Sentences with phrase «sri researchers»

SRI researchers, in partnership with University of California at Los Angeles and Stanford University, are conducting a study of the efficacy of the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) program in the San Francisco Unified School District.

SRI researchers studying the program's first iteration in 22 high - poverty, rural districts in 10 states (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee) found that C3WP students demonstrated greater proficiency in reasoning and in using evidence in their writing than those in control group districts.

SRI researchers identified and recruited 39 inclusive STEM - focused high schools and 22 comprehensive (or traditional) high schools serving similar student populations but without a school - wide STEM focus in North Carolina and Texas.

SRI researchers collected information on 5,500 students in 38 public high schools through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and site visits to seven schools.

SRI researchers have tested a more radical concept — «polymer engines.»

In early April, Joe Nocera, a business columnist for The New York Times, wrote an interesting article in which he argued that SRI researchers oversimplify the world so that investors will feel that that they're safely invested in «good» companies.

Not exact matches

According to an independent study done by nonprofit researchers SRI International, students who used Dreambox for four months improved their test scores by about 5 percent.

Some midsized nonprofit organizations that hire biomedical researchers include SRI International (a nonprofit scientific research institute focused on innovative technologies) and the Institute for OneWorld Health, the world's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company, both based in California.

Jeremy Roschelle, a mathematics - education researcher and the director of SRI's Center for Technology in Learning, says his work is similar to that of a university professor except that he doesn't have teaching responsibilities.

With the cooperation of the countries involved and funding from the Asian Development Bank, the institute coordinated the work of 60 researchers, who studied the likely effects that rising sea levels and changed weather patterns will have on Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

But in India, as in Sri Lanka and Central America, researchers are pursuing a wide range of ideas, including contaminants in drinking water, excessive use of over-the-counter painkillers, and exposure to pesticides.

The researchers say that some genetic groups in Sri Lanka and Myanmar may have come from other regions, while the origins of those in Pakistan were unclear.

Since the species in Réunion have similar traits to those in Sri Lanka, East Asia and Southeast Asia, the researchers suspect that the animal might have emigrated from these regions.

Although a few tourists and locals had reported seeing her before, the first confirmed sighting was by H. K. Janaka, a field researcher at Sri Lanka's Centre for Conservation and Research, which has been studying the country's roughly 4,000 elephants for 12 years.

Led by cybersecurity researchers from SRI International and ISI with decades of years of experience designing, building, and operating large cybersecurity testbeds, the effort involved more than 150 experts, representing 75 organizations.

«Without shared experimental infrastructure, researchers have to spend lots of money developing their own experimental infrastructure which takes away from their core research,» said Laura Tinnel, a senior research engineer at SRI International and one of the study's authors.

For the first time, researchers have shown that Asian elephants in Sri Lanka are scared of honey bees, much like their African counterparts.

Researchers have found a strong association between El Niño - Southern Oscillation conditions in the Pacific to observed weather and dengue epidemics in Sri Lanka.

After monitoring a dozen bull Asian elephants in Sri Lanka that were transferred — three of them multiple times — to national parks, researchers have concluded that relocation neither reduces human - elephant conflicts nor helps conservation efforts.

SRI is hoping to demonstrate its ability to generate at least 10 Watts of power in waves about 3.3 feet (one meter) in height, a stepping stone to the 100 - Watt capacity the researchers hope to be able to generate within a few years.

In a step toward understanding possible genetic differences in smoking behaviors, a team of researchers co-led by SRI International has...

Researchers from the University of Guelph, Canada, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India, and the Industrial Technical Institute, Sri Lanka, have shown that a natural compound known as hexanal delays the ripening of mangos.

In 1978, Sri Lankan's were consuming coconut oil as their main dietary fat and had the lowest death rate from ischemic heart disease in the world.26 «All available population studies show that dietary coconut oil does not lead to high serum cholesterol nor to high coronary heart disease mortality or morbidity rate,» concluded American and Filipino researchers in 1992.27

The researchers who studied the project, from the American Institutes for Research and SRI International, analyzed the grants to a sample of 17 school districts in 11 states.

«Four out of five KIPP schools outperform their host district,» says the report by researchers at SRI International of Menlo Park, which studied the two KIPPs in San Francisco, the two in San Jose, and the one in Oakland.

SRI designs and coordinates mixed - method studies of innovative information and communications technology (ICT) supported education within and across countries, partnering with leading researchers in each country on research that is relevant both globally and locally.

In the coming year, SRI Education researchers will visit all nine districts in the Initiative to learn more about how the districts are sustaining Linked Learning as Irvine Foundation funding for the pilot ends.

«The results are promising, suggesting that linked learning is helping kids move toward graduation and be on track to be able to go to a four - year college,» explained Roneeta Guha, lead author of the report and a senior researcher at SRI.

SRI's education researchers examine and identify external and in - school strategies that enhance the student achievement and readiness of traditionally underserved youth and young adult populations as they transition from one stage of the education system to the next.

SRI education researchers used a multimethod approach that involved case studies, teacher observations, teacher logs, and early literacy assessment data to provide information on program implementation and impacts.

SRI's education researchers evaluate the design, implementation, and impact of a variety of educational programs designed to improve pedagogy and content learning.

Researchers from SRI International (SRI) are developing a methane - and - coal - to - liquids process that consumes negligible amounts of water and does not generate carbon dioxide.

It's not a brand - new concept; in the documentary Century of the Self, filmmaker Adam Curtis shows how researchers from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) used psychology to understand both personality types and so predict political behavior of the US public during the 1980s.

The contents of this guide were developed through SRI International Internal Research and Development funds awarded to Abby Schachner, Ph.D., an Early Childhood Researcher within SRI Education's Center for Learning & Development.

SRI education researchers used a multimethod approach that involved case studies, teacher observations, teacher logs, and early literacy assessment data to provide information on program implementation and impacts.