As road tunnel accidents can result in numerous fatalities and injuries, attention must be paid to accident prevention and management.To address this issue, use of integrated tunnel model for system evaluation and training of road tunnel operators on computer simulator is presented.A unified tunnel model, including traffic, meteorological condition
Accuracy improvement with checkerboards in SLAM-integrated kinematic calibration (SKCLAM) for industrial manipulators
Today, offline Wet Food programing is available on industrial manipulators and used in many factories.However, the absolute accuracy of robots is insufficient due to manufacturing and assembly tolerances, thus it is necessary to perform kinematic calibration in advance.Most of existing calibration methods require a large amount of measurements just
Are sedatives and hypnotics associated with increased suicide risk of suicide in the elderly?
Abstract Background While antidepressant-induced suicidality is a concern in younger age groups, there is mounting evidence that these drugs may reduce suicidality in the elderly.Regarding a possible association between other types of psychoactive drugs and suicide, results are inconclusive.Sedatives and hypnotics are widely prescribed to elderly p
A general theory of glacier surges
We present the first general theory of glacier surging that includes both temperate and polythermal glacier surges, based on coupled mass and enthalpy budgets.Enthalpy (in the form of thermal energy and water) is gained at the glacier bed from geothermal Gift Items » Bedding heating plus frictional heating (expenditure of potential energy) as a co