This paper provides a system dynamic model for reducing the number of motorway accidents due to wrong-way driving. Motorway accidents are often fatal due to high speeds. It is therefore necessary to carry out all the possible countermeasures in order to achieve adequate traffic management. One of the reasons for motorway accidents is driving in the wrong direction. Based on the analysis of the ...

The neutral Higgs boson is expected to have a mass in the region 90-150 GeV/c2 in various schemes within the Minimal Supersymmetric extension to the Standard Model. A first generation Muon Collider is uniquely suited to investigate the mass, width and decay modes of the Higgs boson, since the coupling of the Higgs to muons is expected to be strong enough for it to be produced in the s channel m...

Measurement and control of the tunes, coupling, and chromaticities in storage rings is essential to efficient operation of these accelerators. Yet it has been very difficult to make reliable realtime measurements of these quantities. We have built and commissioned the microprocessorbased Generic Finite State Data Acquisition (GFSDA) system. GFSDA provides turn-by-turn data acquisition and analy...

A single bunch of charged particles in a storage ring is a system of 10-10 coupled non-linear oscillators with radiative energy loss and compensated by the accelerating cavity. A stable collective mode in such system was induced and observed in the SPEAR storage ring using a turn-by-turn phase space monitor. New possibilities of using this mode as a tool to experimentally study non-linear dynam...

Humans adapt the instructions provided in route directions to the assumed spatial knowledge of the receivers; the majority of route directions is provided to wayfinders with at least partial spatial knowledge of the environment. However, today’s navigation systems assume no a-priori knowledge. Most of current research addresses this by exploring means to personalize assistance through the captu...

Zoya Bylinskii1 Nam Wook Kim2 Peter O’Donovan3 Sami Alsheikh1 Spandan Madan2 Hanspeter Pfister2 Fredo Durand1 Bryan Russell4 Aaron Hertzmann4 1 MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, MA USA {zoya,alsheikh,fredo}@mit.edu 2 Harvard SEAS, Cambridge, MA USA {namwkim,smadan,pfister}@seas.harvard.edu 3 Adobe Systems, Seattle, WA USA {podonova}@adobe.com 4 Adobe Research, San Francisco, CA USA {hertzman,brussell}@adob...

Large three-dimensional virtual space and walk-through animations are used in navigation systems, games, and movies, etc . In three-dimensional space using the CG data, reality is dependent on the texture quality of buildings. However, the costs for high -quality texture data are also high , which makes it very difficult to reproduce the reality of the real world completely. In this research , ...

Spoken dialogue systems have until recently upheld the simplifying assumption that the conversation between the user and the system occurs in a strict turn-by-turn fashion. In order to have more human-like, uent conversations with computers, a new generation of spoken dialogue systems has arisen that is capable of processing the user’s speech in an incremental way. As the user is speaking, the ...

A fast gate module has been developed at KEKB, which can pick up a signal of one bunch along a bunch train. The gate module was attached to a tune measurement system and to a turn-by-turn beam-position monitor system. Continuous monitoring of the betatron tune is an indispensable tool to keep the machine in a stable condition. A measurement of the tune along a bunch train is helpful to estimate...

People in dialog use a rich set of nonverbal behaviors, including variations in the prosody of their utterances. Such behaviors, often emotion-related, call for appropriate responses, but today’s spoken dialog systems lack the ability to do this. Recent work has shown how to recognize user emotions from prosody and how to express system-side emotions with prosody, but demonstrations of how to c...