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...

Jose Pozo, EPIC's CTO, talks to Jimena García-Romeu, CEO of Alcyon Photonics, a provider photonic building blocks, PDKs and simulation software aid PIC design fabrication.

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...

Ensuring the sustainability of road infrastructure cannot be achieved without continuous application new knowledge and approaches within individual management steps. A particularly risky stage in life cycle existing roads is operation phase. High attention paid to environmental, financial social impacts benefits processes applied by managers. These meet pavement systems (PMS), which, however, w...

Injuries caused by traffic accidents cause many deaths and disabilities children. Road traffic injuries are the main cause of death between the ages of 15 and 19 years and is the second cause of death among 5 to 14 year olds. Children's attitudes about driving and safe use of roads formed in 11 years. Road traffic injuries is one of the five cause of disability among children. Most victims betw...