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A comprehensive study of the whole petabyte-scale archival data of astronomical observatories has a possibility of new science and new knowledge in the field, while it was not fe...
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In recent years, the number of patents filed by the business enterprises in the technology industry are growing rapidly, thus providing unprecedented opportunities for knowledge d...
Mohammad Al Hasan, W. Scott Spangler, Thomas D. Gr...