Advancing AD

Advancing Geographic Routing in Vehicular Ad Hoc Urban Networks

Geographic routing has become a popular routing protocol in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) because of its simplicity and low overhead. Recent research has recognized the applicability of geographic routing in vehicular mobile ad hoc networks (VANETs) without considering much the particular constraints in such an environment. Characteristics unique to VANETs are rapidly and dynamically changing...

Advancing regulatory science, advancing regulatory practice

In an Editorial of Science in 2011, Margaret A. Hamburg, the then Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration highlighted that a strong field of regulatory science is required to develop new tools, standards and approaches that efficiently and consistently assess the safety, efficacy and performance of products, and that this field has long been underappreciated and underfunded.1 During...

Advancing knowledge

I There have been numerous studies on risk perception. The psychometric approach, which is a factorial system using two or three elements, has been preferred. This approach is described as concerning the nature of risks, the knowledge of persons exposed to those risks and the effects to which they are exposed (Slovic, Fischhoff and Lichtenstein, 1980; Slovic, 1987). Other authors have looked at...

Women Advancing

Advancing Agendas

In the UK, the development of integrated children‟s services over the past six years has led to an increased need for public sector managers to attend strategic, interagency meetings. However, there is little research in this field that can be used to support managers in ensuring positive outcomes from such meetings. The aim of this research was to identify the main concerns of managers attendi...