The Thames Highway

Thames delight

Histophysiology' provided a concise and entertaining guide to the puzzles of this strange nucleus. Currently I am focused on the thalamus and sensory mechanisms; Lord Adrian's short book 'The Basis of Sensation' on sensory mechanisms, published in 1928, says nothing about the thalamus, but is a wonderful example of clear thought about, and a lucid presentation of, a difficult subject. What is t...

Fundholding in the south Thames Region.

BACKGROUND The general practice fundholding scheme is now at the forefront of the National Health Service (NHS) reforms and should lead to the more efficient use of services by making general practitioners more aware of the financial consequences of their clinical decisions. However, there is a concern that adverse effects may also occur. AIM To monitor the changes occurring in a sample of fu...

Highway Engineering Highway Engineering

Design rainfall modelling in the Thames catchment

Abstract This paper examines methodologies for the simulation of storms for the purpose of design flood generation in the Thames region. Existing methods are reviewed and two new approaches are proposed. One combines point profiles of storms extracted from long rainfall records with depth-duration-frequency statistics. The other uses a stochastic rainfall model based upon the Poisson point proc...

Driving on the Highway Driving on the Highway

| This paper deals with a particular kinodynamic 4] trajectory planning problem that we call thèhighway problem'. It consists in planning a time-optimal trajectory for a vehicle which is travelling in a structured workspace amidst other vehicles and is subject to constraints on its velocity and acceleration. By structured workspace, we mean that there exists lanes within which the vehicles are ...