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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"car crash"”.
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Blokes and cars : the construction of masculinities in Australian film / Rebecca Jane Johinke.
… in the genre of Australian film known as 'car crash' films. A number of film texts are used to examine how representations of vehicular masculinity are validated and how heroism is often associated with mastery of a motor vehicle. It contends that gender-technology relation constructs …
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Creation of a Virtual Interface for Stress-Trauma Investigations through Open World Navigation: An Exploration of Tolerability and Physiological Reactions
… and 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 …
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Z Word
… Frank is just an average guy until a fatal car crash changes everything. He wakes to find his mother has had him turned into a zombie. Along with his fiancee, Sarah, Frank does his best to deal with life after death.</p>
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Without Them
… of 17-year-old Ella who loses her parents in a car crash. She has her life further upended when she and her young brother, Bennett, have to move to a small lake town in Virginia with their bachelor uncle. It is a story of loss but is also a coming of age story about how to rebuild a life and a …
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And now for something completely different
… his two nieces. The second consists of at first car crash and the dealing of the aftermath of a shocking incident. This section has a focus on poetry and explores the topics of health, addiction, genocide, violence, poetry, and food with a bit of humor and alliteration added. The poetry employs a …
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How far can simulation be used to improve inter-team dynamics between emergency teams?
… inquire into this first, there was held a large car crash simulation with over 200 responders from 7 different responder teams. A questionnaire was handed out which responders answered and returned the simulation. Secondly, to widen the perspective eight leaders from various responder teams were …
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Spatiotemporal Generalized Additive Model: Investigating Weather-Related Road Crashes in Southern Finland
Road crashes pose a serious safety risk, particularly under adverse weather conditions. Having a deeper understanding of crash patterns and underpinning their connection to different meteorological factors is useful for targeted safety interventions. Many types of statistical and machine learning …
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Measurement Error Adjustment in the Offset Variable of a Poisson Model
… main cause of death among teenagers in the US. Car crashes are the leading cause of death among teenagers. The Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) program is one effective policy for reducing the number of teenage car crashes. Our study focuses on how the GDL program adopted by the state of …
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The Effects of Particular Sounds on Certain Indices of Cardio-pulmonary Functions
… of particular sounds upon certain indices of cardio-pulmonary function and the degree and pattern of changes which occurred in the indices. The specific physiological parameters chosen to be monitored were heart rate, respiratory rate, mean tidal volume, instantaneous minute volume, and oxygen …
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Reading to Write: Olson's Melville
… of the older Melville in the later incarnation of the Maximus figure as the night-watchman of Gloucester. Chapter 4 traces Olson’s practice of self-archiving and its connection to the annotations he made in one of his two copies of John Wieners’ Ace of Pentacles. Among the annotations …
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Die advertensie
… the current postapartheid South Africa, making a career out of his passion, is futile. It is this reality that is investigated in the text, posing a secondary question: Can a passionate, gifted individual follow his or her artistic ambitions in South Africa's current socio-economic environment? …
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Protection of Rear Seat Occupants Using Finite Element Analysis
The majority of car crash deaths occur in the front seats because the majority of occupants sit in the front seats. Traditionally, the rear seats were safer than the front seats because a front seated occupant would be closer to rigid structures such as the steering wheel, and they would be closer …
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Trend Analysis of Automobile Collision Amongst 15-19 year olds in Virginia, 2000-2004
… this age group.Methods: An investigation was carried out in a case control manner of 2353 cases using data from the Virginia Department of Health-Division of Injury Prevention & Violence on automobile collision amongst 15-19 year olds, from 2000 to 2004, a (5) five year period. Hospitalization …