Measuring of party system stability in Eastern Europe during the first decade of democratic elections presents problems. The traditional quantitative measure – volatility – does not distinguish between the dynamics among incumbent parties and the rise of genuinely new ones. I propose a new additional measure – success of genuinely new parties – and compare it to volatility. The subsequent perfo...

Current digital maps are inadequate for many advanced information applications in vehicles. One shortcoming is the lack of lane geometry models with suucient precision. This paper discuss several applications of a lane model database and presents an inexpensive method of inducing lane models by analyzing unsupervised traces of vehicle positions that come from Global Positioning System receivers...

The aim of this study was to investigate relationships between pre-competition group cohesion, mood, and performance in a soccer team over the course of a season. A male soccer team in England played eight games and data were analyzed on a game-by-game basis. Participants completed the Group Environment Questionnaire (Carron, Brawley, & Widmeyer, 1985) and Brunel Mood Scale to assess Anger, Con...

In the following, the main concepts of a road lane model are presented that keeps track of an arbitrary number of lane borders. Information from an existing lane detection device, a gyrosensor, and map data are merged and filtered to create a road model with a desired number of road lines. The model is based on clothoids and continuously provides positions, angles, and curvatures of the border ...

Heavy vehicles have substantial impact on traffic flow particularly during heavy traffic conditions. Large amount of heavy vehicle lane changing manoeuvres may increase the number of traffic accidents and therefore reduce the freeway safety. Improving road capacity and enhancing traffic safety on freeways has been the motivation to establish heavy vehicle lane restriction strategies to reduce t...

By the end of 2014, the total mileages of freeway in China have reached 112,000 kilometers, ranking the first in the world. Most of freeways are four-lane or six-lane, for which inside shoulder is not required by current Chinese guidelines. The inside shoulder is designed to reduce the possibility of fatal traffic accidents on freeways. In China, “Technical Standard of Highway Engineering” regu...

Land-based mobile mapping systems have yielded an enormous time saving in capturing road networks and their surrounding. However, the manual extraction of the road information from the mobile mapping data is still a time-consuming task. This paper presents ARVEE (Automated Road Geometry Vectors Extraction Engine), a robust automatic road geometry extraction system developed by Absolute Mapping ...

In this document, we propose the cryptographic hash function Lane as a candidate for the SHA-3 competition [11] organised by NIST. Lane is an iterated hash function supporting multiple digest sizes. Components of the AES block cipher [3,9] are reused as building blocks. Lane aims to be secure, easy to understand, elegant and flexible in implementation. We give the specification of Lane, and the...

We have proved an exact solution of a multilane totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) with heterogeneous lane-changing rates on a torus. In the expression, the TASEP in each lane and lane-changing transition can be separable. Moreover, the lane-changing transitions satisfy the detailed balance condition, and this is the key to constructing the solution. Using the saddle-point meth...

TG572 RFLP Probe: Five primers were designed around the RFLP probe on chromosome 7: P572F1, P572F2, P572F3, P572R1, and P572R2 (Table 1). All possible primer combinations produced a strong band with Heinz 1706 DNA between 600 bp and 1000 bp (Fig. 2). All of the primer combinations produced single bands with the exception of P572F2/P572R1, which produced two bands one at 400 bp and one at 900 bp...