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Cultural Responsiveness, Racial Identity and Academic Success: A Review of Literature [PDF]

, 2009
Commissioned by the Heinz Endowments, this paper reviews the literature on "culturally responsive pedagogy" and the arts. Academic success among African Americans is correlated with education that incorporates racial identity and socialization and a ...
George W. Noblit, Mary Stone Hanley
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Auto‐Generated Valence States in Electrocatalysts for Boosting Oxygen and Hydrogen Evolution Kinetics in Alkaline Water/Alkaline Seawater/Simulated Seawater/Natural Seawater

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review systematically highlights the latest achievements in mixed‐valence states relevant to hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions, providing essential insights into future directions and methods for large‐scale practical implementation. This critical review is expected to provide an overview of recent advancements in diverse valence‐state metal
Jitendra N. Tiwari, Gokul Bhaskaran, Krishan Kumar, Yun Suk Huh, Young‐Kyu Han   +4 more
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Harmonizing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Transportation and Land-Use Planning in California Cities [PDF]

, 2020
: Recent extreme weather events in California—wildfires, drought, and flooding—make abundantly clear the need to plan effective responses to both the causes and the consequences of climate change. A central challenge for climate planning efforts has been
Agrawal, Asha Weinstein, Alexander, Serena E., Boswell, Michael R., Hooper, Ashley M   +3 more
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Meta‐Rod Mechanical Metamaterials With Programmable Reconfiguration

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Existing mechanical metamaterials achieve programmable large deformations in planar square or cubic configurations, restricted by required complex boundary conditions. This research proposes a 1D metamaterial, Meta‐rod, with linear, bending, twisting, area, and volume deformation modes.
Atharva Pande, Lyes Kadem, Hang Xu
wiley   +1 more source

Key Pre-Distributions From Graph-Based Block Designs

, 2015
With the development of wireless communication technologies which considerably contributed to the development of wireless sensor networks (WSN), we have witnessed an ever-increasing WSN based applications which induced a host of research activities in ...
Bouabdallah, Abdelmadjid, Ding, Jie, Tarokh, Vahid   +2 more
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Through Diamond Robust Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Thin film diamond growth offers a unique opportunity for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS); the encapsulation of plasmonic nanostructures within a transparent, chemically stable, and physically robust coating. The diamond acts as both a window and protective layer, enabling illumination of the plasmonic nanostructures through the diamond ...
Kieran N. Twaddle, Rebecca J. Watkins, Ralph J. Moors, Massimiliano L.A. Ramsay, Richard B. Jackman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

San Francisco Disaster Food System Report [PDF]

, 2014
This analysis includes recommendations to advance food resiliency for low-income and vulnerable populations in the event of disaster. The report highlights the fragility of the disaster food pipeline in San Francisco, focuses on lessons learned from ...
Cissie Bonini, Stephanie Rapp
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Quasi‐Static to Supersonic Energy Absorption of Nanoarchitected Tubulanes and Schwarzites

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Nanoarchitected energy‐absorptive Tubulanes exhibit record energy absorption under quasi‐static conditions and exceptional inelastic energy dissipation under 750 m s−1 ballistics impact, with high performance spanning strain rates of 12 orders of magnitude.
Peter Serles, Alianna Maguire, Thomas Butruille, Jet Lem, Shuo Yang, Pedro Guerra Demingos, Sahar Choukir, Michel Haché, Boran Kumral, Katherine Jia, Charles Jia, Yu Zou, Chandra Veer Singh, Carlos M. Portela, Jun Lou, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Tobin Filleter   +16 more
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Electric grid vulnerability and coal-dependent economies in Southeast Europe

Environmental Research: Energy
Southeast Europe is undergoing a dramatic energy transition, while remaining heavily reliant on coal and aging grid infrastructure. Integrating higher shares of variable renewable energy (VRE) reveals and intensifies existing vulnerabilities without ...
Serkan Sargin, Majlinda Daci, Noah Kittner   +2 more
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A Socio-technical Analysis of Interdependent Infrastructures among the Built Environment, Energy, and Transportation Systems at the Navy Yard and the Philadelphia Metropolitan Region, USA [PDF]

, 2015
This paper reports on a research initiative that explores the interdependencies of the system of systems — the built environment, energy, and transportation — related to the redevelopment of The Navy Yard in Philadelphia and the Philadelphia ...
Farber, D., Pietrucha, M.T.
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