Progress in understanding survey data fabrication

Progress in Understanding Confinement

In recent years a research program was developed to investigate dual superconductivity of the vacuum as a mechanism of confinement of color in QCD. The original idea goes back to t’Hooft and Mandelstam, and is, modulo duality transformation, the same as confinement of magnetic charges in a type 2 superconductor. The end points of an Abrikosov flux tube can be viewed as monopoles; their energy i...

Recent Progress on Improving the Sustainability of Membrane Fabrication

Although the membrane process is recognized as a green technology and is considered as a key player in the process intensification movement, it is not widely known that the fabrication of membrane itself generates significant amount of waste. With the growing membrane market, more efforts must be placed on improving the sustainability of membrane fabrication such as replacing toxic organic solv...

Progress in understanding conversion disorder

Conversion disorder has a history that may reach back into antiquity, and it continues to present a clinical challenge to both psychiatrists and neurologists. This article reviews the current state of knowledge surrounding the prevalence, etiology, and neurobiology of conversion disorder. There have been improvements in the accuracy of diagnosis that are possibly related to improved technologie...

Resampling Methods in Complex Survey Data

Spatial Data Mining: Progress and Challenges Survey Paper

“Spatial data mining, or knowledge discovery in spatial database, refers to the extraction of implicit knowledge, spatial relations, or other patterns not explicitly stored in spatial databases.” (Koperski and Han, 1995) Data mining, or knowledge discovery in databases, refers to the “ discovery of interesting, implicit, and previously unknown knowledge from large databases.” (Frawley et al, 1992)