This paper describes a real-time road following and road junction detection vision system for autonomous vehicles. Vision-guided road following requires extracting road boundaries from images in real-time to guide the navigation of autonomous vehicles on the roadway. We use a histogram-based pixel classification algorithm to classify road and non-road regions in the image. The most likely road ...

in this research the productivity and cost of komatsu d60 bulldozer in earth working operations of secondary forest road was studied in lolet forests, lied in one of the tajan river watersheds. the daily work elements of the machine including productive time, unproductive time, technical, operational and personal delays for 12 days and in two slopes of 30 to 50 and 50 to 70 percents were invest...

background: injuries and deaths from road traffic crashes are one of the main public health problems throughout the world. this study aimed to identify determinants of fatality traffic accident in iran for the twenty-span year from 1991 to 2011. methods: a time series analysis (1991-2011) was used to examine the effects of some of the key explanatory factors (gdp per capita, number of doctors p...

Marie-José Côté, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory (Fallowfield), Centre for Plant Quarantine Pests, 3851 Fallowfield Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2H 8P9; Marie-Claude Tardif, Health Canada, Food Directorate, Building #7, Tunney’s Pasture, P.L. 0700E1, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0L2; and Allison J. Meldrum, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa Laboratory (Fallowfield), C...

We will be thinking dreaming and breathing statistics in this volume To ensure we retain a balanced perspective on life I refer you to the famous American Robert Frost s well known poem The Road Not Taken see end of this article With apologies to Robert Frost rather than focusing on roads not taken we shall brie y consider instead roads we have taken or The Roads Traveled over the year journey ...

In 1993 for the rst time a list of the top 500 supercomputer sites worldwide has been made available. The Top500 list allows a much more detailed and well founded analysis of the state of high performance computing. Previously data such as the number and geographical distribution of supercomputer installations were di cult to obtain, and only a few analysts undertook the e ort to track the pres...

Die Digitalisierung stellt Hochschulen vor organisatorische, inhaltliche und technische Herausforderungen, insbesondere wenn Hochschulen sich auch als Ort verstehen, an dem die aktive Mitgestaltung der Entwicklung digitaler Medien durch Lehrende und Studierende bewusst gefördert wird. Ein solcher Ansatz benötigt ein explizites Innovationsmanagement als Teil der partizipativen Digitalisierungsst...

In this paper, we model the relation between testing e ort, coverage and reliability. We present a logarithmic model that relates testing e ort to test coverage (block, branch, c-use or p-use). The model is based on the hypothesis that the enumerables (like branches or blocks) for any coverage measure have di erent detectability, just like defects have di erent detectability. This model allows ...

Research Brief Deeply embedded in the credit union tradition is an ongoing search for better ways to understand and serve credit union members. Open inquiry, the free flow of ideas, and debate are essential parts of the true democratic process. The Filene Research Institute is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit research organization dedicated to scientific and thoughtful analysis about issues affecting...

The economic downturn has certainly hit dairy farms. Producers are looking for help from nutritional consultants in getting the best return from their feed investment. One way that nutritionists can assist with this objective is in helping feeders to develop habits that result in an accurately prepared ration. Training should occur in a variety of areas, including the collection of the sample f...