Publications
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Diagnosing PARC’s Refrigerator Benchmark with Data-Driven Methods
Diagnosing real-world systems is a challenging task due to, e.g., complexity, measurement error and lack of control in experimentation.
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Diagnosing PARC’s Refrigerator Benchmark with Data-Driven Methods
Diagnosing real-world systems is a challenging task due to, e.g., complexity, measurement error and lack of control in experimentation.
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What it takes to create linked learning: A report on lessons learned from evaluating the approach in practice
The evaluation has surfaced a set of strategies that promote successful implementation of Linked Learning by both school districts and individual pathways.
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Professional Development to Support Instructional Improvement: Lessons from Research
This paper acknowledges the issue of nonstrategic use of professional development resources and describes lessons from research on how professional development could be better designed to achieve desired impacts on…
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Thermal insulator transition induced by interface scattering
We develop an effective medium model of thermal conductivity that accounts for both percolation and interface scattering.
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Electron beam pumping for high power deep-UV emitters
This presentation will discuss the challenges, illustrate the current status of materials/device development, and describe the necessary building blocks, which include highly conductive p-type cladding layers, sophisticated electron-blocking layers, and…
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Polymer Spray Deposition: A Novel Aerosol-Based, Electrostatic Digital Deposition System for Additive Manufacturing
In order to create a feedstock aerosol for electrostatic deposition, PARC has developed the filament extension atomizer (FEA) which is capable of producing monodisperse small droplets from thermoplastics.
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Minimizing Annotation Effort for Adaptation of Speech-Activity Detection Systems
This paper focuses on the problem of selecting the best-possible subset of available audio data given a budgeted time for annotation.
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The SRI speech-based collaborative learning corpus
We introduce the SRI speech-based collaborative learning corpus, a novel collection designed for the investigation and measurement of how students collaborate together in small groups.
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The SRI System for the NIST OpenSAD 2015 Speech Activity Detection Evaluation
In this paper, we present the SRI system submission to the NIST OpenSAD 2015 speech activity detection (SAD) evaluation. We present results on three different development databases that we created…
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Automatic Speech Transcription for Low-Resource Languages — The Case of Yoloxóchitl Mixtec (Mexico)
In the present study, we focus exclusively on progress in developing speech recognition for the language of interest, Yoloxóchitl Mixtec (YM), an Oto-Manguean language spoken by fewer than 5000 speakers…
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Supporting young children with disabilities
The authors review effective ways to support development and learning among young children with disabilities, including language and social skills interventions, preschool curricula, instructional and other practices, and multi-tiered systems…