Author: SRI International
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A Review of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Postsecondary Success Portfolio: Lessons from Five Years of Funding Digital Courseware (Full Report)
SRI analyzed the features of 137 different courses from 12 major postsecondary courseware-related projects and performed a quantitative meta-analysis of student outcomes to estimate the impact of digital courseware on student learning.
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Early Childhood Outcomes (ECO) Center
The ECO Center assisted state agencies in building measurement systems for programs serving infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with disabilities and their families. The center provided technical assistance to support states in developing high-quality child and family outcome measurement systems.
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A Fuzzy Commitment Approach to Privacy Preserving Behavioral Targeting
This paper describes a privacy-preserving framework for delivering coupons to users that approximately satisfy a predefined behavioral profile.
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CCN-KRS: A Key Resolution Service for CCN
Abstract One key feature of the CCN design is the requirement for each content object to be individually secured by its producer. Thus, CCN should be, in principle, immune to distributing fake content. However, in practice, the network cannot easily detect and drop fake content as the trust context, i.e., what public key(s) is/are trusted…
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Promising Step in Psoriasis Drug Development: Small Molecules That Fight Inflammatory and Autoimmune Diseases
Recently, researchers in SRI Biosciences’ Center for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, in collaboration with colleagues at UK-based Sareum Ltd., a drug discovery company, identified a small molecule that looks like a promising therapy for psoriasis, an autoimmune disease of the skin affecting approximately two percent of the population. Symptoms of the condition often include painful, itching…
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The Business of Biometrics: Practical Applications in the Enterprise
Biometrics—including fingerprint, face, iris, and voice—is a highly accurate and reliable method of identity authentication. Its use is becoming mainstream with personal applications such as smartphone access. When it comes to physical security, however, some people think that biometrics should be reserved for limited access facilities such as government buildings, data centers, or research labs.…
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Droidminer: Automated Mining and Characterization of Fine-Grained Malicious Behaviors in Android Applications
DroidMiner is a new malicious Android app detection system that uses static analysis to automatically mine malicious program logic from known Android malware.
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Randomized Support Vector Forest
We proposed a new supervised learning algorithm, Randomized Support Vector Forest (RSVF): Many partitions of the input space are constructed with partitioning regions amenable to the corresponding linear SVMs.
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Representing Roles in a Biology Textbook
In this paper, we consider the roles in a biology textbook, adapt a definition of roles based on upper ontologies, and relate it to the corresponding notions in linguistics and description logics. We consider our solutions to several conceptual modeling problems for roles as we have used them in representing the knowledge contained in a…
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Video Object Co-Segmentation by Regulated Maximum Weight Cliques
In this paper, we propose a novel approach for object cosegmentation in arbitrary videos by sampling, tracking and matching object proposals via a Regulated Maximum Weight Clique (RMWC) extraction scheme.
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Conceptual Models of Energy Transfer and Regulation
We consider a representation of energy transfer and regulation for biological processes, and consider several example questions that can be answered using this representation.
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Evaluation of the Human Resources Pilot: Final Report
SRI Education conducted longitudinal case studies of the three pilot districts, examining changes in policy and practices under key levers and factors shaping variation in implementation, including leadership, labor management relations, communication and buy-in, and technical assistance.