• Neural Mechanisms of Behavioral Change in Young Adults with High-Functioning Autism Receiving Virtual Reality Social Cognition Training: A Pilot Study 

  Yang, Y. J. Daniel; Allen, Tandra; Abdullahi, Sebiha M.; Pelphrey, Kevin A.; Volkmar, Fred R.; Chapman, Sandra Bond

  Measuring treatment efficacy in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) relies primarily on behaviors, with limited evidence as to the neural mechanisms underlying these behavioral gains. This pilot study addresses ...

• Plasma Dynamics Associated with Equatorial Ionospheric Irregularities 

  Smith, Jonathon Matthew; Heelis, Roderick A.

  The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System satellite was operational from 2008, a period of deep solar minimum, to 2015, a period of moderate solar conditions. The behavior of the vertical plasma drift and the ...

• Optimization of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex for Tinnitus: A Non-Linear Dose-Response Effect 

  Shekhawat, Giriraj Singh; Vanneste, Sven; Shekhawat, Giriraj Singh

  Neuromodulation is defined as the process of augmenting neuroplasticity via invasive or non-invasive methods. Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of its external source. The objective of this study was to ...

• Learning Efficiency: Identifying Individual Differences in Learning Rate and Retention in Healthy Adults 

  Zerr, C. L.; Berg, J. J.; Nelson, Steven M.; Fishell, A. K.; Savalia, Neil K.; McDermott, K. B.

  People differ in how quickly they learn information and how long they remember it, yet individual differences in learning abilities within healthy adults have been relatively neglected. In two studies, we examined the ...

• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Left Angular Gyrus During Encoding Does not Impair Associative Memory Performance 

  Koen, Joshua D.; Thakral, P. P.; Rugg, Michael D.

  The left angular gyrus (AG) is thought to play a critical role in episodic retrieval and has been implicated in the recollection of specific details of prior episodes. Motivated by recent fMRI studies in which it was ...

• High-Performance Biscrolled MXene/Carbon Nanotube Yarn Supercapacitors 

  Wang, Z.; Qin, S.; Seyedin, S.; Zhang, J.; Wang, J.; Levitt, A.; Li, Na; Haines, Carter; Ovalle-Robles, R.; Lei, W.; Gogotsi, Y.; Baughman, Ray H.; Razal, J. M.

  Yarn-shaped supercapacitors (YSCs) once integrated into fabrics provide promising energy storage solutions to the increasing demand of wearable and portable electronics. In such device format, however, it is a challenge ...

• The Ion/Electron Temperature Characteristics of Polar Cap Classical and Hot Patches and their Influence on Ion Upflow 

  Ma, Y. -Z; Zhang, Q. -H; Xing, Z. -Y; Heelis, Roderick A.; Oksavik, K.; Wang, Y.

  The term of “polar cap hot patch” is a newly identified high-density plasma irregularity at high latitudes, which is associated with high electron temperature and particle precipitation, while a classical polar cap patch ...

• Inhibiting the Integrated Stress Response Pathway Prevents Aberrant Chondrocyte Differentiation Thereby Alleviating Chondrodysplasia 

  Wang, C.; Tan, Z.; Niu, B.; Tsang, K. Y.; Tai, A.; Chan, W. C. W.; Lo, R. L. K.; Leung, K. K. H.; Dung, N. W. F.; Itoh, N.; Zhang, Michael Q.; Chan, D.; Cheah, K. S. E.

  The integrated stress response (ISR) is activated by diverse forms of cellular stress, including endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, and is associated with diseases. However, the molecular mechanism(s) whereby the ISR impacts ...

• Quantifying Extremely Rapid Flux Enhancements of Radiation Belt Relativistic Electrons Associated with Radial Diffusion 

  Liu, Si; Yan, Qi; Yang, Chang; Zhou, Qinghua; He, Zhaoguo; He, Yihua; Gao, Zhonglei; Xiao, Fuliang

  Previous studies have revealed a typical picture that seed electrons are transported inward under the drive of radial diffusion and then accelerated via chorus to relativistic energies. Here we show a potentially different ...

• Harvesting Electrical Energy from Torsional Thermal Actuation Driven by Natural Convection 

  Kim, Shi Hyeong; Sim, Hyeon Jun; Hyeon, Jae Sang; Suh, Dongseok; Spinks, Geoffrey M.; Baughman, Ray H.; Kim, Seon Jeong

  The development of practical, cost-effective systems for the conversion of low-grade waste heat to electrical energy is an important area of renewable energy research. We here demonstrate a thermal energy harvester that ...

• Study of the Equatorial and Low-Latitude Electrodynamic and Ionospheric Disturbances during the 22–23 June 2015 Geomagnetic Storm Using Ground-Based and Spaceborne Techniques 

  Astafyeva, E.; Zakharenkova, I.; Hozumi, K.; Alken, P.; Coïsson, P.; Hairston, Marc R.; Coley, William R.

  We use a set of ground-based instruments (Global Positioning System receivers, ionosondes, magnetometers) along with data of multiple satellite missions (Swarm, C/NOFS, DMSP, GUVI) to analyze the equatorial and low-latitude ...

• The Impact of Brief Restriction to Articulation on Children's Subsequent Speech Production 

  Seidl, Amanda; Brosseau-Lapré, Françoise; Goffman, Lisa

  This project explored whether disruption of articulation during listening impacts subsequent speech production in 4-yr-olds with and without speech sound disorder (SSD). During novel word learning, typically-developing ...

• A Multilevel Computational Characterization of Endophenotypes in Addiction 

  Fiore, Vincenzo G.; Ognibene, D.; Adinoff, B.; Gu, Xiaosi

  Addiction is characterized by a profound intersubject (phenotypic) variability in the expression of addictive symptomatology and propensity to relapse following treatment. However, laboratory investigations have primarily ...

• An Auroral Boundary-Oriented Model of Subauroral Polarization Streams (SAPS) 

  Landry, Russell G.; Anderson, Phillip C.

  An empirical model of subauroral polarization stream (SAPS) electric fields has been developed using measurements of ion drifts and particle precipitation made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program from 1987 to ...

• Socioeconomic Status Moderates Age-Related Differences in the Brain's Functional Network Organization and Anatomy Across the Adult Lifespan 

  Chan, Micaela Y.; Na, Jinkyung; Agres, Phillip F.; Savalia, Neil K.; Park, Denise C.; Wig, Gagan S.

  An individual's environmental surroundings interact with the development and maturation of their brain. An important aspect of an individual's environment is his or her socioeconomic status (SES), which estimates access ...

• Cortical Map Plasticity as a Function of Vagus Nerve Stimulation Rate 

  Buell, Elizabeth P.; Loerwald, Kristofer W.; Engineer, Crystal T.; Borland, Michael S .; Buell, John M.; Kelly, C. A.; Khan, I. I.; Hays, Seth A.; Kilgard, Michael P.

  Background: Repeatedly pairing a brief train of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) with an external event can reorganize the sensory or motor cortex. A 30 Hz train of sixteen VNS pulses paired with a tone significantly increases ...

• Coincident Observations by the Kharkiv IS Radar and Ionosonde, DMSP and Arase (ERG) Satellites, and FLIP Model Simulations: Implications for the NRLMSISE-00 Hydrogen Density, Plasmasphere, and Ionosphere 

  Kotov, D. V.; Richards, P. G.; Truhlík, V.; Bogomaz, O. V.; Shulha, M. O.; Maruyama, N.; Hairston, Marc R.; Miyoshi, Y.; Kasahara, Y.; Kumamoto, A.; Tsuchiya, F.; Matsuoka, A.; Shinohara, I.; Hernández-Pajares, M.; Domnin, I. F.; Zhivolup, T. G.; Emelyanov, L. Y.; Chepurnyy, Y. M.

  This paper reports the results of ionosphere and plasmasphere observations with the Kharkiv incoherent scatter radar and ionosonde, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, and Arase (ERG) satellites and simulations with ...

• Effects of Electric Field and Neutral Wind on the Asymmetry of Equatorial Ionization Anomaly 

  Khadka, S. M.; Valladares, Cesar E.; Sheehan, R.; Gerrard, A. J.

  The zonal electric field and the meridional neutral wind are the principal drivers that define the geometry and characteristics of the equatorial ionization anomaly (EIA). Here we present the response of the EIA to the ...

• Dream Architectonics: An Interactive Audiovisual Installation 

  Dufour, Frank; Dufour, Lee

  This article presents the processes that guided the production of the interactive artwork DreamArchitectonics, attempting to render perceivable the altered experience of time characteristic of the dream-state. This project ...

• Longitudinal Associations between Family Members' Internalizing Symptoms across Middle Childhood 

  Villarreal, Deyaun L.; Nelson, Jackie A.

  An individual's internalizing symptoms have been shown to relate to greater symptoms in family members. However, an examination of how family members' symptoms are associated with one another is needed with a model including ...

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