Author: SRI International
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SRI International Engineers New Robotic Technology for Verb Surgical
SRI Robotics has long been known for advancing robotics and delivering new technology platforms to the market. As robotics moves beyond industrial applications to other sectors, such as wearables and medical devices, SRI continues to be a leader in the field. Today, we are excited to introduce another transformational robotic technology from SRI being brought…
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Innovating Pedagogies: SRI Education and UK’s Open University Uncover Ten Trends
Every year since 2011, the UK’s Open University has released a report called “Innovating Pedagogy” on important educational trends for teachers and policymakers. The 2015 edition of this widely followed report was developed through collaboration between researchers at the Institute of Educational Technology in The Open University and the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI Education. Innovating…
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A Wearable and Mobile Intervention Delivery System for Individuals with Panic Disorder
This paper presents steps towards a mobile and wearable system that aims to help reduce the severity of symptoms experienced by individuals with panic disorder.
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Reform Focus at NGEI Partnerships: Summarizing Initial NGEI Campus-Level Work to Improve Teacher Education
The report summarizes the five areas emphasized by the Bechtel Foundation for teacher education reform occurring as part of the program.
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Name-aware language model adaptation and sparse features for statistical machine translation
We propose approaches improving statistical machine translation (SMT) performance, by developing name-aware language model adaptations and sparse features, in addition to extracting nameaware translation grammar and rules, adding name phrase table, and name translation driven decoding.
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Topside Equatorial Ionospheric Density, Temperature, and Composition under Equinox, Low Solar Flux Conditions
We present observations of the topside ionosphere made at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory in March and September 2013, made using a full-profile analysis approach.
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Clinicopathological Features and Prognostic Implications of Raf Kinase Inhibitor Protein Downregulation in Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma
In the present study, the expression of RKIP in 85 pairs of TSCC and corresponding adjacent non-cancerous tissues, 30 matched metastatic lesions from the cervical lymph nodes and 32 oral leukoplakia samples were assessed using immunohistochemical methods.
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The MERL/SRI System for the 3rd chime challenge using beamforming, robust feature extraction and advanced speech recognition
This paper introduces the MERL/SRI system designed for the 3rd CHiME speech separation and recognition challenge (CHiME-3).
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Radar Detectability Studies of Slow and Small Zodiacal Dust Cloud Particles. II. A Study of Three Radars with Different Sensitivity
We expand on a new methodology developed by Janches et al. to test the ability of powerful radars to detect the meteoroid populations in question.
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Wearable Active Textiles for Personal Cooling and Heating: Saving Energy and Increasing Comfort
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) accounts for almost half of the energy used in a typical U.S. home and about 13 percent of all energy consumed in the nation. Implications of this energy consumption include negative effects on the environment and climate, wasted money from inefficient heating and cooling of buildings as well as…
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“It’s About Us, Include Us!”: Engaging Families in Early Childhood Data Initiatives
Families are critical stakeholders for early childhood and educational services, and they need data literacy and an understanding of how data are being used to inform decisions.
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K-3 Assessment that Informs Instruction
To help teachers address all domains of learning, SRI Education is working on developmentally appropriate, observation-based assessment focused on the whole child.