Sting challenge

The Sting Racing Teams Entry to the Urban Challenge

Autonomous navigation in urban environments inevitably leads to having to switch between various, sometimes con icting control tasks. Sting Racing, a collaboration between Georgia Tech and SAIC, has developed a modular control architecture for this purpose and this paper describes the operation and de!nition of this architecture through so-called nested hybrid automata.We show how to map the re...

Sting fever

On August 17, The editors at USA Today had a tough call to make — whether to lead the paper with the fact that Elvis Presley has been dead for 25 years — or go with the story about the exotic virus sweeping west faster than wildfires. Anxiety won out over nostalgia, with Elvis relegated to the cover story in the Weekend section. 'West Nile outbreak expected to worsen,' read the top headline in ...

Tolerated sting challenge in patients on Hymenoptera venom immunotherapy improves health-related quality of life.

BACKGROUND Sting challenge with a live insect remains the best test for proving the efficacy of immunotherapy in Hymenoptera allergy. OBJECTIVE We studied the impact of tolerated sting challenge on quality of life. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this prospective study, data were collected via self-report questionnaires completed by consenting patients with Hymenoptera venom allergy on venom immuno...

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The Diamond STING server

Diamond STING is a new version of the STING suite of programs for a comprehensive analysis of a relationship between protein sequence, structure, function and stability. We have added a number of new functionalities by both providing more structure parameters to the STING Database and by improving/expanding the interface for enhanced data handling. The integration among the STING components has...