Shooting Stars of January 2

2. British Petroleum (BP), “BP energy outlook 2035”, 2014 (January)

In recent years, many efforts have been made to reduce pollution in compression ignition engines. Dimethyl ether is one of the methods to achieve this goal due to its special properties such as high Cetane number and low pollution. Also, one of the parameters that plays an important role in improving combustion and engine performance is fuel injection pressure. In the present study, a numerical...

Dr. Nasser Maleki (January 25, 1953 – January 6, 2012)

Comparison of Shooting Time Characteristics and Shooting Posture Between High- and Low- Performance Archers

Background. Archery is a precision sport that requires high levels of consistency and reproducibility in the shooting movement to achieve the highest score. Objectives. This study aimed to compare and correlate the shooting time characteristics and shooting posture on the archery shooting performance of high- and low-performance archers. Methods. Terengganu state team and Malaysia Pahang Spor...

Shooting Stars in the Sky: An Online Algorithm for Skyline Queries

Skyline queries ask for a set of interesting points from a potentially large set of data points. If we are traveling, for instance, a restaurant might be interesting if there is no other restaurant which is nearer, cheaper, and has better food. Skyline queries retrieve all such interesting restaurants so that the user can choose the most promising one. In this paper, we present a new online alg...

Statement Jinyoung Kim January 2 , 2011

My research interests include all areas of information retrieval and human-computer interaction. As my thesis work, I am focusing on challenges in providing an effective search system for personal information management (PIM). Having finished my seventh semester in the MS/Ph.D program in UMass Computer Science department, I am starting to establish myself as an Information Retrieval researcher,...