Publications
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Designing And Assessing Numeracy Training For Journalists: Toward Improving Quantitative Reasoning Among Media Consumers
The Numerically Driven Inferencing (NDI) paradigm’s research suggested that a curricular module highlighting evidential/scientific thinking might enhance reporters’ quantitative and analytic skills.
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Fe-Radiation-Induced Alterations in Circulating Leukocyte Populations in the Apoe Mouse Atherosclerosis Model Are Temporary
We irradiated ApoE mice with 56Fe focused to the aorta and carotids to determine how irradiation of the thymus with 56Fe affects circulating lymphocyte number, and ultimately to determine the…
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A Semantic Web Reasoner for Rules, Equations and Constraints
We describe a reasoner for OWL ontologies and SWRL policies used on cognitive radios to control dynamic spectrum access.
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Representational Competence And Chemical Understanding In The High School Chemistry Classroom
This chapter reports on the use of representational resources within a computer-based environment, called ChemSense, to support high school chemistry students’ representational practices and their understanding of key chemical concepts.
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Runtime Certification
We outline a suitable framework, in which the basis for certification is changed from compliance with standards to the construction of explicit goals, evidence, and arguments (generally called an “assurance…
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Teachers’ Use Of Student Data Systems To Improve Instruction: 2005-2007
This report describes an exploratory substudy on teachers’ thinking about data conducted in conjunction with the larger Study of Education Data Systems and Decision Making data collection and the implications…
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Using Spectral Characteristics to Interpret Auroral Imaging in the 731.9 Nm O+ Line
Simultaneous observations were made of dynamic aurora during substorm activity on 26 January 2006 with three high spatial and temporal resolution instruments: the ASK (Auroral Structure and Kinetics) instrument, SIF…
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A Mouse Model for Familial Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome
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Sioc Ceramic with High Excess Free Carbon
The correlation between microstructure evolution and increasing processing temperature of a polymer-derived SiOC ceramic with a high volume fraction of free carbon was studied by transmission electron microscopy (TEM).
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Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Alpha- and Beta-6-Amido Derivatives of 17-Cyclopropylmethyl-3, 14 Beta-Dihydroxy-4, 5 Alpha-Epoxymorphinan: Potential Alcohol-Cessation Agents
Substituted aryl and aliphatic amide analogues of 6-naltrexamine were synthesized and used to characterize the binding to and functional activity of human μ-, δ-, and κ-opioid receptors.
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Comparing Three Approaches To Preparing Teachers To Teach For Deep Understanding In Earth Science: Short-Term Impacts On Teachers And Teaching Practice
This study used an experimental design to compare the efficacy of three different approaches to professional development for preparing teachers to implement curriculum units aimed at teaching for deep conceptual…
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Gender Differences In Science
We present a review of research that looks at alternative explanations for these gender differences in science. Specifically, we consider the significance of girls’ science attitudes and the pervasive influence—both…