Right Turn

Right-turn-on-red in Indiana

R IG H T -T U R N -O N -R E D H IS T O R Y The controversial Right-Turn-On-Red (R T O R ) at signalized intersections began in 1937 when some authorities in California became convinced that motorists making right turns were wasting too much time waiting for the green traffic signal. These authorities first experi­ mented with permitting motorists to make a right turn while facing a red signal o...

Turn Right or Turn Left? Heuristic of A dhering to the Direction of Destination

Copy Summary: It has been found that humans not only tend to avoid the middle routes and prefer the peripheral routes among multiple choices, but also rely on the ‘initial segment strategy’ to select the route. In this paper, we propose a new heuristic which humans apply during route selection: Participants prefer the route whose initial direction lies in the direction of their final destinatio...

Simply the right time to turn on insulin.

D iabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder of multiple etiology characterized by chronic hyperglycemia, which over time leads to long-term damage, dysfunction, and failure of various organs (American Diabetes Association, 2013). Finding ways to restore the pancreatic beta cell population in patients with type 1 diabetes, or replace dysfunctional beta cells in patients with type 2 disease, remai...

Lipoxin agonists: turn right! to path of resolving neutrophil.

An impressive array of cellular and molecular adaptive responses achieves homeostasis. The inflammatory reaction is an adaptive response triggered by an insult to culminate into the overt cardinal signs of inflammation, eventually leading to resolution and returning the organism back to its original centered state. This article focuses on some aspects of the lipoxin A4 signaling pathway during ...

To the Framingham data, turn, turn, turn.