The incidence of fatality over the period 2010-2014 from automobile accidents in North Cyprus is 2.75 times greater than the average for the EU. With the prospect of North Cyprus entering the EU, many investments will need to be undertaken to improve road safety in order to reach EU benchmarks. The objective of this study is to provide local estimates of the value of a statistical life and inju...

In a t/t-diagnosable system all faulty units can be located to within a set of no more than t units as long as the number of faulty units present does not exceed t. Furthermore, a unique doubtful unit can be identified; in other words, all faulty units, except possibly for one, can be correctly identified in a U-diagnosable system. An open question is "is t/t-diagnosability necessary for correc...

Multi-Channel Access has the potential to solve the throughput and scalability issues that mar the performance of 802.11 mesh and adhoc networks. It allows multiple simultaneous transmissions in a radio neighborhood thereby increasing network throughput and scalability. In spite of this potential, it is limited to simulation studies and its implementation on hardware is rare. In this demo, we d...

A male infant was born by emergency caesarean section at 34(+4) weeks for failed induction of labour. Shortly after birth a depression about the same size as the baby's fist was noted over the right parietal region. After careful consideration of the perinatal history and examination findings, the baby was diagnosed with faulty fetal packing. At 3-month follow-up, the defect had completely corr...

Samuel Kotz University of Maryland Some heuristic tests for detection of existence of errors in inspection are proposed. Some of these tests are only effective if the sampling function ((sample size)/(lot size)) is rather large, and in all cases their application predicates special experiments to provide the requisite data. Feasibility of these experiments will vary according to specific circum...

A group protocol is a protocol whereby the group participants securely exchange information in order to achieve a common goal or application, e.g. agreeing on a contract or on a session key. Groups are typically dynamic and relatively small in size, of the order of a hundred members [2]. To enable dynamic changes to group constitution, a group protocol may be defined by several sub-protocols fo...

In this paper we propose a method for constructing the maximum number of edge-disjoint spanning trees (in the directed sense) on a hypercube with arbitrary one faulty node. Each spanning tree is of optimal height. By taking the common neighbor of the roots of these edge-disjoint spanning trees as the new root and reversing the direction of the directed link from each root to the new root, a spa...

From version 2.6.22, the mac80211 framework has been incorporated as part of the stock kernel in Linux. This means millions of Linux based devices depend on this framework to provide wireless networking. The framework provides functionalities and interfaces for wireless device drivers (e.g., ath5k) to delegate common tasks to the kernel and to exchange information between physical and upper lay...