Publications
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A New Approach to Supporting the Quality of Early Care and Education Programs in Arkansas: Case Studies of Array
Case studies of early care and education programs participating in Arkansas’s Array initiative describe the benefits of proactively providing entire program staff with social-emotional-focused professional development that is tailored to…
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Reducing Exclusionary Discipline in Early Care and Education Programs: An Examination of the Arkansas Model
Survey findings from early childhood program directors and teachers provide insight into the implementation of Arkansas’s policy and supports designed to prevent suspension and expulsion in early care and education…
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Novel progestogenic androgens for male contraception: design, synthesis, and activity of C7 α-substituted testosterone
Male contraceptive development has included use of testosterone (T) with or without a progestin or the use of a single molecule such as progestogenic androgens (PA) for suppression of testicular…
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Associations between alcohol use and sex-specific maturation of subcortical gray matter morphometry from adolescence to adulthood: Replication across two longitudinal samples
This project used generalized additive mixed models to examine sex-specific development of subcortical volumes and associations with recent alcohol use…
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Collaborative Partnership to Teach Mathematical Reasoning Through Computer Programming (CPR2) Fall 2020 Findings Memo
This Collaborative Partnership to Teach Mathematical Reasoning Through Computer Programming (CPR2) memo includes recommendations and findings from the observations, teacher interviews, student surveys, and student assessments in fall 2020.
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SynRoute: A Retrosynthetic Planning Software
SynRoute is a new retrosynthetic planning software tool that uses a relatively small number of general reaction templates, currently 263, along with a literature-based reaction database to find short, practical…
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IxDRL: A Novel Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning Toolkit based on Analyses of Interestingness
Our tool provides various measures of RL agent competence stemming from interestingness analysis and is applicable to a wide range of RL algorithms, natively supporting the popular RLLib toolkit.
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Higher blood pressure and weight observed among early adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic
The aim of this study is to quantify differences in blood pressure and weight before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among a demographically diverse national sample of early adolescents.
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The Menstrual Cycle and Sleep
Although objective sleep continuity remains unchanged across the regular, asymptomatic menstrual cycle, activity in the sleep electroencephalogram varies.
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Association of the rs17782313, rs17773430 and rs34114122 Polymorphisms of/near MC4R Gene with Obesity-Related Biomarkers in a Spanish Pediatric Cohort
Our results highlight that metabolic risk factors, especially alterations in carbohydrate metabolism, were related to rs17782313.
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Evaluation of a device-agnostic approach to predict sleep from raw accelerometry data collected by Apple Watch Series 7, Garmin Vivoactive 4, and ActiGraph GT9X Link in children with sleep disruptions
This study demonstrates that raw acceleration data from consumer wearable devices has the potential to be harnessed to predict sleep in children.
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Social epidemiology of Fitbit daily steps in early adolescence
Our objective was to examine differences in device-based step metrics, including daily step count by sociodemographic factors among a diverse sample of 10-to-14-year-old adolescents in the US.