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Bridging the Gap
School districts across the country are increasingly seeking out digital tools to support the work of educators, in the hopes of improving students' academic achievement. With the rapid emergence of this new market, many districts have been challenged by the task of identifying and procuring educational technology (ed-tech) products that match the needs of their educators and students.The NYC Department of Education's "Innovate NYC Schools" division, supported by a U.S. DOE Investing in Innovation (i3) grant, aims to address this problem, in part by promoting "user-centered design," an approach that puts the needs and preferences of products' intended users (in this case, teachers, students, and parents) front and center in the development and procurement of new technology.Bridging the Gap describes the design and implementation of three Innovate NYC Schools initiatives grounded in user-centered design theory:School Choice Design Challenge (SCDC),an effort to develop apps that would help students explore and narrow down their choices of high school.#SharkTankEDU events, during which ed-tech developers present a product to a panel of educators who provide feedback on the tool.Short-Cycle Evaluation Challenges (SCEC), a classroom-based, semester-long pilot of ed-tech tools intended to inform product development, as well as the ultimate procurement decisions of school staff.The report focuses on four phases of work involved in bringing ed-tech companies and the users of their products together: defining a problem; selecting users and ed-tech companies; implementing pilot-based initiatives; and evaluating products. It describes strategies used and challenges faced, and offers practical lessons gleaned from the experiences of the individuals who designed and participated in these efforts.
Bridging the gap
This paper illustrates some of the outcomes from research carried out by the
main author as art jeweller in the Laser Processing Research Centre (LPRC)
in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at The
University of Manchester. The work shows examples of surface marking of
titanium using a 60 W CO2 10.6 ÎŒm laser for the production of jewellery and
observes the effects caused by heat delivered to the titanium substrate.
Points are addressed such as the distance created between artist and
technology, allowing âaccidentsâ to happen in a necessarily precise and safe
environment and the need for closer communication between disciplines in
order to understand the potential of emerging technologies for art and design
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Bridging the GapâThermofluidic Designs for Precision Bioelectronics
Bioelectronics, the merging of biology and electronics, can monitor and modulate biological behaviors across length and time scales with unprecedented capability. Current bioelectronics research largely focuses on devicesâ mechanical properties and electronic designs. However, the thermofluidic control is often overlooked, which is noteworthy given the discipline's importance in almost all bioelectronics processes. It is believed that integrating thermofluidic designs into bioelectronics is essential to align device precision with the complexity of biofluids and biological structures. This perspective serves as a mini roadmap for researchers in both fields to introduce key principles, applications, and challenges in both bioelectronics and thermofluids domains. Important interdisciplinary opportunities for the development of future healthcare devices and precise bioelectronics will also be discussed
Research to practice: bridging the gap
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Bridging the gap between the Jaynes-Cummings and Rabi models using an intermediate rotating wave approximation
We present a novel approach called the intermediate rotating wave
approximation (IRWA), which employs a time-averaging method to encapsulate the
dynamics of light-matter interaction from strong to ultrastrong coupling
regime. In contrast to the ordinary rotating wave approximation, this method
addresses the co-rotating and counter-rotating terms separately to trace their
physical consequences individually, and thus establishes the continuity between
the Jaynes-Cummings model and the quantum Rabi model. We investigate IRWA in
near resonance and large detuning cases. Our IRWA not only agrees well with
both models in their respective coupling strengths, but also offers a good
explanation for their differences
"Bridging the Gap" through Australian Cultural Astronomy
For more than 50,000 years, Indigenous Australians have incorporated
celestial events into their oral traditions and used the motions of celestial
bodies for navigation, time-keeping, food economics, and social structure. In
this paper, we explore the ways in which Aboriginal people made careful
observations of the sky, measurements of celestial bodies, and incorporated
astronomical events into complex oral traditions by searching for written
records of time-keeping using celestial bodies, the use of rising and setting
stars as indicators of special events, recorded observations of variable stars,
the solar cycle, and lunar phases (including ocean tides and eclipses) in oral
tradition, as well as astronomical measurements of the equinox, solstice, and
cardinal points.Comment: Proceedings of IAU Symposium 278, Oxford IX International Symposium
on Archaeoastronomy, International Society for Archaeoastronomy & Astronomy
in Culture (ISAAC), held in Lima, Peru, 5-9 January 2011. 9 pages, 4 images,
1 table (Accepted
Bridging the gap by shaking superfluid matter
In cold compact stars, Cooper pairing between fermions in dense matter leads
to the formation of a gap in their excitation spectrum and typically
exponentially suppresses transport properties. However, we show here that weak
Urca reactions become strongly enhanced and approach their ungapped level when
the star undergoes density oscillations of sufficiently large amplitude. We
study both the neutrino emissivity and the bulk viscosity due to direct Urca
processes in hadronic, hyperonic and quark matter and discuss different
superfluid and superconducting pairing patterns.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Bridging the Gap
The following is an excerpt from the address of the Honorable Andrew Young, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, on the occasion of Howard University\u27s Charter Day Convocation on March 2, 1977, commemorating the 110th anniversary of the founding of the university. Ed
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