A 55 year old driver left after Fajr prayer to the vegetable market to buy a few things for his daughter’s wedding lunch. While trying to avoid a big pothole in the middle of the road, he was hit by a truck without headlights coming from the opposite direction. The truck driver continued driving as if nothing had happened. None of the road users cared to help the victim but he was able to conta...

With today 's entry I begin my ninth year oi writing columns in your school newspaper for the makers oi Marlboro Cigarettes. Nine years, I believe you will agree, is a long time. In fact, it took only a little longer than nine years to dig the Suez Canal , and you know what a gigantic under taking t h a t was! To be sure, the work would have gone more rapidly had the shovel been invented at tha...

Alloyed carbon steels used in ground engaging tools (GETs), such as shovel-teeth, can withstand high working loads, but their wear resistance is inadequate for abrasive operations the mining industry. Different approaches to engineer protective surfaces on GETs improving have been developed over years, effectiveness of applied layer has limited by maximum thickness that be realized reliably. Co...

In November 2003, the City of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada equipped five solid waste collection trucks with Trimble Telvisant CrossCheck® GPRS 1900 Mobile data recorders. Three of the trucks are garbage packers, the fourth truck is a side-loading recycling truck, and the fifth vehicle is a 60/40-split co-collection truck equipped with a cart lifter. These trucks operated in a variety of situations...

klinefelter syndrome includes a group of chromosomal disorders with at least one  additional  x  chromosome  in  male  karyotype  (46,xy).  up  to  now, different dental manifestations such as taurodontism, congenital absence of permanent teeth, shovel incisors, occlusal anomalies and increased permanent tooth size have been reported. a case of klinefelter syndrome with very rare dental feature...

A fuel-based method for estimating heavy-duty diesel truck emissions is described. In this method, emission factors are normalized to fuel consumption; vehicle activity is measured by the amount of diesel fuel consumed. For the San Francisco Bay Area during summer 1996, on-road heavy-duty diesel trucks were estimated at the upper bound to emit 110 × 103 kg/day of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and 3.7 ×...

A dynamic approach to truck scheduling using an intelligent distributed multi-agent architecture is presented. This paper presents an inherently distributed problem, the dynamic truck scheduling problem which has motivated the current study on an intelligent multi-agent architecture for optimal real time solutions. The .Net environment is critiqued for the proposed multi-agent architecture. A d...

We use a reinforcement learning approach to learn a real world control problem, the truck backer-upper problem. In this problem, a tractor trailer truck must be backed into a loading dock from an arbitrary location and orientation. Our approach uses the temporal difference algorithm using a neural network as the value function approximator. The novelty of this work is the simplicity of our impl...

Novel ambiguous N-N combinations were created that had both a thematic relation and a property mapping interpretation (e.g., a cheetah truck = a fast truck vs. a truck for transporting cheetahs). Experiment 1 asked people to generate their own interpretations, which were then classified as involving thematic relations, property mapping or other. Experiment 2 asked people to choose which of the ...

The simultaneous occurrence of various multiple dental anomalies has been reported previously, particularly in cases of chromosomal abnormalities that often manifest with multisystem involvement.' 2 Additionally, multiple dental anomalies have been reported in individuals and within families, without evidence of other systemic manifestations. Ekman-Westborg and Julin reported a case of macrodon...