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    • QTL mapping of yield components and kernel traits in wheat cultivars TAM 112 and Duster 

      Wang, Zhen; Dhakal, Smit; Cerit, Mustafa; Wang, Shichen; Rauf, Yahya; Yu, Shuhao; Maulana, Frank; Huang, Wangqi; Anderson, Joshua D; Ma, Xue-Feng; Rudd, Jackie C; Ibrahim, Amir MH; Xue, Qingwu; Hays, Dirk B; Bernardo, Amy; St. Amand, Paul; Bai, Guihua; Baker, Jason; Baker, Shannon; Liu, Shuyu (Frontiers, 2022-12-07)
      In the Southern Great Plains, wheat cultivars have been selected for a combination of outstanding yield and drought tolerance as a long-term breeding goal. To understand the underlying genetic mechanisms, this study aimed ...
    • Quality sample collection, handling, and preservation for an effective microbial forensics program 

      Budowle, Bruce; Schutzer, Steven E.; Burans, James P.; Beecher, Douglas J.; Cebula, Thomas A.; Chakraborty, Ranajit; Cobb, William T.; Fletcher, Jacqueline; Hale, Martha L.; Harris, Robert B.; Heitkamp, Michael A.; Keller, Frederick Paul; Kuske, Cheryl; LeClerc, Joseph E.; Marrone, Babetta L.; McKenna, Thomas S.; Morse, Stephen A.; Rodriguez, Luis L.; Valentine, Nancy B.; Yadev, Jagjit (American Society for Microbiology, 2006-10)
    • Quantification of recA gene expression as an indicator of repair potential in marine bacterioplankton communities of Antarctica 

      Booth, Melissa G.; Hutchinson, LeAnna; Brumsted, Margaret; Aas, Peter; Coffin, Richard B.; Downer, Roswell C., Jr.; Kelley, Cheryl A.; Lyons, M. Maille; Pakulski, J. Dean; Holder Sandvik, Sonya L.; Jeffrey, Wade H.; Miller, Robert V. (Inter Research, 2001-03-28)
      Marine bacteria in surface waters must cope daily with the damaging effects of exposure to solar radiation (containing both UV-A and UV-B wavelengths), which produces lesions in their DNA. As the stratospheric ozone layer ...
    • Quantitation of Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites transmitted in vitro by experimentally infected Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles stephensi 

      Beier, John C.; Davis, Jonathan R.; Vaughan, Jefferson A.; Noden, Bruce H.; Beier, Magda S. (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1991)
      The frequency and numbers of Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites transmitted in vitro and corresponding sporozoite loads were determined for experimentally infected Anopheles gambiae and An. stephensi. Geometric mean (GM) ...
    • Quantitative synthesis of the role of birds in carrying ticks and tick-borne pathogens in North America 

      Loss, Scott R.; Noden, Bruce H.; Hamer, Gabriel L.; Hamer, Sarah A. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016-09-26)
      Birds play a central role in the ecology of tick-borne pathogens. They expand tick populations and pathogens across vast distances and serve as reservoirs that maintain and amplify transmission locally. Research into the ...
    • Quantum correlations between a pair of Raman photons from a single atom under arbitrary excitation condition 

      Patnaik, Anil K.; Agarwal, Girish S.; Ooi, C. H. Raymond; Scully, Marlan O. (American Physical Society, 2005-10-19)
      The quantum correlation between a pair of Stokes and anti-Stokes photons, involving a Raman emission process is calculated. All realistic radiative and nonradiative decays are included in the calculation and the photon ...
    • Quantum disentanglement eraser: A cavity QED implementation 

      Zubairy, M. Suhail; Agarwal, Girish S.; Scully, Marlan O. (American Physical Society, 2004-07-29)
      A possible experimental scheme of the Garisto-Hardy disentanglement eraser based on a cavity QED system is presented. This scheme can be used for a delayed choice quantum eraser. It also allows us to acquire single-qubit ...
    • Quantum imaging with incoherent photons 

      Thiel, C.; Bastin, T.; Martin, J.; Solano, E.; von Zanthier, J.; Agarwal, G. S. (American Physical Society, 2007-09-28)
      We propose a technique to obtain subwavelength resolution in quantum imaging with potentially 100% contrast using incoherent light. Our method requires neither path-entangled number states nor multiphoton absorption. The ...
    • Quantum interferences in cooperative Dicke emission from spatial variation of the laser phase 

      Das, Sumanta; Agarwal, G. S.; Scully, Marlan O. (American Physical Society, 2008-10-06)
      We report generation of a new quantum interference effect in spontaneous emission from a resonantly driven system of two identical two-level atoms due to the spatial variation of the laser phase at the positions of the ...
    • Quantum logic gates using Stark-shifted Raman transitions in a cavity 

      Biswas, Asoka; Agarwal, G. S. (American Physical Society, 2004-06-04)
      We present a scheme to realize the basic two-qubit logic gates such as quantum phase gate and controlled-NOT gate using a detuned optical cavity interacting with a three-level Raman system. We discuss the role of Stark ...
    • Quantum optical spring 

      Rai, Amit; Agarwal, G. S. (American Physical Society, 2008-07-22)
      We study the dynamics of the quantum optical spring, i.e., a spring whose spring constant undergoes discrete jumps depending on the quantum state of another system. We show the existence of revivals and fractional revivals ...
    • Quantum random walk of the field in an externally driven cavity 

      Agarwal, G. S.; Pathak, P. K. (American Physical Society, 2005-09-16)
      Using a resonant interaction between atoms and the field in a high-quality cavity, we show how to realize quantum random walks as proposed by Aharonov et al. [Phys. Rev. A 48, 1687 (1993)]. The atoms are driven strongly ...
    • Quasioptic dielectric tetrahertz cavity: Coupled through optical tunneling 

      Zhang, Weili; Zhang, Jiangquan; Grischkowsky, D. (AIP Publishing, 2001-04-23)
      We report the observation of the well defined oscillation of a picosecond tetrahertz (ps THz) pulse within a dielectric concentric cy1indrica1 cavity, which is coupled to an incoming focused beam of ps THz pulses by the ...
    • Questing behavior and analysis of tick-borne bacteria in Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in Oklahoma 

      Dubie, Trisha R.; Turner, Justin; Noden, Bruce H. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-08-06)
      The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say (Acari: Ixodidae), is an economically important tick that affects veterinary and public health, but it can be difficult to collect in Oklahoma. The primary goal of this research ...
    • Race, politics, and public safety: A panel study of U.S. highway patrol and state police strength, 1981-2015 

      Malone, Chad A. (Hipatia Press, 2018-03-30)
      This study assesses the social, political, economic, and traffic-/travel-related predictors of sworn highway patrol and state police strength in the United States between 1981 and 2015. Fixed-effects estimates based on ...
    • Racial microaggressions experienced by Native Americans 

      Crethar, Hugh C.; Dorton-Clark, Julie; Erby, Adrienne; Zamora, Rich (Oklahoma State University, 2010)
    • Radial flows and angular momentum conservation in galactic chemical evolution 

      Bilitewski, Thomas; Schönrich, Ralph (2012-07-31)
      We study the effects of radial flows on Galactic chemical evolution. A simple analytic scheme is developed prescribing the coupling of infall from the intergalactic medium and radial flows within the disc based on angular ...
    • Radiation testing of electronics for the CMS endcap muon system 

      Bylsma, B.; Cady, D.; Celik, A.; Durkin, L.S.; Gilmore, J.; Haley, J.; Khotilovich, V.; Lakdawala, S.; Liu, J.; Matveev, M.; Padley, B.P.; Roberts, J.; Roe, J.; Safonov, A.; Suarez, I.; Wood, D.; Zawisza, I. (2012-09-18)
      The electronics used in the data readout and triggering system for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator at CERN are exposed to high radiation levels. This ...
    • Range-wide experiment to investigate nutrient and soil moisture interactions in loblolly pine plantations 

      Will, Rodney E.; Fox, Thomas; Akers, Madison; Domec, Jean-Christophe; Gonzalez-Benecke, Carlos; Jokela, Eric J.; Kane, Michael; Laviner, Marshall A.; Lokuta, Geoffrey; Markewitz, Daniel; McGuire, Mary Anne; Meek, Cassandra; Noormets, Asko; Samuelson, Lisa; Seiler, John; Strahm, Brian; Teskey, Robert; Vogel, Jason; Ward, Eric; West, Jason; Wilson, Duncan; Martin, Timothy A. (MDPI, 2015-06-03)
      The future climate of the southeastern USA is predicted to be warmer, drier and more variable in rainfall, which may increase drought frequency and intensity. Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) is the most important commercial ...
    • Rattusin, an intestinal a-defensin-related peptide in rats with a unique cysteine spacing pattern and salt-insensitive antibacterial activities 

      Patil, Amar A.; Ouellette, Andre J.; Lu, Wuyuan; Zhang, Guolong (American Society for Microbiology, 2013-04)
      Cationic antimicrobial peptides are essential components of the innate immune system. As a major family of mammalian antimicrobial peptides, defensins are expressed mainly by mucosal epithelial cells and promyelocytes. ...