Publications
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Prior test experience confounds longitudinal tracking of adolescent cognitive and motor development
We measured change in cognitive and motor abilities over four test sessions in participants from the National Consortium on Alcohol and NeuroDevelopment in Adolescence study.
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Multiagent Inverse Reinforcement Learning via Theory of Mind Reasoning
We approach the problem of understanding how people interact with each other in collaborative settings via Multiagent Inverse Reinforcement Learning (MIRL), where the goal is to infer the reward functions…
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Evaluation of the efficacy of the hypocretin/orexin receptor agonists TAK-925 and ARN-776 in narcoleptic orexin/tTA; TetO-DTA mice
We evaluated the efficacy of two small molecule hypocretin/orexin receptor-2 (HCRTR2) agonists in narcoleptic male orexin/tTA; TetO-DTA mice.
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Assessment of Immunologically Potent Carbohydrates
We present here our laboratory protocols for performing carbohydrate ELISA and discuss several assay platforms that may be applied complementarily to explore the carbohydrate moieties that are critical for host…
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It’s Not Just About the Hot Flashes: Menopausal Hormone Changes and Disrupted Sleep
Sleep disturbances are common during the menopausal transition, being reported by more than half of midlife women.
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Adolescent alcohol use is linked to disruptions in age-appropriate cortical thinning: an unsupervised machine learning approach
In this study, adolescents from the NCANDA study who endorsed little to no alcohol use at baseline were assessed with structural magnetic resonance imaging and followed longitudinally at four yearly…
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Unpacking the Relationship Between Classroom Teacher Characteristics and Time to English Learner Reclassification
Drawing from a longitudinal administrative dataset from Tennessee, this study uses discrete-time survival analysis to estimate the relationship between ELs’ likelihood of reclassification and characteristics of their general education English…
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Tumor-specific intracellular delivery: peptide-guided transport of a catalytic toxin
Here we optimize our lead peptide by a series of chemical modifications including truncations, N-terminal capping, and changes in valency.
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Ancient origin and conserved gene function in terpene pheromone and defense evolution of stink bugs and hemipteran insects
The origin of enzymes involved in terpene biosynthesis and their evolution in insect genomes is still poorly understood. We addressed this question by investigating the evolution of isoprenyl diphosphate synthase…
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Transforming High Schools to Serve Students Who Are Off Track to Graduate: Lessons Learned from the Engage New England Initiative
This brief presents lessons learned about school transformation from the Barr Foundation’s Engage New England initiative, an effort to catalyze high school innovation by developing exemplary schools that support the…
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CEE 101: An Introduction to Coordinated Eligibility
We describe what CEE is, how to do it, what the benefits are, key decisions that must be made, and facilitators and barriers to implementation.
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Social Epidemiology of Early Adolescent Cyberbullying in the United States
Our objective was to determine the prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of cyberbullying victimization and perpetration among a diverse population-based sample of adolescents.