Abstract This report reviews progress at Carnegie Mellon from August 16,1990 to August 15,1991 on research sponsored by DARPA, DOD, monitored by the US Army Engineer Topographic Laboratories under contract DACA 76-89C-0014, titled "Perception for Outdoor Navigation".This report reviews progress at Carnegie Mellon from August 16,1990 to August 15,1991 on research sponsored by DARPA, DOD, monitor...

Comparison shopping sites facilitate consumers’ pre-purchase evaluation of alternatives, and draw increasing traffic to merchants’ Web sites. As the main source of revenue, sponsored link advertising has become one of the most important aspects for comparison shopping services. However, little is known about the effectiveness of sponsored links and their effects on consumers’ information proces...

The Internet provides patients, clinicians, teachers, and researchers with immediate access to reliable information, authoritative recommendations, and the latest research findings and statistics, but quickly finding the best sources while avoiding the unreliable and obsolete can be a problem. We searched the Internet for the most useful English-language Web sites on sexually transmitted diseas...

The last several years have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of time and money consumers spend online. As a consequence, the Internet has become an important channel that firms can use to reach out and connect to consumers which has lead to the emergence of online advertising.Given the scale and novelty of online advertising, there is a growing need to understand how consumers respond to ...

The third EMBO-sponsored 'Europhosphatases' meeting brought together 180 participants with a wide range of backgrounds and research interests to discuss the current status of research on phosphatases. It became clear at this meeting that the field is very active, and just as diverse as its members. This report highlights some of the transformative research presented at the meeting.

Staying awake means staying alive. This is a slogan used to describe a research study on sleep apnea sponsored by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and the American Transportation Research Institute of the American Trucking Associations (ATA). The research project addressed the prevalence of sleep apnea among commercial truck drivers, potential risk factors, and its impact...

G the hotly contested U.S. presidential election and the surprising victory of Donald Trump, followed by the flurry of executive actions, it is easy to lose sight of the broader challenges to the U.S.-promoted post-Second World War economic order. My analysis proceeds in four parts. First, I consider how we have moved away from multilateral to bilateral trade negotiations. Second, I consider ho...

We analyze symmetric pure strategy equilibria in dynamic sponsored search auction games using simulations, restricting the strategies to several in a class of greedy bidding strategies introduced by Cary et al. We show that a particular convergent strategy, “balanced bidding”, also exhibits high stability to deviations in the dynamic setting. On the other hand, a cooperative strategy which yiel...

[1] In the article, “The treatment strategies for spine fractures in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: A case report”, which appeared in Volume 96, Issue 44 of Medicine, affiliation a should appear as Department of Spine Surgery, Tianjin Union Medical Center. The authors would like it noted that RuSen Zhu and WenYe Song contributed equally to the article and are co-first authors. The author...

Utilization of search engines services is embedded in many people's daily activities. However, consumers do not pay for these services, they are financed through sponsored search. The prevailing Generalized Second Price (GSP) auction mechanism, which is used by search engine service providers to allocate advertising slots to advertisers, who bid on keywords, only charges advertisers for clicks ...