Notre société fonctionne sur un principe de base envahissant. Un mot est censé représenter cet étrange principe. Ce mot, parfaitement anodin, s’applique à quantité d’organisations, d’opérations, dont certaines sont proches de l’individu et d’autres, tellement éloignées qu’on a peine à les imaginer si l’on n’est pas spécialiste, partie prenante ou abusivement informé. L’économie. Ce mot recouvre...

We present a precise theoretical explanation and prediction of certain resonant peaks and dips in the electromagnetic transmission coefficient of periodically structured slabs in the presence of nonrobust guided slab modes. We also derive the leading asymptotic behavior of the related phenomenon of resonant enhancement near the guided mode. The theory applies to structures in which losses are n...

To improve traffic safety and mobility in work zone areas, the Dynamic Lane Merge (DLM) systems, intelligent work zone traffic control systems, have been explored by several states of the U.S.A. The DLM can take two forms; dynamic early merge and dynamic late merge. The DLM systems were designed to advise drivers on definite merging locations. Up to date, there are no studies that contrast both...

Recent research has shown that holding telephone conversations disrupts one's driving ability. We asked whether this effect could be attributed to a visual attention impairment. In Experiment 1, participants conversed on a telephone or listened to a narrative while engaged in multiple object tracking (MOT), a task requiring sustained visual attention. We found that MOT was disrupted in the tele...