Electroactive polymers (EAPs) can behave as actuators, changing their shape in response
to electrical stimulation. EAPs that are controlled by external electric fields—referred to here …

Windows Azure Storage (WAS) is a cloud storage system that provides customers the ability
to store seemingly limitless amounts of data for any duration of time. WAS customers have …

Aging is characterized by progressive, degenerative changes in many tissues. To elucidate
the relationships among degenerative changes in Caenorhabditis elegans, we developed …

Support Vector Machines, one of the new techniques for pattern classification, have been
widely used in many application areas. The kernel parameters setting for SVM in a training …

The credit card industry has been growing rapidly recently, and thus huge numbers of
consumers’ credit data are collected by the credit department of the bank. The credit scoring …

An optoelectronic material with a spatially varying bandgap that is tunable is highly desirable
for use in photovoltaics, photocatalysis and photodetection. Elastic strain has the potential …

Efficient retrograde access to projection neurons for the delivery of sensors and effectors
constitutes an important and enabling capability for neural circuit dissection. Such an approach …

Background Most previous estimates of the prevalence of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
have derived largely from treated populations, and have been biased by differential access to …

Carbon dots (CDs) have received an increasing amount of attention because of their significant
advantages in terms of low toxicity, chemical inertness, tunable fluorescence, good water …

The topology of the electronic structure of a crystal is manifested in its surface states.
Recently, a distinct topological state has been proposed in metals or semimetals whose spin-orbit …