Current methods for off-road navigation using vehicle and terrain models to predict future vehicle response are limited by the accuracy of the models they use and can suffer if the world is unknown or if conditions change and the models become inaccurate. In this paper, an adaptive approach is presented that closes the loop around the vehicle predictions. This approach is applied to an autonomo...

We have characterized environmental exposures among 187 women who were pregnant, were at or near the World Trade Center (WTC) on or soon after 11 September 2001, and are enrolled in a prospective cohort study of health effects. Exposures were assessed by estimating time spent in five zones around the WTC and by developing an exposure index (EI) based on plume reconstruction modeling. The daily ...

Plum rains and typhoons are important weather systems in the Taiwan region. They can cause huge economic losses, but they are also considered as important water resources as they strike Taiwan annually and fill the reservoirs around the island. There are many meteorological sensors available for investigating the characteristics of weather and climate systems. Recently, the use of GPS as an alt...

The global eradication of poliomyelitis, believed to be achievable around the year 2000, relies on strategies which include high routine immunization coverage and mass vaccination campaigns, along with continuous monitoring of wild-type virus circulation by using the laboratory-based acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance. Israel and the Palestinian Authority are located in a geographical r...

Methods We recently completed two large multicentre RCTs in the emergency and critical care setting. Both evaluated delivery of an early intervention early, goal-directed therapy (a resuscitation protocol) (n=1260 patients; 56 sites) and early nutritional support (n=2400 patients; 33 sites). As well as collecting data for the evaluation, we also collected data around screening, recruitment and ...

Letters The Reemergence of Aedes aegypti in Arizona To the Editor: Aedes aegypti, primarily an urban, tropical mosquito, is a competent vector of dengue and yellow fever viruses. In the early 1900s, Ae. aegypti was found in every country in the Western Hemisphere except Canada. In the United States, repeated attempts to eradicate it have failed, and the mosquito is now well established in the s...

Mathematical models are used to determine if infection wave fronts could occur by traveling geographically in a loop around a region or continent. These infectionwave fronts arise by Hopf bifurcation for some spatial models for infectious disease transmission with distributed-contacts. Periodic traveling waves are shown to exist for the spatial analog of the SIRS endemic model, in which the tem...

Warm season precipitation in most parts of Japan comprises early summer (Baiu) and autumn (Shūrin) rainy periods with a relatively dry mid-summer. We aimed to determine details on the features seasonal progress during warm Japan. assessed timing maximum minimum based daily records Japanese dense local Kunai observations AMeDAS networks collected at 522 stations for 95 years from 1926 2020. The ...