Developing real-life driving simulations for novice driver education

This paper will describe the technological aspects of producing live-action videos of real traffic scenarios for a new driver education training CD-ROM (CD DRIVES) aimed at novice drivers in New Zealand. CD-DRIVES was created in order to help young drivers practise crucial higher level driving skills such as eye scanning, hazard detection and risk management. We will present a roadmap of the technological advances made through hardware, software and processes used in the production and post-production stages of CD-DRIVES

On the reactions p + p -> p + Lambda + K^+ and p + p -> p + Sigma^0 + K^+ near thresholds

The cross sections for the reactions of the strange production p + p -> p + Lambda + K^+ and p + p -> p + Sigma^0 + K^+ near thresholds of the final states p Lambda K^+ and p Sigma^0 K^+ are calculated in the effective Lagrangian approach. Our approach is based on the dominant contribution of the one-pion exchange and strong interaction of the colliding protons in the initial state. The theoretical values of the cross sections agree reasonably well with the experimental data. The polarization properties of the Lambda and Sigma^0 hyperons are discussed.Comment: 15 pages, 1 Postscript figure, Latex, to appear in Eur. Phys. J

If P, Then P!

The Identity principle says that conditionals with the form 'If p, then p' are logical truths. Identity is overwhelmingly plausible, and has rarely been explicitly challenged. But a wide range of conditionals nonetheless invalidate it. I explain the problem, and argue that the culprit is the principle known as Import-Export, which we must thus reject. I then explore how we can reject Import-Export in a way that still makes sense of the intuitions that support it, arguing that the differences between indicative and subjunctive conditionals play a key role in solving this puzzle

The elementary p(p,p'\pi^{+})n reaction

A detailed study of the elementary p(p,p$'\pi^{+}$)n reaction is presented using the delta isobar model. In this model, in the first step one of the two protons in the initial state gets excited to $\Delta$. This, in the second step, decays into a nucleon and a pion. For the $pp \to N\Delta$ step the parametrized form of the DWBA t-matrix of Jain and Santra, which reproduces most of the available data on $pp \to n\Delta^{++}$, is used. The cross-sections studied include the outgoing proton momentum spectra in coincidence with the pion, the outgoing pion momentum spectra and the integrated total cross-section. We find that all the calculated numbers are in good agreement with the corresponding measured cross sections.Comment: 11 pages latex, 5 figures as seperate post-script files; accepted for publication in Physical Review C (1998

Empirical Determination of Threshold Partial Wave Amplitudes in pp→ppωp p \to p p \omega

Using the model independent irreducible tensor approach to $\omega$ production in $pp$ collisions, we show theoretically that, it is advantageous to measure experimentally the polarization of $\omega$, in addition to the proposed experimental study employing a polarized beam and a polarized target.Comment: 6 pages, 1 Table, Latex-2

Quantum Product and Parabolic Orbits in Homogeneous Spaces

Chaput, Manivel, and Perrin proved in [3] a formula describing the quantum product by Schubert classes associated to cominuscule weights in a rational projective homogeneous space X. In the case where X has Picard rank one, we relate this formula to the stratification of X by P-orbits, where P is the parabolic subgroup associated to the cominuscule weight. We deduce a decomposition of the Hasse diagram of X, i.e., the diagram describing the cup-product with the hyperplane class. For all classical Grassmannians, we give a complete description of parabolic orbits associated to cominuscule weights, and we make the decomposition of the Hasse diagram explicit

Regulation of the main principles that govern the family relationships according to the stipulations in the Family Code and the new Civil Code

The paper analyses the principles that govern the family relationships from the point of view of the Family Code and of the Civil Code (in force by Law no 287/2009) needed both for the settlement of those aspects related to the family relationships in those matters where the legislation is not explicit enough or does not contain any regulation, and for the assessment of the extent to which the stipulations of the Family Code or of the Civil Code that refer to the family relationships round themselves off with the stipulations of other normative papers.family; family relationships; principles that govern the family relationships; Family Code; the new Civil Code

Squares of positive (p,p)(p,p)-forms

We show that if $\alpha$ is a positive $(2,2)$-form then so is $\alpha^2$. We also prove that this is no longer true for forms of higher degree