Publications

Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Managing Customer-Based Brand Equity

The author presents a conceptual model of brand equity from the perspective of the individual consumer. Customer-based brand equity is defined as the differential effect of bran...

Challenges for Rechargeable Li Batteries

The challenges for further development of Li rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles are reviewed. Most important is safety, which requires development of a nonflammable el...

Low-density parity-check codes

A low-density parity-check code is a code specified by a parity-check matrix with the following properties: each column contains a small fixed number <tex xmlns:mml="http://www....

VI. The phenomena of rupture and flow in solids

In the course of an investigation of the effect of surface scratches on the mechanical strength of solids, some general conclusions were reached which appear to have a direct be...

Efficient Hybrid Solar Cells Based on Meso-Superstructured Organometal Halide Perovskites

Perovskite Photovoltaics For many types of low-cost solar cells, including those using dye-sensitized titania, performance is limited by low open-circuit voltages. Lee et al. (p...

The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary

Abstract The fifth edition of the WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System (CNS), published in 2021, is the sixth version of the international standard for the...

Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour

Tree View: An application to display phylogenetic trees on personal computers

TreeView is a simple, easy to use phylogenetic tree viewing utility that runs under both MacOS (on Apple Macintosh computers) and under Microsoft Windows on Intel based computer...

Data Structures for Statistical Computing in Python

In this paper we are concerned with the practical issues of working with data sets common to finance, statistics, and other related fields. pandas is a new library which aims to...

Active contours without edges

We propose a new model for active contours to detect objects in a given image, based on techniques of curve evolution, Mumford-Shah (1989) functional for segmentation and level ...

A General Inductive Approach for Analyzing Qualitative Evaluation Data

A general inductive approach for analysis of qualitative evaluation data is described. The purposes for using an inductive approach are to (a) condense raw textual data into a b...

Carbon Nanotubes--the Route Toward Applications

Many potential applications have been proposed for carbon nanotubes, including conductive and high-strength composites; energy storage and energy conversion devices; sensors; fi...