A practical real-time system for passive obstacle detection and avoidance is presented. Range information is obtained from stereo images by rst computing a disparity picture from the image pair and extracting points above the ground plane. Then these points are projected onto the ground plane and an Instantaneous Obstacle Map (IOM) is obtained. The IOM is transformed into a one dimensional stee...

The excitation function for the fusion-evaporation reaction Ni + Mo has been measured down to a cross-section of ∼ 5 nb. Extensive coupled-channels calculations have been performed, which cannot reproduce the steep fall-off of the excitation function at extreme sub-barrier energies. Thus, this system exhibits a hindrance for fusion, a phenomenon that has been discovered only recently. In the S-...

The authors combined affective events theory (H. M. Weiss & Cropanzano, 1996) and the transactional stress model (R. S. Lazarus & Folkman, 1984) to build and test a model specifying the dynamic, emotion-based relationships among challenge and hindrance stressors and citizenship and counterproductive behaviors. The study employed an experience sampling methodology. Results showed that challenge ...

We report the self-diffusion coefficients and hindrance factor of diffusion of ions into cylindrical silica nanopores. We compare with the hindered diffusion coefficients used in continuum-based models of NF. Hindrance factors for diffusion estimated from the macroscopic hydrodynamic theory were found to be in fair quantitative agreement with MD simulations for a protonated pore but they strong...

Presence of wall at the vicinity of a moving particle through a flowing or stationary fluid hindered the motion of the particle by implying more drag on it. Presence of charge on the particle alone or on both the wall and particle hinders the motion more due to electrokinetic effect like relaxation and EDL overlap. Presence of charged surface heterogeneity make the scenario worse. A 3D finite e...