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Use of Research Evidence: Social Services Portfolio [PDF]
The William T. Grant Foundation intends that the emerging research evidence from its Use of Research Evidence (URE) portfolio be useful to those engaged in these (and other) diverse efforts.
Susan Maciolek
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Erratum to: Searching for evidence: don’t forget the foundations [PDF]
Due to an unfortunate error the fourth sentence of the penultimate paragraph of this article was rendered incorrectly. The correct sentence is as follows: We are also aware of the usual list of instances where rationales based on physiological plausibility did not pass muster when subjected to clinical trials.
Martin J. Tobin+2 more
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An SEA Guide for Identifying Evidence-Based Interventions for School Improvement [PDF]
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is the most recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and replaces the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).
Barbara Foorman+3 more
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Corporate Philanthropy: Are Corporations Strategic in Their Philanthropic Practices? [PDF]
This paper examines the diversity of corporate philanthropic practices and aims to determine whether corporations are strategic in their philanthropic giving.
Verbenko, Olena
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On the consequences of the fact that atomic levels have a certain width
This note presents two ideas. The first one is that quantum theory has a fundamentally perturbative basis but leads to nonperturbative states which it would seem natural to take into account in the foundation of a theory of quantum phenomena.
Audoin C.+3 more
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Research Integrity and Peer Review—past highlights and future directions
In May 2016, we launched Research Integrity and Peer Review, an international, open access journal with fully open peer review (reviewers are identified on their reports and named reports are published alongside the article) to provide a home for ...
Stephanie L. Boughton+4 more
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Using Data in Multi-Agency Collaborations: Guiding Performance to Ensure Accountability and Improve Programs [PDF]
A growing number of foundation- and government-funded initiatives are bringing together diverse partners within communities -- to create screening and referral systems, to coordinate and deliver services and to advocate for policy changes -- all in the ...
Chelsea Farley+2 more
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Fighting Censorship In America, Who Are The Real Censors?
During the last half of the 20\u2711 century, the American Library Association- through the Office of Intellectual Freedom, the Freedom to Read Foundation and the Intellectual Freedom Action Network (ALAs Office 1995, 13) has emerged as one of America ...
Ingolfsland, Dennis
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We show that when the gravitational field is treated quantum-mechanically, it induces fluctuations -- noise -- in the lengths of the arms of gravitational wave detectors.
Parikh, Maulik+2 more
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From quantum chaos and eigenstate thermalization to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics [PDF]
This review gives a pedagogical introduction to the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH), its basis, and its implications to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. In the first part, ETH is introduced as a natural extension of ideas from quantum
D'Alessio, Luca+3 more
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