High performance platforms for integrated nonlinear optics
Nonlinear photonic chips have succeeded in generating and processing signals all-optically with performance far superior to that possible electronically - particularly with respect to speed. Although...
View ArticleReproducibility assessment of dynamically deforming DEFGEL in a respiratory...
Conducting four-dimensional deforming dosimetry with a deformable gel dosimeter presents several challenges for implementation and interpretation of results. In this work, we describe a modification to...
View ArticleSpatio-temporal event detection using probabilistic graphical models (PGMs)
Event detection concerns identifying occurrence of interesting events which are meaningful and understandable. In dynamic fields, as time passes the attribute of phenomenon varies in spatial locations....
View ArticleHousing and Resilience: Case Studies from the Cook Islands
The Pacific Islands is widely known as being highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. In addition to long-term impacts such as sea level rise, current impacts such as tropical cyclones wreak havoc...
View ArticleInterworking architecture between 3GPP IMS, Mobile IP and WiMAX in OPNET
This article represents an interworking architecture model built by OPNET Modeler for intersystem handover between Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), 3GPP IMS-Universal Mobile...
View ArticleHumanitarian architecture: seeking spatial solutions for complex global...
Why should design and construction professionals be involved in humanitarian work and the often-complex projects needed to deal with the recovery of post-disaster emergencies? How as disciplinary...
View ArticleOptimal reduction of project risk severity: A case study
Although many studies were carried out to identify the range of risky events in construction projects and the recommended response and precautionary strategies, little has addressed the means of making...
View ArticleA framework for graduate employability adapted for discipline differences
A substantial body of work exists on the definition of graduate employability and a number of frameworks have been developed that identify lists of knowledge, skills and attributes that graduates...
View ArticleUtilizing common substructures to speedup tensor factorization for mining...
In large and complex graphs of social, chemical/biological, or other relations, frequent substructures are commonly shared by different graphs or by graphs evolving through different time periods....
View ArticleEntrepreneurship and business charisma
This paper explores the context which informed the emergence of transformational leadership and entrepreneurship studies in the 1980s. It proposes that these interlinked expressions of...
View ArticleUsing soft systems methodology in the healthcare industry of Mauritius
This paper identifies and resolves some key issues relating to a specific aspect within the supply chain logistics of the public health care industry in the Republic of Mauritius. The analysis and the...
View ArticleOn the effectiveness of higher-order terms in layer-wise shell models
Refined layer-wise theories for shell and plate models are presented and discussed in this paper. Higher-order models are obtained through the Unified Formulation (UF) developed by the first author...
View Article"Autonomous, yet connected": A social design principle explaining consumers'...
Product aesthetics are now widely recognized as a valuable marketing tool. As a result several design principles have been identified that can be used to design products that achieve positive consumer...
View ArticleFeature discovery by deep learning for aesthetic analysis of evolved abstract...
We investigated the ability of a Deep Belief Network with logistic nodes, trained unsupervised by Contrastive Divergence, to discover features of evolved abstract art images. Two Restricted Boltzmann...
View ArticleUsing on-the-move mining for mobile crowdsensing
In this paper, we propose and develop a platform to support data collection for mobile crowdsensing from mobile device sensors that is under-pinned by real-time mobile data stream mining. We...
View Article(In Press) Ripple effect in the time-critical food supply chains and recovery...
We consider the ripple effect in the food supply chain and recovery policies on the example of Australia. Ripple effect describes the impact of a disruption on supply chain economic performance and...
View ArticleOn compressing weighted time-evolving graphs
Existing graph compression techniquesmostly focus on static graphs. However for many practical graphs such as social networks the edge weights frequently change over time. This phenomenon raises the...
View ArticleReduced packet loss vertical handover between LTE and mobile WiMAX
This paper represents the network architecture for seamless vertical handover between Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX). The proposed network...
View ArticleResonance: an interactive tabletop artwork for co-located group...
In this paper we describe the design and development of Resonance, an interactive tabletop artwork that targets upper-limb movement rehabilitation for patients with an acquired brain injury. The...
View ArticleInquiring knowledge management systems - a Chinese medicine perspective
Information Systems/Information Technology (IS/IT) can facilitate superior healthcare delivery. However, studies of IS/IT systems and implementations for Chinese Medicine (CM) practice are very...
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