Zusammenfassung Mit der Urban Challenge hat die DARPA Ende 2007 ihr erklärtes Ziel erreicht, nachzuweisen, dass autonomes Fahren prinzipiell möglich ist. In diesem Ar-tikel wird skizziert, welcher Stand tatsächlich erreicht wurde und welche Herausforderungen nun bearbeitet werden wollen. Summary Late in 2007, DARPA has conducted the Urban Challenge and achieved its declared goal, that autonomou...

We examined 35 years of relationships among wolf (Canis lupus) pup survival, population change and canine parvovirus (CPV) seroprevalence in northeastern Minnesota to determine when CPV exerted its strongest effects. Using correlation analysis of data from five periods of 7-years each from 1973 through 2007, we learned that the strongest effect of CPV on pup survival (r = -0.73) and on wolf pop...

Rhythmic oscillations in the theta (4-12 Hz) and gamma (30 100 Hz) frequency bands have been recorded in the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex, and have been implicated in cognitive processes including memory, spatial navigation and sleep (Buzsáki 2002, 2006; Kahana et al. 1999; O’Keefe and Recce 1993; Traub and Whittington 2010; Buzsáki and Wang 2010; Engel et al. 2003; Fries 2009; Singer ...

BACKGROUND Academic publications are important for developing a medical specialty or discipline. Since family medicine is a rapidly growing medical specialty in Taiwan, this study aimed to analyze family medicine publications from 1993 to 2012 in Taiwan using the Web of Science database. METHODS Published academic articles submitted from departments/institutes of family medicine were retrieve...

The aim of our study was to analyze a 15-year trend in the prevalence of allergic disorders and respiratory symptoms in children living in an urban area of Upper Silesia, Poland. Three cross-sectional studies (1993, 2002, and 2007) in children aged 7-10 showed a statistically significant increase in the prevalence of all physician-diagnosed allergic disorders (1993-2002-2007): asthma (3.4%-4.7%...