Publications
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First Experiences with Early Intervention: A National Perspective
This study was designed to determine families’ initial experiences in determining their child’s eligibility, interactions with medical professionals, effort required to obtain services, participation in planning for services, satisfaction with…
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The National School District And Network Grants Program: Year 2 Evaluation Report
This report is the second in a series of reports on the evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s National School District and Network Grants Initiative, a program which…
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Technical Appendix: The National School District And Network Grants Program: Year 2 Evaluation Report
The evaluation employs a multilevel, mixed-method design to examine the work and progress of the initiative.
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Novel integral formulation for scattering from multilayered dielectric cylinders of arbitrary cross section
A novel boundary integral formulation is implemented for the electromagnetic scattering of laser radiation from multilayered dielectric cylinders of arbitrary cross section.
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Direct Modeling of Prosody: An Overview of Applications in Automatic Speech Processing
We describe a direct modeling approach to using prosody in various speech technology tasks. Prosodic features are extracted directly from the speech signal and from the output of an automatic…
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Implementation variation and fidelity in an inquiry science program: An analysis of GLOBE data reporting patterns
We examined associations among teachers’ responses to survey items to patterns in GLOBE data reporting to develop hypotheses about important contextual factors related to program implementation. Implications for the study…
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Rewrite Systems for Symbolic Evaluation of C-like Preprocessing
We present convergent rewrite systems over conditional values that can interact with macro expansion and evaluation and transform them into Boolean expressions.
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Supporting Member Collaboration In The Math Tools Digital Library: A Formative User Study
In this paper, we discuss a user study done at the formative stage of development of a Math Tools developers' community.
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Balancing Formal and Practical Concerns in Agent Design
In this paper, we discuss a number of both formal and practical requirements that must be met to satisfy the demands of large-scale applications. We also briefly describe work on…
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Using Functional and Organizational Information to Improve Genome-Wide Computational Prediction of Transcription Units on Pathway/Genome Databases
We implemented a TU predictor that uses only intergenic distance and functional classification of genes to predict TU boundaries, and applied it to EcoCyc, our PGDB of Escherichia coli.
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A Fine-Grained Evaluation Method for Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation Using Concept Annotations
This paper describes the development of a concept annotation method for evaluating a narrow domain speech-to-speech translation system and discusses how the scores produced by that method relate to naïve…
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Globe Year 8 Evaluation: Adapting Implementation to Diverse Contexts
We studied two aspects of adaptation of GLOBE this year (2002-03). We examined how partners have adapted training and follow-up support to meet teacher needs and analyzed GLOBE implementation in…