W e’re venturing into the era of the Internet of Things (IoT). As computing devices become smaller, smarter, and ubiquitous, computing has begun to embed into our environments by attaching to physical objects or things. IoT is bringing computing both onto our bodies and into our daily surroundings. Examples of onbody computing devices include human activity trackers, smart watches, and semi-per...

Past decades have witnessed extensive studies from both academia and industries over trajectory data, which are generated from a diverse range of applications. Existing literature mainly focuses on raw trajectories with spatio-temporal features such as location, time, speed, direction and so on. Recently, the pervasive use of smart mobile devices like smart phones, watches and bands have brough...

Today semantic web technologies associated to information representation, integration and retrieval, i.e., RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL and Linked Data are providing formalism, standards, shared data semantics and data integration for unstructured data over the web. These technologies are providing a transformation from the Web of Interaction to the Web of Data and actionable information. On the cros...

Multivariate testing is a popular method to improve the layout of digital products such as a website and an application. Fractional factorial designs are usually used to perform online testing with large number of attributes. However, digital spaces present a new design challenge that doest not exist in the traditional experimental design literature: online testing is conducted across multiple ...

Theoretical calculations of radiation attenuation due to energetic galactic cosmic rays behind Martian rock and Martian regolith material have been made to compare their utilization as shields for advanced manned missions to Mars because the detailed chemical signature of Mars is distinctly different from Earth. The modified radiation fields behind the Martian rocks and the soil model were gene...

This dissertation studies the issues on information and the bond market. The first essay examines the incentives of certified credit rating agencies to issue credit watches. The second essay studies how quality of private information of investors affects bond yield spreads. The third essay studies whether more accrual-based income smoothing is related with better or worse bond ratings. Essay 1:...

injunction it obtained in its trademark infringement action, the primary issue is whether Rolex is entitled to recover profits and attorney's fees from Robert Meece, doing business as American Wholesale Jewelry. We AFFIRM in part, VACATE in part, and REMAND for further proceedings.Because many of the facts are undisputed, the following is drawn largely from stipulated facts and the district cou...

Background The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of three different sport watches in estimating energy expenditure during aerobic and anaerobic running. Methods Twenty trained subjects ran at different intensities while wearing three commercial sport watches (Suunto Ambit2, Garmin Forerunner920XT, and Polar V800). Indirect calorimetry was used as the criterion measure for assessing...