SRI International
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Improvising Harmony: Opportunities for Technologies to Support Crowd Orchestration
This paper details the work of a seldom studied but growing population of members of grassroots, offline-project based groups.
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Study of Experiences and Needs of Rural Education Achievement Program Grantees
This study’s objective was to examine state and district practices and perspectives regarding REAP, how districts use REAP funds and REAP-Flex, and states’ and districts’ recommendations for improving program operations.
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College and career readiness: Course taking of deaf and hard of hearing secondary school students
The present study focused on DHH students’ college and career readiness by investigating their opportunities in secondary school to acquire college and career skills.
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Printed Carbon Nanotube Gas Sensor Arrays for Natural Gas Leak Detection (invited)
With support from ARPA-E, PARC and NASA Ames Research Center are developing a low-cost, high-performance natural gas well leak detection system based on printed nanomaterials.
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Pharmacodynamic Assays to Facilitate Pre-clinical and Clinical Development of Pre-mRNA Splicing Modulatory Drug Candidates
We describe two types of novel pharmacodynamic assays that facilitate drug discovery and development of this intriguing class of innovative therapeutics; the first assay is useful for preclinical optimization of small-molecule agents that target the SF3B1 spliceosomal protein in animals, the second assay is an ex vivo validated, gel-based assay for the measurement of drug exposure…
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Verizon Innovative Learning Minority Male Program Case Study Brief
The Verizon Innovative Learning Minority Male Program (VIL MM) provides minority, male, middle school students with opportunities to engage in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning experiences in university settings.
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Online mathematics homework increases student achievement
In a randomized field trial with seventh-grade mathematics students, we evaluated whether an educational technology intervention increased mathematics learning.
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MOTOBOT
The first autonomous motorcycle-riding humanoid robot.
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SRI: A Start-Up Celebrating its 70th Year
To those who see Silicon Valley as a cauldron of youthful creative talent leaping from start-up to start-up, finding one such start-up about to celebrate its 70th year might be surprising. One also might be curious how this longevity, centered in such a turbulent business environment, has occurred. While the real reasons are undoubtedly complex, having…
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70 Years of SRI Innovation
It is gratifying to look back on 70 years of innovation at SRI and to reflect on the high-impact solutions that our independent, nonprofit research institute has brought to the world. Although the world has changed dramatically since our founding in 1946, there is a thread that weaves through SRI’s history that connects the SRI…
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The added impact of parenting education in early childhood education programs: A meta-analysis
We examine the benefits to children’s cognitive and pre-academic skills of adding parenting education to ECE programs for children and consider the impacts of: parenting education programs of any type, programs that provided parents with modeling of practice stimulating behaviors and programs that were delivered through intensive home visiting.
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Compared to what? Variation in the impacts of early childhood education by alternative care type
In this paper, we estimate differential impacts of an early childhood intervention by alternative care type, using data from the Head Start Impact Study, a large-scale randomized evaluation.