The Clactonian elephant butchery site at Southfleet Road, Ebbsfleet, UK

Cohsasa--nibbling at the health care elephant.

Introduction: Lessons from the Scientific Butchery

1.1 Tao and the Art of Knife Maintenance Good chefs know the importance of maintaining sharp knives in the kitchen. What ’ s their secret? A well-worn Taoist allegory offers some advice. The king asks about his butcher ’ s impressive knife-work. “ Ordinary butchers, ” he replies “ hack their way through the animal. Thus their knife always needs sharpening. My father taught me the Taoist way. I ...

iller crashes: Fatal road traffic accidents in the UK

Road traffic accidents are responsible for over 3000 deaths per year in the UK, according to Department for Transport (2004a) figures. Although progress is being made in a number of areas, vehicle occupant fatalities have not been falling in line with casualty reduction targets for the year 2010. A sample of 1185 fatal vehicle occupant cases was considered, from ten UK police forces, from the y...

Detection of the Road Area at the Ordinary Road

In the field of ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems), it is important to automate the cruising and safety driving. We consider to detection the area of the cruising lane of the vehicles. The method has been presented to detect the road area uses the division line such as the white or yellow marking line. Although, when we regard to the ordinary road environment, we suppose that the division line...

Analysing road pricing implementation processes in the UK and Norway