Publications
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The Chatanika and Sondrestrom Radars – a Brief History
The Sondrestrom upper atmospheric research facility, located just north of the Arctic Circle near the west coast of Greenland, will soon celebrate 30 yr of operations. This is the story…
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Discovery of a Splicing Regulator Required for Cell Cycle Progression
Here we describe a new G1 mutant from an ancient family of apicomplexan protozoans. Toxoplasma gondii temperature-sensitive mutant 12-109C6 conditionally arrests in the G1 phase due to a single point mutation in…
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Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Variation and Response to Smoking Cessation Therapies
Objective: To evaluate the association of nAChR single nucleotide polymorphism with abstinence in trials of smoking cessation therapies.
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The Twin Research Registry at SRI International
Twins in the TRR have participated in studies of complex, clinically relevant phenotypes that would not be feasible to measure in larger samples.
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Circadian Rhythm Disorders: Does Sex Matter?
There are sex-related differences in circadian rhythms with women having shorter intrinsic periods and earlier phase of both temperature and melatonin rhythms relative to men.
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Pharmacogenetic Smoking Cessation Intervention in a Health Care Setting: A Pilot Feasibility Study
We conducted a multiphased, mixed-methods feasibility study with current smokers to develop and evaluate a patient-centered, theoretically grounded personalized medicine treatment protocol.
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Sparse Conditional Mixture Model: Late Fusion with Missing Scores for Multimedia Event Detection
We present the Sparse Conditional Mixture Model (SCMM) which models only the observed detection scores for each example, thereby avoiding making any assumptions about the distributions of the scores that…
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Design-Based Implementation Research: An Emerging Model for Transforming the Relationship of Research and Practice
We describe the need for DBIR as a research approach that challenges educational researchers and practitioners to transcend traditional research/practice barriers to facilitate the design of educational interventions that are…
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More Sight on Foresight
Reflecting on elections, natural disasters, and the future.
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Are Women Who Smoke at Higher Risk for Lung Cancer Than Men Who Smoke?
We tested sex-smoking interaction in association with lung cancer risk within a population-based case-control study, the Environment and Genetics in Lung Cancer Etiology (EAGLE) Study (Lombardy, Italy, 2002–2005).
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Evaluation of IL17A Expression and of IL17A, IL17F and IL23R Gene Polymorphisms in Brazilian Individuals with Periodontitis
The aim of present study was to evaluate the expression of IL17A and occurrence of the IL17A (rs2275913), IL17F (rs763780) and IL23R (rs11209026) gene polymorphisms in different clinical forms or…
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Nighttime Cardiac Sympathetic Hyper-Activation in Young Primary Insomniacs
Impedance cardiography and heart rate variability (HRV) measures were assessed in 9 insomniacs and 9 good sleepers during a night of polysomnographic recording.