• Development cycle modeling: Resource estimation 

  Denard, Samuel; Ertas, Atila (TTU); Mengel, Susan (TTU); Ekwaro-Osire, Stephen (TTU) (2020)

  This paper presents results produced by a domain-independent system development model that enables objective and quantitative calculation of certain development cycle characteristics. The presentation recounts the model's ...

• Development cycle modeling: Process risk 

  Denard, Samuel; Ertas, Atila (TTU); Mengel, Susan (TTU); Ekwaro-Osire, Stephen (TTU) (2020)

  The first part of this paper outlined the Statistical Agent-based Model of Development and Evaluation (SAbMDE) and demonstrated the model's ability to estimate development cycle resource utilization. This second part of ...

• Effectiveness of computer-generated virtual reality (VR) in learning and teaching environments with spatial frameworks 

  Safadel, Parviz (TTU); White, David (TTU) (2020)

  In this paper, we highlight the benefits of using computer-generated VR in teaching instructional content that have spatial frameworks such as in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. Spatial ...

• Two-dimensional symmetric box delivery motion prediction and validation: Subtask-based optimization method 

  Xiang, Yujiang; Tahmid, Shadman (TTU); Owens, Paul; Yang, James (TTU) (2020)

  Box delivery is a complicated manual material handling task which needs to consider the box weight, delivering speed, stability, and location. This paper presents a subtask-based inverse dynamic optimization formulation ...

• Investigating the potential of conjugated selenium redox folic acid as a treatment for triple negative breast cancer 

  Khandelwal, Soni (TTU); Boylan, Mallory (TTU); Kirsch, Gilbert; Spallholz, Julian E. (TTU); Gollahon, Lauren S. (TTU) (2020)

  Previous studies have demonstrated that redox selenium compounds arrest cancer cell viability in vitro through their pro‐oxidative activity by generating superoxide (O2•−). Currently, there are no efficacious treatment ...

• Vascular cells proteome associated with bradykinin and leptin inflammation and oxidative stress signals 

  Hariri, Moustafa Al; Jaffa, Miran A.; Saoud, Richard; Zhao, Jingfu (TTU); Zhu, Rui (TTU); Jaffa, Aneese A.; El-Achkar, Ghewa A.; Moussa, Mayssam; Kobeissy, Firas; Hassan, Anwarul; Ziyadeh, Fuad N.; Mechref, Yehia (TTU); Jaffa, Aneese A. (2020)

  Among the primary contributors to cardiovascular diseases are inflammation and oxidative imbalance within the vessel walls as well as the fibrosis of rat aortic smooth muscle cell (RASMC). Bradykinin (BK) and leptin are ...

• The effects of a glucocorticoid receptor agonist (GRA) on the immune function, nutrient digestibility, and wean-to-finish growth performance of early-weaned pigs 

  Wooten, Hailey (TTU); Kim, Hwanhee (TTU); Rakhshandeh, Amanda R.; Rakhshandeh, Anoosh (TTU) (2020)

  This study assessed the viability of glucocorticoid receptor agonist (GRA) treatment as an alternative to in-feed antibiotics (ANT) in wean-to-finish pigs. A total of 209 piglets were assigned to eight treatments based on ...

• A novel data-driven magnetic resonance spectroscopy signal analysis framework to quantify metabolite concentration 

  Bazgir, Omid (TTU); Walden, Eric (TTU); Nutter, Brian (TTU); Mitra, Sunanda (TTU) (2020)

  Developing tools for precise quantification of brain metabolites using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is an active area of research with broad application in non-invasive neurodegenerative disease studies. The tools ...

• Short term cotton lint yield improvement with cover crop and no-tillage implementation 

  McDonald, Mark D.; Lewis, Katie L. (TTU); Ritchie, Glen L. (TTU) (2020)

  No-tillage has been used for mitigating wind erosion on the Southern High Plains US for decades. This study investigated the effects of tillage and nitrogen (N) fertilizer timing on cotton lint yield, fiber quality, and ...

• Blob-based AOMs: A method for the extraction of crop data from aerial images of cotton 

  Young, Andrew (TTU); Mahan, James; Dodge, William (TTU); Payton, Paxton (2020)

  The use of aerial imagery in agriculture is increasing. Improvements in unmanned aerial systems (UASs) and the hardware and software used to analyze imagery are presenting new options for agricultural studies. One of the ...

• Mixed effects of habitat degradation and resources on hantaviruses in sympatric wild rodent reservoirs within a neotropical forest 

  Camp, Jeremy V.; Spruill-Harrell, Briana; Owen, Robert D. (TTU); Solà-Riera, Carles; Williams, Evan P.; Eastwood, Gillian; Sawyer, Aubrey M.; Jonsson, Colleen B. (2021)

  Understanding the ecology of rodent-borne hantaviruses is critical to assessing the risk of spillover to humans. Longitudinal surveys have suggested that hantaviral prevalence in a given host population is tightly linked ...

• Macro patterns and trends of U.S. consumer technological innovation diffusion rates 

  Parvin, Albert Joseph (TTU); Beruvides, Mario G. (TTU) (2021)

  Macro-level trends and patterns are commonly used in business, science, finance, and engineering to provide insights and estimates to assist decision-makers. In this research effort, macro-level trends and patterns were ...

• Application of comparative transcriptional genomics to identify molecular targets for pediatric IBD 

  Fang, Kai; Grisham, Matthew B. (TTU); Kevil, Christopher G. (2015)

  Experimental models of colitis in mice have been used extensively for analyzing the molecular events that occur during inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) development. However, it is uncertain to what extent the experimental ...

• Brief mental training reorganizes large-scale brain networks 

  Tang, Yi Yuan (TTU); Tang, Yan (TTU); Tang, Rongxiang; Lewis-Peacock, Jarrod A. (2017)

  Emerging evidences have shown that one form of mental training—mindfulness meditation, can improve attention, emotion regulation and cognitive performance through changing brain activity and structural connectivity. However, ...

• Grammatical language impairment in autism spectrum disorder: Exploring language phenotypes beyond standardized testing 

  Wittke, Kacie; Mastergeorge, Ann M. (TTU); Ozonoff, Sally; Rogers, Sally J.; Naigles, Letitia R. (2017)

  Linguistic and cognitive abilities manifest huge heterogeneity in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Some children present with commensurate language and cognitive abilities, while others show more variable ...

• Induced mutagenesis in UGT74S1 gene leads to stable new flax lines with altered secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (SDG) profiles 

  Fofana, Bourlaye; Ghose, Kaushik (TTU); Somalraju, Ashok; McCallum, Jason; Main, David; Deyholos, Michael K.; Rowland, Gordon G.; Cloutier, Sylvie (2017)

  Flax secoisolariciresinol (SECO) diglucoside (SDG) lignan is an emerging natural product purported to prevent chronic diseases in humans. SECO, the aglycone form of SDG, has shown higher intestinal cell absorption but it ...

• Altered functional brain connectomes between sporadic and Familial Parkinson’s patients 

  Tang, Yan; Xiao, Xue; Xie, Hua (TTU); Wan, Chang Min; Meng, Li; Liu, Zhen Hua; Liao, Wei Hua; Tang, Bei Sha; Guo, Ji Feng (2017)

  Familial Parkinson’s disease (PD) is often caused by mutation of a certain gene, while sporadic PD is associated with variants of genes which can influence the susceptibility to PD. The goal of this study was to investigate ...

• The mobilome; A major contributor to Escherichia coli stx2-Positive O26: H11 strains intra-serotype diversity 

  Delannoy, Sabine; Mariani-Kurkdjian, Patricia; Webb, Hattie E. (TTU); Bonacorsi, Stephane; Fach, Patrick (2017)

  Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli of serotype O26:H11/H- constitute a diverse group of strains and several clones with distinct genetic characteristics have been identified and characterized. Whole genome sequencing ...

• Salmonella in peripheral lymph nodes of healthy cattle at Slaughter 

  Webb, Hattie E. (TTU); Brichta-Harhay, Dayna M.; Brashears, Mindy M. (TTU); Nightingale, Kendra K. (TTU); Arthur, Terrance M.; Bosilevac, Joseph M.; Kalchayanand, Norasak; Schmidt, John W.; Wang, Rong; Granier, Sophie A.; Brown, Tyson R.; Edrington, Thomas S.; Shackelford, Steven D.; Wheeler, Tommy L.; Loneragan, Guy H. (TTU) (2017)

  To more fully characterize the burden of Salmonella enterica in bovine peripheral lymph nodes (PLN), PLN (n = 5,450) were collected from healthy cattle at slaughter in 12 commercial abattoirs that slaughtered feedlot-fattened ...

• Dnase1L3 regulates inflammasome-dependent cytokine secretion 

  Shi, Guilan (TTU); Abbott, Kennady N. (TTU); Wu, Wenbo; Salter, Russell D.; Keyel, Peter A. (TTU) (2017)

  Pediatric-onset systemic lupus erythematosus arises in humans and mice lacking the endonuclease Dnase1L3. When Dnase1L3 is absent, DNA from circulating apoptotic bodies is not cleared, leading to anti-DNA antibody production. ...

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