Word: treatments
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...treatment accidentally discovered in the laboratory of physics professor Eric Mazur has the potential to vastly increase the effectiveness of silicon...
...newly discovered “black silicon” is created through a laser treatment inside a chamber filled with sulfur gases—a procedure that allows silicon to absorb a larger fraction of the solar spectrum, according to Meng-Ju Sher, a physics research assistant...
...this past job/internship application cycle (and not because I was accepted to everything. We should all be so lucky). Chances are, if you were applying for jobs, you didn’t see it much either because many employers have adopted what can only be described as a silent treatment toward those less-than-worthy applicants. This means that applicants who are not passed to further rounds are never notified of their rejected status. This policy is unreasonable and disrespectful. Employers need to treat their applicants with due regard and grant them the courtesy of knowing where they stand...
...kids were asked to draw a picture with markers. But one group was told in advance that they would get a special reward - a certificate with a gold star and a red ribbon - in exchange for their work. The kids did the drawings, and the ones in the treatment group got their certificates...
...early feedback was promising. Principals were lobbying to get their schools switched out of the control group and into the treatment group. Parents began using the paychecks as progress reports, contacting teachers to find out why their kids' checks had gone up or down. In Chicago, Duncan discovered that the program affected kids in ways he'd never expected. "I remember going to schools and seeing how excited the kids were when they got their checks. They were like pep rallies - but around academic success!" he says. Fryer appeared on The Colbert Report and CNN to talk about the experiment...