Publications
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Sub-300 nm AlGaN lasers on bulk AlN substrates
We describe recent progress on the development of sub-300 nm lasers at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
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Assessing the Effectiveness of First Step to Success: Are Short-Term Results the First Step to Long-Term Behavioral Improvements?
This article reports on the effectiveness of First Step to Success, a secondary-level intervention appropriate for students in early elementary school who experience moderate to severe behavior problems and are…
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Effect of strain and barrier composition on the polarization of light emission from AlGaN/AlN quantum wells
Experimental results are presented that illustrate the phenomenon for nitride LEDs grown on sapphire and on bulk AlN.
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Preserving query privacy in urban sensing systems
In this paper, we focus on a number of scenarios where nodes of an Urban Sensing system are subject to individual queries.
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Does NCLB Improve the Achievement of Students With Disabilities? A Regression Discontinuity Design
Using a regression discontinuity design, this study compared the academic achievement of students-with-disabilities subgroups that were just above the minimum-subgroup-size threshold to those just below the threshold.
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Applying Learning Curves to Modeling Future Coal and Gas Power Generation Technologies
To forecast each of these competing technologies under various scenarios of electricity demand, fuel cost, and research investment, we created a Power Technology Futures Model (PTFM) based on “learning curves”…
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Understanding the Implications of Online Learning for Educational Productivity
The purpose of this report is to support educational administrators and policymakers in becoming informed consumers of information about online learning and its potential impact on educational productivity.
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Evaluation of the California Linked Learning District Initiative: Year-Two Report, Executive Summary
Two years into an initiative designed to embed and test this approach within nine California school districts, the evaluation findings reveal signs of progress...
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The Use of Pattern Recognition Technology to Generate New Approaches to Prematurity Research
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Releases from Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles in Tunnels
To investigate potential consequences, a combined experimental and modeling study has been performed to characterize releases from a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle inside a tunnel.
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Speaker recognition with region-constrained MLLR transforms
We define regions based on phonetic and prosodic criteria, based on automatic speech recognition output, and perform MLLR estimation using only frames selected by these criteria.
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Perceived Poor Sleep Quality in the Absence of Polysomnographic Sleep Disturbance in Women with Severe Premenstrual Syndrome
This study evaluated sleep quality subjectively and objectively using polysomnographic and quantitative electroencephalographic measures in women with severe premenstrual syndrome.