Author: SRI International
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AlGaN-based ultraviolet laser diodes
In this paper, the current status of UV lasers and laser diodes (LDs) based on group III-nitrides is reviewed.
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Teacher Professional Development Can Make a Positive Impact on Students’ Writing Skills
Effective communication skills are crucial for students as they prepare for college, careers and civic engagement. Acknowledging the importance of writing, states across the nation have adopted new standards to advance students’ writing skills; however, most students are not experiencing instruction that aligns with those standards. Because the new standards require a new way of…
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High-Impact Innovation in Government is Within Reach
For decades, governments have been concerned with the capacity of their residents and institutions to pursue science- and technology-based innovation widely accepted as the foundation of sustainable economic growth. Only recently have public entities begun to focus on the importance of innovation in how they carry out their own public missions. Recognizing the need to…
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Access to International Baccalaureate Programs in the United States Increases for Low-Income Students
Since it was established in 1968 to provide high schools students with qualifications that are recognized by universities around the world, the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme has developed a reputation for rigorous academic standards. Students who score well enough on individual IB exams can earn college credit for their high school IB coursework. In…
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Empowering Adults to Thrive at Work: Personal Success Skills for 21st Century Jobs
SRI Education and The Joyce Foundation have released a report that maps out how evidence-based research provides guidance for promoting personal success skills for adults who are striving to build 21st century careers. Personal success skills are the capabilities—complementary to disciplinary and technical knowledge—that enable adults to deal with the challenges, relationships, transitions, and social systems that…
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Optical Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensor as a method to monitor strain evolution of electrodes in lithium-ion batteries.
Here we report on direct monitoring of strain evolution from implanted fiber optic sensors within the individual electrodes in a Li-ion battery.
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Replacing Teacher Evaluation Systems with Systems of Professional Growth: Lessons from Three California School Districts and Their Teachers’ Unions
This report draws lessons from three California school districts and their teachers’ unions that have charted a different course and determined that the purpose of evaluation should be to improve teaching in order to advance student learning.
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High performance diagnostic platforms for uncovering micro-/nano-environmental heterogeneity within aggressive cancer cells
We are exploring spatiotemporal characteristics and physicochemical identities of solid breast cancer cells and their micro/nanoenvironments in relation to tumor aggression.
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Radiative Cooling Holds Promise for Thermoelectric Power Plants
The U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E ARID program is exploring novel ways to use air-cooled heat exchangers and supplemental cooling systems to carry away waste heat in thermoelectric power generation.
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Toward Interactive Relational Learning
This paper introduces the Interactive Relational Machine Learning (iRML) paradigm in which users interactively design relational models by specifying the various components, constraints, and relational data representation, as well as perform evaluation, analyze errors, and make adjustments and refinements in a closed-loop.
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Combining Capabilities to Address the Zika Emergency
Although discovered in the late 1940s, the Zika virus was not well studied until recently. Zika is not a life-threatening disease for adults, and didn’t attract the attention of most researchers who study mosquito-borne diseases until this past year, when the number of cases increased dramatically in South and Central America. In fact, it’s likely…
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Heat-Switch-Based Electrocaloric Cooling (invited)
This talk will cover work modeling, designing, building, and testing a heat-switch-based electrocaloric heat pump.