SRI International
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Empowering Adults to Thrive at Work: Personal Success Skills for 21st Century Jobs
SRI Education and The Joyce Foundation have released a report that maps out how evidence-based research provides guidance for promoting personal success skills for adults who are striving to build 21st century careers. Personal success skills are the capabilities—complementary to disciplinary and technical knowledge—that enable adults to deal with the challenges, relationships, transitions, and social systems that…
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Optical Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensor as a method to monitor strain evolution of electrodes in lithium-ion batteries.
Here we report on direct monitoring of strain evolution from implanted fiber optic sensors within the individual electrodes in a Li-ion battery.
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Replacing Teacher Evaluation Systems with Systems of Professional Growth: Lessons from Three California School Districts and Their Teachers’ Unions
This report draws lessons from three California school districts and their teachers’ unions that have charted a different course and determined that the purpose of evaluation should be to improve teaching in order to advance student learning.
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Identification and characterization of influenza variants resistant to a viral endonuclease inhibitor
The influenza endonuclease is an essential subdomain of the viral RNA polymerase. It processes host pre-mRNAs to serve as primers for viral mRNA and is an attractive target for antiinfluenza drug discovery.
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Empowering Adults to Thrive at Work: Personal Success Skills for 21st Century Jobs. A Report on Promising Research and Practice
From interviews with experts and a review of research literature, the report provides resources and recommendations to advance practice, research, and policy.
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Validity of the data from the child outcomes summary process: Findings from the ENHANCE Project
This brief describes findings from the ENHANCE study that sought to answer the question of whether the Child Outcomes Summary (COS) process produces valid ratings for measuring the child outcomes achieved through early intervention (EI) and early childhood special education (ECSE) programs.
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Toddler naps in child care: Associations with demographics and developmental outcomes
The objectives were to characterize the rate, duration, and factors associated with napping in a large, nationally representative sample of toddlers attending child care.
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High performance diagnostic platforms for uncovering micro-/nano-environmental heterogeneity within aggressive cancer cells
We are exploring spatiotemporal characteristics and physicochemical identities of solid breast cancer cells and their micro/nanoenvironments in relation to tumor aggression.
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Radiative Cooling Holds Promise for Thermoelectric Power Plants
The U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E ARID program is exploring novel ways to use air-cooled heat exchangers and supplemental cooling systems to carry away waste heat in thermoelectric power generation.
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Toward Interactive Relational Learning
This paper introduces the Interactive Relational Machine Learning (iRML) paradigm in which users interactively design relational models by specifying the various components, constraints, and relational data representation, as well as perform evaluation, analyze errors, and make adjustments and refinements in a closed-loop.
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Combining Capabilities to Address the Zika Emergency
Although discovered in the late 1940s, the Zika virus was not well studied until recently. Zika is not a life-threatening disease for adults, and didn’t attract the attention of most researchers who study mosquito-borne diseases until this past year, when the number of cases increased dramatically in South and Central America. In fact, it’s likely…
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Heat-Switch-Based Electrocaloric Cooling (invited)
This talk will cover work modeling, designing, building, and testing a heat-switch-based electrocaloric heat pump.