In 1953, drivers in the United States became involved in 31,450 fatal and 1,302,000 non-fatal accidents. Many of these accidents were primarily the fault of the drivers involved, but a great number might have been minimized or prevented by safer highways. Although many factors are involved in the building of safety into highways, one of the more important items is the resistance of pavement sur...

Integrating robots in complex everyday environments requires a multitude of problems to be solved. One crucial feature among those is equip with mechanism for teaching them new task an easy and natural way. When tasks that involve sequences different skills, varying order number these it desirable only demonstrate full executions instead all individual skills. For this purpose, we propose novel...

The trial was both an early demonstration of the potential of disulfiram in the right circumstances and of sanctions contingent on (effectively) abstinence. This entry is our analysis of a study considered particularly relevant to improving outcomes from drug or alcohol interventions in the UK. The original study was not published by Findings; click Title to order a copy. Free reprints may be a...

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The term “nanoparticles” refers to very tiny particles, much smaller than cancer cells or even standard chemotherapy drugs. A nanoparticle ranges between 1 and 100 nanometers (a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter) in diameter. Nanoparticles have industrial uses in creating surface coatings for scratch-resistant glass, skid-resistant roads, in strengthening metals, and in th...