Author: SRI International
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Fibridge: Embedded fiber-optic sensing for low-cost, high resolution monitoring in bridges and critical structures
Under a collaboration led and supported by VicTrack, VicRoads, and other Victorian state agencies with funding from the Victoria Public Sector Innovation Fund (PSIF) in Australia, the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and University of Melbourne (UoM) are developing Fibridge, a fiber-optic (FO) smart monitoring system for bridges to enable predictive maintenance using the industrial…
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SRI Education News | March 2019
This month, we highlight SRI Education’s participation in current conferences
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Exploring How to Personalize Travel Route Recommendations For Sustainable Transportation
In this work, we present a theory driven approach that combines transportation research and psychological research of personality, responsibility, and influence to understand the scope of the personalization problem for trip planning.
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Longitudinal stability of reading profiles in individuals with higher functioning autism
The reading difficulties of individuals with autism spectrum disorders have been established in the literature, with particular attention drawn toward reading comprehension difficulties.
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Summative evaluation of the Research + Practice Collaboratory: Final report
To examine the Research + Practice Collaboratory’s strategy, SRI interviewed project leadership, conducted observations at events, and reviewed documents to develop descriptions of strategies, activities, and routines.
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Using ready to learn media in the preschool classroom: Findings from two randomized experiments
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The Unique Challenges of Afterschool Research: A Practical Guide for Evaluators and Practitioners
This article provides candid advice for evaluators seeking to transition from K-12 to afterschool research.
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Spectral Convolutional Networks on Hierarchical Multigraphs
In this work, we address this limitation by revisiting a particular family of spectral graph networks, Chebyshev GCNs, showing its efficacy in solving graph classification tasks with a variable graph structure and size.
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A Cross-Linguistic Examination of Heterogeneous Reading Profiles of Spanish-Speaking Bilingual Students
This study used latent profile analysis to identify three distinct reader profiles of Spanish-speaking bilingual students based on word reading and vocabulary measures and examined profile differences in reading comprehension.
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On Influencing Individual Behavior for Reducing Transportation Energy Expenditure in a Large Population
We introduce COPTER – an intelligent travel assistant that evaluates multi-modal travel alternatives to find a plan that is acceptable to a person given their context and preferences.
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Aesop: A Visual Storytelling Platform for Conversational AI and Commonsense Grounding
We believe that the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be a mixed-initiative collaboration between humans and AI as equals.
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Many languages, one classroom: Supporting children in superdiverse settings
Here, we offer strategies from an approach we call personalized oral language learning (POLL). Teachers who have tried them find these strategies especially useful for supporting the learning and development of children in classrooms with a range of languages.