This paper introduces an empirical strategy to estimate dynamic treatment effects in randomized trials that provide treatment in multiple stages and in which various noncompliance problems arise such as attrition and selective transitions between treatment and control groups. Our approach is applied to the highly influential four year randomized class size study, Project STAR. We find benefits ...

This paper examines the semantics of sentence-final stress in Mandarin Chinese and gives a uniform account of the distribution and interpretation of emphatic stress. A phonetic production study shows that the use of sentence-final stress by Mandarin speakers is sensitive to the evidentiality of the context. A semantic rating study shows that listeners judge sentences with evidenced contexts as ...

JAMES K. WILLSON†,§, XIAOFENG GAO†,¶, ZHONGHUA QU†,‖, YI ZHU†,∗∗, YINGSHU LI‡,†† and WEILI WU†,‡‡ †Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas 2601 North Floyd Road, Richardson, TX 75083, USA ‡Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, USA §jkw053000@utdallas.edu ¶xiaofenggao@utdallas.edu ‖zxq071000@utdallas.edu ∗∗yxz053100@utdallas.edu ††yli@cs.gsu.edu ‡‡weiliw...

☆ We would like to thank Weili Ding, Esther Duflo, Gigi Kremer, Victor Lavy, Steven Lehrer, Patrick McEwan, A Hongliang Zhang, two anonymous reviewers and the se Stanford, Peking University, NEUDC, Oxford and Chinese U helpful comments on the drafts of this paper. Financial sup the University of Macau (Grant SRG009-FSH13-LT) is grate ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail address: litao@post.harvard.ed...

Topological Designs In article number 2207393, Jun Chen, Weiqing Yang, Weili Deng and co-workers, developed topological designs to enhance the electromechanical response, for electrospun piezoelectric membranes, which show a 300% increase in electric output 478% frequency response range compared with traditional membranes. It represents milestone designing membranes conversion high-performance ...

Random Fiber Lasers A multimode-fiber-mediated random fiber laser with 100+ watt output power was demonstrated for speckle-free imaging, as presented by Shanshan Wang, Weili Zhang, Yunjiang Rao, and co-workers in article number 2100390. combined multimode provides a powerful platform to realize advanced lasers controllable spatial characteristics, which is of great significance applications ima...

Title Diverse Effects of FK506 on the Apoptosis of Hepatocytes and Infiltrating Lymphocytes in an Allografted Rat Liver. Author(s) Moriuchi, Hiroki; Kamohara, Yukio; Eguchi, Susumu; Gu, Weili; Fujioka, Hikaru; Yamamoto, Takao; Tajima, Yoshitsugu; Kanematsu, Takashi; Koji, Takehiko Citation The Journal of surgical research, 167(1), pp.131-139; 2011 Issue Date 2011-05-01 URL http://hdl.handle.net...

Xiaodong Hu 09:00-10:00 Optimization Problems in Under Water Sensor Networks Ding-Zhu Du, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Abstract: Under water sensor network is an important research direction in computer science. There are many interesting optimization problems regarding its design, routing and applications. In this talk, I'm going to introduce some new research works done by our research ...

In article number 2100463, Ranjan Singh, Weili Zhang, Xiaojun Wu, and co-workers successfully fabricate novel nonlinear THz metasurfaces with nanometer capacitive gaps large size experimentally realized precise frequency tuning. The gigantic resonant electric field enhancement in nanogaps induces carrier multiplication silicon substrates, resulting conductivity increase the gap regions of metas...