The presented system takes the advantage of information-communication technology, ICT and introduces wireless networks’ methodology into vehicles and road infrastructure for a significant enhancement of road traffic safety. Warning signals are transmitted to the back of column of vehicles and it enables the distant drivers to stop in time or to make such operation automatically. Largescale simu...

Behcet’s disease (BD) has a worldwide prevalence which ranges between 0.1/1000 and 1/10,000 with a significant presence in Asian countries from the Mediterranean to Japan, hence the term Silk Road Disease [2]. Turkey has reported the highest prevalence ranging from 80 to 420/100,000. However, there are few reported cases in Africa, North Europe and America [3,4]. Males in western Asia are commo...

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In a search for spectral parameters that can be used to distinguish and to model fricatives, spectral moments, dynamic amplitude, and slope above maximum amplitude were computed for a fricative corpus including sustained fricatives at di erent e ort levels, and fricatives in vowel context. Moments varied signi cantly by frequency range used in computation. M3 appeared to vary the least across f...

Should a rm favor a weaker or stronger employee in a contest? Despite a widespread emphasis on rewarding the best employees, managers continue to tolerate and even favor poor performers. Contest theory reveals that evenly matched contests are the most intense, which implies that a contest designer can maximize each player's e ort by arti cially boosting the underdog's chances. We apply this typ...

We provide a cultural explanation to the phenomenon of corruption in the framework of an overlapping generations model with intergenerational transmission of values. We show that the economy has two steady states with di erent levels of corruption. The driving force in the equilibrium selection process is the education e ort exerted by parents which depends on the distribution of ethics in the ...

This paper documents the development, validation, and re nement of analytic deposition models for automotive spray painting, based largely on experimental work conducted in conjunction with the Ford Motor Company. This work, part of a larger ongoing collaborative e ort with the Ford Motor Company, has the goal of developing practical and eÆcient trajectory planning tools for automotive painting...

Road traffic accidents account for approximately 3000 deaths on a daily basis, and 50 million injuries and 1.2 million deaths each year. In low-income and middle income countries, road traffic accidents account for 85% of deaths and 90% of annual disability. Casualties of this magnitude are a serious problem throughout the world and create a significant impact on society. In addition, neurologi...