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Samantha Custer

Director of Policy Analysis, AidData, William & Mary
Verified email at aiddata.wm.edu
Cited by 629

TDP-43 mediates degeneration in a novel Drosophila model of disease caused by mutations in VCP/p97

GP Ritson, SK Custer, BD Freibaum… - Journal of …, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
Inclusion body myopathy associated with Paget's disease of bone and frontotemporal
dementia (IBMPFD) is a dominantly inherited degenerative disorder caused by mutations in the …

Bergmann glia expression of polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-7 produces neurodegeneration by impairing glutamate transport

SK Custer, GA Garden, N Gill, U Rueb, RT Libby… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
Non-neuronal cells may be pivotal in neurodegenerative disease, but the mechanistic basis
of this effect remains ill-defined. In the polyglutamine disease spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (…

Toward Data-Driven Education Systems: Insights into Using Information to Measure Results and Manage Change.

S Custer, EM King, TM Atinc, L Read, T Sethi - Center for Universal Education …, 2018 - ERIC
… While school-level administrative data from a country’s EMIS and student learning assessments
can support real-time monitoring, program evaluations and other research may be more …

Assessing landslide potential using GIS, soil wetness modeling and topographic attributes, Payette River, Idaho

ML Gritzner, WA Marcus, R Aspinall, SG Custer - Geomorphology, 2001 - Elsevier
This study utilizes GIS modeling to determine if the location of 559 landslides in the 875 km
2 catchment of the Middle Fork of the Payette River, Idaho can be predicted based on …

[BOOK][B] Tracking Chinese Development Finance: An Application of AidData's TUFF 3.0 Methodology

S Custer, A Dreher, TB Elston, B Escobar… - 2023 - docs.aiddata.org
… When we set out to build Version 3.0 of AidData’s GCDF dataset, our goal was to create a
comprehensive and detailed picture of China’s overseas development finance program. The …

Transgenic mice expressing mutant forms VCP/p97 recapitulate the full spectrum of IBMPFD including degeneration in muscle, brain and bone

SK Custer, M Neumann, H Lu… - Human molecular …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… Briefly, mice were suspended by their front limbs from a wire and the latency to fall was
recorded with a maximum of 200 s permitted. Mice were tested every 4 weeks beginning at …

Hands-on summer camp to attract K–12 students to engineering fields

M Yilmaz, J Ren, S Custer… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper explains the organization and execution of a summer engineering outreach camp
designed to attract and motivate high school students as well as increase their awareness …

Review of pulsed power-driven high energy density physics research on Z at Sandia

…, BM Cook, CA Coverdale, ME Cuneo, JS Custer… - Physics of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
s magnetic pressure accelerates a thin metal sheet (also known as a “flyer plate”) up to 40
km/s… compression loading paths throughout a material’s phase space. The third class of …

[PDF][PDF] Listening to leaders: Which development partners do they prefer and why? Williamsburg, VA: AidData

S Custer, Z Rice, T Masaki, R Latourell, B Parks - 2015 - docs.aiddata.org
The authors would like to thank the outstanding team of research assistants who made
contributions to this report: Caroline Davis, Lisa Lee, Kristin Ritchey, Michael Testa, Jessica Tiblin…

[PDF][PDF] Listening to leaders 2018: Is development cooperation tuned-in or tone-deaf

S Custer, M DiLorenzo, T Masaki, T Sethi… - … , VA: AidData at the …, 2018 - docs.aiddata.org
… Running a bivariate regression, we find a weakly significant relationship between a country’s
score on the Fragile State Index in 2010 and a leader’s 18 propensity to select goal 16 as a …