Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, and one treatment for CVDs is what is known as "percutaneous coronary intervention" (PCI). Further, in this study, we consider the coronary stent, a medical device used in PCI. There are two common types of stents...

The utilization of the Internet and Internet marketing for marketing research has received considerable attention. Although there is a growing body of research devoted to this issue little has been done to explore the impact of Internet technology, e‐mail users’ on‐line skills and...

Analysts today would like to assess the emissions impacts likely to result from future implementation of intelligent vehicle and highway system (IVHS) concepts. This requires making assumptions about the simultaneous emergence of technologies and policies. Assumptions about emission...

Intelligent transportation technologies (ITT’s) are being promoted as a means of reducing congestion delay, improving transportation safety, and also as a means of making vehicle travel "...more energy efficient and environmentally benign (USDOT, 1990)." In theory, IVHS technologies will...

Motor vehicle emission prediction models have been shown to underestimate emissions by factors of 2 to 3 in some cases. There are many reasons why current models do not predict automobile emissions under ‘real-world’ driving conditions accurately. Among them are: non-representative...

This paper shows that traffic hysteresis arises due to variable driver characteristics within each driver and has a profound reproducible impact on the periodicity and development of traffic oscillations and the bottleneck discharge rate. Following an oscillation, traffic initially exhibits...