Author: SRI International
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Evaluation of the Texas High School Project: Study of State Context for Policy Reform Final Report, State Policy Review
The evaluation of the Texas High School Project (THSP) is being conducted by SRI International with the overarching goal of discerning the impact of THSP on student outcomes.
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Teaching for Understanding in Earth Science: Comparing Impacts on Planning and Instruction in Three Professional Development Designs for Middle School Science Teachers
This paper compares and contrasts the impacts of three professional development designs aimed at middle school Earth science teachers on how teachers plan and enact instruction.
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Evoked K-Complex Amplitude Is a Sensitive Marker of Adult Brain Aging
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Synthesis and Mutagenic Potency of Structural Isomers of 2-Amino-1-Methyl-6-Phenylimidazo[4,5-B]Pyridine
Synthesis of 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP), three structural isomers, and two desphenyl PhIP congeners has been carried out.
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Efficient data selection for machine translation
In this paper, we introduce two methods for efficient selection of training data to be translated by humans. Our methods are motivated by active learning and aim to choose new data that adds maximal information to the currently available data pool.
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Neuroimaging of the Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
Presented is the neuroradiological signature of acute Wernicke’s encephalopathy (WE), derived from different types of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences.
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How Interdisciplinary Is a Given Body of Research?
This article presents results to date produced by a team charged with evaluating the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, a 15-year US$ 40 million program to facilitate interdisciplinary research in the United States.
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Electrical Contacts to Nitrogen Incorporated Nanocrystalline Diamond Films
The effect of surface plasma treatment on the nature of the electrical contact to the nitrogen incorporated nanocrystalline diamond (n-NCD) films is reported.
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Global-Local Interference Is Related to Callosal Compromise in Alcoholism: a Behavior-DTI Association Study
We used a global–local paradigm to assess component processes of visuospatial ability and MR diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine whether alcoholism-related microstructural degradation of the corpus callosum contributes to disruption of selective lateralized visuospatial and attention processes.
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Inferring D Region Parameters Using Improved Incoherent Scatter Radar Techniques at Arecibo
With the increased sensitivity and bandwidth, Arecibo 430 MHz incoherent scatter radar was run on 23 July 2006 using two radar modes with a focus on measuring D region parameters.
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Adenosinergic and Dopaminergic Signaling as Targets for Wake-Promoting Therapeutics: Insights from Mouse Genetic Models
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The CALO meeting speech recognition and understanding system
This paper summarizes the CALO-MA architecture and its speech recognition and understanding components, which include realtime and offline speech transcription, dialog act segmentation and tagging, question-answer pair identification, action item recognition, and summarization.