Since the initial creation of the Barbie doll in 1959, it became a symbol of US society. Likewise, the Licca-chan, a Japanese doll created in 1967, also became a Japanese symbolic doll of Japanese society. Prior to the introduction of Licca-chan, Barbie was already marketed in Japan but their sales were dismal. Licca-chan (an actual name: Kayama Licca) is a plastic doll with a variety of sizes ...

[email protected]), and Anirban Mukhopadhyay is Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. This research was supported by a grant from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (CERG HKUST 6463/05H) to the second author. The authors thank Aparna Labroo, Vanessa Patrick, Rongrong Zhou, Rami Zwick, and the anonymous JMR reviewers...

The construction technique of raw earth, which has always been in use most the world, left large monuments or architectural complexes to cultural heritage that need special attention due notable vulnerability material. A convenient way deal this threat, besides physical intervention, is by using an information system, such as HBIM (Heritage Building Information Modeling), a tool for damage asse...

Written by Lui Hoi Ching (Vincent)Acknowledgement: Written by Erik ChanBackground: Written by Lui Hoi Ching (Vincent)Objectives: Written by Erik ChanProject Status: Implementation of the above mentioned algorithms in executable form(s):Written by Erik Chan Comparison between different approaches to the above problem: Written byErik Chan Automatic citation ...

Machine Learning for Host-based Anomaly Detection by Gaurav Tandon Dissertation Advisor: Philip K. Chan, Ph.D. Anomaly detection techniques complement signature based methods for intrusion detection. Machine learning approaches are applied to anomaly detection for automated learning and detection. Traditional host-based anomaly detectors model system call sequences to detect novel attacks. This...

We explore the augmentation of statistical machine translation models with features of the context of each phrase to be translated. This work extends several existing threads of research in statistical MT, including the use of context in example-based machine translation (Carl and Way, 2003) and the incorporation of word sense disambiguation into a translation model (Chan et al., 2007). The con...