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Large-Scale Assessment of Polygon-Edge Boulder Clustering in the Martian Northern Lowlands [PDF]

Two features evident in many images of the martian northern low-lands are polygonal fractures (especially northwards of 60N) and meter-scale surface boulders.
Ewing, R. C., Fassett, C.I., Hood, Don R., Karunatillake, S., Sholes, S. F.   +4 more
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Response rates in low-stakes testing: insights from the Italian experience in large-scale assessments

Frontiers in Education
Achieving high response rates in international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) is crucial for ensuring data validity and cross-national comparability. The first part of this article reviewed the literature on response rates in low-stakes assessments and ...
Laura Palmerio, Elisa Caponera
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Flood risk assessment through large-scale modeling under uncertainty [PDF]

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
The complexity of flood risk models is intrinsically linked to a variety of sources of uncertainty (hydrology, hydraulics, exposed assets, vulnerability, coping capacity, etc.) that affect the accuracy and reliability of the analyses.
L. Pavesi, E. Volpi, A. Fiori
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An assessment of environmental impacts of cassava starch extraction technologies [PDF]

, 2011
The environmental impacts of the transformation of cassava roots into starch were assessed for three contrasting technologies at small and large scale (1-2 and 100-200t starch per day), using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. The objective was
Da, Guillaume, Dufour, Dominique, Giraldo Toro, Andres, Moreno, Martin A., Piyachomkwan, Kuakoon, Sriroth, Klanarong, Tran, Thierry, Velez, G.   +7 more
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The impact of food poverty on educational achievement: a New Zealand case study in global context

Frontiers in Education
Hunger negatively impacts a student’s ability to engage and learn at school. Rising food poverty among school students across the globe is increasingly recognized as a critical factor impacting educational achievement.
Pippa McKelvie Sebileau, Pippa McKelvie Sebileau, Boyd Swinburn, Boyd Swinburn, Jamie de Seymour   +4 more
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Using international large-scale assessment for learning: Analyzing U.S. students’ geometry performance in TIMSS

Journal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education
The data from international large-scale assessments, such as The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), is often designed and used as an assessment of learning rather than an assessment for learning.
Jinqing Liu, Lili Zhou, Pavneet Kaur Bharaj, Da Zhou, Jane-Jane Lo   +4 more
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Laboratory Focus on Improving the Culture of Biosafety: Statewide Risk Assessment of Clinical Laboratories That Process Specimens for Microbiologic Analysis [PDF]

, 2018
The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene challenged Wisconsin laboratories to examine their biosafety practices and improve their culture of biosafety.
Batemman, Allen C., Beck, eric, Block, Timothy K., Bowles, Erin J., Dern, Richard, Kropp, Joshua L., Munson, Erik, Podzorski, Raymond P., Radke, Tyler, Siebers, Karen, Simmons, Brian, Smith, Mary A., Spray-Larson, Frances, Warshauer, David M.   +13 more
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Improvements and future challenges for the research infrastructure in the field “Measuring cognitive ability” [PDF]

The assessment of cognitive abilities is critical in large-scale survey studies that aim at elucidating the longitudinal interplay between the individual’s cognitive potential and socio-economic variables.
Elsbeth Stern, Roland H. Grabner
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Dynamical structure of entangled polymers simulated under shear flow

, 2018
The non-linear response of entangled polymers to shear flow is complicated. Its current understanding is framed mainly as a rheological description in terms of the complex viscosity.
Airidas Korolkovas, Boué F., Chhabra R. P., de Gennes P. G., Doi M., Han C. D., Kawecki M., Max Wolff, Philipp Gutfreund   +8 more
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Systematic review of protective factors related to academic resilience in children and adolescents: unpacking the interplay of operationalization, data, and research method

Frontiers in Psychology
Identifying protective factors that promote academic resilience is vital. Nevertheless, due to the variations in the operationalizations of academic resilience, timeframes, data sources, and employed research methods, it remains unclear whether the ...
Wangqiong Ye, Nani Teig, Sigrid Blömeke
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