Using Rice’sConnexions platform, OpenStax will offer free course materials for five common introductory classes. The textbooks are open to classes anywhere and organizers believe the programs could save students $90 million in the next five years if the books capture 10 percent of the national mar...
A Tyler man says he invented the technology that laid the groundwork for the web, Frito sales are on the rise, and Rice could help offer open-source textbooks. ByRob Heidrick November 1, 2011 Rice is Better Than Harvard Kiplinger private school rankings say the state's most prestigious uni...
The bill, the Affordable College Textbook Act, would create a competitive grant program to support the creation and expand the use of open college textbooks -- textbooks that are available under an open license, allowing professors, students, researchers and others to freely access the materials. ...
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In every February, the Myanmar people organize competitions to make the finest sticky rice. The glutinous rice, either white or black, is put in a huge iron wok. Water and oil were added. Then the rice was cooked and stirred at the same time by teams of muscular youths. Slowly other in...
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(ii) treat anthologies and journals alike, (iii) bring textbooks into the system, (iv) count introductory works of scholarship in anthologies, (v) eliminate international co-authors from the calculation of points, and (vi) introduce a multiplier for articles appearing in gold open access ...
In a new genetic study of rice, Professor Hiroaki Iwai and his team from the University of Tsukuba have revealed that pectin plays a vital role in plant reproductive development, which could have major implications in the development of new crop varietie
Here, as in the otherseven makeshift classrooms, there are no learning charts on the walls, almostno textbooks, and while some children have a pen and write their sums into atattered exercise book, others resort to chalk and do their working outdirectly onto the desk. With incomes in ...
A photograph of purple endosperm rice. Credit: Qinlong Zhu of the South China Agricultural University Researchers in China have developed a genetic engineering approach capable of delivering many genes at once and used it to make rice endosperm—seed tissue that provides nutrients to the developing ...