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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Vehicle accidents"”.
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Fatalities in Motor Vehicle Accidents Caused by Sleep Deprivation
… 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 related to …
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Shaping the future through Artificial Intelligent technologies to reduce vehicle accidents in Abu Dhabi
Traffic accidents (TAs) constitute one of the top killers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Without practical approaches to address the TAs in Abu Dhabi, the region is likely to experience continued economic losses and health burden to the affected families and country. This study identified …
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Attentional biases and PTSD symptomology in victims of sexual assault and motor vehicle accidents
… prevalent in the college population, motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) and sexual assaults. The flicker paradigm, used to measure change detection, was utilized to examine hypersensitivity to environments with threatening stimuli in individuals whom experienced either of these traumas. The …
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Retrospective review of paediatrics patients involved in pedestrian vehicle accidents in greater cape Town
Pedestrian vehicle injuries are a growing public health threat worldwide. In South Africa, pedestrian accidents are the leading cause of injury related deaths in children younger than 15 years. There is international and national research looking at various aspects of pedestrian vehicle accidents. …
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Factors contributing to motor vehicle accidents and severity of related injuries in Oshana region, Namibia
Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVAs) are one of the leading causes of death and disability in the world. Namibia is one of the countries with the highest MVAs fatality rate, 23.9/100 000. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 1.25 million people die every year due to MVAs. Despite having a …
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Spatial Analysis of Motor Vehicle Accidents in Johnson City, Tennessee, as Reported to Washington County Emergency Communications District (911).
… 1, 2000 through December 31, 2009 for motor vehicle accidents inside the corporate limits of Johnson City, Tennessee. Records were compared according to the land use classification for adjacent properties, roadway type, and traffic signal proximity. Data were evaluated through ArcGIS software …
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Predictive models for accidents on urban links - A focus on vulnerable road users
Much of earlier work on predictive models for accidents has been focused on rural traffic or urban intersections. This work has aimed at identifying and investigating possible improvements to predictive models for accidents on urban links. A special focus has been on the accidents of vulnerable …
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Safety-guided design & analysis of space launch vehicles
… has brought about a new age of space launch vehicle design. In order to survive in a competitive market, space launch providers must design systems with new technologies in shorter development times. This changing nature of space launch vehicle design requires a new way to perform safety …
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Development and validation of a driver distraction alert system for highway driving using a truck driving simulator
Driver distraction is one of the major causes of vehicle accidents, injuries, fatalities and economical losses in Canada and across the world. The main objective of this thesis is to develop a real time driver distraction alert system that can generate early warning signals and prevent vehicle …
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Rollover prevention and path following of a scaled autonomous vehicle using nonlinear model predictive control
Vehicle safety remains an important topic in the automotive industry due to the large number of vehicle accidents each year. One of the causes of vehicle accidents is due to vehicle instability phenomena. Vehicle instability can occur due to unexpected road profile changes, during full braking, …
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A profile of children with traumatic brain injury admitted to the Red Cross War Memorial Children?s Hospital Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in Cape Town, South Africa, between 2015 and 2019
… (IQR 3.5-9) years; 144 (62.1%) were male. Motor vehicle accidents accounted for 77% (179) of injuries. Two hundred (86.2%) children were invasively ventilated for a median of 3.5 (IQR 1-7) days; 26 children (13%, n=200) had a failed extubation and 16/200 (8%) required tracheostomies. Ninety-eight …
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Soft tissue Reconstruction of Gustilo-Anderson Grade IIIB Open Extra-Articular Tibial Fractures at a Tertiary Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa: A Retrospective Case Series
… with an average age of 39.3 years. Pedestrian vehicle accidents accounted for 45.4%(n=10), motor-vehicle accidents (n=6; 27.3%) and gunshot wounds (n=2; 9.1%). The commonest site of injury was the middle third of the tibia (n=13; 59.1%), distal third (n=7; 31.8%) and proximal third (n=2; 9.1%). …
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Age-Related Changes in Visual Processing Speed: A Pilot Study Using the Motor Free Visual Perception Test- 4
… increased risk of being involved in motor vehicle accidents. Evidence reveals that visual processing speed decreases with age, which may impact driving. The Motor-Free Visual Perception Test- Third Edition (MVPT-3) is used as a pre-driving assessment and has an age-normed Response Time …
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Preventing texting while driving : a design investigation
… action that now accounts for nearly 25% of all vehicle accidents and results in at least 11 deaths per day. Current methods of preventing texting while driving are either too new to be fully realized or are ineffective due to poor design or implementation methods. A methodical investigation into …
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Using Oxygen Generating Materials for the Preservation of Skeletal Muscle Function & Viability in a Rodent Acute Ischemic Injury Model
… Freedom, but also in the civilian sector in vehicle accidents and weapons-related incidents. While there is the immediate damage to tissue at the point of injury, there can also be the onset of ischemic injury due to the lack of blood flow to normal, healthy tissue downstream of the original …
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The Relationship Among HFACS Levels and Analysis of Human Factors in Unmanned and Manned Air Vehicles
… Classification System levels for unmanned air vehicle and manned air vehicle accidents and the common relationships between unmanned air vehicle and manned air vehicle accident causes. The study acquired DOD HFACS accident classification data from 347 United States Air Force Class A accident …
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Policy implications of ubiquitous technologies in the car : privacy, data ownership, and regulation
Motor vehicle travel is the primary means of transportation in the United States, providing freedom in travel and enterprise for many people. However, motor vehicle accidents are the largest component of unintentional injuries and contribute to a high degree of morbidity and mortality for all ages. …
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Modeling, analysis, and measurement of passenger vehicle stability
Vehicle rollover represents a significant percentage of single-vehicle accidents and accounts for over 9,000 fatalities and over 200,000 non-fatal injuries each year. Previous automotive research has studied ways for detecting and mitigating rollover on flat ground at high speed, and robotics …
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A detailed study of persons admitted to the spinal unit of conradie hospital, Pinelands, Cape, during 1985.
… causes of injury are examined, and while Motor Vehicle Accidents, Falls and Gunshot wounds are commonly described in the literature as causes of s.c.i., what is unique at the Conradie Hospital is the high percentage of stab wounds (29,6%) causing spinal cord lesions. 0 The method of injury in …
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