This paper presents methodology and case studies for a system-wide evaluation of an integrated traffic control and route diversion strategy. Experiments are performed for the Central Artery/Tunnel (CA/T) network in Boston and use a microscopic traffic simulator to test and evaluate the traffic control design. The advantage of this microscopic simulation laboratory is that it simulates the inter...

Recent work has shown that the behaviour of marine organisms can be affected by elevated PCO2 , although little is known about the effect of multiple stressors. We therefore investigated the effect of elevated PCO2  and temperature on locomotion and behaviour during prey searching in the marine gastropod Concholepas concholepas, a predator characteristic of the southeastern Pacific coast. Movem...

Are some landmark positions at intersections better for finding a return path than others? This study investigated whether there is a variation in the influence of a landmark on performance and decision times when finding a return path depending on its position at an intersection. A variation of this influence is expected depending on the type of verbalisation of spatial directions used. First,...

We explore a fixed-route vehicle refueling problem as a special case of the inventorycapacitated lot-sizing problem, and present a linear-time greedy algorithm for finding optimal refueling policies.

Side-channel distinguishers play an important role in differential power analysis, where real world leakage information is compared against hypothetical predictions in order to guess at the underlying secret key. A class of distinguishers which can be described as ‘cluster-based’ have the advantage that they are able to exploit multi-dimensional leakage samples in scenarios where only loose, ‘s...

Background The current study was designed to compare the effectiveness and side effects of oral, vaginal, and sublingual misoprostol in termination of second-trimester pregnancy. Materials and Methods: In this clinical trial (2014 to 2015), 85 pregnant women in the second trimester of pregnancy were included in Imam Reza hospital, Kermanshah, Iran. They were randomly divided into three groups a...

This paper proposes a unified approach to modeling heterogonous risk-taking behavior in route choice based on the theory of stochastic dominance (SD). Specifically, the first-, second-, and third-order stochastic dominance (FSD, SSD, TSD) are respectively linked to insatiability, risk-aversion and ruin-aversion within the framework of utility maximization. The paths that may be selected by trav...