In the US Congress, a legislator can endorse a bill publicly before the vote to determine whether it is passed on to the president to sign by co-sponsoring it. Although there is no limit at this time on number of co-sponsors, a legislator only co-sponsors 2-3% of all the bills. Thus, the legislators make considerable effort in deciding which bills to co-sponsor and the network of co-sponsorship...

THE last part of the special issue includes two papers—an interesting empirical study using the very large scholarly dataset described in the solicitation of this special issue, and a survey paper serving as an outlook of the field. In the paper “The Habits of Highly Effective Researchers: An Empirical Study” by Datta, Basuchowdhuri, Acharya and Majumder, the authors attempted to discern some c...

Because of the complexity actors and relationships between them, social networks are always represented by graphs. This structure makes it possible to analyze effectiveness network for who there. work presents a analysis approach that focused on processing Facebook pages users react posts infer influential people. In our study, we particularly interested in studying page, reactions fans (users)...

The primary goal of the New Horizons Pluto–Kuiper Belt mission is to explore Pluto by 2020, before Pluto’s atmosphere collapses as predicted by scientists, and then explore the Kuiper Belt objects in an extended mission. The baseline mission plans to launch in January 2006, using a Jupiter gravity assist trajectory to reach Pluto. The New Horizons spacecraft will arrive at Pluto as early as 201...

The connection of coalition systems has many challenges, one of the most important and the one being address by this paper is the lack of understanding of information assurance (IA) in a coalition environment. This paper presents an approach to managing this coalition IA risk using a taxonomy to organize readily available observations and measurements that are potential indicators of a system's...

Field spectroscopy has undergone a remarkable growth over the past two decades in terms of use and application to different scientific disciplines. This work presents an important step forward to improve the interoperability for the spectral library interchange in the field spectroscopy scientific community, by establishing an XML-based metadata system using published International Organization...

Cryogenic Germanium detectors are widely used in high energy physics and astrophysics – for example in direct dark matter searches (such as the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment), or in neutrino-less double-beta decay experiments (such as MAJORANA). Potential future applications include X-ray observations and measurements of coherent neutrino scattering. In all of these fields, increasing...