Publications
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Bioprotective Carnitinoids: Lipoic Acid, Butyrate, and Mitochondria-Targeting to Treat Radiation Injury: Mitochondrial Drugs Come of Age
There is an urgent need for effective medicines to protect against and treat the harmful biological effects of radiation . Potential strategies herein include mitochondrial and epigenetic-driven methods using lipoic…
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Addiction, Freedom, and Responsibility
In his article supporting an evolutionary perspective of free will, John Banja (2015) argues that addicts are responsible for their addictive behaviors because they could engage in practices that would diminish…
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Evidence for a Role for alpha6 nAChRs in L-Dopa-Induced Dyskinesias Using Parkinsonian alpha6 nAChR Gain-of-Function Mice
Here we investigate the role of α6β2* nAChRs, a subtype selectively present in the nigrostriatal pathway, using α6 nAChR subunit null mutant (α6(-/-)) mice.
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K12 CS Teaching Methods Courses
CS teacher development has become a major effort for the SIGCSE community in part due to NSF's CS10K efforts and expanding CSTA involvement. However there are few examples of university…
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Brain Development in Heavy-Drinking Adolescents
The authors measured within-subject changes in regional brain morphometry over longer intervals and in larger samples of adolescents than previously reported and assessed differences between adolescents who remained nondrinkers and…
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Women with Dysmenorrhoea Are Hypersensitive to Experimentally Induced Forearm Ischaemia During Painful Menstruation and During the Pain-Free Follicular Phase
We investigated whether women with dysmenorrhoea, compared with controls, have increased sensitivity to experimentally induced deep-tissue muscle ischaemia in a body area distant from that of referred menstrual pain.
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Automated, Adaptive Guidance for K-12 Education
This paper distinguishes features of automated adaptive guidance used in K-12 instructional settings and recommends directions for design.
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Early Math with Gracie & Friends (Tm) Demo: App-Infused Curriculum and Teacher Support for Preschool
Our team developed and published eight iPad apps, 38 hands-on activities, a digital Teacher’s Guide, and professional development modules to help preschool children learn foundational math concepts.
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Insomnia in Women Approaching Menopause: Beyond Perception
We aimed to quantify sleep disturbance and the underlying contribution of objective hot flashes in 72 women who had, compared to those who had not, developed clinical insomnia in association…
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Cardiac Autonomic Function During Sleep: Effects of Alcohol Dependence and Evidence of Partial Recovery with Abstinence
Chronic alcoholism is associated with the development of cardiac and peripheral autonomic nervous system (ANS) pathology.
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Design and Verification for Transportation System Security
In this work, we propose an integrated framework that combines hybrid modeling, formal verification, and automated synthesis techniques for analyzing the security and safety of transportation systems and carrying out…
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High School Math and Science Preparation and Postsecondary STEM Participation for Students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
This study analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study–2, a nationally representative sample of students with an ASD in special education in the United States.