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"Twenty percent free!": So how much does the original bar weigh?
Ngarewa Hawera and Merilyn Taylor describe a rich task based on a real world situation that stimulated a great deal of mathematical reasoning. Their research on how students attempted the task is most revealing
[Review of] Carol Trosset. Welshness Performed: Welsh Concepts of Person and Society
Wales, ruled by native princes until the thirteenth-century and subsequently governed from London, contains a population of about three million, twenty percent of which speak an indigenous language
Control of nonenzymatic browning in intermediate-moisture foods
Series of compounds called humectants were found to decrease rate of browning when added to intermediate-moisture foods. Twenty percent level of humectant can increase shelf life of foods by factor of 5 or 6
Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: The Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers
Using longitudinal elementary school teacher and student data, we document that students have larger test score gains when their teachers experience improvements in the observable characteristics of their colleagues. Using within-school and within-teacher variation, we further show that a teacherâs students have larger achievement gains in math and reading when she has more effective colleagues (based on estimated value-added from an out-of-sample preperiod). Spillovers are strongest for less-experienced teachers and persist over time, teachers perform best when they are the weakest of their peer group, and historical peer quality explains away about twenty percent of the own-teacher effect. These results suggest peer learning
Demonstration of negative group delays in a simple electronic circuit
We present a simple electronic circuit which produces negative group delays
for base-band pulses. When a band-limited pulse is applied as the input, a
forwarded pulse appears at the output. The negative group delays in lumped
systems share the same mechanism with the superluminal light propagation, which
is recently demonstrated in an absorption-free, anomalous dispersive medium
[Wang et al., Nature 406, 277 (2000)]. In this circuit, the advance time more
than twenty percent of the pulse width can easily be achieved. The time
constants, which can be in the order of seconds, is slow enough to be observed
with the naked eye by looking at the lamps driven by the pulses.Comment: 6pages,8 figure
The induced interaction in a Fermi gas with a BEC-BCS crossover
We study the effect of the induced interaction on the superfluid transition
temperature of a Fermi gas with a BEC-BCS crossover. The
Gorkov-Melik-Barkhudarov theory about the induced interaction is extended from
the BCS side to the entire crossover, and the pairing fluctuation is treated in
the approach by Nozi\`{e}res and Schmitt-Rink. At unitarity, the induced
interaction reduces the transition temperature by about twenty percent. In the
BCS limit, the transition temperature is reduced by a factor about 2.22, as
found by Gorkov and Melik-Barkhudarov. Our result shows that the effect of the
induced interaction is important both on the BCS side and in the unitary
region.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures, to be published in PR
Come âRAPâ With Us: Improving the Retention of Academically-Qualified Persons (RAP) with GPAs of 3.0 or Higher
Retention is an important area of concern for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). This project involves devising initiatives to identify and retain students with a high potential for academic success as outlined in the Strategic Plan for the Future of Virginia Commonwealth University, Phase II. It is theorized that by concentrating efforts on students (both in-state and out-of-state) with a cummulative GPA of 3.0 or higher, an improvement in the six-year graduation and freshmen retention rates can be realized. This would serve to enhance VCUâs status in the academic community (moving from Tier 3 to Tier 2 status) since twenty percent of the determining ranking of the U.S. News and World Reportâs rankings are derived from the category of retention
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