Lukasz Fidkowski,1 Jason Alicea,2 Netanel H. Lindner,3, 4 Roman M. Lutchyn,1 and Matthew P. A. Fisher5 Station Q, Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6105 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697 Institute of Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasade...

OBJECTIVE To establish guidance on grading strength of evidence for the Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) program of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Authors reviewed authoritative systems for grading strength of evidence, identified domains and methods that should be considered when grading bodies of evidence in systematic reviews, considered p...

This paper presents a critique of several selected studies in the areas of officer retention and grade structure. These studies are investigated to determine what methods of approach and analytic techniques were employed in accomplishing the objectives of the study group. An assessment is made of the degree of success or failure realized by each study. In discussing officer grade structure stud...

Network embedding has shown its effectiveness in embedding homogeneous networks. Compared with homogeneous networks, heterogeneous information networks (HINs) contain semantic information from multi-typed entities and relations, and are shown to be a more effective model for real world data. The existing network embedding methods fail to explicitly capture the semantics in HINs. In this paper, ...

The review process of academic, scientific research and its basic tenets is considered, thereby distinguishing between (i) reviewing of manuscripts to be published in the scientific literature, (ii) reviewing of research proposals to be financed by funding agencies, (iii) reviewing of educational or research institutions with respect to their proper functioning, and (iv) reviewing of scientists...

A number of interesting research problems arise from current attempts to incor ,orate abstraction mechanisms in programming languages. Sc~me of them are central issues in current research projects a~d others are direct extensions of current work. Several prol~lems in each of these areas are outlined below. A t h i r d section presents a series of speculations about how this ~vork might evolve i...

Despite decades of research on domestic violence, considerable challenges must be addressed to develop sound, theoretically and empirically based interventions for reducing domestic violence revictimization. Many basic and applied research issues remain unaddressed by existing studies, and evaluations frequently do not sufficiently highlight their limitations or program or policy implications. ...

Recent years have seen a growing interest in the role of tasks in second language acquisition. A substantial body of research now exists investigating the effects of different task types and their accompanying instructions on learning. Less is known about how tasks affect intake and the relationship between intake and acquisition. This study investigated the effects of 1) implicit and explicit ...

An abstract class of two-dimensional geometry-driven free boundary problems is considered in which the evolution of the Cauchy transform of the time-evolving domain satisfies a partial differential equation of conservation type. This idea generalizes an association between free boundary problems and the inverse gravitational problem. It is shown that this class of free boundary problems admits ...