• Real-time tweet analytics using hybrid hashtags on twitter big data streams 

  Gupta, Vibhuti (TTU); Hewett, Rattikorn (TTU) (2020)

  Twitter is a microblogging platform that generates large volumes of data with high velocity. This daily generation of unbounded and continuous data leads to Big Data streams that often require real-time distributed and ...

• Water use and yield responses of chile pepper cultivars irrigated with brackish groundwater and reverse osmosis concentrate 

  Baath, Gurjinder S.; Shukla, Manoj K.; Bosland, Paul W.; Walker, Stephanie J.; Saini, Rupinder K. (TTU); Shaw, Randall (2020)

  Freshwater availability is declining in most of semi-arid and arid regions across the world, including the southwestern United States. The use of marginal quality groundwater has been increasing for sustaining agriculture ...

• Stability analysis of plant-root-reinforced shallow slopes along mountainous road corridors based on numerical modeling 

  Tsige, Damtew; Senadheera, Sanjaya (TTU); Talema, Ayalew (2020)

  Engineering methods such as soil nails, geosynthetic reinforcement, retaining structures, gabions, and shotcrete are implemented to stabilize road cut slopes along mountainous areas. However, these structures are not ...

• Uncertainty analysis in prediction of settlements for spatial prefabricated vertical drains improved soft soil sites 

  Muhammed, Jemal Jibril; Jayawickrama, Priyantha W. (TTU); Ekwaro-Osire, Stephen (TTU) (2020)

  This paper presents the quantification of uncertainties in the prediction of settlements of embankments built on prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) improved soft soil deposits based on data collected from two well-documented ...

• Engineering characterization of subgrade soils of Jimma town, Ethiopia, for roadway design 

  Sorsa, Alemineh; Senadheera, Sanjaya (TTU); Birru, Yoseph (2020)

  Soils are naturally occurring materials that carry loads of civil engineering structures including roads and buildings. However, not all natural soils are suitable for such uses due to limited strength and instability under ...

• Evaluation of shale source rocks and clay mineral diagenesis in the permian basin, USA: Inferences on basin thermal maturity and source rock potential 

  Green, Hunter (TTU); Šegvić, Branimir (TTU); Zanoni, Giovanni (TTU); Omodeo-Salé, Silvia; Adatte, Thierry (2020)

  The use of mineral diagenetic indices and organic matter maturity is useful for reconstructing the evolution of sedimentary basins and critical assessments for potential source rocks for petroleum exploration. In this ...

• Use of targeted amplicon sequencing in peanut to generate allele information on allotetraploid sub-genomes 

  Kulkarni, Roshan (TTU); Chopra, Ratan; Chagoya, Jennifer; Simpson, Charles E.; Baring, Michael R.; Hillhouse, Andrew; Puppala, Naveen; Chamberlin, Kelly; Burow, Mark D. (TTU) (2020)

  The use of molecular markers in plant breeding has become a routine practice, but the cost per accession can be a hindrance to the routine use of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) identification in breeding programs. In this ...

• Development and cell cycle activity of the root apical meristem in the fern ceratopteris richardii 

  Aragón-Raygoza, Alejandro; Vasco, Alejandra; Blilou, Ikram; Herrera-Estrella, Luis (TTU); Cruz-Ramírez, Alfredo (2020)

  Ferns are a representative clade in plant evolution although underestimated in the genomic era. Ceratopteris richardii is an emergent model for developmental processes in ferns, yet a complete scheme of the different growth ...

• Attitudinal determinants of beef consumption in Venezuela: A retrospective survey 

  De Moreno, Lilia Arenas; Jerez-Timaure, Nancy; Hernández, Jonathan Valerio; Huerta-Leidenz, Nelson (TTU); Rodas-González, Argenis (2020)

  Consumer surveys were conducted in the Western, Central, and Eastern regions of Venezuela to determine buying expectations, motivations, needs, perceptions, and preferences of beef consumers, and their acceptance of domestic ...

• Extending aging of beef Longissimus lumborum from 21 to 84 days postmortem influences consumer eating quality 

  Garmyn, Andrea (TTU); Hardcastle, Nicholas (TTU); Polkinghorne, Rod; Lucherk, Loni; Miller, Mark (TTU) (2020)

  Our objective was to determine the effect of extending postmortem aging from 21 to 84 days on consumer eating quality of beef longissimus lumborum. Strip loins were collected from 108 carcasses. The longissimus lumborum ...

• Beef quality preferences: Factors driving consumer satisfaction 

  Felderhoff, Chad (TTU); Lyford, Conrad (TTU); Malaga, Jaime (TTU); Polkinghorne, Rod; Brooks, Chance (TTU); Garmyn, Andrea (TTU); Miller, Mark (TTU) (2020)

  The current study was designed to broaden the understanding of the attributes impacting the sensory properties of beef when consumed. Using a survey of consumers from three different geographical regions in the United ...

• Exploring consumer palatability of Australian beef Fajita meat enhanced with phosphate or sodium bicarbonate 

  Garmyn, Andrea (TTU); Hardcastle, Nicholas (TTU); Bendele, Clay (TTU); Polkinghorne, Rod; Miller, Mark (TTU) (2020)

  The objective of this study was to determine the consumer eating quality of five Australian beef muscles (outside skirt/diaphragm, inside skirt/transversus abdominis, inside round cap/gracilis, bottom sirloin flap/obliquus ...

• Influence of demographic factors on sheepmeat sensory scores of American, Australian and Chinese consumers 

  O'Reilly, Rachel A.; Pannier, Liselotte; Gardner, Graham E.; Garmyn, Andrea J. (TTU); Luo, Hailing; Meng, Qingxiang; Miller, Markus F. (TTU); Pethick, David W. (2020)

  Along with animal production factors, it is important to understand whether demographic factors influence untrained consumer perceptions of eating quality. This study examined the impact of demographic factors and sheepmeat ...

• Effects of chitosan coating with green tea aqueous extract on lipid oxidation and microbial growth in pork chops during chilled storage 

  Montaño-Sánchez, Eduardo; Torres-Martínez, Brisa del Mar; Vargas-Sánchez, Rey David; Huerta-Leidenz, Nelson (TTU); Sánchez-Escalante, Armida; Beriain, María J.; Torrescano-Urrutia, Gastón R. (2020)

  Lipid oxidation and microbial growth are the major causes of meat quality deterioration. Natural ingredients in meat products have been proposed as a strategy to prevent quality deterioration during cold storage. This study ...

• Mycotoxin detection in human samples from patients exposed to environmental molds 

  Hooper, Dennis G.; Bolton, Vincent E.; Guilford, Frederick T.; Straus, David C. (TTU) (2009)

  The goal of this study was to determine if selected mycotoxins (trichothecenes, aflatoxins, and ochratoxins) could be extracted and identified in human tissue and body fluids from patients exposed to toxin producing molds ...

• Advancing the structural use of earth-based bricks: Addressing key challenges in the East African context 

  Obonyo, Esther; Tate, Derrick (TTU); Sika, Vincent; Tia, Mang (2010)

  The research discussed in this paper is a subset of a bigger, NSF funded research project that is directed at investigating the use of sustainable building materials. The deployment context for the research is the hot and ...

• The WRF model forecast-derived low-level wind shear climatology over the United States great plains 

  Storm, Brandon (TTU); Basu, Sukanta (TTU) (2010)

  For wind resource assessment projects, it is common practice to use a power-law relationship (U(z) ~ zα) and a fixed shear exponent (α = 1/7) to extrapolate the observed wind speed from a low measurement level to high ...

• Aflatoxin toxicity reduction in feed by enhanced binding to surface-modified clay additives 

  Jaynes, William F. (TTU); Zartman, Richard E. (TTU) (2011)

  Animal feeding studies have demonstrated that clay additives, such as bentonites, can bind aflatoxins in ingested feed and reduce or eliminate the toxicity. Bentonite deposits are found throughout the world and mostly ...

• Long-term low-level arsenic exposure is associated with poorer neuropsychological functioning: A project FRONTIER study 

  O'Bryant, Sid E. (TTUHSC) (TTUHSC); Edwards, Melissa (TTU); Menon, Chloe V. (TTU); Gong, Gordon (TTUHSC); Barber, Robert (2011)

  Exposure to elements in groundwater (toxic or beneficial) is commonplace yet, outside of lead and mercury, little research has examined the impact of many commonly occurring environmental exposures on mental abilities ...

• Multi-location study of soil enzyme activities as affected by types and rates of manure application and tillage practices 

  Acosta-Martinez, Veronica; Mikha, Maysoon M.; Sistani, Karamat R.; Stahlman, Phillip W.; Benjamin, Joseph G.; Vigil, Merle F.; Erickson, Richie (TTU) (2011)

  Significant amounts of manure are produced in the USA; however, informationon the changes in ecosystem services related to soil biogeochemical cycling foragroecosystems supported with organic amendments such as manure is ...

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