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Fifteen Years of Philanthropic Leadership: A Summative Evaluation of the Marguerite Casey Foundation
(IssueLab, 2016-07)Established in October 2001, the Marguerite Casey Foundation (Foundation) has been in the forefront of movement building to transform the lives of poor families and children. Its evolution has occurred in two overlapping ... -
Getting accountability right within a systems approach to school reform by Mavis Sanders
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Marguerite Casey Foundation: Reflecting on 15 Years of Philanthropic Leadership Through a Summative Evaluation
(The Foundation Review, 2020-06-30)This article presents the findings of a summative evaluation of the Marguerite Casey Foundation that was conducted on the occasion of its 15th anniversary. The evaluation was designed to gauge stakeholders’ perceptions of ... -
The Role of Pedagogical Mentoring in Virtual Exchange
(Wiley, 2019-10-16)Virtual exchange, or telecollaboration, is a well‐known pedagogical approach in foreign language education that involves engaging classes in online intercultural collaboration projects with international partners as an ... -
On the origin of the asymmetry of the ejecta structure and explosion of G350.1−0.3
We present X-ray analysis of the ejecta of supernova remnant G350.1−0.3 observed with Chandra and Suzaku, and clarify the ejecta's kinematics over a decade and obtain a new observational clue to understanding the origin ... -
“La patria es impecable y diamantina”: Performing Diamantina in Cristina Rivera Garza’s (Non)Fiction
Cristina Rivera Garza’s (non) fiction trajectory is a dialogue of interests threaded by her passions for translation, history, poetics, among many other topics. In this article, Diamantina -- a repetitive character in the ... -
Flipping the switch on the hub cell: Islet desynchronization through cell silencing
(PLOS, 2021-04-08)Pancreatic β cells, responsible for secreting insulin into the bloodstream and maintaining glucose homeostasis, are organized in the islets of Langerhans as clusters of electrically coupled cells. Gap junctions, connecting ... -
On the Tidal History and Future of the Earth–Moon Orbital System
(IOP, 2021-04-06)Earth’s rotation rate and the evolution of the Earth–Moon system have been controlled by tidal dissipation in Earth’s ocean. Attempts to model the tidal history have shown incomplete compatibility with observations and ... -
Mean Shift for Self-Supervised Learning
Most recent self-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms learn features by contrasting between instances of images or by clustering the images and then contrasting between the image clusters. We introduce a simple mean-shift ... -
Antimicrobial Use in a Cohort of US Nursing Homes, 2017
Importance Controlling antimicrobial resistance in health care is a public health priority, although data describing antimicrobial use in US nursing homes are limited. Objective To measure the prevalence of antimicrobial ... -
Timing of Support in One-on-one Math Problem Solving Coaching: A Survival Analysis Approach with Multimodal Data
(ACM, 2021-04)In this paper, we explore a kind of teaching-oriented temporal analytics on the timing of support in the context of one-on-one math problem-solving coaching. We build the analytical framework upon the human-human multimodal ... -
Wintertime Methane Emission From the Barents and Kara Seas and Sea of Okhotsk: Satellite Evidence.
Existence of strong seabed sources of methane, including gas hydrates, in the Arctic and sub-Arctic seas with proven oil/gas deposits is well documented. Enhanced concentrations of dissolved methane in deep layers are ... -
On the advancements of digital signal processing hardware and algorithms enabling the Origins Space Telescope
(SPIE, 2021-03-25)On August 22, 2019, the Origins Space Telescope (OST) Study Team delivered the OST Mission Concept Study Report and the OST Technology Development Plan to NASA Headquarters. A key component of this study report includes ... -
Organic Vapor Condensation in Pyro-cumulonimbus Outflow Explains Large Stratospheric Smoke Mass Injection and Thickly Coated Black Carbon
Airborne measurements of upper troposphere and lower stratosphere biomass burning smoke show a large size mode at 350nm radius. Furthermore, very thickly coated black carbon (300-400nm radius) is observed in 2 month aged ... -
The Roman Space Telescope Relative Calibration System and the Dark Energy Figure of Merit
(IOP, 2021-03)One of the Roman Space Telescopes principal science objectives is to measure dark energy's equation-of-state using a strategic combination of imaging and spectroscopic surveys at high galactic latitude. Type Ia Supernovae ... -
Sounds of a City: Podcasts and Public Humanities in Baltimore
(The Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2021-03-31)"Sounds of a City: Podcasts and Public Humanities in Baltimore" reflects on the Baltimore Traces: Communities in Transition project, a collaborative teaching endeavor that began in 2015 to document changing Baltimore ... -
Excess Heat Capacity in Mo/Au Transition Edge Sensor Bolometric Detectors
(IEEE, 2021-03-12)Excess heat capacity in a bolometric detector has the consequence of increasing or leading to multiple device time constants. The Mo/Au bilayer transition edge sensor (TES) bolometric detectors initially fabricated for ... -
Biobehavioral aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic
(American Psychosomatic Society, 2021-02-23)Objectives This review highlights the scope and significance of the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on biobehavioral aspects, as well as critical avenues for research. Methods A narrative review of the published ...
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