• Breeding, Early-Successional Bird Response to Forest Harvests for Bioenergy 

  Grodsky, Steven M.; Moorman, Christopher E.; Fritts, Sarah R. (TTU); Castleberry, Steven B.; Wigley, T. Bently (2016)

  Forest regeneration following timber harvest is a principal source of habitat for early-successional birds and characterized by influxes of early-successional vegetation and residual downed woody material. Early-successional ...

• A Quantitative PCR Protocol for Detection of Oxyspirura petrowi in Northern Bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) 

  Kistler, Whitney M. (TTU); Parlos, Julie A. (TTU); Peper, Steven T. (TTU); Dunham, Nicholas R. (TTU); Kendall, Ronald J. (TTU) (2016)

  Oxyspirura petrowi is a parasitic nematode that infects wild birds. This parasite has a broad host range, but has recently been reported in high prevalences from native Galliformes species in the United States. In order ...

• Comparison of the Proximate Composition, Total Carotenoids and Total Polyphenol Content of Nine Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato Varieties Grown in Bangladesh 

  Alam, Mohammad Khairul; Rana, Ziaul Hasan (TTU); Islam, Sheikh Nazrul (2016)

  In an attempt to develop the food composition table for Bangladesh, the nutritional composition of nine varieties of orange-fleshed sweet potato was analyzed together with total carotenoids (TCC) and total polyphenol content ...

• Impact of Providing Feed and/or Water on Performance, Physiology, and Behavior of Weaned Pigs during a 32-h Transport 

  Garcia, Arlene (TTU); Sutherland, Mhairi; Pirner, Glenna (TTU); Picinin, Guilherme (TTU); May, Matthew (TTU); Backus, Brittany (TTU); McGlone, John (TTU) (2016)

  Transportation at weaning is a complex stressor made up of many factors, including withdrawal from feed and water, which can potentially negatively affect the health and welfare of pigs, especially those already experiencing ...

• Impact of Androstenone on Leash Pulling and Jumping Up in Dogs 

  Pirner, Glenna (TTU); McGlone, John (TTU) (2016)

  Dogs are relinquished to shelters due to behavioral problems, such as leash pulling and jumping up. Interomones are chemical cues produced by one species that elicit a response in a different species. We reported earlier ...

• Comparison of Intramuscular or Subcutaneous Injections vs. Castration in Pigs—Impacts on Behavior and Welfare 

  McGlone, John (TTU); Guay, Kimberly; Garcia, Arlene (TTU) (2016)

  Physical castration (PC) is painful and stressful for nursing piglets. One alternative to PC is immunological castration (IC), but the pain and stress of handling associated with injections have not been assessed. The ...

• A Novel Non-Cumbersome Approach Towards Biosynthesis of Pectic-Oligosaccharides by Non-Aflatoxigenic Aspergillus sp. Section Flavi Strain EGY1 DSM 101520 through Citrus Pectin Fermentation 

  Embaby, Amira M.; Melika, Ramy R.; Hussein, Ahmed (TTU); El-Kamel, Amal H.; Marey, Heba S. (2016)

  Pectic-Oligosaccharides (POS) have a growing potential in food and feed industries. To satisfy the demand of worldwide markets from POS and avoid the shortcomings of currently applied methodologies encountered in their ...

• Gene-rich UV sex chromosomes harbor conserved regulators of sexual development 

  Carey, Sarah B.; Jenkins, Jerry; Lovell, John T.; Maumus, Florian; Sreedasyam, Avinash; Payton, Adam C.; Shu, Shengqiang; Tiley, George P.; Fernandez-Pozo, Noe; Healey, Adam; Barry, Kerrie; Chen, Cindy; Wang, Mei; Lipzen, Anna; Daum, Chris; Saski, Christopher A.; McBreen, Jordan C.; Conrad, Roth E.; Kollar, Leslie M.; Olsson, Sanna; Huttunen, Sanna; Landis, Jacob B.; Burleigh, J. Gordon; Wickett, Norman J.; Johnson, Matthew G. (TTU); Rensing, Stefan A.; Grimwood, Jane; Schmutz, Jeremy; McDaniel, Stuart F. (2021)

  Nonrecombining sex chromosomes, like the mammalian Y, often lose genes and accumulate transposable elements, a process termed degeneration. The correlation between suppressed recombination and degeneration is clear in ...

• Unexpected Role of Sterol Synthesis in RNA Stability and Translation in Leishmania 

  Karamysheva, Zemfira N. (TTU); Moitra, Samrat (TTU); Perez, Andrea (TTU); Mukherjee, Sumit (TTU); Tikhonova, Elena B. (TTUHSC); Karamyshev, Andrey L. (TTUHSC); Zhang, Kai (TTU) (2021)

  Leishmania parasites are trypanosomatid protozoans that cause leishmaniasis affecting millions of people worldwide. Sterols are important components of the plasma and organellar membranes. They also serve as precursors for ...

• Mice with humanized immune system as novel models to study HIV-associated pulmonary hypertension 

  Rodriguez-Irizarry, Valerie J. (TTUHSC); Schneider, Alina C. (TTUHSC); Ahle, Daniel (TTUHSC); Smith, Justin M.; Suarez-Martinez, Edu B.; Salazar, Ethan A. (TTUHSC); McDaniel Mims, Brianyell (TTUHSC); Rasha, Fahmida (TTUHSC); Moussa, Hanna (TTU); Moustaid-Moussa, Naima (TTU); Pruitt, Kevin (TTUHSC); Fonseca, Marcelo; Henriquez, Mauricio; Clauss, Matthias A.; Grisham, Matthew B. (TTUHSC); Almodovar, Sharilyn (TTUHSC) (2022)

  People living with HIV and who receive antiretroviral therapy have a significantly improved lifespan, compared to the early days without therapy. Unfortunately, persisting viral replication in the lungs sustains chronic ...

• Detecting upland glaciation in Earth’s pre-Pleistocene record 

  Soreghan, Gerilyn S.; Pfeifer, Lily S.; Sweet, Dustin E. (TTU); Heavens, Nicholas G. (2022)

  Earth has sustained continental glaciation several times in its past. Because continental glaciers ground to low elevations, sedimentary records of ice contact can be preserved from regions that were below base level, or ...

• Transcriptional analysis of Ceratopteris richardii young sporophyte reveals conservation of stem cell factors in the root apical meristem 

  Aragón-Raygoza, Alejandro; Herrera-Estrella, Luis (TTU); Cruz-Ramírez, Alfredo (2022)

  Gene expression in roots has been assessed in different plant species in studies ranging from complete organs to specific cell layers, and more recently at the single cell level. While certain genes or functional categories ...

• Consumer attitudes toward bacteriophage applications to pet food 

  Eagan, Bailey H.; Wang, Siyuan; Hall, Nathaniel J. (TTU); Protopopova, Alexandra (2022)

  This study used a two-part questionnaire to investigate consumer knowledge and attitudes toward bacteriophage applications in pet food, pet food safety, and environmental sustainability. Part 1 included questions about pet ...

• Aggregation-Induced Polarization (AIP): Optical Rotation Amplification and Adjustment of Chiral Aggregates of Folding Oligomers and Polymers 

  Tang, Yao (TTU); Zhang, Sai (TTU); Xu, Ting; Yuan, Qingkai (TTU); Wang, Jia-Yin; Jin, Shengzhou; Wang, Yu; Pan, Junyi; Griffin, Isaac (TTU); Chen, Daixiang; Li, Guigen (TTU) (2022)

  The phenomenon of aggregation-induced polarization (AIP) was observed showing optical rotation amplification and adjustment. The relationship between optical rotations of chiral aggregates of multilayered chiral folding ...

• Airborne Lidar Measurements of XCO2 in Synoptically Active Environment and Associated Comparisons With Numerical Simulations 

  Walley, Samantha (TTU); Pal, Sandip (TTU); Campbell, Joel F.; Dobler, Jeremy; Bell, Emily; Weir, Brad; Feng, Sha; Lauvaux, Thomas; Baker, David; Blume, Nathan; Erxleben, Wayne; Fan, Tai-Fang; Lin, Bing; McGregor, Doug; Obland, Michael D.; O'Dell, Chris; Davis, Kenneth J. (2022)

  Frontal boundaries have been shown to cause large changes in CO2 mole-fractions, but clouds and the complex vertical structure of fronts make these gradients difficult to observe. It remains unclear how the column average ...

• Mechanisms and techniques to enhance the security of big data analytic framework with MongoDB and Linux Containers 

  Mailewa, Akalanka; Mengel, Susan (TTU); Gittner, Lisa (TTU); Khan, Hafiz (TTUHSC) (2022)

  The frequency and scale of unauthorized access cases and misuses of data access privileges are a growing concern of many organizations. The protection of confidential data, such as social security numbers, financial ...

• Origin of the broad endothermic peak observed at low temperatures for polystyrene and metals in Flash differential scanning calorimetry 

  Pallaka, Madhusudhan R. (TTU); Bari, Rozana (TTU); Simon, Sindee L. (2022)

  The glass transition behavior of polystyrene as a function of different cooling rates with scanning to two different end temperatures, 30°C and −80°C, was investigated for four different substrate conditions using Flash ...

• Condense-luminescence and global characterization of metal particle suspension combustion 

  Tran, Quan (TTU); Pantoya, Michelle L. (TTU); Altman, Igor (2022)

  Thermal processing of aluminum (Al) particles such as annealing followed by rapid quenching had been previously shown to affect single metal particle burning rates. This study extends single particle combustion to a global ...

• Examining the Impact of a Virtual Parent Training on the Perceived Stress Levels of Parents who have Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder 

  O'Toole, Cyndi (2022-12)

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network reported that 1 in 44 children have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (Centers for Disease Control, ...

• Species as conservation umbrellas: A case study with lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in the southern Great Plains of North America 

  Gary, Demi M. (TTU); Mougey, Krista; McIntyre, Nancy E. (TTU); Griffis-Kyle, Kerry L. (TTU) (2022)

  Conservation efforts often focus on a single species, but this approach is inefficient for agencies dealing with many declining species at risk of extinction. Leveraging already-funded management for additional species can ...

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