Plant nutritionist have traditionally considered the obvious way to feed plants is through the soil, where plant roots are meant to uptake water and nutrients, but in recent years foliar feeding has been developed to supply plants with their nutritional needs. The development of pressurised irrigation equipment such as drip irrigation has promoted the need for water-soluble fertilisers, as clea...

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...

In order to alleviate traffic congestions and environmental impact, developing a model to evaluate under various geometric and traffic conditions is desirable, which is the objective of this study. The car following model describes following behaviors that drivers follow each other in the traffic stream on only one lane. The lane change model is one of the essential components of any microscopi...

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 ...

In this study we present evidence that two independent regulatory mechanisms, governing when and where the target will be hit, function together to allow us to hit moving targets. In the first part of the paper we show that subjects anticipate that the targets will have moved by the time they reach them, but that they do not anticipate how far they will have moved. The resulting systematic erro...

Lane changing on highways is stressful. In this paper, we present RASCL, the Robotic Assistance System for Changing Lanes. RASCL combines state-of-the-art sensing and localization techniques with an accurate map describing road structure to detect and track other cars, determine whether or not a lane change to either side is safe, and communicate these safety statuses to the user using a variet...

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...

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...

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...