A nonlinear car-following model that includes the reaction-time delay of drivers is considered. When investigating the linear stability of the uniform flow solution, boundaries of Hopf bifurcations are determined in the parameter space. Crossing these boundaries, oscillations may appear corresponding to travelling wave solutions. Hopf normal form calculations prove robustly subcritical behavior...

Driver behavior plays an important role in modeling vehicle dynamics in a traffic simulation environment. To study one element of the general driver behavior, that of car following, an advanced instrumented vehicle has been applied in dynamic data collection in real traffic flow on Swedish roads. This paper briefly introduces our car following data collection and smoothing methods. Moreover, we...

Driving a car in daily life involves multiple tasks. One important task for safe driving is carfollowing, the interference of which causes rear-end collisions: the most common type of car accident. Recent reports have described that car-following is hindered even by handsfree mobile telephones. We conducted functional MRI with 18 normal volunteers to investigate brain activity changes that occu...

purpose: to report a case of pseudoexfoliation syndrome in young keratoconus patient following penetrating keratoplasty. case report: a 37 year old man who underwent penetrating keratoplasty 13 years ago in his left eye due to keratoconus developed pseudoexfoliation (pex) syndrome in the operated eye. apart from pex material deposition on the crystalline lens ophthalmic exam was within normal l...

Preliminary notes The calibration process is a basic condition of traffic model application in local conditions. The choice of input parameters, which are used in calibration process, influences the success of the calibration process itself; therefore, the goal is to choose parameters with a larger influence on the modelling process. This paper offers a detailed analysis of car-following input ...

The constitutively active receptor (CAR) transactivates a distal enhancer called the phenobarbital (PB)-responsive enhancer module (PBREM) found in PB-inducible CYP2B genes. CAR dramatically increases its binding to PBREM in livers of PB-treated mice. We have investigated the cellular mechanism of PB-induced increase of CAR binding. Western blot analyses of mouse livers revealed an extensive nu...

To broaden our repertoire of monoclonal antibodies against CAR (coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor), we inoculated mice with an expression vector containing the cDNA encoding human CAR extracellular and transmembrane sequence, and boosted the response by inoculation with soluble human CAR protein produced in E. coli. Of the hybridomas obtained following this immunization protocol, one secre...