Publications by authors named "J Downer"

Retention of early career teachers is a critical issue in education, with burnout and self-efficacy serving as important precursors to teachers leaving the field. An integration of the PAX Good Behavior Game (GBG; Barrish et al., 1969) and MyTeachingPartner (MTP; Allen et al.

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Proposal teams play a critical, yet understudied, role in team science. This study advances our understanding of teamwork coaching in the research development (RD) process by analyzing proposal support in a U.S.

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Background: Flow diverting stents (FDS) are an established endovascular treatment for intracranial aneurysms but are reported to have varying rates of adequate occlusion and thromboembolic complications. This study reports clinical safety and efficacy results of the FRED and FRED Jr FDS in clinical practice in the UK at 6 months and 1 year.

Methods: The FRED-UK study is a single arm, multicentre, prospective, observational study conducted in the UK.

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  • * This study explores whether ANNs can also predict spiking activity in auditory neurons at finer time scales (50 ms and below) by using recordings from the auditory cortex of squirrel monkeys reacting to speech audio and monkey vocalizations.
  • * Results show that trained ANN layers can explain a significant portion of neural variance in responses, particularly with non-primary neurons being more predictable by deeper layers, highlighting individual neuron variability that isn't captured by standard recording techniques.
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