A new theoretical approach for the determination of capacities at All-Way Stop-Controlled intersections is presented. This approach is based on the Addition-Conflict-Flow method developed from the graph theory. The point of view related to the traffic streams in contrast to existing procedures, which handle only the approaches allows a systematic and realistic analysis of the traffic process at...

abstract circumcision is the most common surgery performed worldwide and about 30% of men are circumcised, of whom 70% are muslim. the majority of male neonates are circumcised based on religious and cultural practices. neonatal circumcision has several advantages when compared to an older age group receiving the procedure. there is considerable controversy about circumcision – neonatal or othe...

BACKGROUND Tobacco dependence among people with mental health problems is an issue that deserves attention both from a clinical and from a public health perspective. Research suggests that Stop Smoking Services often fail to ask clients about underlying mental health problems and thus fail to put in place the treatment adaptations and liaison procedures often required to meet the needs of clien...

A recently proposed adaptive strategy for text recognition uses a linguistic fact that over half of the words on a typical English page are among 150 common stop words. The small lexicon permits word-shape based recognition that yields word identities from which character prototypes can be extracted. This paper describes a fast procedure for locating the best candidates for those stop words. Th...

This article develops a model in which quit rates, and thus the income distribution, depend on employee perceptions of the accuracy of employer assessments of individual productivity because these latter assessments affect wages. When employees believe that these assessments are accurate, income inequality tends to be high. The model can account for the negative correlation across some countrie...