What affects commute cycling in Sydney: access, infrastructure and demographics - Wu H, (Brian) Lee J, Pettit C.
A better understanding of factors affecting commute cycling will be needed to affect a greater uptake of active transport in many parts of the world, and to facilitate the shift toward more sustainable cities. Commute cycling rates in Sydney is currently l... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Wafer-thin, stretchy and strong as steel: could ‘miracle’ material graphene finally transform our world?
The material, discovered in 2004, was meant to be revolutionary. But only now is the technology coming of ageTwenty years ago, scientists announced they had created a new miracle material that was going to transform our lives. They called itgraphene.Consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexa gonal pattern, it is one of the strongest materials ever made and, for good measure, it is a better conductor of electricity and heat than copper.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 13, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Robin McKie Science Editor Tags: Materials science Manufacturing sector Technology sector Technology startups Physics UK news Source Type: news
Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, 1929-2024
His pioneering theoretical work helped us understand what made the universe possible (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fair coins aren ’t fair
Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process. In a preregistered study we collected 350,757 coin flips to test the counterintuitive prediction from a physics model of human coin tossing developed by Diaconis, Holmes, and…#montgomerydhm #etal #fair #nt #flipping #mikeprelatedstories #african (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A laser-engraved wearable gait recognition sensor system for exoskeleton robots - Sun M, Cui S, Wang Z, Luo H, Yang H, Ouyang X, Xu K.
As a reinforcement technology that improves load-bearing ability and prevents injuries, assisted exoskeleton robots have extensive applications in freight transport and health care. The perception of gait information by such robots is vital for their contr... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Identification of common paths for rideshare routing by mining vehicle trajectories - Sun D, Leurent F.
Trajectory data generated from various location sensors are increasingly available nowadays, providing comprehensive information on detailed itineraries that can be used in traffic and mobility analyses. This paper presents a study on the identification of... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Identifying user needs and current challenges of external interface design for AV-VRU communications: insights from an expert survey data analysis - Ammar D, Wu Y, Guo H, Misra A, Jia B, Bao S.
The recent deployment of highly automated vehicles (AVs) in various cities highlights the potential improvement of transportation safety but also reveals the need for improved interaction between AVs and other road users, particularly vulnerable road users... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Incorporating Safety-II in future gas systems - Riemersma B, Correlj é AF, Künneke RW.
This article studies safety management in future gas systems. It is structured around the compatibility of its technological and institutional coordination. We identify how the current mode of safety management is not in harmony with increasingly complex t... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Interior automobile seats: a syntactical and perceptual study - Huang Y, Zhao D.
This study investigated the seat layout of automobile interiors and its impact on the fluidity and privacy of interior space using spatial perception and space syntax research methods. The interior of an automobile is a typical "miniature" passenger space.... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Occupational injury prevalence and predictors among small-scale sawmill workers in the Sokoban Wood Village, Kumasi, Ghana - Opoku FA, Opoku DA, Ayisi-Boateng NK, Osarfo J, Sulemana A, Agyemang S, Amponsah OKO, Asiedu MT, Gyebi R, Agyei-Baffour P.
BACKGROUND: Sawmill workers are at increased risk of occupational injuries due to their exposure to workplace hazards. However, little is known about the burden of occupational injuries among them in Ghana. Understanding its prevalence and associated facto... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Parallel-computing-based calibration for microscopic traffic simulation model - Tang L, Zhang D, Han Y, Fu A, Zhang H, Tian Y, Yue L, Wang D, Sun J.
Microscopic traffic simulation is vital to assess the performances of various traffic operation and management schemes. Microscopic traffic simulation is usually not parameter-free, and it relies on independent parameters to predict traffic evolution. Thus... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Pluralist Function Interrogation: amethodology for analysing workplace practices - Havinga J, Rae A.
Ethnographic fieldwork offers solutions to many of the needs identified in safety research, but it also introduces its own challenges. In particular, the use of ethnography in safety tends to either sympathetically describe safety practice from the point o... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 13, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Trajectory-based spatiotemporal multi-task multi-graph network for traffic state prediction - Fang J, Chen W, Xu M, Liu Y, Bi T.
As a critical application in intelligent transportation systems, traffic state prediction still faces various challenges, such as unsatisfactory capability of utilizing multi-source data and modeling spatiotemporal network relevancies. Therefore, we propos... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Video compression prototype for autonomous vehicles - Wiseman Y.
There are several standards for representing and compressing video information. These standards are adapted to the vision of the human eye. Autonomous cars see and perceive objects in a different way than humans and, therefore, the common standards are not... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
Which technologies make Australian farm machinery safer? A decision support tool for agricultural safety effectiveness - Latham A, Najdovski Z, Bartel R, Cotton J.
This project combined systems engineers, farm safety researchers, work health and safety inspectorate and policymakers with the aim of designing a way in which to reduce fatal farm injury caused by run-overs and roll-overs by tractors and side-by-side vehi... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news
