While radiation increases the risk of lung cancer among members of the Life Span Study (LSS) cohort of atomic bomb survivors, there are still important questions about the nature of its interaction with smoking, the predominant cause of lung cancer. Among 105,404 LSS subjects, 1,803 primary lung cancer incident cases were identified for the period 1958-1999. Individual smoking history informati...

Super-ionic solids, which exhibit ion mobilities as high as those in liquids or molten salts, have been employed as solid-state electrolytes in batteries, improved thermoelectrics and fast-ion conductors in super-capacitors and fuel cells. Fast-ion transport in many of these solids is supported by a disordered, 'liquid-like' sub-lattice of cations mobile within a rigid anionic sub-lattice, ofte...

Though structured illumination (SI) microscopy is a popular imaging technique conventionally associated with fluorescent super-resolution, recent works have suggested its applicability towards sub-diffraction resolution coherent imaging with quantitative endogenous biological contrast. Here, we demonstrate that SI can efficiently integrate together the principles of fluorescent super-resolution...

In contrast to numerical methods for beam shaping, analytical beam shaping consists of two steps: rst, nding a purely geometrical distortion between the input and output plane redistributing the intensity of the incoming wavefront and second, computing a phase-only element realizing this coordinate transform. For the latter the method of stationary phase may be applied. The known classes of pos...

The main objective of this paper is to identify themes from dialogues of telephone conversations in a real-life customer care service. In this task, the word semantic variability contained in these conversations may impact the classification performance by retaining the noise in their vectorial representation. In this article, we propose an original method to compensate this semantic variabilit...

Computing the value of IT investments and clarifying how the portfolio of IT/IS resources affect a firm’s performance and sustainable competitive advantage are critical issues today. We attempted to develop an effective measurement technique and use organizational theory to discover the strategic role of IT-enabled resources in the firm’s competitive agenda. Based on a resource-based view of th...

Advances in technology enable sellers to price discriminate based upon a customer’s revealed purchasing intentions. E-tailers can track items already in a “shopping cart” and item level RFID tags enable retailers to do the same in bricks and mortar stores. As retailers attempt to leverage the information made available from these technologies, it is important to understand how this new visibili...

When C ⊆ F is a linear code over a finite field F, every linear Hamming isometry of C to itself is the restriction of a linear Hamming isometry of F to itself, i.e., a monomial transformation. This is no longer the case for additive codes over non-prime fields. Every monomial transformation mapping C to itself is an additive Hamming isometry, but there exist additive Hamming isometries that are...

A statistical mechanics canonical spherical energy-enstrophy theory of the super-rotation phenomenon in a quasi-2D barotropic fluid coupled by inviscid topographic torque to a rotating solid body, is solved in closed form in Fourier space, with inputs on the value of the energy to enstrophy quotient of the fluid, and two planetary parameters radius of the planet and its rate and axis of spin. T...

Abstract Two different methods of synthesis TiO 2 /WO 3 heterostructures were carried out with the aim to increase photocatalytic activity. In this study, anodic nanotube films synthesized by electrochemical anodization titanium foil. WO particles applied Ti/TiO samples in two ways – electrophoretic deposition (EPD) and insertion during process. Structural properties compared between pristine i...