The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research is a collection of far-reaching initiatives designed to transform the Nation's medical research capabilities and improve the translation of research into practice. As described below, the Roadmap consists of three major themes: new pathways to discovery, research teams of the future, and reengineering the clinical research ent...

The written contributions and comments received in relation to the previous and this version of the Research Roadmap have been summarised. That summary and the specific observations from the editors are provided in the Annexes to this version of the Roadmap.

Motion planning consists of finding a sequence of motions for a robot (movable object) to move from a start configuration to a goal configuration without colliding with any obstacle. PRMs create a roadmap that paths can be extracted from. To create the roadmap, nodes are generated in the environment at random. Each node represents a possible position the robot can move to. Only feasible nodes a...

Abstract Multimode devices and components have attracted considerable attention in the last years, different research topics themes emerged very recently. The multimodality can be seen as an additional degree of freedom designing devices, thus allowing for development more complex sophisticated components. propagation modes used to increase fiber optic capacity, but also introduce novel intermo...