The purpose of this study is to develop a better understanding of the discourse strategies employed by students and a chemistry teacher as they engaged in various activities in the classroom. More specifically, the paper examines how discourse support . . .

Approaching reflection from the perspective of a teachable skill set implies that research may inform how to help students reflect. Employing a framework of making connections often used in reading comprehension, this study aimed to characterize how m . . .

In this paper, we introduce an enhancement to the Neurosolver, a neuromorphic planner and a problem solving system. The enhanced architecture enables contextual learning. The Neurosolver was designed and tested on severalproblem solving and planning t . . .

Over the past two decades, civil gang injunctions have been increasingly instituted in California, Texas, and other parts of the Southwest. Most of the existing research on injunctions focuses on the efficacy and constitutionality of this novel law . . .

Although students report that they are interested in learning to speak Spanish, they often seem reticent to do so. The conference presentation summarized below was a three-hour workshop in which a brief overview was provided on the importance of com . . .

The Santa Clara River Estuary (SCRE) is a seasonally closed estuary. In general, the estuary opens during the wet season when high river flow and ocean waves breach the sand barrier, and then closes in spring when river flow is reduced and ocean waves . . .

The mission of the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission (SMBRC) is to restore and enhance the Santa Monica Bay (Bay) through actions and partnerships that improve water quality, conserve and rehabilitate natural resources, and protect the Bay’s ben . . .

Structures and energies of complexes of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) with hydroxyl (OH) and hydroperoxyl (HO2) radicals have been studied using ab initio and density functional theory. Two isomers of the complex between OH and DMS were found, one dipole-dip . . .