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...

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...

One of the challenges of lane departure warning (LDW) systems is to differentiate between normal lane keeping behavior and lane change events in which drivers simply do not use the lane change indicator. Lane keeping behavior differs between drivers and often between driving scenarios, therefore a static threshold of predicting steering maneuver is not an ideal solution. The objective of the cu...

The detection of lane boundaries on suburban streets using images obtained from video constitutes a challenging task. This is mainly due to the difficulties associated with estimating the complex geometric structure of lane boundaries, the quality of lane markings as a result of wear, occlusions by traffic, and shadows caused by road-side trees and structures. Most of the existing techniques fo...

A framework for integrated driving behavior modeling, based on the concepts of short-term goal and short-term plan is proposed. Drivers are assumed to conceive and perform short-term plans in order to accomplish short-term goals. This behavioral framework captures drivers' planning capabilities and allows decisions to be based on anticipated future conditions. An integrated driving behavior mod...

We propose a general model to derive lane-changing rules for discretionary and mandatory lane changes for a wide class of car-following models. Both the utility of a given lane and the risk associated with lane changes is determined in terms of longitudinal accelerations calculated with the microscopic traffic models. This allows for the formulation of compact and general safety and incentive c...

We present broad band surface photometry of the radio galaxy 3C270 (NGC 4261). We find a distinct dust lane in the V −R image of the galaxy, and determine its orientation and size. We use the major axis profile of the galaxy to estimate the optical depth of the dust lane, and discuss the significance of the lane to the shape of the galaxy. Subject headings: Galaxies: active; Galaxies: radio; Ga...

This dataset contains 154 images in an urban environment originally obtained from the KITTI dataset (see [1]). The images show well a demarcated (white lines) two lane highway road. The detection algorithm/method is requried to only consider the lane the recording platform was driving on (i.e the right lane). Apart from this other challenges include, shadows, variations in lane-markings and pre...

Fig. S1. Immunoblot analysis using purified human laminin-332. Lane 1 is for IgG autoantibodies of anti-laminin-332 MMP control, lane 2 for IgG autoantibodies of normal control, lane 3 for patient IgG autoantibodies, and lane 4 for patient IgA autoantibodies. Both IgG and IgA from the patient reacted with the 165-kDa and 145-kDa forms of α3 subunit, as well as the 105-kDa γ2 subunit of laminin-...

When a set of repetitions of swimming, a particular type of exercise in the weight room, or a session on a swim-bench is planned, each block of exercises attempted is a training stimulus. At the completion of the training stimulus experience, the body should have changed in the way the stimulus provoked. In accordance with the Principle of Specificity, specific exercises train specific movement...