This paper investigates the incentive effects of automobile insurance, compulsory insurance laws, and no-fault liability laws on driver behavior and traffic fatalities. We analyze a panel of 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia for 1970–98, a period in which many states adopted compulsory insurance regulations and/or nofault laws. Using an instrumental variables approach, we find evidenc...

Due to the fact that paintwork in the automobile repair industry requires individual correspondence, work by human hands is indispensable. Although the skills of expert engineers have a great influence on the finish, learning these skills require a lot of experience and time. In Japan, the number of young people in the automobile mechanic and automobile repair industry is drastically decreasing...

An integrated approach of life-cycle assessment and systems dynamics is applied to analyze the current and inter-temporal effects of automobile recycling and to propose strategic policies for this issue. Life-cycle assessment is employed to identify the current automobile recycling problem, which results from the interactions among environmental concerns, regulatory mandates, technological inno...

automobile light weight structural composites are subjected to the various loadings in their service lives. honeycombs are increasingly used as core structures in automobile light weight structures as energy absorbers. in this paper the energy absorption of honeycomb panels under impact of cylindrical projectile is numerically and experimentally studied. the effect of the core materials and cro...

An experimental speech recognition system was developed for German using an already existing technology reported elsewhere (1). The system recognizes complete sentences when the words are spoken with a small pause in between. The user has to train the system in advance by uttering 110 short sentences. The size of the system's vocabulary is presently limited to about 1300 words, with a coverage ...

THE1974 ARTICLE BY Line and Sandison entitled “ ‘Obsolescence’ and Changes in the Use of Literature with Time” was highly critical of many assumptions about obsolescence and of the methodology and conclusions of much research on the topic. It placed emphasis on the distinction between synchronous and diachronous studies and on the need to correct for the size of the literature cited or used. Si...

Current systems use caching to provide high performance and possibly support disconnected operation. However, current solutions are type specific. With the advent of modular distributed operating systems and mobile machines there is a need to provide generic support for implementing cacheable/disconnectable services. We present an architecture that can be used to implement cacheable/disconnecta...

SMQ / VOL. XII / NO. 1 / SPRING 2006 ABSTRACT Partnership development for national social marketing campaigns is a much copied, but poorly researched, area of practice. As part of the development of Phase II of the Centers for Disease Control’s National Bone Health Campaign, several needs-assessment and market analysis activities were conducted to develop partnership strategies that were respon...

Computer animation has been a popular research topic since 1970s, when the first parametric facial model is proposed[0]. In the recent few years, a lot of techniques are proposed to model and animate faces like physical modelling, motion capture, mesh deformation etc. However, most of them require burden work of artists and assistance of expensive model. Rigging is one kind of the most popular ...