Publications
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Stimulation of Lateral Hypothalamic Glutamate and Acetylcholine Efflux By Nicotine: Implications for Mechanisms of Nicotine-Induced Activation of Orexin Neurons
Here, we used in vivo microdialysis to determine the effect of acute systemic or local nicotine on glutamate, acetylcholine, and GABA efflux in the LH/PFA of rats.
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Automatic disfluency removal for improving spoken language translation
We examine the impact of disfluencies from broadcast conversation data on our hierarchical phrase-based SMT system and implement automatic disfluency removal approaches for cleansing the MT input.
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Assessing Systems Thinking and Complexity in Science
This technical report provides support for designing tasks that assess systems thinking, in the form of a design pattern.
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On Seeding Equatorial Spread F During Solstices
Seasonal migration and latitudinal alignment of the inter-tropical convergence zone with the magnetic dip equator is suggested as the missing source, and shown able to fill that void.
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Acoustic front-end optimization for bird species recognition
The goal of this work was to explore the optimization of the feature extraction module (front-end) parameters to improve bird species recognition.
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LC/MS Characterization of Impurities and Degradation Products of a Potent Antitumor Peptidic Dimer, CU201
An HPLC method was developed, as part of a study supported by the National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Rapid Access to Interventional Development (RAID) program, to assess the purity and stability…
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Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism of (R,R)-Methoxyfenoterol in Rat
(R,R)-fenoterol (Fen), a beta(2)-adrenoceptor agonist, is under clinical investigation in the treatment of congestive heart disease.
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Scaling Up SimCalc Project Tech Report Series: Design and Development of the Student and Teacher Mathematical Assessments
This technical report documents the design and development of the student and teacher mathematical content assessment instruments for the Scaling Up SimCalc Project.
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Speaker Adaptation of Language and Prosodic Models for Automatic Dialog Act Segmentation of Speech
This study explores speaker-specific modeling for the task of automatic segmentation of speech into dialog acts (DAs), using a linear combination of speaker-dependent and speaker-independent language and prosodic models.
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Datasets for Inquiry in Geoscience: A Design Model
This article describes the results of a proof of concept project, Data Sets for Inquiry in Geoscience (DIGS), funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Global Reemergence of Tuberculosis: Are Host Defense Peptides an Option to Ameliorate Disease Burden?
Intermittent drug therapy due to noncompliance or poor delivery of therapy promotes the emergence of bacterial strains showing resistance to multiple drugs and the rise of extremely drug-resistant strains.
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Daytime Sleepiness, Psychomotor Performance, Waking Eeg Spectra and Evoked Potentials in Women with Severe Premenstrual Syndrome
We assessed daytime sleepiness using objective and subjective measures in women with severe premenstrual syndrome (PMS) compared with women without significant premenstrual symptoms.