• 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 ...

• Effects of cyanobacterial lipopolysaccharides from Microcystis on glutathione-based detoxification pathways in the zebrafish (Danio rerio) embryo 

  Jaja-Chimedza, Asha; Gantar, Miroslav; Mayer, Gregory D. (TTU); Gibbs, Patrick D.L.; Berry, John P. (2012)

  Cyanobacteria ("blue-green algae") are recognized producers of a diverse array of toxic secondary metabolites. Of these, the lipopolysaccharides (LPS), produced by all cyanobacteria, remain to be well investigated. In the ...

• Landsat-TM-based discrimination of lithological units associated with the Purtuniq ophiolite, Quebec, Canada 

  Leverington, David W. (TTU); Moon, Wooil M. (2012)

  In order to better constrain the utility of multispectral datasets in the characterization of surface materials, Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data were evaluated in the discrimination of geological classes in the Cape Smith ...

• Bioactive hydroperoxyl cembranoids from the Red Sea soft coral Sarcophyton glaucum 

  Hegazy, Mohamed Elamir F.; Gamal Eldeen, Amira M.; Shahat, Abdelaaty A.; Abdel-Latif, Fathy F.; Mohamed, Tarik A.; Whittlesey, Bruce R. (TTU); Paré, Paul W. (TTU) (2012)

  A chemical investigation of an ethyl acetate extract of the Red Sea soft coral Sarcophyton glaucum has led to the isolation of two peroxide diterpenes, 11(S) hydroperoxylsarcoph-12(20)-ene (1), and 12(S)-hydroperoxylsarcoph-10-ene ...

• An estimation of the private value of aquifer recharge from ephemeral wetlands on the Texas high plains 

  Bian, Dacheng (TTU); Benson, Aaron (TTU); Williams, Ryan B. (TTU) (2013)

  Ecosystem services are benefits people derive from resources in ecosystems. Playa lakes in the Southern High Plains region of North America provide several ecosystem services for humans, including recharge to the Ogallala ...

• The future of pork production in the world: Towards sustainable, welfare-positive systems 

  McGlone, John J. (TTU) (2013)

  Among land animals, more pork is eaten in the world than any other meat. The earth holds about one billion pigs who deliver over 100 mmt of pork to people for consumption. Systems of pork production changed from a forest-based ...

• A three-dimensional index for characterizing crop water stress 

  Torrion, Jessica A.; Maas, Stephan J. (TTU); Guo, Wenxuan; Bordovsky, James P.; Cranmer, Andy M. (2014)

  The application of remotely sensed estimates of canopy minus air temperature (Tc-Ta) for detecting crop water stress can be limited in semi-arid regions, because of the lack of full ground cover (GC) at water-critical crop ...

• New terpenes from the egyptian soft coral sarcophyton ehrenbergi 

  Elkhateeb, Ahmed; El-Beih, A.; Gamal-Eldeen, Amira M.; Alhammady, Montaser A.; Ohta, Shinji; Paré, Paul W. (TTU); Hegazy, Mohamed Elamir F. (2014)

  Chemical investigations of the Egyptian soft coral Sarcophyton ehrenbergi have led to the isolation of compounds 1-3 as well as the previously reported marine cembranoid diterpene sarcophine (4). Structures were elucidated ...

• Paclitaxel induces apoptosis in breast cancer cells through different calcium-regulating mechanisms depending on external calcium conditions 

  Pan, Zhi (TTU); Avila, Andrew (TTU); Gollahon, Lauren (TTU) (2014)

  Previously, we reported that endoplasmic reticulum calcium stores were a direct target for paclitaxel initiation of apoptosis. Furthermore, the actions of paclitaxel attenuated Bcl-2 resistance to apoptosis through endoplasmic ...

• Development and application of loop-mediated isothermal amplification assays for rapid visual detection of cry2Ab and cry3A genes in genetically-modified crops 

  Li, Feiwu; Yan, Wei; Long, Likun; Qi, Xing (TTU); Li, Congcong; Zhang, Shihong (2014)

  The cry2Ab and cry3A genes are two of the most important insect-resistant exogenous genes and had been widely used in genetically-modified crops. To develop more effective alternatives for the quick identification of ...

• Exploration of preterm birth rates using the public health exposome database and computational analysis methods 

  Kershenbaum, Anne D.; Langston, Michael A.; Levine, Robert S.; Saxton, Arnold M.; Oyana, Tonny J.; Kilbourne, Barbara J.; Rogers, Gary L.; Gittner, Lisaann S. (TTU); Baktash, Suzanne H.; Matthews-Juarez, Patricia; Juarez, Paul D. (2014)

  Recent advances in informatics technology has made it possible to integrate, manipulate, and analyze variables from a wide range of scientific disciplines allowing for the examination of complex social problems such as ...

• Characterization of developing cotton fibers by confocal Raman microscopy 

  Cabrales, Luis; Abidi, Noureddine (TTU); Manciu, Felicia (2014)

  Cellulose deposition in developing cotton fibers has been studied previously with analytical techniques, such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and Thermogravimetric ...

• Human brain networks: Spiking neuron models, multistability, synchronization, thermodynamics, maximum entropy production, and anesthetic cascade mechanisms 

  Haddad, Wassim M.; Hui, Qing (TTU); Bailey, James M. (2014)

  Advances in neuroscience have been closely linked to mathematical modeling beginning with the integrate-and-fire model of Lapicque and proceeding through the modeling of the action potential by Hodgkin and Huxley to the ...

• A relevancy, hierarchical and contextual maximum entropy framework for a data-driven 3D scene generation 

  Dema, Mesfin (TTU); Sari-Sarraf, Hamed (TTU) (2014)

  We introduce a novel Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) framework that can generate 3D scenes by incorporating objects' relevancy, hierarchical and contextual constraints in a unified model. This model is formulated by a Gibbs ...

• Establishing sprinkling requirements on trailers transporting market weight pigs in warm and hot weather 

  Kephart, Rebecca; Johnson, Anna; Sapkota, Avi (TTU); Stalder, Kenneth; Mcglone, John (TTU) (2014)

  This study was conducted July of 2012 in Iowa, in WARM (<26.7 °C) and HOT (26.7 °C) weather. Four sprinkling methods were compared, with one treatment being randomly assigned to each load: control-no sprinkling (not applied ...

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