Publications
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Reviewing Knowledgebase and Database Grant Proposals in the Life Sciences: The Role of Innovation
This article offers thoughts on reviewing grant proposals for biological knowledgebases and databases (KDs) in the hope of aiding grant reviewers and applicants in addressing the issue of innovation.
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On auxiliary latitudes
This paper summarizes methods for converting between them with an emphasis on providing full double-precision accuracy.
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Creativity Challenge: Arts Education in San Francisco Bay Area Schools
Like the state as a whole, the vast majority of Bay Area schools are failing to meet state goals for arts education by not providing a sequential, standards-based course of…
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Scaling Deeper Learning for Equity Lessons Learned from the Deeper Learning + Diffusion and Scaled Impact Initiative
This research brief summarizes six lessons from the Hewlett Foundation’s Deeper Learning + Diffusion of Innovation and Scaled Impact Initiative.
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Recommendations for Identifying Valid Wear for Consumer-Level Wrist-Worn Activity Trackers and Acceptability of Extended Device Deployment in Children
The aim of this study was to determine acceptability of Fitbit Charge HR for children and their families, and to determine best practices for processing its objective data.
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Adverse childhood experiences and early adolescent cyberbullying in the United States
This study aimed to determine the associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and cyberbullying victimization among a diverse sample of early adolescents.
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The “Janus-like” RNA-editing machinery in innate antiviral immunity
We discuss ideas and tools to identify the orphan drug candidates, including small molecules and biologics that may serve as effective modulators of the ADAR-1/IFN innate immunity and are thereby…
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Electrically regulated cell-based intervention for viral infections
This work reports on an engineered cell that—when electrically stimulated—synthesizes a desired protein, that is, ES-Biofactory.
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The complexities of the sleep-pain relationship in adolescents: A critical review
We will highlight current methodological challenges for both sleep and pain assessments, explore the recent evidence for directionality in the sleep-pain relationship, review potential mechanisms and factors underlying the relationship,…
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Accelerating space radiation countermeasure development through drug repurposing
The discovery of safe and effective radiation countermeasures for long-duration spaceflight is challenging due to the complexity of the space radiation biology and high safety requirements.
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Engineering-scale Demonstration of the Mixed-Salt Process (MSP) for CO2 Capture
This paper presents the MSP technology background and the activities relating to the preparation for the upcoming engineering-scale demonstration at a coal-fired power plant field site, based on extensive testing…
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Toward Fail-Safe Speaker Recognition: Trial-Based Calibration with a Reject Option
In this work, we extend the TBC method, proposing a new similarity metric for selecting training data that results in significant gains over the one proposed in the original work.