima (TTU) (2020)

  Overactivation of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) during obesity disrupts adipocyte metabolic homeostasis and induces endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and inflammation; however, underlying mechanisms are not well known. ...

• Electrocatalytic degradation of azo dye by vanadium-doped TiO2 nanocatalyst 

  Chang, Jih Hsing; Wang, Yong Li (TTU); Dong, Cheng Di; Shen, Shan Yi (2020)

  In this work, nano V/TiO2 catalysts at different molar ratios were prepared and fabricated as the electrocatalytic electrodes for electrocatalytic degradation. The effect of the vanadium doping on the surface morphology, ...

• Combined effects of eicosapentaenoic acid and adipocyte renin–angiotensin system inhibition on breast cancer cell inflammation and migration 

  Rasha, Fahmida (TTU); Kahathuduwa, Chanaka (TTU); Ramalingam, Latha (TTU); Hernandez, Arelys (TTU); Moussa, Hanna (TTU); Moustaid-Moussa, Naima (TTU) (2020)

  Obesity is a major risk factor for breast cancer (BC). Obesity-related metabolic alterations such as inflammation and overactivation of the adipose renin–angiotensin system (RAS) may contribute to the progression of BC. ...

• Codon harmonization of a kir3.1-kirbac1.3 chimera for structural study optimization 

  Van Aalst, Evan (TTU); Yekefallah, Maryam (TTU); Mehta, Anil K.; Eason, Isaac (TTU); Wylie, Benjamin (TTU) (2020)

  The expression of functional, folded, and isotopically enriched membrane proteins is an enduring bottleneck for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) studies. Indeed, historically, protein yield optimization has been insufficient ...

• Eicosapentaenoic acid regulates inflammatory pathways through modulation of transcripts and mirna in adipose tissue of obese mice 

  Ramalho, Theresa (TTU); Pahlavani, Mandana (TTU); Kalupahana, Nishan (TTU); Wijayatunga, Nadeeja (TTU); Ramalingam, Latha (TTU); Jancar, Sonia; Moustaid‐moussa, Naima (TTU) (2020)

  This study aims to investigate the global profiling of genes and miRNAs expression to explore the regulatory effects of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) in visceral adipose tissue (VAT) of obese mice. We used male mice, fed ...

• Effects of curcumin in a mouse model of very high fat diet-induced obesity 

  Koboziev, Iurii (TTU); Scoggin, Shane (TTU); Gong, Xiaoxia (TTU); Mirzaei, Parvin (TTU); Zabet-Moghaddam, Masoud (TTU); Yosofvand, Mohammad (TTU); Moussa, Hanna (TTU); Jones-Hall, Yava; Moustaid-Moussa, Naima (TTU) (2020)

  Worldwide rates of Western-diet-induced obesity epidemics are growing dramatically. Being linked with numerous comorbidities and complications, including cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, chronic inflammation, ...

• An uncertainty modeling framework for intracardiac electrogram analysis 

  Koneshloo, Amirhossein (TTU); Du, Dongping (TTU); Du, Yuncheng (2020)

  Intracardiac electrograms (EGMs) are electrical signals measured within the chambers of the heart, which can be used to locate abnormal cardiac tissue and guide catheter ablations to treat cardiac arrhythmias. EGMs may ...

• Multi-scale simulation ofwind farm performance during a frontal passage 

  Arthur, Robert S.; Mirocha, Jeffrey D.; Marjanovic, Nikola; Hirth, Brian D. (TTU); Schroeder, John L. (TTU); Wharton, Sonia; Chow, Fotini K. (2020)

  Predicting the response of wind farms to changing flow conditions is necessary for optimal design and operation. In this work, simulation and analysis of a frontal passage through a utility scale wind farm is achieved for ...

• Investigating the applications of machine learning techniques to predict the rock brittleness index 

  Sun, Deliang; Lonbani, Mahshid; Askarian, Behnam (TTU); Armaghani, Danial Jahed; Tarinejad, Reza; Pham, Binh Thai; Huynh, Van Van (2020)

  Despite the vast usage of machine learning techniques to solve engineering problems, a very limited number of studies on the rock brittleness index (BI) have used these techniques to analyze issues in this field. The present ...

• Factor identification and prediction for teen driver crash severity using machine learning: A case study 

  Lin, Ciyun; Wu, Dayong; Liu, Hongchao (TTU); Xia, Xueting (TTU); Bhattarai, Nischal (TTU) (2020)

  Crashes among young and inexperienced drives are a major safety problem in the United States, especially in an area with large rural road networks, such as West Texas. Rural roads present many unique safety concerns that ...

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