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Age-Related Slowing: Perceptuomotor, Decision, or Attention Decline? - Godefroy O, Roussel M, Despretz P, Quaglino V, Boucart M.
Age-related slowing is well documented but its origin remains unclear. A first validation study (Study 1) performed in 46 participants examined the effect of attention allocation (manipulated through a dual task) on various portions of individual simple re...
The association of compensation on longer term health status for people with musculoskeletal injuries following road traffic crashes: Emergency department inception cohort study. - Littleton SM, Cameron ID, Poustie SJ, Hughes DC, Robinson BJ, Neeman T, Sm
OBJECTIVE: To compare the health status of people claiming compensation for injuries sustained in road traffic crashes (RTC), with people who do not claim compensation. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Australian Capital Territory, Australia and ...
Thoracic Spine Injury after a High-Speed Motor Vehicle Crash. - Tilney P.
In late October, a hospital-based flight team was activated at 9:30 pm for an approximately 30-year-old man involved in a high-speed motor vehicle crash into a tree. Per emergency medical services (EMS) documentation, flight service was requested for advan...
Two non-probabilistic methods for uncertainty analysis in accident reconstruction. - Zou T, Yu Z, Cai M, Liu J.
There are many uncertain factors in traffic accidents, it is necessary to study the influence of these uncertain factors to improve the accuracy and confidence of accident reconstruction results. It is difficult to evaluate the uncertainty of calculation r...
Use of a Structural Deformity Index as a Predictor of Severity among Trauma Victims in Motor Vehicle Crashes. - Díez DR, Otano TB, Bermejo Fraile B, Louis CJ, Ramirez JR, Sucunza AE.
Background: Information obtained from vehicle crash scenes, called kinematics, may prove useful in the management of victims and may complement anatomical and physiological findings. Objectives: In addition to analyzing the significance of age, gender, pos...
Use of single-vision distance spectacles improves landing control during step descent in well-adapted multifocal lens-wearers. - Timmis MA, Johnson L, Elliott DB, Buckley JG.
Purpose: Epidemiological research has shown that multifocal spectacle wearers (bifocal and progressive addition lenses, PALs) are more than twice as likely to fall compared with non-multifocal spectacle wearers with this risk further increasing when negoti...
Comprehension and hazard communication of three pictorial symbols designed for flight manual warnings. - Erdinc O.
Military flight manuals contain three types of warnings; WARNING, CAUTION and NOTE messages convey personal injury or loss of life hazards, material damage hazards and essential information respectively. Effectiveness of these warning messages is crucial f...
Effect of varying two key parameters in simulating evacuation for subway stations in China. - Jiang CS, Yuan F, Chow WK.
With the rapid development in economics, subway systems have been constructed in many big cities of China. Computer evacuation models developed overseas are commonly applied in working out safety management scheme. However, input evacuation parameters are ...
Trauma in Pregnancy: A Systematic Approach. - Mirza FG, Devine PC, Gaddipati S.
Trauma in pregnancy remains one of the major contributors to maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. Potential complications include maternal injury or death, shock, internal hemorrhage, intrauterine fetal demise, direct fetal injury, abruptio place...
Design and simulation of an ABS for an integrated active safety system for road vehicles. - Sahin M, Unlusoy YS.
A design methodology for an anti-lock braking system (ABS) controller for four-wheeled road vehicles is presented. In the study, a flexible approach was adopted considering integration with an integrated active safety system control structure. In the hiera...
Design and simulation of an integrated active yaw control system for road vehicles. - Tekin G, Unlusoy YS.
In this paper, design methodology and simulation of an active yaw control system for road vehicles are presented. The main objectives of the yaw control system are to estimate the desired yaw behaviour of the vehicle according to the demand of the driver b...
Effectiveness of speed enforcement through fixed speed cameras: a time series study. - Novoa AM, Perez K, Santamariña-Rubio E, Marí-Dell'olmo M, Tobias A.
Objective To assess the effectiveness of speed cameras in reducing the numbers of crashes and people injured on the arterial roads of Barcelona, and to assess their long-term effectiveness on the beltway. Methods Time series analyses were performed separat...
Facial trauma in geriatric patients in a selected Malaysian hospital. - Rahman NA, Ramli R, Rahman RA, Hussaini HM, Hamid AL.
Background: Road traffic accidents are the main cause of trauma in Malaysia. It has been shown that there was an increase in admissions for trauma patients older than 60 years in the last decade. The purpose of this study was to determine the pattern of ma...
Framework for development of driver adaptive warning and assistance systems that will be triggered by a driver inattention monitor. - Aytekin B, Dincmen E, Guvenc BA, Altug E, Guvenc L, Danis S, Acarman T, Sezer V, Ararat O, Oncu S.
This paper reports preliminary work on an experimental vehicle and simulators and their initial use towards the development of driver adaptive warning and assistance systems that will be triggered by driver inattention monitor in the Drive Safe national co...
Investigating accident causation through information network modelling. - Griffin TG, Young MS, Stanton NA.
Management of risk in complex domains such as aviation relies heavily on post-event investigations, requiring complex approaches to fully understand the integration of multi-causal, multi-agent and multi-linear accident sequences. The Event Analysis of Sys...
Killer crashes: Fatal road traffic accidents in the UK. - Clarke DD, Ward P, Bartle C, Truman W.
Road traffic accidents are responsible for over 3000 deaths per year in the UK, according to Department for Transport (2004a) figures. Although progress is being made in a number of areas, vehicle occupant fatalities have not been falling in line with casu...
Risk management in mental health: applying lessons from commercial aviation. - Hatcher S.
Objective: Risk management in mental health focuses on risks in patients and fails to predict rare but catastrophic events such as suicide. Commercial aviation has a similar task in preventing rare but catastrophic accidents. This article describes the sys...
Running out of gas but not trauma patients: the effect of the price of gas on trauma admissions. - Goettler CE, Schlitzkus LL, Waibel BH, Edwards M, Wilhelmsen B, Rotondo MF.
As fuel costs steadily rise and motor vehicle collisions continue to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, we examined the relationship between the price of gasoline and the rate of trauma admissions related to gasoline consumption (GRT). The Nati...
Severe injury to near- and far-seated occupants in side impacts by crash severity and belt use. - Viano DC, Parenteau CS.
Purpose: This study investigated the risk of severe-to-fatal injury (MAIS 4+F) to near- and far-seated front occupants in side impacts by belt use and crash severity (delta V). Methods: 1993-2007 NASS-CDS was analyzed for front-seat occupants in side impac...
Speed Kills: The Complex Links Between Transport, Lack of Time and Urban Health. - Tranter PJ.
Road safety experts understand the contribution of speed to the severity and frequency of road crashes. Yet, the impact of speed on health is far more subtle and pervasive than simply its effect on road safety. The emphasis in urban areas on increasing ...
