LINK TO PAPER Evaluation of an Assisted Feature Extraction System Track: Remote Sensing Imagery Author(s): Michael A. O'Brien The extraction of geospatial information from imagery is generally a labor-intensive process. Automated tools that could assist analysts in this process would be of tremendous benefit for production at the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). This paper examines a...

Genesis DoS wafers are amorphous, anhydrous, tetrahedrally-coordinated diamond-like carbon (DLC) films on silicon wafers [1, 2]. Using these wafers, excellent analytical results were achieved quickly after the Genesis return for noble gasses using laser ablation [3]. Yet, obtaining precise and accurate analyses by secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) has been problematic for a decade -even wh...

Conventional wisdom suggests that the public release of financial analyst output is informative to traders about firm value. However, empirical tests of this mechanism have encountered difficulties in isolating the release of analyst output from concurrent intervening events such as analysts’ private-client communications. Earnings conference calls provide a unique opportunity to overcome this ...