Author: SRI International
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Promising approaches to broadening youth participation in STEM
The National Science Foundation (NSF) views broadening participation in the nation’s STEM enterprise as vitally linked to the United States’ capacity for innovation.
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Improving the Robustness of Team Collaboration through Analysis of Qualitative Interactions
We introduce coordination rules that facilitate collaboration between autonomous agents when communication is lost.
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Can Adaptive Courseware Technology Positively Impact Student Learning Outcomes?
In higher education, if students fail to successfully complete the courses offered in the first few terms of school, they can jeopardize their dreams of a college degree. In two-year colleges, the courses representing the greatest hurdles are often developmental courses in English or math. In four-year colleges, they often are introductory courses in subjects…
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New Report Highlights Key Findings from Next Generation STEM Schools Forum
In the 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama called for Next Generation High Schools. Next Generation STEM schools seek to intensify Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) opportunities, especially for historically underrepresented students. Such schools aim to strengthen STEM learning for all students who have a strong interest in STEM, regardless of their…
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Extending Semantically Enabled Virtual Environments for Training Assessment
This paper reports the lessons learned from several recent research and development projects, and offers some directions for new studies that build on this work.
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Playing the Long Game: Utah Renews Investment in its Innovation Ecosystem
Innovation—the process of creating new products and services and delivering them to customers—is tough. It’s tough, because the innovation process is nonlinear, requires adaptation, requires multiple skillsets, and engaging multiple stakeholders. Regions with strong innovation systems are well known, but where do states trying to build innovation systems start? Utah offers some good lessons. In…
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Additive Manufacturing: Re-thinking Battery Design
In this article we focus on recent advances in additive manufacturing for batteries and highlight current and future research directions for battery design, manufacturing, and integration for small, portable and wearable electronics.
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Characteristics of Successful Inclusive STEM High Schools and their Impact on Student Outcomes
There has been a growing interest across the U.S. in expanding science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) opportunities for our nation’s youth through STEM-focused high schools – particularly for those groups who are under-represented in these high-growth fields (including minorities, females, and students from low-income families). Inclusive STEM high schools are designed to increase participation…
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Engaging teachers in supporting next generation STEM learning
To accelerate dissemination of educator learning models in ITEST projects, the ITEST program has called for reflection on best practices and lessons learned. In this paper, we take a closer look at teacher-centered projects.
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A New Approach to Fighting Flu
When most people hear the term “infectious disease,” it’s likely they think of illnesses that have been prominent in the news lately, such as Zika virus, MERS and Ebola. But there is a disease that poses a much broader and more imminent threat to most of us: influenza. Seasonal influenza viruses infect five to 20…
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Time, Frequency & Complexity Analysis for Recognizing Panic States from Physiologic Time-Series
This paper presents results of analysis performed on a physiologic time-series dataset that was collected from a wearable ECG monitoring system worn by individuals who suffer from panic disorder.
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MASTerful Matchmaking in Service Transactions: Inferred Abilities, Needs and Interests versus Activity Histories
We present an experiment involving data and participants from a real timebanking network, that evaluates the acceptability of MAST, and shows that such an algorithm can retrieve matches that are subjectively better than matches based on matching the category of peoples historical offers or requests to the category of a current transaction request.