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Extraction of time-varying spatio-temporal networks using parameter-tuned constrained IVA
(IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging, 2019-07)Dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) analysis is an effective way to capture the networks that are functionally associated and continuously changing over the scanning period. However, these methods mostly analyze the ... -
Co-teaching and the PrimeD framework: Radicals and Rational Exponents
(2018-04)This study examined the application of a co-teaching model to the PrimeD framework. Two teachers and a teacher educator collaborated to develop, implement, evaluate, and study a unit on radical expressions, equations, and ... -
Making teacher PD effective using the PrimeD framework.
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Mathematics education technology professional development: Changes over several decades.
(IGI Global, 2016)The effective use of digital technologies in school settings calls for appropriate professional development opportunities that will transform inservice teachers’ knowledge for integrating technologies as effective mathematics ... -
The Latino Racial Justice Circle Guide for Faith Community Dialogues on Immigration
(University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2019-07)The LRJC Guide for Faith Community Dialogues on Immigration describes, step by step, the LRJC dialogue model. The LRJC hopes it will enable faith communities everywhere to use dialogue for mutual understanding and collaboration ... -
On the Ability to Provide Demonstrations on a UAS: Observing 90 Untrained Participants Abusing a Flying Robot
(AAAI, 2015)This paper presents an exploratory study where participants piloted a commercial UAS (unmanned aerial system) through an obstacle course. The goal was to determine how varying the instructions given to participants affected ... -
Inferring Robot Morphology from Observation of Unscripted Movement
(IEEE, 2019-05)Task sharing between heterogeneous robots currently requires a priori capability knowledge, a shared communication protocol, or a centralized planner. However, in practice, when two robots are brought together, the effort ... -
¿Es un platano? Exploring the Application of a Physically Grounded Language Acquisition System to Spanish
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019-06)In this paper we describe a multilingual grounded language learning system adapted from an English-only system. This system learns the meaning of words used in crowd-sourced descriptions by grounding them in the physical ... -
Deep Learning for Category-Free Grounded Language Acquisition
(Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019-06)We propose a learning system in which language is grounded in visual percepts without pre-defined category constraints. We present a unified generative method to acquire a shared semantic/visual embedding that enables a ... -
Evaluation of the Maryland Health Home Program for Medicaid Enrollees with Severe Mental Illnesses or Opioid Substance Use Disorder and Risk of Additional Chronic Conditions
(The Hilltop Institute, 2018-06-25)Hilltop staff presented at the 2018 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in Seattle in June. Senior Policy Analyst Shamis Mohamoud, MA, gave this podium presentation, which provided an overview of Hilltop’s evaluation ... -
Expanding Medicaid Coverage for Community-Based Long-Term Services and Supports: Lessons From Maryland’s Community First Choice Program
(SAGE journals, 2018-06-05)Community First Choice (CFC) is a Medicaid state plan option authorized through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that supports the delivery of longterm services and supports in home and community settings. We interviewed ... -
Designing a Medicare Help at Home Benefit: Lessons from Maryland’s Community First Choice Program
(2018-06)ISSUE: Medicare does not cover home- and community-based services (HCBS) that help beneficiaries function independently at home. The financial burden of uncovered personal care services puts beneficiaries with physical or ... -
Does the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Affect Hospital Utilization Among Older Adults? The Case of Maryland
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2018-04-01)This study sought to examine whether Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation and benefit levels are associated with reduced subsequent hospital and emergency department utilization in low-income older ... -
Estimating State‐Specific Costs of Medicaid Adult Dental Coverage Expansion Using Comparative State Data
(The Hilltop Institute, 2017-06-24)This research sought to estimate the cost to Maryland to expand Medicaid dental coverage for adults in order to cover a broader range of services. -
Service Utilization and Expenditures among Adults with Diabetes in Maryland’s Medicaid Managed Care Program
(2017-06-24)Hilltop staff made several presentations at the 2017 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in New Orleans. At the State Health Research and Policy Interest Group Meeting on June 24, Policy Analyst Jamie John, MPH, ... -
Hospital Community Benefit Spending: How to Increase Investments in Population Health
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State-University Partnerships: Generating Evidence to Support State Policymaking-the Maryland Experience
(The Hilltop Institute, 2016-11-03)2016 Fall Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy & Management (APPAM), titled The Role of Research in Making Government More Effective, on November 3, 2016 in Washington, DC. Abstract: Hilltop Executive ... -
Hospital Community Benefits after the ACA: Trends in State Community Benefit Legislation, November 2015 – May 2016
(The Hilltop Institute, 2016-06)This issue brief, the thirteenth in a series, addresses Hilltop’s latest update of the Community Benefit State Law Profiles to reflect new community benefit legislation enacted between November 1, 2015, and May 31, 2016. ... -
Maryland Full-Benefit Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries’ Use of Medicare and Medicaid Services Preceding and Following a Medicare Inpatient Stay
(The Hilltop Institute, 2016-02-16)At the request of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH), The Hilltop Institute conducted a series of analyses on the health care utilization of Maryland’s full-benefit Medicare-Medicaid dual-eligible ... -
An Analysis of Selected Mental Health Conditions among Maryland Full-Benefit Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries
(The Hilltop Institute, 2016-02-16)At the request of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH), The Hilltop Institute conducted a series of analyses on the health care utilization of Maryland’s full-benefit Medicare-Medicaid dual-eligible ...
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