Amajor effort to establish “scientifically-based research” (SBR) in education has been under way for some time (Feuer, Towne, & Shavelson, 2002). Key manifestations of this effort are found in the No Child Left Behind Act and the reauthorization and reorganization of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement as the Institute for Educational Science (Eisenhart & Towne, 2003). The most d...

In fault-tolerant components reaIized using replication, severai alternate results are produce d, from which a single correct result must be derived. This is done by a mechanism, that we call an adjudicator Ca concept more generaI than a voter), which uses as its inputs the individuaI results produced by the replicated subcomponents comprising the redundant component. This paper gives a rigouro...

Department of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, 2 Institute of Marine Science, National Research Council of Italy, Ancona, Italy, 3 Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ, United States, 4 Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, City College of New York, New York, NY, ...

Alberto Lupidi 1,*, Daniele Staglianò 1,2, Marco Martorella 1,2 and Fabrizio Berizzi 1,2 1 Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario delle Telecomunicazioni (CNIT)-National Laboratory of Radar and Surveillance Systems (RaSS), 56124 Pisa, Italy; [email protected] (D.S.); [email protected] (M.M.); [email protected] (F.B.) 2 Department of Information Engineering, ...

In March of 1997, the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences issued the report, "For the Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information." Concluding that the current practices at the majority of health care facilities in the United States are insufficient, the Council delineated both technical and organizational approaches to protecting electronic health informati...

The 2007 National Research Council (NRC) Decadal Survey on Earth Science and Applications from Space recommended Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days, and Seasons (ASCENDS) as a mid-term, Tier II, NASA space mission. ITT Exelis, formerly ITT Corp., and NASA Langley Research Center have been working together since 2004 to develop and demonstrate a prototype Laser Absorption Spectrom...