Publications
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Adaptive Interest Modeling Improves Content Services at the Network Edge
How to get the relevant content to the right user quickly, in the midst of network disruptions and resource constraints, is a key research challenge.
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Wayne School of Engineering: Case Study of a Rural Inclusive STEM-Focused High School
We present a descriptive, instrumental case study of an inclusive rural science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school that has successfully dealt with challenges and offers an innovative and productive learning…
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Impaired Off-Line Motor Skills Consolidation in Young Primary Insomniacs
Here we assessed the sleep-related off-line consolidation of motor skills in 13 young primary insomniacs compared to 13 healthy sleepers using the sequential finger tapping task.
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Solar Cycle Variation of Plasma Mass Density in the Outer Magnetosphere: Magnetoseismic Analysis of Toroidal Standing Alfven Waves Detected by Geotail
We study the variation of plasma mass density in the outer magnetosphere over a solar cycle using mass density estimated from the frequency of fundamental toroidal standing Alfvén waves observed…
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Alcohol and the Sleeping Brain
This chapter outlines the evidence for acute and chronic alcohol effects on sleep architecture and sleep electroencephalogram, evidence for tolerance with repeated administration, and possible underlying neurochemical mechanisms for alcohol's…
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Identification of a Novel Lysosomal Trafficking Peptide Using Phage Display Biopanning Coupled with Endocytic Selection Pressure
We performed phage display biopanning on cancer cells that are treated with selective inhibitors of a given mechanism of endocytosis.
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Evaluation of the High School Leadership Initiative Year 3: Final Evaluation Report
Jointly administered by the California State University and the University of California, in cooperation with the California Community Colleges and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, CAPP prides itself as…
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A Review of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Postsecondary Success Portfolio: Lessons from Five Years of Funding Digital Courseware (Full Report)
SRI analyzed the features of 137 different courses from 12 major postsecondary courseware-related projects and performed a quantitative meta-analysis of student outcomes to estimate the impact of digital courseware on…
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Outsourcing Private Ram Computation
We construct the first schemes that allow a client to privately outsource arbitrary program executions to a remote server while ensuring that the client's work is small and essentially independent…
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Structure-Based Virtual Screening of the Nociceptin Receptor: Hybrid Docking and Shape-Based Approaches for Improved Hit Identification
In this study, we explored the use of the active-state NOP homology model for structure-based virtual screening to discover NOP ligands containing new chemical scaffolds.
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Heating of the Sunlit Polar Cap Ionosphere by Reflected Photoelectrons
Using a 1-D ionosphere-polar wind model and measurements from the Resolute Bay Incoherent Scatter Radar (RISR-N), this paper shows that these reflected photoelectrons are a significant source of heat for…
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New Candidate Biomarkers in the Female Genital Tract to Evaluate Microbicide Toxicity
Vaginal microbicides hold great promise for the prevention of viral diseases like HIV, but the failure of several microbicide candidates in clinical trials has raised important questions.