Rotating optical microcavities with broken chiral symmetry
We develop a finite difference time domain simulation algorithm to simulate photonic structures in a rotating frame. Using, the algorithm, We numerically compute and demonstrate in open microcavities...
View ArticleExurban Residents’ Perceptions of Naturally Returning Predators: Connecticut...
As a result of reforestation, growth of exurban areas and wildlife adaptation, it is believed that the public is currently encountering more human-wildlife conflicts than ever before. The key to...
View ArticleStratified Meta-Analysis to Examine Data Biases in Lung Cancer Studies of...
Petroleum refineries employ a variety of workers who historically experienced different potentials for asbestos exposure depending on job tasks. Associations between petroleum refinery work and lung...
View ArticleA Study of the N-D-K Scalability Problem in Large-Scale Image Classification
Image classification is a extensively studied problem that lies at the heart of computer vision. However, the challenge remains to develop a system that can identify and classify thousands of objects...
View ArticleBreadth of Emotion Vocabulary in Middle Schoolers
How many different emotion words can middle schoolers think of to describe major categories of emotional experiences? While most existing ability tests of emotion understanding and vocabulary are...
View ArticleEarly life environment, fertility and age of menarche: A test of life history...
Perceptions of early life environmental adversity can affect the timing of life history transitions and investment in reproductive effort. These effects are well documented in non-human organisms, but...
View ArticlePartitioning Bipartite Graphs: A Modified Louvain
Abstract How do we find communities in a graph? How does this change if the graph is bipartite? The Louvain method maximizes links within communities and minimizes those between in order to determine...
View ArticleDigitally Mapping the Growth of the Railroads in the United States
As part of my dissertation, I creating digital maps of the extent of the railways in the United States during the late 19th century (1880 to 1910) on a yearly basis. While other researchers have...
View ArticleShelfScan: Streamlining library shelving, expanding quality control
ShelfScan, a web-based application developed in house at Sterling Memorial Library, has streamlined the shelving process at SML and Bass and expanded quality control at multiple libraries by verifying...
View ArticleThe YODA Project: Developing Methods for Sharing Clinical Trial Data
Abstract Data sharing and data transparency are becoming the new standard in clinical research to ensure that patients and clinicians possess all necessary information about a drug or device when...
View ArticleManaging the Data: The Tell Ziyadeh Archaeological Project
Archaeological research depends on several types of data; material, contextual and analytical. Material data refers to the actual artifacts, features, and sites themselves. Contextual data are...
View ArticleApplying novel tree-based frameworks to big data for classification of heart...
Over 5 million Americans suffer from heart failure, a condition with a 5-year survival that eclipses all cancers apart from that of lung cancer. Conventional understanding of heart failure is...
View ArticleBeyond Original Intent – The Use of a Corporation’s Administrative Databases...
Large corporations maintain a variety of administrative databases as part of their normal operations. These databases, created for distinct functions by separate organizational entities, are generally...
View ArticleInternational Occupational Health Research on an "Invisible" Workforce
There are many professions in which employees are located in remote locations. International maritime workers make up one such occupation. They are a vulnerable, underserved and neglected population...
View ArticleUsing Graphs to Characterize Nationwide Physician Referral Networks
AIM: Evaluating physician referral network characteristics can help to understand how physicians and hospitals interact to provide patient services within the US healthcare system and ultimately how...
View ArticleEnvironmental Performance Index
The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks how well countries perform on high-priority environmental issues in two broad policy areas: protection of human health from environmental harm and...
View ArticleUsing graph visualization to look at the trajectories of events that lead to...
Information on specific sequence of healthcare utilization events in heart failure patients may be useful for identifying distinct subpopulations of patients with HF. Knowledge of patient trajectories...
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