• 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 ...

• On the Tapping Mode Measurement for Young’s Modulus of Nanocrystalline Metal Coatings 

  Ahmed, H. S. Tanvir (TTU); Brannigan, Eric (TTU); Jankowski, Alan F. (TTU) (2013)

  Young’s modulus of nanocrystalline metal coatings is measured using the oscillating, that is, tapping, mode of a cantilever with a diamond tip. The resonant frequency of the cantilever changes when the diamond tip comes ...

• Tandem microfluidic chip isolation of prostate and breast cancer cells from simulated liquid biopsies using CD71 as an affinity ligand 

  Wickramaratne, Bhagya (TTU); Pappas, Dimitri (TTU) (2020)

  The use of blood as a liquid biopsy provides a minimally invasive and less traumatic approach for initial cancer screens as well as patient monitoring. However, current clinical protocols require a priori knowledge of ...

• Extreme value of wind-excited response considering influence of bandwidth 

  Huang, Guoqing; Chen, Xinzhong (TTU); Li, Mingshui; Peng, Liuliu (2013)

  This paper addresses the peak factors of wind-excited responses including alongwind, acrosswind tall building responses and vortex-induced vibration considering the bandwidth parameter. The influence of bandwidth parameter ...

• SCD1 activity in muscle increases triglyceride PUFA content, exercise capacity, and PPARΔ expression in mice 

  Rogowski, Michael P. (TTU); Flowers, Matthew T.; Stamatikos, Alexis D. (TTU); Ntambi, James M.; Paton, Chad M. (TTU) (2013)

  Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD)1 converts saturated fatty acids into monounsaturated fatty acids. Using muscle overexpression, we sought to determine the role of SCD1 expression in glucose and lipid metabolism and its effects ...

• #FromTheArchives: An Assessment of a Successful Social Media Program in an Academic Archives 

  Weaver, Robert G. (TTU) (2022)

  Academic archives can seem intimidating to the public at large. Accessing and enjoying their contents is, for some, a foreign experience. Even when archives leverage extensive fiscal and technological resources to make ...

• Interlaboratory Study on Differential Analysis of Protein Glycosylation by Mass Spectrometry: The ABRF Glycoprotein Research Multi-Institutional Study 2012 

  Leymarie, Nancy; Griffin, Paula J.; Jonscher, Karen; Kolarich, Daniel; Orlando, Ron; McComb, Mark; Zaia, Joseph; Aguilan, Jennifer; Alley, William R.; Altmann, Friederich; Ball, Lauren E.; Basumallick, Lipika; Bazemore-Walker, Carthene R.; Behnken, Henning; Blank, Michael A.; Brown, Kristy J.; Bunz, Svenja-Catharina; Cairo, Christopher W.; Cipollo, John F.; Daneshfar, Rambod; Desaire, Heather; Drake, Richard R.; Go, Eden P.; Goldman, Radoslov; Gruber, Clemens; Halim, Adnan; Hathout, Yetrib; Hensbergen, Paul J.; Horn, David M.; Hurum, Deanna; Jabs, Wolfgang; Larson, Göran; Ly, Mellisa; Mann, Benjamin F.; Marx, Kristina; Mechref, Yehia (TTU); Meyer, Bernd; Möginger, Uwe; Neusüß, Christian; Nilsson, Jonas; Novotny, Milos; Nyalwidhe, Julius O.; Packer, Nicolle H.; Pompach, Petr; Reiz, Bela; Resemann, Anja; Rohrer, Jeffrey S.; Ruthenbeck, Alexandra; Sanda, Miloslav; Schulz, Jan Mirco; Schweiger-Hufnagel, Ulrike; Sihlbom, Carina; Song, Ehwang (TTU); Staples, Gregory O.; Suckau, Detlev; Tang, Haixu; Thaysen-Andersen, Morten; Viner, Rosa I.; An, Yanming; Valmu, Leena; Wada, Yoshinao; Watson, Megan; Windwarder, Markus; Whittal, Randy; Wuhrer, Manfred; Zhu, Yiying; Zou, Chunxia (2013)

  One of the principal goals of glycoprotein research is to correlate glycan structure and function. Such correlation is necessary in order for one to understand the mechanisms whereby glycoprotein structure elaborates the ...

• Core size does not affect blinking behavior of dye-doped Ag@SiO2 core–shell nanoparticles for super-resolution microscopy 

  Thompson, S. (TTU); Pappas, Dimitri (TTU) (2020)

  Dye-doped nanoparticles have been investigated as bright, luminescent labels for super-resolution microscopy via localization methods. One key factor in super-resolution is the size of the luminescent label, which in some ...

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