• From Moratorium to Auditorium: a Case Study of the Latino Immigrant/Undocumented Student in Secondary Music Education 

  Garza, Sylvia N. (2022-12)

  Globalization, climate change, and political instability are increasing migration patterns across the world with millions of people, including children, adapting to new host nations (UNHCR, 2019). Erikson and Marcia describe ...

• Management strategies to decrease antimicrobial use and liver abscesses in growing and finishing beef cattle 

  Hoffman, Ashley (2022-12)

  Objective: Our objective was to evaluate the use of a novel direct-fed microbial as a viable alternative to antimicrobials to decrease liver abscesses in feedlot cattle. Materials and Methods: Angus beef steers (n = 240; ...

• Enhancing the marketability of U.S. cotton through fiber length distribution improvement 

  Tesema, Addisu Ferede (2022-12)

  The High Volume Instrument (HVI) is the most commonly used tool to assess the properties of cotton fibers. Within sample variation in fiber length is an important trait throughout many textile processing steps. The HVI ...

• Game Development Program Women Graduates: Perceptions of Influential Factors and Faculty Behaviors that Influenced Success 

  Watkins, William Adam (2022-12)

  The lucrative industry of video games with its broad influence in the U.S. is an attractive destination for many college students enrolled in the 185 game production departments at 4-year institutions of higher education ...

• Evaluating the Ability of Rapid Evaporative Ionization Mass Spectrometry to Predict the Palatability of Long Aged Beef Cuts 

  Sarchet, John Chandler (2022-12)

  Chapter II: Meat aging is a classic method for increasing the tenderness and value of traditional beef products. However, the effects of extended aging times on other palatability traits as well as on typically tender ...

• Novel Reactors for Biological Treatment of High Strength Nitrogen and Carbon Wastewater 

  Jalili Jalalieh, Behnaz (2022-12)

  In this dissertation, we assessed the performance of three different biological systems to achieve near full nitrogen (N) and carbon (C) removal from high-strength N wastewaters with low C/N ratio. The first objective was ...

• Three essays on risk willingness 

  Jaramillo, Matthew (2022-12)

  In today’s environment, consumers are increasingly responsible for their retirement accumulation and decumulation decisions. There are products in the market that can assist consumers with these decisions, and the effectiveness ...

• Asset Development and Sweet Spot Identification in Unconventional Reservoirs Using Machine Learning Approaches 

  Kuete-Tatsipie, Nelson Rufin (2022-12)

  Despite the successful development of unconventional oil and gas resources in the U.S, the industry quickly realized that not all unconventional assets are viable targets for economic hydrocarbon production, and operators ...

• Photographic Images, Distanced Realism, and the State of Being Modern in the Works of Mohammad Ghaffari and Otto Dix 

  Gholamrezaei, Niloofar (2022-12)

  In this study, I investigate the works of two painters, Otto Dix (1891-1969, Germany) and Mohammad Ghaffari (known as Kamal-al-Molk, 1848-1940, Iran), whose turn to a distanced realism reflects ruptures and transformations ...

• Uniformed Services University (USU) Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program (EMDP2): Predictive Factors of Student Success 

  Rohena, Luis (2022-12)

  The Uniformed Services University (USU) created the Enlisted to Medical Degree Preparatory Program (EMDP2) in 2014 with the goal of diversifying their student body. The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether ...

• Activity of Plasma Membrane V-ATPases Is Critical for the Invasion of MDA-MB231 Breast Cancer Cells 

  Cotter, Kristina; Capecci, Joseph; Sennoune, Souad (TTU); Huss, Markus; Maier, Martin; Martinez-Zaguilan, Raul (TTU); Forgac, Michael (2015)

  Background: Ahe V-ATPase has been proposed to function at the plasma membrane in tumor cell invasion. Results: Inhibition of plasma membrane V-ATPases prevented invasion of MDA-MB-231 cells. Conclusion: Activity of plasma ...

• Gonadotrope-specific deletion of Dicer results in severely suppressed gonadotropins and fertility defects 

  Wang, Huizhen; Graham, Ian; Hastings, Richard; Gunewardena, Sumedha; Brinkmeier, Michelle L.; Conn, P. Michael (TTU); Camper, Sally A.; Kumar, T. Rajendra (2015)

  Pituitary gonadotropins follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone are heterodimeric glycoproteins expressed in gonadotropes. They act on gonads and promote their development and functions including steroidogenesis ...

• Elemental quantification, chemistry, and source apportionment in golf course facilities in a semi-arid urban landscape using a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer 

  Udeigwe, T. K. (TTU); Young, J. (TTU); Kandakji, T. (TTU); Weindorf, D. C. (TTU); Mahmoud, M. A.; Stietiya, M. H. (2015)

  This study extends the application of the portable X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) spectrometry to the examination of elements in semi-arid urban landscapes of the Southern High Plains (SHP) of the United States, focusing on ...

• Evaluating management-induced soil salinization in golf courses in semi-arid landscapes 

  Young, J. (TTU); Udeigwe, T. K. (TTU); Weindorf, D. C. (TTU); Kandakji, T. (TTU); Gautam, P. (TTU); Mahmoud, M. A. (2015)

  Site-specific information on land management practices are often desired to make better assessments of their environmental impacts. A study was conducted in Lubbock, Texas, in the Southern High Plains of the United States, ...

• Evaluation of the anti-inflammatory, analgesic and anti-ulcerogenic potentials of Achillea fragrantissima (Forssk.) 

  Abdel-Rahman, R. F.; Alqasoumi, S. I.; El-Desoky, A. H.; Soliman, G. A.; Paré, P. W. (TTU); Hegazy, M. E.F. (2015)

  Achillea fragrantissima is a perennial herb grown in Egypt and traditionally employed medicinally for its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties among Sinai inhabitants. Non-polar and polar extracts were obtained by ...

• Charge carrier transport properties in layer structured hexagonal boron nitride 

  Doan, T. C. (TTU); Li, J. (TTU); Lin, J. Y. (TTU); Jiang, H. X. (TTU) (2014)

  Due to its large in-plane thermal conductivity, high temperature and chemical stability, large energy band gap (∼ 6.4 eV), hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has emerged as an important material for applications in deep ultraviolet ...

• Effects of Mg-doped AlN/AlGaN superlattices on properties of p-GaN contact layer and performance of deep ultraviolet light emitting diodes 

  Al Tahtamouni, T. M.; Lin, J. Y. (TTU); Jiang, H. X. (TTU) (2014)

  Mg-doped AlN/AlGaN superlattice (Mg-SL) and Mg-doped AlGaN epilayers have been investigated in the 284 nm deep ultraviolet (DUV) light emitting diodes (LEDs) as electron blocking layers. It was found that the use of Mg-SL ...

• Electrical transport properties of (BN)-rich hexagonal (BN)C semiconductor alloys 

  Uddin, M. R. (TTU); Doan, T. C. (TTU); Li, J. (TTU); Ziemer, K. S.; Lin, J. Y. (TTU); Jiang, H. X. (TTU) (2014)

  The layer structured hexagonal boron nitride carbon semiconductor alloys, h-(BN)C, offer the unique abilities of bandgap engineering (from 0 for graphite to ∼6.4 eV for h-BN) and electrical conductivity control (from ...

• Metal composition of fine particulate air pollution and acute changes in cardiorespiratory physiology 

  Cakmak, Sabit; Dales, Robert; Kauri, Lisa Marie; Mahmud, Mamun; Van Ryswyk, Keith; Vanos, Jennifer (TTU); Liu, Ling; Kumarathasan, Premkumari; Thomson, Errol; Vincent, Renaud; Weichenthal, Scott (2014)

  Background Studying the physiologic effects of components of fine particulate mass (PM2.5) could contribute to a better understanding of the nature of toxicity of air pollution. Objectives We examined the relation between ...

• Risk assessment for cardiovascular and respiratory mortality due to air pollution and synoptic meteorology in 10 Canadian cities 

  Vanos, Jennifer K. (TTU); Hebbern, Christopher; Cakmak, Sabit (2014)

  Synoptic weather and ambient air quality synergistically influence human health. We report the relative risk of mortality from all non-accidental, respiratory-, and cardiovascular-related causes, associated with exposure ...

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