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Command or Control: Military Experience and the Secretary of Defense
(2022)In the relationship between military leaders and their civilian masters, the Secretary of Defense (SecDef) plays a unique role. He or she represents both the military enterprise and the non-military policymakers that control ... -
Predicting Treatment Tolerance and Survival in Patients with Gastroesophageal Adenocarcinoma
(2022)In 2020, gastric cancer was the fifth most common cancer worldwide, and esophageal cancer was the eighth most common cancer worldwide (Global Cancer Observatory). Strategies for treatment of both cancers range from curative ... -
Computational Challenges to Bayesian Density Discontinuity Regression
(2022)Many policies subject an underlying continuous variable to an artificial cutoff. Agents may regulate the magnitude of the variable to stay on the preferred side of a known cutoff, which results in the form of a jump discontinuity ... -
Minor Mobilities: A Historical Analysis of Little Saigon through Oral History
(2022)After the Vietnam War ended in 1975 many Southern Vietnamese were displaced and forced to relocate. Many of those refugees settled into an area located in Orange County, California and for the past fifty years have worked ... -
It’s all About Trade-offs: Political Determinants of Victory in Irregular Wars
(2022)Victory in Irregular Wars is rarely a question of military capability alone. History and recent events offer examples of established governments who were defeated by insurgencies or rebels who, on paper, had far less military ... -
Walking through realism and idealism , the study of American literary reportage about China during the Sino-Japanese war
(2022)From 1931 to 1945, during The Sino-Japanese War as officially defined in China, a group of American journalists and military personnel in China created long-form documentary reportage works on the theme of Chinese society ... -
We Care About Your Privacy (When It Matters): How Firms Strategically Respond to Data Breach Incidents
(2022)With a growing concern for consumer data and online privacy, regulators around the world are placing numerous measures to educate individuals with their privacy choices and to require firms to prioritize consumer privacy. ... -
Numerical Approximation of Gaussian-Smoothed Optimal Transport
(2022)The Optimal Transport (OT) Distance, especially the Wasserstein distance, has important applications in statistics and machine learning. Though the optimal transport distance possesses many favorable properties, it is not ... -
Development, Validation, and Application of Image-based Noise Addition Tool to Simulate Low Dose Computed Tomography Images
(2022)Computed tomography (CT) is one the most used imaging modalities due to its advancements in acquisition time and diagnostic capability. There are Concerns regarding the radiation exposure and its associated cancer risks. ... -
Neurosurgical Decision-Making and Ethical Considerations in the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury
(2022)Globally, disparities in the availability of surgical care are prevalent, and for specialty care such as neurosurgery, services are typically scarce to non-existent. In low-and-middle-income countries, most medical centers ... -
A Virtual Museum of Architecture: Creating an Alternative Visitor Experience
(2022)Although an integral part of art historical studies, authentic experiences of architecture have been excluded from the cathedrals of cultural objects, art museums. The built forms can seldomly fit into the doors of museums ... -
Assessing Facilitators and Barriers to Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) Testing and Treatment and Comparing the Effectiveness of Arts-Based vs. School-Based Community-Engaged SCD Education Outreach Programs for Adolescents in Kalangala, Uganda
(2022)AbstractBackground: With the bulk of global sickle cell disease (SCD) research primarily focusing on high-income/low-burden countries, countries such as Uganda continue to report the highest rates of SCD as a result of this ... -
Quantitative Analysis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Heated Soybean Oil
(2022)Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are compounds ubiquitous in the environment and are harmful to human health. PAHs can easily enter the human body through the consumption of edible oils due to their high lipophilicity. ... -
Stability and Accuracy of Discrete-Time High Pass Filters with Application to Geophone Deconvolution
(2022)Low frequency noise in measured sensor data is amplified when integrated. In the integration of measured acceleration data to displacement, such low frequency noise can lead to significant drift errors. In non-real-time ... -
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Tuberculosis Treatment for Migrant Workers in Shanghai, China
(2022)Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world's top infectious killers, particularly affecting poor and vulnerable populations. COVID-19, another severe acute respiratory syndrome, is raging worldwide and has a relatively ... -
Effect of 18F-FDG PET image discretization on radiomic features of patients undergoing definitive radiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer
(2022)Purpose: To characterize the effect of different discretization techniques (methods and values) on radiomic features extracted from positron emission tomography (PET) images of patients undergoing definitive radiotherapy ... -
Pre-Pandemic Viral Surveillance of Swine Farms in Northern Vietnam
(2022)Introduction: Global pandemics are major contributors to human morbidity and mortality, economic downturn, and lost productivity. In extraordinary circumstances like the COVID-19 pandemic, we see a showcase of these staggering ... -
Why Have There Been No Great Female Art Forgers? A Survey of Art Forgery as a Gendered Phenomenon
(2022)Why are there no female art forgers? This paradoxical mystery can be attributed not only to prevailing patriarchal conceptions of art production and artists, but also to the very conceptual foundation of art forgery itself. ... -
An Invisible Conundrum: Visualizing “Queer Immobility” in the Contemporary PRC
(2022)Until the end of the 20th century, with the deepening of the Opening-up and Reform movement under the context of globalization and advancement of communication methods, both culture and economy in the PRC have achieved ... -
Renovating the Search Experience of Art Image Databases
(2022)With the emergence of the computer, the digital image has become one of the most prevalent visual mediums in the 21st century. This paper aims at analyzing the current limitations in interacting with digital image databases ...
