Publications
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2012 Context Study of the Use of Technology and PBS KIDS Transmedia in the Home Environment: A Report to the CPB-PBS “Ready to Learn Initiative”
The evaluation is focused on documenting and, whenever possible, measuring the impact of transmedia mathematics and literacy resources on learning for children from low-income families in preschool, community, or home…
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PBS KIDS Transmedia Suites Gaming Study: A Report to the CPB-PBS “Ready to Learn Initiative”
Educators are well aware that in order to positively impact children’s learning, media and technology must be integrated into the teaching and learning activities of instructional environments.
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2012 Preschool Pilot Study of PBS KIDS Transmedia Mathematics Content: A Report to the CPB-PBS “Ready to Learn Initiative”
Over the course of a 10-week CPB-PBS Ready To Learn pilot study of two mathematics curriculum supplements, one rich in PBS transmedia and hands-on activities, the other using only traditional…
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Multi-system fusion of extended context prosodic and cepstral features for paralinguistic speaker trait classification
This paper focuses on the identification of seven speaker trait categories from the Interspeech Speaker Trait Challenge: likeability, intelligibility, openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
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Curricular Activity Systems Supporting the Use of Dynamic Representations to Foster Students’ Deep Understanding of Mathematics
This chapter describes the notion of a curricular activity system and how it can be used in the design of learning environments that have a wider reach.
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Influence of Formulation Factors on the Preparation of Zein Nanoparticles
The main objective of the present study was to investigate the influence of various formulation parameters on the preparation of zein nanoparticles.
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Discriminatively trained phoneme confusion model for keyword spotting
This work proposes the use of discriminative training to construct a phoneme confusion model, which expands the phonemic index of a KWS system by adding phonemic variation to handle the…
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Evaluation of the Florida Master Teacher Initiative Formative Report
The Florida Master Plan Initiative (FMTI) partners have developed and implemented a set of strategic programs to enhance early learning instruction for high-need students.
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Scalable printed electronics: an organic decoder addressing ferroelectric nonvolatile memory
Scalable circuits of organic logic and memory are realized using all-additive printing processes.
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Invariant object recognition based on extended fragments
Here, we show that human observers can achieve illumination invariance by using object fragments that carry the relevant information.
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How can I help you today? The knowledge work of call center agents
This paper reflects on an industry case study conducted in two outsourced call centers to explore the human side of their turnover problem.
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A graph grammar based approach to automated manufacturing planning
In this paper, a new graph grammar representation is proposed to reason about the manufacturability of solid models.