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Rui Zhang, Robert Ilic, Yuxiang Liu, Vladimir Aksyuk
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Matthew S. Hoehler, Joseph Su, Pier-Simon Lafrance, Matthew F. Bundy, Amanda Kimball, Daniel Brandon, Birgit Ostman
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Lisa Y. Choe, Selvarajah Ramesh, Mina S. Seif, Matthew S. Hoehler, William L. Grosshandler, John L. Gross, Matthew F. Bundy
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Ana Sauca, Chao Zhang, Artur A. Chernovsky, Mina S. Seif
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Daniel Brandon, Joachim Schmid, Joseph Su, Matthew Hoehler, Birgit Ostman, Amanda Kimball
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AbstractMobile cloud computing is an emerging area where two trends come together to compose its major pillars. On one hand, the virtualization affecting the
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The behavior of engineering structures in fire is commonly studied through large-scale experiments. However, temperature-varying material properties, spatially
Sang M. An, Jie Zou, Glenn Holland, Jungseok Chae, Andrea Centrone, Vladimir Aksyuk
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John W. van de Lindt, Bruce Ellingwood, Therese P. McAllister, Paolo Gardoni, Daniel Cox
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Danyal J Turkoglu, Zeyun Wu, Robert E. Williams, Thomas Henderson Newton
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David W. Griffith, Fernando J. Cintron, Timothy Hall, Richard A. Rouil
This paper examines the performance of the Long Term Evolution (LTE) Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) in out-of-coverage (OOC) device-to-device (D2D)
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Solid-phase microextraction (SPME) has been widely used as a sampling technique for a variety of organic compounds due to its advantage of small sampling volume
Joshua J. Savory, F G. Ascarrunz, L I. Ascarrunz, Alessandro L. Banducci, M C. Delgado Aramburo, Y Dudin, Steven R. Jefferts
We present a small portable cold 87Rubidium atomic clock with frequency uncertainty of less than 𝟑 × 𝟏𝟎 −𝟏𝟓 in one day of averaging time. The clock is under
Archita Hati, Fabio C. Da Silva, Vladislav P. Gerginov, Craig W. Nelson
We discuss the performance of a commercial Ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging technique for indoor localization. We study the influence of local oscillator's phase
Christopher L. Holloway, Dave Anderson, Georg Raithel
Atomic sensing and measurement of millimeterwave (mmW) and THz electric fields using quantum-optical EIT spectroscopy of Rydberg states in atomic vapors has
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Jeffrey T. Fong, Pedro V. Marcal, Robert B. Rainsberger, Li Ma, Nathanael A. Heckert, James J. Filliben
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Aaron Johnson, Iosif Isaakovich Shinder, Michael R. Moldover, Joey Boyd, James Filla
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