The academic literature reports mixed evidence on how social media platform and message impact consumer engagement. We investigated the effects of three platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) themes (sales, informational, relationship building) six engagement actions (comment, like, search, share, talk about, purchase) in a lab experiment. College students responded to posts featuring their N...

In this thesis we consider the uplink direction of DS-CDMA (Direct Sequence, Code Division Multiple Access) network with multihop transmission. For the purpose, we discussed simple conditions by which we can understand whether single hop or multihop is better. One promising direction that the current wireless network moves toward is multihopping that allows mobiles to relay packets of other mob...

In the current basketball game, when the basketball coach makes decisions, they rely on the original professional skills and experience. Sometimes the wrong judgment of the situation of the court will be caused, and the wrong decisions result in losing the basketball game. How to judge the basketball game quickly, accurately, scientifically and effectively is a problem that requires urgent solu...

Laryngotracheal trauma is a rare condition that accounts for less than 1% of blunt trauma. Laryngotracheal fractures are uncommon in sports, even in settings where athletes are more vulnerable, including football, basketball, and hockey. If a laryngeal injury is suspected, immediate evaluation is required to avoid a delay in the diagnosis of a potentially life-threatening injury. A collegiate b...

I will talk here about three problems that have bothered me for a number of years, during which time I have experimented with a variety of solutions and encouraged others to work on them. I have raised each of them separately both in full and in passing in various contexts, but thought it would be worthwhile on this occasion to bring them to your attention side by side. In this talk I will expl...

This talk surveys the recent development of message passing procedures for solving constraint satisfaction problems. The cavity method from statistical physics provides a generalization of the belief propagation strategy that is able to deal with the clustering of solutions in these problems. It allows to derive analytic results on their phase diagrams, and offers a new algorithmic framework.

We develop an approach to utilize anisotropic metamaterials to solve one of the fundamental problems of modern plasmonics--parasitic scattering of surface waves into free-space modes, opening the road to truly two-dimensional plasmonic optics. We illustrate the developed formalism on the examples of plasmonic refractor and plasmonic crystal, and discuss limitations of the developed technique an...

Learning disability is a term that can mean different things to people. It also has undergone much revision and critique, being linked stigma prejudice. Consequently, talking about learning be delicate matter. This paper analyses the discursive work done by focus group participants (professionals lay people in supportive roles) manage their talk disability. We show how drew on six interpretive ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate relationships between the digit ratio (2D:4D) and competitive basketball performance in Australian men. METHODS Using an observational cross-sectional design a total of 221 Australian basketball players who competed in the Olympic Games, International Basketball Federation World Championships/Cup, Australian National Basketball League, Central Australian Basketball Le...