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Many concerns would find it useful to have a publicly available database recording exposures to particular substances, with contextual information. The European Union's Registration, Evaluations, Authorisation, and restriction of Chemicals regulation has increased interest in this. It has been suggested that journals should require detailed publication of exposure data with papers. But there ar...

The latest multi-biometric grand challenge (MBGC 2008) sets up a new experiment in which near infrared (NIR) face videos containing partial faces are used as a probe set and the visual (VIS) images of full faces are used as the target set. This is challenging for two reasons: (1) it has to deal with partially occluded faces in the NIR videos, and (2) the matching is between heterogeneous NIR an...

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...

in the current study, the generalized maximum entropy (gme) and dynamic positive equilibrium problem (dpep) approach were introduced and used to estimate the set of dynamic supply functions of selected annual crops in mashhad-chenaran plain during the years 2003-2011.in addition, the allen and morishima elasticities of derived demand inputs, and supply elasticity of the crops were determined. t...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To create a case-based curriculum designed to teach and discuss the tenets of clinical medical ethics within an otolaryngology department. STUDY DESIGN Survey-based study in a single-institution, academic otolaryngology department. METHODS Case-based departmental ethics grand rounds were implemented on a quarterly basis within an academic department of otolaryngology. ...

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Abstract. With rapid population growth and socioeconomic development over the last century, a great number of dams/reservoirs have been constructed globally to meet various needs. China has strong economical societal demands for constructing dams reservoirs. The official statistics reported more than 98 000 in China, including nearly 40 % world's largest dams. Despite availability several globa...

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.11613/BM.2017.032.].