Vehicle front-end geometry and in-depth pedestrian injury outcomes - Monfort SS, Hu W, Mueller BC.
OBJECTIVE: Large passenger vehicles have consistently demonstrated an outsized injury risk to pedestrians they strike, particularly those with tall, blunt front ends. However, the specific injuries suffered by pedestrians in these crashes as well as the me... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Accident severity analysis of traffic accident hot spot areas in Changsha City considering built environment - Yan R, Hu L, Li J, Lin N.
Examining the impacts of accident characteristics and differentiated built environment factors on accident severity at inherent accident hotspots within cities can help managers to adjust traffic control measures through urban planning and design, thereby ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Accuracy and reproducibility of forensic tire examination decisions - Richetelli N, LeMay J, Dunagan KM, Parks CL, Hicklin RA, Chapman WJ.
Tire impression evidence can be a valuable tool during a crime scene investigation-it can link vehicles to scenes or secondary locations, and reveal information about the series of events surrounding a crime. The interpretation of tire impression evidence ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Analysis of occupational accidents for safety design - Vasconcelos BM, Santos CJO, Soeiro A, Barkok ébas Junior B.
BACKGROUND: Safety design covers proactive actions as it analyzes accident risks early in the enterprise life cycle, and considers the designer acting on accident prevention as a member of the construction team. OBJECTIVE: This paper proposes an ac... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Assessment of occupational musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among heavy vehicle drivers - Raza M, Bhushan RK, Khan AA.
BACKGROUND: Professional driving requires long hours of work, uncomfortable seats, negotiating rough terrain and highways, and possibly minor repairs and other auxiliary transportation duties. Heavy vehicle drivers driving vehicles such as trucks, bulldoze... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Automatic identification of incidents involving potential serious injuries and fatalities (PSIF) - Parikh P, Penfield J, Juaire M.
Safety incidents have always been a crucial risk in work spaces, especially industrial sites. In the last few decades, significant efforts have been dedicated to incident control measures to reduce the rate of safety incidents. Despite all these efforts, t... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Comparative evaluation of soundscapes in human activities spatial contexts of pedestrian spaces adjacent to arterial roads - Lu X, Xie Z, Zhu P, Dai X, Zhang Y, Tao W, Wang S.
Pedestrian spaces adjacent to arterial roads are characterized by the dominance of traffic noise alongside various human activities. Research on the impact of traffic noise on the soundscape evaluation of pedestrian spaces has not considered human activiti... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Identifying focal points to prevent traffic accidents in Japan and specific measures proposed: aspects common to Japan and South Korea and suggested preventive measures - Inoue K, Fukunaga T, Takeshita H, Fujita Y, Kameo S, Hoshi M, Kawano N.
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Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Improved likelihood ratios for face recognition in surveillance video by multimodal feature pairing - Macarulla Rodriguez A, Geradts Z, Worring M, Unzueta L.
In forensic and security scenarios, accurate facial recognition in surveillance videos, often challenged by variations in pose, illumination, and expression, is essential. Traditional manual comparison methods lack standardization, revealing a critical gap... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 8, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
How climate change and physics affect baseball, America's favorite pastime
It's baseball season! And when we here at Short Wave think of baseball, we naturally think of physics. To get the inside scoop on the physics of baseball, like how to hit a home run, we talk to Frederic Bertley, CEO and President of the Center of Science and Industry, a science museum in Columbus, Ohio. He also talks to host Regina G. Barber about how climate change is affecting the game. Interested in the science of other sports? Email us at shortwave@npr.org — we'd love to hear from you. (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - April 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Regina G. Barber Source Type: news
When to Watch the Solar Eclipse in Buffalo, New York
On April 8, the moon will begin to cover the sun around 3:18 p.m. in Buffalo, N.Y., hitting totality at 3:20 p.m. To get a front row seat, head to Niagara Falls where NASA scientists will be hosting science talks and ticket holders can board the Maid of the Mist boat, or tour the Cave of the Winds during the eclipse. Outside the city, the Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge is hosting a viewing party amid the cattail marshes and grasslands.
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Inside the city, Buffalo’s minor league baseball team the Buffalo Bisons are teaming up with NASA for a viewing party at Sahlen Fiel...
Source: TIME: Science - April 6, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Locker and Chris Wilson Tags: Uncategorized freelance Solar Eclipse 2024 Source Type: news
Effect of a vehicle's mobility on SNR and SINR in vehicular optical camera communication systems - Eghbal M, Tabataba FS, Gholami A, Abouei J, Uysal M.
The widespread use of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and cameras in vehicular environments provides an excellent opportunity for optical camera communication (OCC) in intelligent transport systems. OCC is a promising candidate for the Internet of Vehicles (I... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Implementation of a realistic artificial data generator for crash data generation - Hoover L, Istiak Jahan M, Bhowmik T, Dey Tirtha S, Konduri KC, Ivan J, Wang K, Zhao S, Auld J, Eluru N.
In this paper, a framework is outlined to generate realistic artificial data (RAD) as a tool for comparing different models developed for safety analysis. The primary focus of transportation safety analysis is on identifying and quantifying the influence o... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Best practices for international road construction contracts - Yerniyazov I.
Major cross-border road projects involve complex legal issues spanning multiple jurisdictions. Key considerations include choice of law, dispute resolution, change order and defects processes, and sophisticated risk allocation for delays/overruns. Emerging... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 6, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
The largest map of the cosmos hints that dark energy is changing. It could prove Einstein wrong and upend a pillar of modern physics
None For decades, astronomers have puzzled over dark energy and why it's pushing our universe apart. • None New data from the largest 3-D map of our universe suggests we may be wrong about dark energy. • None Dark energy was thought to be an unchanging force, but it may not be so constant, after…#nonedark #michaellevi #desi #arizona #alberteinstein #ethansiegal #adamriess #nobel #quantamagazine #quanta (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
