Publications
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An Unfinished Canvas: Teacher Preparation, Instruction Delivery, and Professional Development in the Arts
Among the major barriers to arts education in California that An Unfinished Canvas identified is the lack of trained and qualified arts specialist teachers, particularly at the elementary school level.
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Mast Cell-Expressed Orphan Receptor Ccrl2 Binds Chemerin and Is Required for Optimal Induction of Ige-Mediated Passive Cutaneous Anaphylaxis
We show that the mast cell–expressed orphan serpentine receptor mCCRL2 is not required for expression of IgE-mediated mast cell–dependent passive cutaneous anaphylaxis but can enhance the tissue swelling and leukocyte…
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Emma: An Event Management Assistant
In this extended abstract we describe the motivation, design, deployment and evaluation of the Emma system.
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A Multi-Standard Micro-Programmable Deblocking Filter Architecture and Its Application to VC-1 Video Decoder
This paper describes a programmable VC-1 de-blocking filter architecture with capabilities to support different standards. The architecture has been modeled, simulated and implemented in RTL.
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Observations of Wintertime Arctic Mesosphere Cooling Associated with Stratosphere Baroclinic Zones
We propose that these types of mesosphere cooling events are related to stratospheric baroclinic zones and a Q-vector analysis of stratospheric geopotential and temperature fields can be used to help…
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Sidecountry Rescue—Who Is Responsible?
This paper describes a first-hand experience with an open-boundary accident and debates what organization should proactively prepare for sidecountry rescue with a plan, SAR equipment, and special training.
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Strategies for building a Farsi-English SMT system from limited resources
In this paper we will focus on the kinds of improvements for a Farsi-to- English translation system achieved by means of algorithmic changes, adding raw, domain-unspecific resources, and unsupervised morphological…
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The case for automatic higher-level features in forensic speaker recognition
We provide an overview of automatic higher-level systems and discuss potential advantages, as well as issues, for their use in the forensic context.
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Development of SRI’s translation systems for broadcast news and broadcast conversations
We present our recent work on developing large-vocabulary Arabic-to-English and Chinese-to-English speech-to-text translation systems for the January 2008 Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE) retest evaluation.
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MUESLI: Multiple utterance error correction for a spoken language interface
We propose a method for using all available information to help correct recognition errors in tasks that use constrained grammars of the kind used in the domain of Command and…
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Is Alignment Enough? Investigating the Effects of State Policies and Professional Development on Science Curriculum Implementation
This paper focuses on teachers’ perceptions of curricular alignment and on curriculum implementation using empirical data from a statewide systemic inquiry science reform effort targeting students from kindergarten to eighth…
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Modeling prior belief for speaker verification SVM systems
In this paper we propose to relax the assumption that the covariance matrix is the identity matrix, allowing it to be a more general block diagonal matrix. We show results…