• Impact of COVID-19 among people who use drugs: A qualitative study with harm reduction workers and people who use drugs 

  Conway, Fiona N; Samora, Jake; Brinkley, Katlyn; Jeong, Haelim; Clinton, Nina (TTU); Claborn, Kasey R (2022)

  Background Fatal drug overdoses in the USA hit historical records during the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the pandemic, people who used drugs had greater odds of contracting COVID-19, increased drug use due to COVID-related ...

• Female terminalia morphology and cladistic relations among Tok-Tok beetles (Tenebrionidae: Sepidiini) 

  Kaminski, Marcin J; Gearner, Olivia M; Ras, Marcin; Hunsinger, Elliot T; Smith, Amelia L; Mas-Peinadoc, Paloma; Giron, Jennifer C (TTU); Bilska, Aleksandra G; Strumpher, Werner P; Wirth, Christopher C; Kanda, Kojun; Swichtenberg, Kali; Iwan, Dariusz; Smith, Aaron D (2022)

  Tok-tokkies are one of the most iconic lineages within Tenebrionidae. In addition to containing some of the largest darkling beetles, this tribe is recognized for its remarkable form of sexual communication known as ...

• Rapid divergence of a gamete recognition gene promoted macroevolution of Eutheria 

  Roberts, Emma K (TTU); Tardif, Steve (TTUHSC); Wright, Emily A (TTU); II, Roy N. Platt; Bradley, Robert D (TTU); Hardy, Daniel M (TTUHSC) (2022)

  Background Speciation genes contribute disproportionately to species divergence, but few examples exist, especially in vertebrates. Here we test whether Zan, which encodes the sperm acrosomal protein zonadhesin that ...

• Authoritarian or Simply Disillusioned? Explaining Democratic Skepticism in Central and Eastern Europe 

  Auerbach, Kiran; Petrova, Bilyana (TTU) (2022)

  Survey research has revealed that post-communist citizens are skeptical towards democracy. Despite a substantial body of literature that has researched the origins and determinants of these attitudes, consensus has not ...

• Projecting the compound effects of climate change and white-nose syndrome on North American bat species 

  McClure, Meredith L; Hranac, Carter R; Haase, Catherine G; McGinnis, Seth; Dickson, Brett G; Hayman, David T.S; McGuire, Liam P (TTU); Lausen, Cori L; Plowright, Raina K; Fuller, N (TTU); Olson, Sarah H (2022)

  Climate change and disease are threats to biodiversity that may compound and interact with one another in ways that are difficult to predict. White-nose syndrome (WNS), caused by a cold-loving fungus (Pseudogymnoascus ...

• Increasing vitamin C through agronomic biofortifcation of arugula microgreens 

  Kathi, Shivani (TTU); Laza, Haydee (TTU); Singh, Sukhbir (TTU); Thompson, Leslie (TTU); Li, Wei (TTU); Simpson, Catherine (TTU) (2022)

  Vitamin C (Vit C) is an essential micronutrient and antioxidant for human health. Unfortunately, Vit C cannot be produced in humans and is ingested through diet while severe deficiencies can lead to scurvy. However, ...

• Evolving norms: social media data analysis on parks and greenspaces perception changes before and after the COVID 19 pandemic using a machine learning approach 

  Park, Sohyun; Kim, Seungman (TTU); Lee, Jaehoon (TTU); Heo, Biyoung (2022)

  This study provides a novel approach to understand human perception changes in their experiences of and interactions with public greenspaces during the early months of COVID-19. Using social media data and machine learning ...

• When sexual selection in hosts benefits parasites 

  Aavani, Pooya (TTU); Rice, Sean H. (TTU) (2022)

  In host-parasite coevolution, the parasite is selected to increase its infectivity while host is selected to resist the parasite infection. It is widely held that parasite-mediated sexual selection can further amplify the ...

• Prediction of methane per unit of dry matter intake in growing and finishing cattle from the ratio of dietary concentrations of starch to neutral detergent fiber alone or in combination with dietary concentration of ether extract 

  Galyean, Michael L. (TTU); Hales, Kristin E. (TTU) (2022)

  Previous research demonstrated that a fixed value of 0.2433 (SE = 0.0134) Mcal of CH4/kg of dry matter intake (DMI) could be used to predict CH4 production with accuracy and precision on par with similar equations in the ...

• Iron mobilization during lactation reduces oxygen stores in a diving mammal 

  Shero, Michelle R; Kirkham, Amy L; Costa, Daniel P; Burns, Jennifer M (TTU) (2022)

  The profound impacts that maternal provisioning of finite energy resources has on offspring survival have been extensively studied across mammals. This study shows that in addition to calories, high hemoprotein concentrations ...

• Carbon-oxygen surface formation enhances secondary electron yield in Cu, Ag and Au 

  Brown, M (TTU); Diaz, L (TTU); Aslan, A (TTU); Sanati, M (TTU); Portillo, S; Schamiloglu, E; Joshi, R.P (TTU) (2022)

  First-principles calculations coupled with Monte Carlo simulations are used to probe the role of a surface CO monolayer formation on secondary electron emission (SEE) from Cu, Ag, and Au (110) materials. It is shown that ...

• Carbidopa, an activator of aryl hydrocarbon receptor, suppresses IDO1 expression in pancreatic cancer and decreases tumor growth 

  Korac, Ksenija (TTUHSC); Rajasekaran, Devaraja (TTUHSC); Sniegowski, Tyler (TTUHSC); Schniers, Bradley K. (TTUHSC); Ibrahim, Andrew F. (TTU); Bhutia, Yangzom D. (TTUHSC) (2022)

  IDO1 is an immunomodulatory enzyme responsible for tryptophan catabolism. Its expression in immune cells, especially the DCs, has attracted attention because it leads to tryptophan depletion at the immunological synapse, ...

• Learning Introductory Biology: Students’ Concept-Building Approaches Predict Transfer on Biology Exams 

  McDaniel, Mark A; Cahill, Michael J; Frey, Regina F; Limeri, Lisa B (TTU); Lemons, Paula P (2022)

  Previous studies have found that students’ concept-building approaches, identified a priori with a cognitive psychology laboratory task, are associated with student exam performances in chemistry classes. Abstraction ...

• Repeated turnovers keep sex chromosomes young in willows 

  Wang, Deyan; Li, Yiling; Li, Mengmeng; Yang, Wenlu; Ma, Xinzhi; Zhang, Lei; Wang, Yubo; Feng, Yanlin; Zhang, Yuanyuan; Zhou, Ran; Sanderson, Brian J (TTU); Keefover‑Ring, Ken; Yin, Tongming; Smart, Lawrence B; DiFazio, Stephen P; Liu, Jianquan; Olson, Matthew (TTU); Ma, Tao (2022)

  Background Salicaceae species have diverse sex determination systems and frequent sex chromosome turnovers. However, compared with poplars, the diversity of sex determination in willows is poorly understood, and little ...

• Regularity Criteria for the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky Equation in Dimensions Two and Three 

  Larios, Adam; Rahman, Mohammad Mahabubur (TTU); Yamazaki, Kazuo (TTU) (2022)

  We propose and prove several regularity criteria for the 2D and 3D Kuramoto– Sivashinsky equation, in both its scalar and vector forms. In particular, we examine integrability criteria for the regularity of solutions in ...

• Impacts of Lysinibacillus sphaericus on mosquito larval community composition and larval competition between Culex pipiens and Aedes albopictus 

  McMillan, Joseph R. (TTU); Olson, Michael M.; Petruff, Tanya; Shepard, John J.; Armstrong, Philip M. (2022)

  Effectiveness of mosquito larvicide active ingredients (AI), such as Lysinibacillus sphaericus, varies between species, yet little is known regarding how differential effectiveness manifests in larval communities in applied ...

• Low 13C-13C abundances in abiotic ethane 

  Taguchi, Koudai; Gilbert, Alexis; Lollar, Barbara Sherwood; Giunta, Thomas; Boreham, Christopher J; Liu, Qi; Horita, Juske (TTU); Ueno, Yuichiro (2022)

  Distinguishing biotic compounds from abiotic ones is important in resource geology, biogeochemistry, and the search for life in the universe. Stable isotopes have traditionally been used to discriminate the origins of ...

• Strengthening personalized norm feedback interventions: The ambivalent-attitude effect 

  Hohman, Zachary P (TTU); Peabody, James (TTU); Neighbors, Clayton (2022)

  This study investigated the effect of induced attitude ambivalence on the relationship between the personalized norm feedback (PNF) intervention and heavy drinking by college students. College students consume more alcohol ...

• Evaluation of 3D apparel design spatial visualization training for cognitive function of older adults: cross‑cultural comparisons 

  Chang, Hyo Jung Julie (TTU); Min, Seoha (2022)

  This study examined how older adults of four diferent ethnic groups evaluate the spatial visualization training using 3D apparel design software. The model tested was derived from the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) ...

• Assessing Müllerian mimicry in North American bumble bees using human perception 

  Wilson, Joseph S.; Pan, Aaron D. (TTU); Alvarez, Sussy I.; Carril, Olivia Messinger (2022)

  Despite the broad recognition of mimicry among bumble bees, distinct North American mimicry rings have yet to be defined, due in part to the prevalence of intermediate and imperfect mimics in this region. Here we employ a ...

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