Movements of two female one-humped camels in central Australia were tracked using satellite telemetry between March 1986 and July 1987. During that time both animals travelled a minimum distance of over 1000 km within a radius of 125 km for one animal, and 200 km for the other. However, their movements were quite punctuated and both animals spent periods of up to several months in relatively sm...

We address the problem of multi-agent path planning (MAPP) by taking into account the total energy consumption of all agents, as measured by their cumulative distance travelled. A deterministic meta-heuristic technique called guided iterative prioritized planning (GIPP) is proposed to find good solutions with respect to this cumulative cost measure in a crowded environment. GIPP progressively e...

In this paper, we present the freight transportation planning component of the INWEST project. This system utilizes an evolutionary algorithm with intelligent search operations in order to achieve a high utilization of resources and a minimization of the distance travelled by freight carriers in real-world scenarios. We test our planner rigorously with real-world data and obtain substantial imp...

660 British Journal of General Practice, December 2012 I think our satnav must be agnostic. It certainly didn’t seem to recognise the existence of a church where a wedding we were due at was about to take place. It took a while to realise that the calm soothing tones coming from our dashboard were leading us nowhere and we had to try and find another way to get to the church on time. Smartphone...

The antiquities of Jammu and Kashmir reveal that women might have enjoyed a high status as elsewhere in India. But ,there was a marked deterioration in the position of women. Female children were not much desired and their sufferings became endless with the beginning of inroads of Turko-Afghan tribes for whom carrying away of women formed the prized item of booty. This situation gave new dimens...

Results 98 (69 male and 29 female) such patients were transported, and 13 were on Temporary Pacemakers. 97 were inter-hospital transfers. 43 (44.3%) patients were transported with Isoprenaline (average dose 2.7 mcg/min, range 1 to 8.2mcg/min); 8 with Dopamine, and 7 on external cardiac pacing. 30 patients were on Isoprenaline and 8 on Dopamine in previous hospitals, and the same drug with simil...

Most studies about human locomotion only tend to consider single subjects walking alone in a stationary environment. Nevertheless, human subjects have often to plan and generate their locomotor trajectories according to one another's displacements. Therefore, in the present study we address the question of the interpersonal coordination when pairs of subjects walk simultaneously. Six pairs of s...