Publications
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Teaching for Understanding in Earth Science: Comparing Impacts on Planning and Instruction in Three Professional Development Designs for Middle School Science Teachers
This paper compares and contrasts the impacts of three professional development designs aimed at middle school Earth science teachers on how teachers plan and enact instruction.
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The CALO meeting speech recognition and understanding system
This paper summarizes the CALO-MA architecture and its speech recognition and understanding components, which include realtime and offline speech transcription, dialog act segmentation and tagging, question-answer pair identification, action item…
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Global-Local Interference Is Related to Callosal Compromise in Alcoholism: a Behavior-DTI Association Study
We used a global–local paradigm to assess component processes of visuospatial ability and MR diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine whether alcoholism-related microstructural degradation of the corpus callosum contributes to…
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Learning Discriminative Sequence Models from Partially Labelled Data for Activity Recognition
We propose a new approach based on partially-supervised training of discriminative sequence models such as the conditional random field (CRF) and the maximum entropy Markov model (MEMM).
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Opioidergic Projections to Sleep-Active Neurons in the Ventrolateral Preoptic Nucleus
We hypothesized that the influence of opiates on sleep may be mediated, at least in part, by the ventrolateral preoptic nucleus (VLPO), a key cell group for producing behavioral sleep.
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How Interdisciplinary Is a Given Body of Research?
This article presents results to date produced by a team charged with evaluating the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, a 15-year US$ 40 million program to facilitate interdisciplinary research in…
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Efficient data selection for machine translation
In this paper, we introduce two methods for efficient selection of training data to be translated by humans. Our methods are motivated by active learning and aim to choose new…
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Rhodium Complexes with Pincer Diphosphite Ligands. Unusual Olefin In-Plane Coordination in Square-Planar Compounds
A family of rhodium complexes bearing pincer diphosphite (PCP) and neutral L (L = PPh3, CO, CNXy, C2H4) ligands has been prepared and characterized.
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California’s Teaching Force 2008: Key Issues and Trends
This annual report examines overall trends in the California teacher workforce, including the demand for teachers, the distribution of underprepared teachers, and the implementation of a statewide data system to…
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Electrical Contacts to Nitrogen Incorporated Nanocrystalline Diamond Films
The effect of surface plasma treatment on the nature of the electrical contact to the nitrogen incorporated nanocrystalline diamond (n-NCD) films is reported.
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Astronomical Sky Spectra from the 29-31 October 2003 Geomagnetic Superstorms: Observations of O(+)((2)D(O)-(4)S(O)) and Other Emissions
High-resolution spectra of the night sky at near-equatorial latitudes have been obtained with the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph on the 8.2 m Kueyen telescope, European Southern Observatory, Cerro Paranal,…
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Early Implementation of Ready Schools Miami: Findings of the First-Year Evaluation
In only a year, Ready Schools partners have made significant progress toward improving the systems in Miami-Dade County that contribute to school readiness and success—early care, education, health and family…