The Maputo Development Corridor along the N4 toll road between the north-eastern provinces of South Africa and Maputo (the capital and main port of Mozambique) was initiated in 1996. A Development Corridor can be seen as a concept to elevate an area to a certain level of development. One of the objectives of this project was investment in transport infrastructure in order to create an enabling ...

In this paper we present a novel approach to path planning. The approach first plans a corridor with a backbone path which is obstacle free. This corridor is then used to generate a path for the character. Because the corridor around the backbone is obstacle free any path inside the corridor is also collision free. The planning of the backbone path can be done by any existing path planning appr...

Corridors may mitigate the adverse effects of habitat fragmentation by restoring or maintaining connectivity between disjunct populations. The efficacy of corridors for large carnivores, however has rarely been evaluated objectively. We used noninvasive sampling, microsatellite analysis, and population assignment tests to evaluate the effectiveness of a regional corridor in connecting two Flori...

Although use of corridors by some wildlife species has been extensively examined, use by bats is poorly understood. From 1 June to 31 August (2004~200S), we used Anabat II detectors to examine bat activity and species occupancy relative to forested corridors on an intensively managed forest landscape in southern South Carolina, USA. We compared bat activity among corridor interiors, corridor ed...

37 INTRODUCTION As drivers age, the skills necessary for safe driving, such as vision, reflexes, flexibility, hearing and reaction time, begin to deteriorate. To cope with these changes, many drivers choose to adjust their driving habits as a means of retaining their mobility. Adjusting driving habits is one part of the puzzle; improvements to the roadway environment can be another. Traffic eng...

n Flight delays are now a major problem in the U.S. National Airspace System. A significant fraction of these delays are caused by reductions in en route capacity due to severe convective weather. The Corridor Integrated Weather System (CIWS) is a fully automated weather analysis and forecasting system designed to support the development and execution of convective weather impact mitigation pla...

The Tiger (Panthera tigris) population in India has undergone a sharp decline during the last few years. Of the number of factors attributed to this decline, habitat fragmentation has been the most worrisome. Wildlife corridors have long been a subject of discussion amongst wildlife biologists and conservationists with contrasting schools of thought arguing their merits and demerits. However, i...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the long-term changes in maxillary arch widths and buccal corridor ratios in orthodontic patients treated with and without premolar extractions. METHODS The study included 53 patients who were divided into the extraction (n = 28) and nonextraction (n = 25) groups. These patients had complete orthodontic records from the pretreatment (T1), posttreatment (T2), and postreten...