MD-SOAR: Recent submissions
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Efficient Distributed Admission and Revocation using Blockchain for Cooperative ITS
(IEEE, 2018)Cooperative Intelligent Transportation System (C-ITS) enables inter-networking of vehicles for alerts exchanging in order to improve road safety. While this technology is about to enter the market in the upcoming years, ... -
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES AS VEHICLES OF PRESERVATION: A STUDY OF NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
(2018-04)Thousands of local historical societies operate throughout the United States and often act as the first or only preservation-related organization with which the public interacts. The multiplicity of historical societies ... -
Recent trends in machine learning for human activity recognition—A survey
(Wiley, 2018)There has been an upsurge recently in investigating machine learning techniques for Activity Recognition (AR) problems as that have been very effective in extracting and learn-ing knowledge from the activity datasets. The ... -
Engineering a Simplified 0-Bit Consistent Weighted Sampling
(Arxiv, 2018)The Min-Hashing approach to sketching has become an important tool in data analysis, search, and classification. To apply it to real-valued datasets, the ICWS algorithm has become a seminal approach that is widely used, ... -
High fat diet and leptin promote tumor progression by inducing myeloid-derived suppressor cells
(Wiley, 2018)Obesity is a risk factor for cancer incidence and cancer mortality. The association of obesity and cancer is attributed to multiple factors, but the tightest linkage is with the chronic, low‐grade inflammation that accompanies ... -
Polarization-filtering and polarization-maintaining low-loss negative curvature fibers
(Optical Society of America, 2018)We propose a polarization-filtering and polarization-maintaining negative curvature fiber in which two nested resonant tubes are added to a standard negative curvature fiber with one ring of tubes. The coupling between the ... -
CD3xPDL1 bi-specific T cell engager (BiTE) simultaneously activates T cells and NKT cells, kills PDL1⁺ tumor cells, and extends the survival of tumor-bearing humanized mice
(Oncotarget, 2017)Bi-specific T cell engagers (BiTEs) activate T cells through CD3 and target activated T cells to tumor-expressed antigens. BiTEs have shown therapeutic efficacy in patients with liquid tumors; however, they do not benefit ... -
Rainbow Rulings: Separate but Equal is Unconstitutional
(Public Administration Timesd, 2013)In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court (USSC) delivered two landmark decisions for the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender (LGBT) community: United States v. Windsor (570 U.S. 2013) and Hollingsworth, et al., v. Kristin ... -
Increasing Adoption and Reducing the Number of Children in Foster Care in the U.S. and Abroad
(Public Administration Times, 2013)November is National Adoption Month. It is a time Americans celebrate adoptive families across the country. According to Barack Obama in his Presidential Proclamation of National Adoption Month, 2013 “[e]very young person ... -
The Policy Landscape of Sexual Orientation
(Journal of Public Management & Social Policy, 2013)This paper examines the intersection of public administration and sexual orientation through a policy process framework that combines the stages model of policymaking and elements of the policy streams metaphor. Within ... -
The College Crisis: Fiscal Constraints, Increased Demand and President Obama’s Call to Action
(Public Administration Times, 2014)The U.S. higher education system is in a state of crisis. It is addressing what is called “the iron triangle,” which includes cost, access and quality. Cost includes rising tuition and proliferating student loan debt. A ... -
Equal Treatment Under the Law: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Same-Sex Marraige Post-Windsor
In June 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in United States v. Windsor (570 U.S. ___ 2013). The ruling advanced gay rights by striking down Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) ... -
Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream
(Public Integrity, 2015-03-24)In this article the impact and implementation of remedial law in the United States is examined. A case study method is employed with a focus placed on a single state in the substantive policy area of child welfare. A review ... -
Liberty and Equality: In Defense of Same Sex Marriage
(Public Integrity, 2015-03-24)Marriage equality has gained international attention in public discourse. Laws that prohibit same-sex marriage may be categorized as both paternalistic and moralistic. This article addresses ethical and legal considerations ... -
Predatory Practices in Higher Education
(Public Integrity, 2016)At the core of ethics is training and education. If we are to expect our college graduates to behave ethically once they enter the workforce, then the institutions that educate and train them need to adhere to the same ... -
Retrieval of aerosol properties and water-leaving reflectance from multi-angular polarimetric measurements over coastal waters
(The Optical Society, 2018)Ocean color remote sensing is an important tool to monitor water quality and biogeochemical conditions of ocean. Atmospheric correction, which obtains water-leaving radiance from the total radiance measured by satellite-borne ... -
Soluble CD80 Protein Delays Tumor Growth and Promotes Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes
(American Association of Cancer Research, 2018-01)Tumor cells use various immune-suppressive strategies to overcome antitumor immunity. One such method is tumor expression of programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1), which triggers apoptotic death or anergy upon binding programmed ... -
The Conservation Ideological State Apparatus
(Conservation & Society, 2018)This article considers Louis Althusser's theory of the ideological state apparatuses (ISAs) for advancing political ecology scholarship on the functioning of the state in violent environments. I reflect on a series of ... -
Re-Presenting Black Masculinities in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
(2018-04)Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoir and letter to his son Between the World and Me (2015)—published shortly after the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement—provides a rich and diverse representation of African American male ... -
DEVELOPING METHODS TO DIFFERENTIATE SPECIES AND ESTIMATE COVERAGE OF BENTHIC AUTOTROPHS IN THE POTOMAC USING DIGITAL IMAGING
(2018-05)This study developed methods for the quantification of benthic autotroph coverage in the Upper Potomac using digital imagery captured with drone-mounted cameras. Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) is an integral part ...