• Season of Birth, Sex and Sleep Timing Preferences 

  Huang, Yuee; Lin, Dongdong; Lu, Chuanwen (TTU); Ali, Gholam; Metzger, James; Shankar, Nivedita; Xu, Tan; Sun, Wenjie; Shan, Guangliang (2015)

  Objective: To evaluate whether the season of birth and sex are associated with preferences for bedtime among Chinese adults. Methods: A national population-based study on sleep preferences was conducted among Chinese in ...

• Isomerization of Internal Alkynes to Iridium(III) Allene Complexes via C–H Bond Activation: Expanded Substrate Scope, and Progress towards a Catalytic Methodology 

  Phadke, Neha (TTU); Findlater, Michael (TTU) (2015)

  The synthesis of a series of allene complexes (POCOP)Ir(η2-RC==CR’) 1b–4b (POCOP = 2,6-bis(di-tert-butylphosphonito)benzene) via isomerization of internal alkynes is reported. We have demonstrated that the application of ...

• Effect of Guest Atom Composition on the Structural and Vibrational Properties of the Type II Clathrate-Based Materials AxSi136, AxGe136 and AxSn136 (A = Na, K, Rb, Cs; 0 ≤ x ≤ 24) 

  Xue, Dong (TTU); Myles, Charles W. (TTU); Higgins, Craig (TTU) (2016)

  Type II clathrates are interesting due to their potential thermoelectric applications. Powdered X-ray diffraction (XRD) data and density functional calculations for NaxSi136 found a lattice contraction as x increases for ...

• Index of Soil Moisture Using Raw Landsat Image Digital Count Data in Texas High Plains 

  Shafian, Sanaz (TTU); Maas, Stephen J. (TTU) (2015)

  The growth and yield of crops in the arid and semi-arid regions of the world is driven by the amount of soil moisture available to the crop through rainfall and irrigation. Various methods have been developed for quantifying ...

• Estimating Cotton Nitrogen Nutrition Status Using Leaf Greenness and Ground Cover Information 

  Muharam, Farrah Melissa (TTU); Maas, Stephen J. (TTU); Bronson, Kevin F.; Delahunty, Tina (2015)

  Assessing nitrogen (N) status is important from economic and environmental standpoints. To date, many spectral indices to estimate cotton chlorophyll or N content have been purely developed using statistical analysis ...

• Accretion-induced variability links young stellar objects, white dwarfs, and black holes 

  Scaringi, Simone; Maccarone, Thomas J. (TTU); Körding, Elmar; Knigge, Christian; Vaughan, Simon; Marsh, Thomas R.; Aranzana, Ester; Dhillon, Vikram S.; Barros, Susana C. C. (2015)

  The central engines of disc-accreting stellar-mass black holes appear to be scaled down versions of the supermassive black holes that power active galactic nuclei. However, if the physics of accretion is universal, it ...

• Anomalous Structural Transition and Electrical Transport Behaviors in Compressed Zn2SnO4: Effect of Interface 

  Zhang, Haiwa; Ke, Feng; Li, Yan; Liu, Cailong; Zeng, Yi; Yao, Mingguang; Han, Yonghao; Ma, Yanzhang (TTU); Gao, Chunxiao (2015)

  The interface effect is one of the most important factors that strongly affect the structural transformations and the properties of nano-/submicro-crystals under pressure. However, characterization of the granular boundary ...

• New Insights into the State Trapping of UV-Excited Thymine 

  Stojanović, Ljiljana; Bai, Shuming; Nagesh, Jayashree; Izmaylov, Artur F.; Crespo-Otero, Rachel; Lischka, Hans (TTU); Barbatti, Mario (2016)

  After UV excitation, gas phase thymine returns to a ground state in 5 to 7 ps, showing multiple time constants. There is no consensus on the assignment of these processes, with a dispute between models claiming that thymine ...

• Identification, Characterization, and Expression Analysis of Cell Wall Related Genes in Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, a Food, Fodder, and Biofuel Crop 

  Rai, Krishan Mohan (TTU); Thu, Sandi W. (TTU); Balasubramanian, Vimal Kumar (TTU); Cobos, Christopher J. (TTU); Disasa, Tesfaye (TTU); Mendu, Venugopal (TTU) (2016)

  Biomass based alternative fuels offer a solution to the world's ever-increasing energy demand. With the ability to produce high biomass in marginal lands with low inputs, sorghum has a great potential to meet second-generation ...

• Genomic Dissection and Expression Profiling Revealed Functional Divergence in Triticum aestivum Leucine Rich Repeat Receptor Like Kinases (TaLRRKs) 

  Shumayla; Sharma, Shailesh; Kumar, Rohit; Mendu, Venugopal (TTU); Singh, Kashmir; Upadhyay, Santosh K. (2016)

  The leucine rich repeat receptor like kinases (LRRK) constitute the largest subfamily of receptor like kinases (RLK), which play critical roles in plant development and stress responses. Herein, we identified 531 TaLRRK ...

• Cultural Differences in Donation Decision-Making 

  Wang, Yan; Tang, Yi-Yuan (TTU); Wang, Jinjun (2015)

  Decisions to help those in need are essential for human development and survival. Previous studies have demonstrated the “identified effect”, in which one identifiable individual typically invokes stronger feelings of ...

• Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Complex Molecular Regulation in Cotton Genic Male Sterile Mutant Yu98-8A 

  Fang, Weiping; Zhao, Fu'an; Sun, Yao; Xie, Deyi; Sun, Li (TTU); Xu, Zhenzhen; Zhu, Wei; Yang, Lirong; Zhao, Yuanming; Lv, Shuping; Tang, Zhongjie; Nie, Lihong; Li, Wu; Hou, Jianan; Duan, Zhengzheng; Yu, Yuebo; Yang, Xiaojie (2015)

  Although cotton genic male sterility (GMS) plays an important role in the utilization of hybrid vigor, its precise molecular mechanism remains unclear. To characterize the molecular events of pollen abortion, transcriptome ...

• Northern Bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) Mitochondrial Population Genomics Reveals Structure, Divergence, and Evidence for Heteroplasmy 

  Halley, Yvette A.; Oldeschulte, David L.; Bhattarai, Eric K.; Hill, Joshua; Metz, Richard P.; Johnson, Charles D.; Presley, Steven M. (TTU); Ruzicka, Rebekah E.; Rollins, Dale; Peterson, Markus J.; Murphy, William J.; Seabury, Christopher M. (2015)

  Herein, we evaluated the concordance of population inferences and conclusions resulting from the analysis of short mitochondrial fragments (i.e., partial or complete D-Loop nucleotide sequences) versus complete mitogenome ...

• Identification and Functional Analysis of microRNAs Involved in the Anther Development in Cotton Genic Male Sterile Line Yu98-8A 

  Yang, Xiaojie; Zhao, Yuanming; Xie, Deyi; Sun, Yao; Zhu, Xunlu (TTU); Esmaeili, Nardana (TTU); Yang, Zuoren; Wang, Ye; Yin, Guo; Lv, Shuping; Nie, Lihong; Tang, Zhongjie; Zhao, Fu'an; Li, Wu; Mishra, Neelam (TTU); Sun, Li (TTU); Zhu, Wei; Fang, Weiping (2016)

  Hybrid vigor contributes in a large way to the yield and quality of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) fiber. Although microRNAs play essential regulatory roles in flower induction and development, it is still unclear if microRNAs ...

• Comparison of High-Protein, Intermittent Fasting Low-Calorie Diet and Heart Healthy Diet for Vascular Health of the Obese 

  Zuo, Li; He, Feng; Tinsley, Grant M. (TTU); Pannell, Benjamin K.; Ward, Emery; Arciero, Paul J. (2016)

  Aim: It has been debated whether different diets are more or less effective in long-term weight loss success and cardiovascular disease prevention among men and women. To further explore these questions, the present study ...

• Revisiting the STEC Testing Approach: Using espK and espV to Make Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) Detection More Reliable in Beef 

  Delannoy, Sabine; Chaves, Byron D. (TTU); Ison, Sarah A. (TTU); Webb, Hattie E. (TTU); Beutin, Lothar; Delaval, José; Billet, Isabelle; Fach, Patrick (2016)

  Current methods for screening Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157 and non-O157 in beef enrichments typically rely on the molecular detection of stx, eae, and serogroup-specific wzx or wzy gene fragments. As these ...

• Visual, Auditory, and Cross Modal Sensory Processing in Adults with Autism: An EEG Power and BOLD fMRI Investigation 

  Hames, Elizabeth' C. (TTU); Murphy, Brandi (TTUHSC); Rajmohan, Ravi (TTUHSC); Anderson, Ronald C. (TTU); Baker, Mary (TTU); Zupancic, Stephen (TTUHSC); O'Boyle, Michael (TTU); Richman, David (TTU) (2016)

  Electroencephalography (EEG) and blood oxygen level dependent functional magnetic resonance imagining (BOLD fMRI) assessed the neurocorrelates of sensory processing of visual and auditory stimuli in 11 adults with autism ...

• Mapping Smoking Addiction Using Effective Connectivity Analysis 

  Tang, Rongxiang; Razi, Adeel; Friston, Karl J.; Tang, Yi-Yuan (TTU) (2016)

  Prefrontal and parietal cortex, including the default mode network (DMN; medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), and posterior cingulate cortex, PCC), have been implicated in addiction. Nonetheless, it remains unclear which brain ...

• Challenges to the Pair Bond: Neural and Hormonal Effects of Separation and Reunion in a Monogamous Primate 

  Hinde, Katie; Muth, Chelsea; Maninger, Nicole; Ragen, Benjamin J.; Larke, Rebecca H.; Jarcho, Michael R.; Mendoza, Sally P.; Mason, William A.; Ferrer, Emilio; Cherry, Simon R.; Fisher-Phelps, Marina L. (TTU); Bales, Karen L. (2016)

  Social monogamy at its most basic is a group structure in which two adults form a unit and share a territory. However, many socially monogamous pairs display attachment relationships known as pair bonds, in which there is ...

• A Copula Based Approach for Design of Multivariate Random Forests for Drug Sensitivity Prediction 

  Haider, Saad (TTU); Rahman, Raziur (TTU); Ghosh, Souparno (TTU); Pal, Ranadip (TTU) (2015)

  Modeling sensitivity to drugs based on genetic characterizations is a significant challenge in the area of systems medicine. Ensemble based approaches such as Random Forests have been shown to perform well in both individual ...

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