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Delighted and Distracted: Positive Affect Increases Priming for Irrelevant Information by BISS, Renée K, HASHER, Lynn

“…Emotional states are known to influence how people process relevant information. Here, we address the impact of emotional state on irrelevant information. In…”
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Effects of Exergaming on Physical and Cognitive Outcomes of Older Adults Living in Long-Term Care Homes: A Systematic Review by Chu, Charlene H, Quan, Amanda My Linh, Souter, Allison, Krisnagopal, Archanaa, Biss, Renée K

“…Aging is often associated with increasing functional decline as measured by deterioration in mobility and activities of daily living. Older adults (OAs) living…”
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Interference From Previous Distraction Disrupts Older Adults' Memory by BISS, Renée K, CAMPBELL, Karen L, HASHER, Lynn

“…Previously relevant information can disrupt the ability of older adults to remember new information. Here, the researchers examined whether prior irrelevant…”
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Leveraging Older Adults' Susceptibility to Distraction to Improve Memory for Face-Name Associations by Biss, Renée K., Rowe, Gillian, Weeks, Jennifer C., Hasher, Lynn, Murphy, Kelly J.

“…Forgetting people's names is a common memory complaint among older adults and one that is consistent with experimental evidence of age-related decline in…”
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Face–name learning in older adults: a benefit of hyper-binding by Weeks, Jennifer C., Biss, Renée K., Murphy, Kelly J., Hasher, Lynn

“…Difficulty remembering faces and corresponding names is a hallmark of cognitive aging, as is increased susceptibility to distraction. Given evidence that older…”
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Exergaming Platform for Older Adults Residing in Long-Term Care Homes: User-Centered Design, Development, and Usability Study by Chu, Charlene H, Biss, Renée K, Cooper, Lara, Quan, Amanda My Linh, Matulis, Henrique

“…Older adults (OAs) residing in long-term care (LTC) homes are often unable to engage in adequate amounts of physical activity because of multiple…”
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Happy as a Lark: Morning-Type Younger and Older Adults Are Higher in Positive Affect by Biss, Renée K., Hasher, Lynn

“…A literature on young adults reports that morning-type individuals, or "larks," report higher levels of positive affect compared with evening-type individuals,…”
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Distraction Can Reduce Age-Related Forgetting by Biss, Renée K., Ngo, K. W. Joan, Hasher, Lynn, Campbell, Karen L., Rowe, Gillian

“…In three experiments, we assessed whether older adults' generally greater tendency to process distracting information can be used to minimize widely reported…”
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Positive mood is associated with the implicit use of distraction by Biss, Renée K., Hasher, Lynn, Thomas, Ruthann C.

“…Previous research demonstrates that individuals in a positive mood are differentially distracted by irrelevant information during an ongoing task (Rowe et al…”
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Happily distracted: mood and a benefit of attention dysregulation in older adults by Biss, Renée K, Weeks, Jennifer C, Hasher, Lynn

“…Positive mood states are believed to broaden the focus of attention in younger adults, but it is unclear whether the same is true for older adults. Here we…”
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Use of the mitochondria toxicity assay for quantifying the viable cell density of microencapsulated jurkat cells by Werner, M., Biss, K., Jérôme, V., Hilbrig, F., Freitag, R., Zambrano, K., Hübner, H., Buchholz, R., Mahou, R., Wandrey, C.

“…The mitochondria toxicity assay (MTT assay) is an established method for monitoring cell viability based on mitochondrial activity. Here the MTT assay is…”
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Neurocognitive Profiles Associated With Limited English Proficiency in Cognitively Intact Adults by Brantuo, Maame A, An, Kelly, Biss, Renee K, Ali, Sami, Erdodi, Laszlo A

“…The objective of the present study was to examine the neurocognitive profiles associated with limited English proficiency (LEP). A brief neuropsychological…”
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The BNT-15 provides an accurate measure of English proficiency in cognitively intact bilinguals - a study in cross-cultural assessment by Ali, Sami, Elliott, Lauren, Biss, Renee K., Abumeeiz, Mustafa, Brantuo, Maame, Kuzmenka, Palina, Odenigbo, Paula, Erdodi, Laszlo A.

“…This study was designed to replicate earlier reports of the utility of the Boston Naming Test - Short Form (BNT-15) as an index of limited English proficiency…”
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Hamiltonian decomposition of recursive circulant graphs by Biss, Daniel K.

“…The graph G( N, d) has vertex set V={0,1,…, N−1}, with { v, w} an edge if v−w≡±d i( mod N) for some 0⩽i⩽⌈ log d N⌉−1 . We show that the circulant graph G( cd m…”
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The Homotopy Type of the Matroid Grassmannian by Biss, Daniel K.

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Large Annihilators in Cayley-Dickson Algebras by Biss, Daniel K., Dugger, Daniel, Isaksen, Daniel C.

“…Cayley-Dickson algebras are nonassociative ℝ-algebras that generalize the well-known algebras ℝ, ℂ, ℍ, and . We study zero-divisors in these algebras. In…”
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A Presentation for the Unipotent Group over Rings with Identity by Biss, Daniel K, Dasgupta, Samit

“…For a ring R with identity, define Unipn(R) to be the group of upper-triangular matrices over R all of whose diagonal entries are 1. For i=1,2,…,n−1, let Si…”
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Which Functor Is the Projective Line? by Biss, Daniel K.

“…Biss discusses the rudiments of the language of category theory and the notion of functors. He defines representable and corepresentable functions and explains…”
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Retraction notice to “The topological fundamental group and generalized covering spaces” [Topol. Appl. 124 (3) (2002) 355–371] by Biss, Daniel K.

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Oriented matroids, complex manifolds, and a combinatorial model for BU by Biss, Daniel K.

“…We introduce a new notion of complex oriented matroid and develop some basic properties of this object. Our definition of complex oriented matroids bears the…”
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