The current prioritisation of road safety enhancement in the automotive sector is leading toward near future implementation Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADASs), aiming at simultaneous intervention braking and steering for impact avoidance case an impending collision. However, it partially unclear how new technologies controlling will actually behave inevitable collision states; need cons...

The use of rumble strips on roads can provide drivers lane departure warning (LDW). However, rumble strips require an infrastructure and do not exist on a majority of roadways. Therefore, it is very desirable to have an effective in-vehicle LDW system to detect when the driver is in danger of departing the road and then triggers an alarm to warn the driver early enough to take corrective action...

Saul: "And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp* and played with his hand; so Saul was refreshed and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him." Music was a treatment for meflt3 diseases in ancient Egypt and Greec. The present interest in therapy dates from 1947. Sir SteUa Wilson, then Music Director of ^ Arts Council, pointed out tP, altho...

We are concerned by mischaracterizations, misrepresentations, and selective uses of evidence in a recent critical opinion of ‘the novel ecosystems concept’ [1]. Murcia et al. contend that the concept is poorly developed, has no evidence base, and has little management application and potential negative policy impacts. However, it is more accurate to observe that conceptual development is ongoin...

The detection of objects on a given road path by vehicles equipped with range measurement devices is important to many civilian and military applications such as obstacle avoidance in autonomous navigation systems. In this thesis, we develop a method to detect objects of a specific size lying on a road using an acquisition vehicle equipped with forward looking Light Detection And Range (LiDAR) ...

The detection of objects on a given road path by vehicles equipped with range measurement devices is important to many civilian and military applications such as obstacle avoidance in autonomous navigation systems. In this thesis, we develop a method to detect objects of a specific size lying on a road using an acquisition vehicle equipped with forward looking Light Detection And Range (LiDAR) ...

This paper is concerned with the planning of optimal trajectories for vehicle collision avoidance with a Timed Elastic Band (TEB) framework. The avoidance trajectory is represented by a TEB which is optimized with respect to multiple partially conflicting objectives. The resulting trajectory constitutes the optimal compromise between a mere braking and a lane change maneuver that avoids the col...

To achieve complete autonomy of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in off-road terrain at high speeds, a robot must understand and analyze the terrain it is driving on in real-time just as a human analyzes the terrain and makes decisions of where to drive. Much research has been done in the way of obstacle avoidance, terrain classification, and path planning, but there has yet to be seen a system ...

to graduate in medicine from Glasgow University. Asher departed for London in 1862 to become medical practitioner to the Jewish Board of Guardians and, in 1870, was appointed the first secretary of the newly formed United Synagogue. By 1914, about twenty Scottish Jews had graduated in medicine although only four were practising in Glasgow, among whom was Noah Morris who became Regius Professor ...