SRI International
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Unsupervised underwater fish detection fusing flow and objectiveness
In this paper, we propose a robust and unsupervised deep learning algorithm to automatically detect fish and thereby easing the burden of manual annotation.
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Access to International Baccalaureate Programs in the United States Increases for Low-Income Students
Since it was established in 1968 to provide high schools students with qualifications that are recognized by universities around the world, the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme has developed a reputation for rigorous academic standards. Students who score well enough on individual IB exams can earn college credit for their high school IB coursework. In…
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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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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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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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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.