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American television series (1999–present)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Dick Wolf for NBC. The first spin-off of Law & Order, expanding it into the Law & Order franchise, it originally starred Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler and Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson remaining the longest starring character in the series. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit follows the detectives of the Special Victims Unit as they investigate and prosecute sex-based crimes. Some of the episodes are loosely based on real crimes that have received media attention. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Law & Order: Special Victims UnitA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Hyperspectral image classification using Second-Order Pooling with Graph Residual Unit NetworkInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Federally chartered corporationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Testing for unit roots in autoregressive-moving average models of unknown orderCited 2,453 times
- Go sideways: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 13A closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Testing for unit roots in autoregressive-moving average models of unknown order
Unit Hydrograph Derivation for Ungauged Watersheds by Stream-Order Laws
Vector spaces with an order unit
Motor-unit recruitment in the decerebrate cat: several unit properties are equally good predictors of order
High order integration schemes on the unit sphere
An economic order quantity model with demand-dependent unit cost
Order-unit quantum Gromov–Hausdorff distance
Higher-order sample autocorrelations and the unit root hypothesis
🆕 Influential since 2022
Hyperspectral image classification using Second-Order Pooling with Graph Residual Unit Network
Fractional-Order Load Frequency Control of an Interconnected Power System with a Hydrogen Energy-Storage Unit
Multi-Order Networks for Action Unit Detection
Performance Portable Graphics Processing Unit Acceleration of a High-Order Finite Element Multiphysics Application
Exploiting neighborhood interference with low-order interactions under unit randomized design
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Federally chartered corporationUnited States. General Accounting Office. Accounting and Information Management Division · 1998
- 📕Budget issuesUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1986
La Orden Del Temple/ the Last TemplarRaymond Khoury · 2005
Constitution and by-lawsMilitary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. · 1866- 📕Highly Respectable and Accomplished LadiesBarbara Misner · 2017
- 📕Twenty-five years history of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, 1881-1905William Patrick Burrell · 1909
The Silent BrotherhoodKevin Flynn, Gary Gerhardt · 1989
Twenty-five years history of the Grand Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers, 1881-1905W. P. Burrell · 1909
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