Daily itinerary, consisting of an individual's trips and activities on a day, is usually fundamental input for many travel demand models. However, current research lacks effective methods to extract complete daily itineraries of large-scale samples for a long period. To bridge this critical gap,...

We develop a novel technique to extract credit-relevant information from the text of quarterly earnings calls. This information is not spanned by fundamental or market variables and forecasts future credit spread changes. One reason for such forecastability is that our text-based measure...

Many state-of-the-art image retrieval systems include a re-ranking step to refine the suggested initial ranking list so as to improve the retrieval accuracy. In this paper, we present a novel 2-stage k-NN re-ranking algorithm. In stage one, we generate an expanded list of candidate database...

Biomass aerogel has attracted wide attention due to natural superiorities of biomass materials and prominent characteristics of aerogel materials. While the single function of biomass aerogel restricts its further development, multifunctional biomass aerogel is becoming an urgent need. In this...

The novel cascaded catalytic ozonation-enhanced coagulation process (FeCeAC/O3-PAC) was developed with much success towards second effluent organic matter (EfOM) in chemical industrial wastewater. Compared with the conventional techniques, FeCeAC/O3-PAC exhibited remarkable performances in the...