This dissertation aims to reveal the institutional dynamics in corporate political linkages as the extant literature largely fails to recognize that corporate political l[...]

The reliance on wireless networks has grown tremendously within a number of varied application domains, prompting an evolution towards the use of heterogeneous multihop n[...]

Traditional wireless networks seek to support end-to-end communication through either a single-hop wireless link to infrastructure or multi-hop wireless path to some dest[...]

Cognitive radio emerges as a technology to realize the dynamic spectrum access bydynamically configuring its transmission parameters. In a cognitive radio network(CRN), t[...]

This dissertation employs an interdisciplinary perspective to examine the relationship between economic development and environmental quality in China. The first essay in[...]

Stress is a common condition that has major health impacts. Even though short-term stress helps people to react to danger immediately, chronic stress has larger health im[...]

Recent years have witnessed the emergence and rapid growth of pervasive computing technologies such as mobile ad hoc networks, radio frequency identification (RFID), Wi-F[...]

Nowadays anonymous vehicle probe data have been greatly improved in both data coverage and data fidelity. Thus, vehicle probe data have become a reliable source for free[...]

Wi-Fi based activity recognition serves a multitude of applications in fields such as smart homes, health care, and security. The property of the channel state informatio[...]

Future mobile cellular networks will be characterized by massive densification of base stations (BSs) and a reshape of network functionalities, which include the potentia[...]