ITE JOURNAL / JULY 2001 A GOOD DEAL OF EVIDENCE suggests that driver inattention is a major cause of motor-vehicle crashes. When drivers do not attend to critical features of the driving environment, they cannot respond in a timely manner to threats. One way to alert drivers to the presence of potential threats is the use of flashing yellow warning beacons. However, this type of signal does not...

special attention to it. As soon as Major Rost laid claim to the cultivation of the bacillus, Surgeon-General Lukis took the opportunity of visiting Burma and seeing the work for himself. He was soon convinced of the importance of the work, and Colonel Bannerman of the Bombay Laboratory was called in to examine and report upon this work. The Rost cultures were examined by him and the work of Wi...

from both philosophers and physicists, is its use in cosmology to explain the apparent fine-tuning of our universe. “Fine-tuning” refers to the supposed fact that there is a set of cosmological parameters or fundamental physical constants that are such that had they been very slightly different, the universe would have been void of intelligent life. For example, in the classical big bang model,...

BACKGROUND: Cocoa, a significant contributor of polyphenols to the western diet has been shown be effective against Aβ induced toxicity in vitro. However, effects long-term cocoa supplementation on behavioural deficits, particularly short-term memory loss observed human AD are not well defined. OBJECTIVE: This study characterized phenotype pan-neuronal expressing C. elegans strain and investiga...

Traditional printed journals are a familiar and comfortable aspect of scholarly work. They have been the primary means of communicating research results, and as such have performed an invaluable service. However, they are an awkward artifact, although a highly developed one, of the print technology that was the only means available over the last few centuries for large-scale communication. The ...

Abstract—The main topic of this paper are the EMI reduction problems in high voltage power converters with 6.5 kV IGBTs. The generation process of electromagnetic interference is briefly analyzed, some EMI reduction methods are introduced. Theoretical analysis, calculation and experimental results of choosing the snubber circuit for minimization of parasitic ringing are described. The effect of...

Argument from analogy is a common and formidable form of reasoning in law and in everyday conversation. Although there is substantial literature on the subject, according to a recent survey ( Juthe 2005) there is little fundamental agreement on what form the argument should take, or on how it should be evaluated. Th e lack of conformity, no doubt, stems from the complexity and multiplicity of f...