Author: SRI International
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Mood Disorders and Risk of Lung Cancer in the EAGLE Case-Control Study and in the U.S. Veterans Affairs Inpatient Cohort
We evaluated the hypothesis that mood disorders may affect lung cancer risk in two large studies.
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Varenicline for Smoking Cessation: Nausea Severity and Variation in Nicotinic Receptor Genes
This study evaluated association between common and rare sequence variants in 10 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes and the severity of nausea 21 days after initiating the standard, Food and Drug Administration-approved varenicline regimen for smoking cessation.
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Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Project: Cross Case Summary
SRI staff collaborated with CSMP leadership to identify sites within their projects that had programs or partnerships that could be used to illustrate the work of the CSMP.
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Varenicline is a Potent Partial Agonist at α6β2* Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in Rat and Monkey Striatum
The present experiments were therefore done to test the effect of varenicline on α6β2* nAChRs and their function, because its interaction with this subtype is currently unclear.
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Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Project: The California Arts Project Case Study
As this case study highlights, RIMS CAP supported TVUSD in building its arts program in two main ways: (1) developing capacity in a teacher leader who persisted in moving arts education forward and (2) supporting the development and implementation of a strategic arts education plan by providing content and pedagogical expertise.
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Identification of (+)-Erythro-Mefloquine as an Active Enantiomer with Greater Efficacy than Mefloquine Against Mycobacterium Avium Infection in Mice
Infection caused by Mycobacterium avium is common in AIDS patients who do not receive treatment with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) or who develop resistance to anti-HIV therapy.
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Chronic Psychosocial Stressors and Salivary Biomarkers in Emerging Adults
We investigated whole saliva as a source of biomarkers to distinguish individuals who have, and who have not, been chronically exposed to severe and threatening life difficulties.
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Efficacy of a Novel Orally Administered Formulation of DTPA Tablets for Decorporating an Intravenously Injected Radionuclide: A Comparison with Intravenously Administered Licensed DTPA
A proprietary minitablet formulation of the chelating agent diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPAMT) was administered orally to rats injected with (241 Am) (III)-citrate and compared with untreated controls.
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Radiation Drugs-A Hot Topic
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Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Project: California Physical Education-Health Project Case Study
This case study of the California Physical Education-Health Project (CPE-HP) provides a portrait of what physical education can and should be and describes CPE-HP’s role in achieving the vision.
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Evaluation of the California Subject Matter Project: California Science Project Case Study
We begin by describing the history of SEP and the programs SEP offers elementary teachers and the scientists who work with them.
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Towards a cognitive system that can recognize spatial regions based on context
In this paper, we define such areas as context-dependent spatial regions and present a cognitive system able to learn them by combining qualitative spatial representations, semantic labels, and analogy.