Nowadays modern cars integrate advanced driving assistance systems which range up to fully automated driving modes. Since fully automated driving modes have not come into everyday practice yet, operators are currently making use of assistance systems. While still being in control of the vehicle, alerts signal possible collision dangers when, for example, parking. The reason for the necessity of...

Geometric Near-neighbor Access Tree (GNAT) is a metric space indexing method based on hierarchical hyperplane partitioning of the space. While GNAT is very efficient in proximity searching, it has a bad reputation of being a memory hog. We show that this is partially based on too coarse analysis, and that the memory requirements can be lowered while at the same time improving the search efficie...

We use household survey data from the UK to study how close ‘middle-aged’ men and women in partnerships live to their own parents and their partner’s parents. We find a slight tendency for couples to live closer to the woman’s parents than the man’s. This tendency is more pronounced among couples in which neither partner has a degree and in which there is a child. In other respects, proximity t...

This paper presents a new algorithm for real-time tracking of pairs of closest points as well as their corresponding surface features between certain general types of objects (which can be non-convex) with parametric curved surfaces. The fact that the algorithm works directly on accurate parametric descriptions of curved surfaces rather than polygonal approximation of surfaces (i.e., polygonal ...

  Background: Previous anatomic and radiological studies have described the relationship of the clavicle to major neurovascular structures in healthy subjects. We were curious about this relationship in patients with a clavicle fracture and if it is different from non-fractured clavicles.   Methods: We retrospectively identified all patients with a clavicle fracture between July 2001 and Octobe...

In this article we survey the existence of best proximity points for a class of non-self mappings which‎ satisfy a particular nonexpansiveness condition. In this way, we improve and extend a main result of Abkar and Gabeleh [‎A‎. ‎Abkar‎, ‎M‎. ‎Gabeleh‎, Best proximity points of non-self mappings‎, ‎Top‎, ‎21, (2013)‎, ‎287-295]‎ which guarantees the existence of best proximity points for nonex...

among the deciples of holy imams baqir and sadiq, some figures are more influential and prominent than others. of these is jābir ibn yazid joʿfi who was most endowed with the knowledge of imam baqir. although he was regarded as a prominent scholar of imamiyyah and some works were attributed to him, there are reports implying his fault and blameworthiness. furthermore, after his death the extrem...

The recently introduced helium ion microscope (HIM) is capable of imaging and fabrication of nanostructures thanks to its sub-nanometer sized ion probe [1,2]. The unique interaction of the helium ions with the sample material provides very localized secondary electron emission, thus providing a valuable signal for high-resolution imaging as well as a mechanism for very precise nanofabrication [...