Researchers are currently more interested in searching for fragments that are similar to a query, than a total data item that is similar to a query; the search interest is for “contains”, not “is”. This paper presents an ) (logn O algorithm, called the “generalized virtual node (GVN)” algorithm; the GVN algorithm is a search algorithm for data fragments that have similar contents to that of a q...

Terrain Explorer (TerraEx) is the first world-wide content-based search application for landscapes. Using 3" resolution world-wide DEM as an input it finds and displays, in the form of a similarity map, locations in the world where landscapes are similar to a user-selected query. TerraEx is a freely available, full service GeoWeb application. It also doubles as the most convenient distributor o...

[1] We provide estimates of the warming of the world ocean for 1955–2008 based on historical data not previously available, additional modern data, correcting for instrumental biases of bathythermograph data, and correcting or excluding some Argo float data. The strong interdecadal variability of global ocean heat content reported previously by us is reduced in magnitude but the linear trend in...

Introduction: The increasing number of global health initiatives have contributed to improving access to health services and building knowledge platforms. However, the distribution of activities and knowledge produced has been uneven. To scope the scientific output in global health, publications from 2008-2017 were reviewed to identify major players, assess the extent of involv...

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and the Global Positioning System (GPS) are commonly used to obtain surface topography and surface motions for the study of crustal deformation. Because both of these systems operate from satellites high above the Earth’s surface, the arrival time of the propagating signals is delayed as the signals travel through the Earth’s ionosphere. As a res...

I.inc-of-sight ionosphere measurements derived from differcncing dual-frequency Global Positioning System (GPS) range data are corrupted by instrumental biases in both the receiver and GPS satellite transmitters due to hardware delays in the L1 and L2 signal paths, The lineof-sight differential delay can be modeled as the sum of a rccciver bias, a satellite transmitter bias, and the line-ofsigh...

The satellite-to-ground communications are influenced by ionospheric plasma which varies depending on solar and geomagnetic activities as well as regions and local times. With the expansion of use of the space, continuous monitoring of the ionospheric plasma has become an important issue. In Global Positioning System (GPS), the ionospheric delay, which is proportional to ionospheric total elect...

Recommender systems leverage product and community information to target products to consumers. Researchers have developed collaborative recommenders, content-based recommenders, and a few hybrid systems. We propose a unified probabilistic framework for merging collaborative and content-based recommendations. We extend Hofmann’s (1999) aspect model to incorporate three-way co-occurrence data am...

Errors in speech recognition transcripts have a negative impact on effectiveness of content-based speech retrieval and present a particular challenge for collections containing conversational spoken content. We propose a Global Semantic Distortion (GSD) metric that measures the collection-wide impact of speech recognition error on spoken content retrieval in a query-independent manner. We deplo...