Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) are optical surface waves propagating along a metal surface. They exhibit attributes such as field enhancement and sub-wavelength localization, which make them attractive for sensing, they heavily exploited in biosensors. Electrochemistry also occurs on surfaces, electrochemical techniques commonly applied As surfaces integral both, it is natural to combine the...

Several current support systems for travel and tourism are aimed at providing information in a personalized manner, taking users’ interests and preferences into account. In this vein, personalized systems observe users’ behavior and, based thereon, make generalizations and predictions about them. This article describes a user modeling server that offers services to personalized systems with reg...

We describe an algebraic approach to the time-dependent noncommutative geometry of a six-dimensional Cahen-Wallach pp-wave string background supported by a constant Neveu-Schwarz flux, and develop a general formalism to construct and analyse quantum field theories defined thereon. Various star-products are derived in closed explicit form and the Hopf algebra of twisted isometries of the plane w...

The Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred title III of the bill (H.R. 9) to create jobs, enhance wages, strengthen property rights, maintain certain economic liberties, decentralize and reduce the power of the Federal Government with respect to the States, localities, and citizens of the United States, and to increase the accountability of Federal officials, having considered the same, re...

This work was supported by NSF grant CCF0937094 and IARPA via DoI/NBC contract number D12PC00337. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation thereon. Disclaimer: The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official p...

∗ Effort sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) through the Air Force Research Laboratory, USAF, under agreement numbers F30602-99-1-0521, F30602-97-1-0222, and F33615-98-C-1320. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation thereon. The views and conclusions contained herein are ...

Obtaining axillary radiographs of the shoulder in acute trauma is not always feasible. The authors present a new modification of this radiographic view, in order to assess the anatomic relationship between the humeral head and the glenoid cavity. The incidence is performed with the patient sitting on X-ray table, with the affected limb supported thereon. The authors describe the case of a 28-ye...

Dempster-Shafer Theory is specially advantaged in information fusion, while Support Vector Machine (SVM) can well deal with high-dimensional limited sample data. This Article firstly forecasts the data samples by categories with multiple SVMs, and hence based thereon, fuses the resulting information from multiple SVM models by using DS theory. At the end, Anderson's Iris data set is used to sim...