Investigation on virtual reality applications by Jiang, Yuan

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Rethinking China's engagement in Africa. by Liu, Xue.

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From Research to Search: Technologies and Techniques of Legal Research, 1880-1980 by Reiss Sorokin, Alex

“…In 1964, the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) embarked on a project to harness computer technology to automate legal research. After three years of investigation, it established the Ohio Bar Automated Research (OBAR) organization and contracted a local computer company, Data Corporation, to develop an electronic legal research service. …”
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Double Diffusion, Shear Instabilities, and Heat Impacts of a Pacific Summer Water Intrusion in the Beaufort Sea by Fine, Elizabeth C., MacKinnon, Jennifer A., Alford, Matthew H., Middleton, Leo, Taylor, John, Mickett, John B., Cole, Sylvia T., Couto, Nicole, Boyer, Arnaud Le, Peacock, Thomas

“…Lateral fluxes are much larger, estimated between 1000 and 5000 W m<jats:sup>−2</jats:sup>, and set an overall decay rate for the intrusion of 1–5 years.…”
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Optimizing resource allocation in large communications satellite constellations by Pachler de la Osa, Nils

“…Satellite communications are becoming a key technology for maintaining connectivity in a world driven by information. In the recent years, established players (such as SES and Telesat), as well as new competitors (such as SpaceX and Amazon) have proposed constellations able to serve hundreds of thousands of users, using thousands of satellites. …”
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Insights from an Experiment Crowdsourcing Data from Thousands of US Amazon Users: The importance of transparency, money, and data use by Berke, Alex, Mahari, Robert, Pentland, Sandy, Larson, Kent, Calacci, Dana

“…This paper shares an innovative approach to crowdsourcing user data to collect otherwise inaccessible Amazon purchase histories, spanning 5 years, from more than 5,000 U.S. users. We developed a data collection tool that prioritizes participant consent and includes an experimental study design. …”
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EyeTrAES: Fine-grained, Low-Latency Eye Tracking via Adaptive Event Slicing by Sen, Argha, Bandara, Nuwan, Gokarn, Ila, Kandappu, Thivya, Misra, Archan

“…Eye-tracking technology has gained significant attention in recent years due to its wide range of applications in human-computer interaction, virtual and augmented reality, and wearable health. …”
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Molecular engineering of biomolecule-based functional nanodots for biomedical applications by Xu Victor Hesheng

“…In recent years, nanotechnology has gained considerable attention owing to its numerous attractive properties. …”
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Multi-branch sandwich piezoelectric energy harvester : mathematical modeling and validation by Li, Xiangyang, Yu, Kaiping, Upadrashta, Deepesh, Yang, Yaowen

“…Energy harvesting from ambient environment has attracted intensive attention over the years for powering low-power autonomous electronic devices. …”
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Cytomegalovirus infection is associated with an increase in aortic stiffness in older men which may be mediated in part by CD4 memory T-cells by Kirkham, Frances, Pera, Alejandra, Simanek, Amanda M., Bano, Aalia, Morrow, George, Reus, Bernhard, Caserta, Stefano, Smith, Helen Elizabeth, Davies, Kevin A., Rajkumar, Chakravarthi, Kern, Florian

“…Methods: Healthy older volunteers (60-93 years) underwent routine clinical and laboratory evaluation, including assessment of cfPWV in eligible participants. …”
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Filipino multicomponent intervention to maintain cognitive performance in high-risk population (FINOMAIN): study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial by Dominguez, Jacqueline, De Guzman, Ma Fe, Chen, Annabel Shen-Hsing, Sano, Mary, Waldemar, Gunhild, Phung, Thien Kieu Thi

“…A total of 605 (20-25 clusters per arm) community-dwelling Filipino older adults aged ≥ 60 years old with MCI will participate in the study and will be assessed at baseline, 6th- and 12th-month follow-up. …”
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Camera domain transfer for video-based person re-identification by Ding, Bangjie

“…Person re-identification (Re-ID), also known as pedestrian re-identification, is a new technology that has emerged in the area of intelligent video analysis in recent years, and belongs to the category of image and video processing and analysis in complex environments. …”
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Mechanical and antibacterial behavior of photocatalytic lightweight engineered cementitious composites by Hamdany, Abdul Halim, Ding, Yuanzhao, Qian, Shunzhi

“…In recent years, there has been increasing interest in using cementitious materials as a catalyst-supporting media such as air-purifying paving block, self-cleaning exterior wall, and photocatalytic ceiling panel. …”
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Automated lesion segmentation and quantification for prediction of paradoxical worsening in patients with tubercular serpiginous-like choroiditis by Kalra, Gagan, Agarwal, Aniruddha, Marchese, Alessandro, Agrawal, Rupesh, Bansal, Reema, Gupta, Vishali

“…The study included 139 patients (139 eyes; 92 males and 47 females; mean age: 44.8 ± 11.3 years) with TB SLC. Pilot analysis of 12 images showed an excellent ICC for measuring the mean area, intensity, and integrated pixel intensity (all ICC > 0.89). …”
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Toward multivariate fragility functions for seismic damage and loss estimation of high-rise buildings by Kourehpaz, Pouria, Hutt, Carlos Molina, Lallemant, David

“…Data-driven models for seismic damage and loss assessment of buildings have become more common in recent years due to the availability of large repositories of recorded and synthetic ground motions coupled with structural response simulation data. …”
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Design of wideband low-loss reconfigurable reflectarray antenna by Zhang, Xiran

“…It has received widespread attention in recent years. This dissertation focuses on a wideband, low-loss RRA suitable for the L-band, and conducts a simulation performance analysis of the design presented in this dissertation. …”
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Deep learning-based algorithm for synthetic aperture radar despeckling by Wang, Yuxuan

“…Therefore, research on SAR image denoising and target detection technologies is of great significance. In recent years, the rapid development of deep learning technologies has produced numerous outstanding models that have achieved remarkable success in natural image processing. …”
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‘Doing’ leadership in interaction : a discursive investigation of emerging leadership construction in small group interaction by Dong, Shujing

“…Although the dynamic and procedural nature of leadership construction has drawn increasing attention in recent years, investigations on how interactional practices may be employed in order to emerge as a leader in non-hierarchal settings remain lacking. …”
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Design, modeling, and optimization of nonlinear piezoelectric energy harvesters by Upadrashta, Deepesh

“…Over the past few years, structural health monitoring using wireless sensors has received significant emphasis to improve the safety, serviceability, and reliability of mechanical and civil structures. …”
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Three essays on the funds allocation of U.S. Firms by Shih, Chia Mei

“…We show that the said sensitivities were distinctive from zero for all sample years, and that the apparent disappearance of investment-cash flow sensitivity resulted from Chen and Chen (2012) using a restrictive measure of investment i.e., capital expenditure. …”
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