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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Motor vehicle crash"”.
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DEVELOPMENT OF SIMILARITY SCORING TECHNIQUES FOR MOTOR VEHICLE CRASH COMPARISONS
Motor vehicle crashes result in thousands of deaths and millions of injuries each year in the United States (US). To help prevent these injuries and deaths, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) conduct crash tests, which …
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Understanding Motor Vehicle Crash Disparities Across Driver Demographics: The Role of Federally Mandated Rearview Cameras
Motor vehicle crashes remain a major public health concern, with disparities in motor vehicle crashes observed across race/ethnicity and socioeconomic factors. Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) have the potential to reduce crash risks, but disparities in access and associated outcomes …
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An Injury-Based Approach to Quantify the Predictability and Time Sensitivity of Common Motor Vehicle Crash Injuries
Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are a serious public health concern resulting in over 1.2 million deaths worldwide. Detection and prompt treatment of MVC injuries is crucial in reducing morbidity and mortality. The goal of the pre-hospital trauma system is to appropriately triage patients such that …
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Development and Utilization of a Semi-Automated Finite Element Approach to Real World Motor Vehicle Crash Reconstruction to Investigate Lumbar Spine Injury
Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are the eighth leading cause of death globally, accounting for over 1.2 million deaths annually. In the United States alone, 30,000 deaths and 3.9 million injuries can be attributed to MVCs every year. To study real world injury incidence and causation, multiple …
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Development and Full Body Validation of a 5th Percentile Female Finite Element Model
To mitigate the societal impact of motor vehicle crash, researchers are using a variety of tools, including human body finite element models (FEMs). Such models are often developed to represent a 50th percentile male occupant (M50). However, in order to address the effects of size and sex-related …
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Influence of Street Trees on Frequency of Vehicle Collisions in Seattle
… the correlation between street trees and motor vehicle crash frequency in Seattle, WA, focusing on the implications for livability and safety. While previous literature initially suggests a potential negative relationship between trees and crashes, the present study finds no significant …
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Geometric and Kinematic Validation Studies in the Thoracic and Abdominal Regions of a Detailed Human-Body Finite Element Model
Mortality and morbidity rates associated with motor vehicle crash remain a leading public health problem in the United States and worldwide, with approximately 31,000 deaths in the United States and 1.2 million worldwide annually. Given these statistics, there is a need to improve vehicle safety …
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Development of a Computationally Efficient Full Human Body Finite Element Model
Motor vehicle injuries and mortalities remain a major public health concern worldwide. According to the World Health Organization in 2013, there were more than one million deaths due to motor vehicle crashes. To mitigate these injuries and fatalities, researchers use a variety of tools to develop …
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Validity of Self-Reported Data on Seat Belt Use: The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
… the 10 leading causes of death for Americans. Motor vehicle crashes kill more than 40,000 people and injure more than 3 million people annually in the United States, representing one of America's most serious health and economic problems. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety …
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Wireless Monitoring of Driver's Pulse Rate and Temperature Using Hand Gloves Approach
… cardiovascular disease and being involved in a motor vehicle crash remains controversial. This study aims to monitor people with known medical emergencies or other medical conditions while driving [1]. It also helps the co-passengers to be cautious while the person is driving with an abnormal …
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Creation of a Virtual Interface for Stress-Trauma Investigations through Open World Navigation: An Exploration of Tolerability and Physiological Reactions
… a newly developed virtual reality (VR)-based car crash simulator to better understand the immediate reaction to being involved in a motor vehicle crash (MVC). In Chapter 2, we evaluated conditioned pain modulation (CPM) in reaction to the cold pressor task and measured associations with indices of …
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Road Traffic Injuries in the Pacific: The epidemiology of road traffic injuries in Fiji and the role of driver sleepiness
… contribution of driver sleepiness to fourwheel motor vehicle crash injuries in Viti Levu, Fiji. Methods Systematic reviews evaluated the published evidence on: (1) the burden of RTI in Pacific Island countries; and (2) the role of driver sleepiness in motor vehicle crashes in low- and …
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The Potential of Event Data Recorders to Improve Impact Injury Assessment in Real World Crashes
… will increasingly, provide novel insight into motor vehicle crash characteristics. The "black boxes" in automobiles, EDRs directly measure precrash and crash kinematics. This data has the potential to eclipse the many traditional surrogate measures used in vehicle safety that often rely upon …
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The Biomechanics of the Perinatal, Neonatal and Pediatric Cervical Spine: Investigation of the Tensile, Bending and Viscoelastic Response
… of pediatric cervical spinal injuries are motor vehicle crash related. Current progress in child occupant protection, including increased and proper restraint usage continues to reduce serious injury and fatalities to child occupants. However, improper restraint usage and incorrect child …
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Protecting the Pregnant Occupant: Dynamic Material Properties of Uterus and Placenta
Automobile crashes are the largest cause of death for pregnant females and the leading cause of traumatic fetal injury mortality in the United States. The first way to protect the fetus is to protect the mother considering that maternal death has a near 100% fetal loss rate. If the mother survives, …
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From Crash to Care: A Road Towards Improved Safety and Efficiency of Emergency Medical Response
Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) are a global public health concern. In 2020 alone, there were an estimated 6.76 million police reported crashes in the United States [1]. In the wake of an MVC, those involved may have been inflicted with serious or fatal injuries. Despite large research and development …
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Development of a Finite Element Based Injury Metric for Pulmonary Contusion
Motor vehicle crash (MVC) and its associated injuries remain a major public health problem world wide. In 2005 alone there were 6 million police-reported crashes in the United States resulting in 2.5 million injuries and 46,000 fatalities. The thorax is second only to the head in terms of frequency …
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Fatalities in Motor Vehicle Accidents Caused by Sleep Deprivation
… two different states, Georgia and New York, of motor vehicle fatalitiesrelated to alcohol and sleep deprivation. It will be determined; if there is a connection between these two factors in motor vehicle fatalities. First there was a study completed to determine how often accidents occurred …