A technology to study the sensitivity of impact responses to prescribed test conditions is presented.Motor vehicle impacts are used to illustrate the principles of this sensitivity Miscellaneous technology.Impact conditions are regulated by specifying either a corridor for the acceleration time history or other test parameters such as velocity chan
Researchers not only dissent on what effect corruption has on economic growth but also whether this effect holds in different institutional contexts.Some economists argue that corruption can stimulate economic growth in environments with poor governance and ineffective institutions (such as those in the Western Balkans region), while others suggest
Objective Psychological interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are not always effective and can leave some individuals with enduring symptoms.Little is known about factors that are associated with better or worse treatment outcome.Our objective was to address this gap.Method We undertook a systematic review following Cochrane Colla
The inclusive basketball program of the National Sports Academy is a compilation of adapted and unified basketball where persons with intellectual and physical disabilities together with students and volunteers are training and competing together.PURPOSE of this study is to explore the extent of contribution of our program for the building of socia
Environment perception and understanding represent critical aspects in most computer vision systems and/or applications.State-of-the-art techniques to solve this vision task (e.g., semantic instance segmentation) require either dedicated hardware resources to run or a longer execution time.Generally, the main efforts were to improve the accuracy of