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Sonia Nieto

Researcher at University of Massachusetts Amherst

Publications -  97
Citations -  27871

Sonia Nieto is an academic researcher from University of Massachusetts Amherst. The author has contributed to research in topics: Multicultural education & Astrometry. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 96 publications receiving 24145 citations. Previous affiliations of Sonia Nieto include University of Barcelona & PSL Research University.

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Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties

Anthony G. A. Brown, +452 more
TL;DR: The second Gaia data release, Gaia DR2 as mentioned in this paper, is a major advance with respect to Gaia DR1 in terms of completeness, performance, and richness of the data products.
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The Gaia mission

T. Prusti, +624 more
TL;DR: Gaia as discussed by the authors is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original interferometric concept was changed to a direct-imaging approach.
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Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education

Sonia Nieto
TL;DR: In this article, the authors set the stage for Multicultural education within a socopolitical context by developing a conceptual framework for multicultural education and developing a conceptual framework for multicultural education.
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Gaia Data Release 1 Summary of the astrometric, photometric, and survey properties

Anthony G. A. Brown, +590 more
TL;DR: The first Gaia data release, Gaia DR1 as discussed by the authors, consists of three components: a primary astrometric data set which contains the positions, parallaxes, and mean proper motions for about 2 million of the brightest stars in common with the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues.
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The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities

TL;DR: In this article, Nieto makes student learning the primary objective of multicultural education and draws on a host of research in learning styles, multiple intelligences and cognitive theories to portray the way students learn, taking the reader beyond individual learners to discuss the social context of learning, educational equity, the influence of culture on learning and critical pedagogy.