Left turn across path and opposite direction accidents in China: CIDAS accident study

Turn Right or Turn Left? Heuristic of A dhering to the Direction of Destination

Copy Summary: It has been found that humans not only tend to avoid the middle routes and prefer the peripheral routes among multiple choices, but also rely on the ‘initial segment strategy’ to select the route. In this paper, we propose a new heuristic which humans apply during route selection: Participants prefer the route whose initial direction lies in the direction of their final destinatio...

Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Turn Direction Concepts

This paper discusses the conceptualization of turn directions along traveled routes. Foremost, we are interested in the influence that language has on the conceptualization of turn directions. Two experiments are presented that contrast the way people group turns into similarity classes when they expect to verbally label the turns, as compared to when they do not. We are particularly interested...

[Possibilities, limitations and results of accident prevention in occupational accidents].

Technical measures to eliminate risk relevant factors offer good chances of success in occupational accident prevention. However such dominant factors get more and more scarce. To further reduce the accident rate, activities in the fields of information, training and motivation have to be increased. Since it is difficult to estimate the efficiency of such measures, suitable evaluation measures ...

assessing political stability and instability in central asia and caucasus; case study, azerbaijan and kyrgyzstan

منطقه ی آسیای مرکزی وقفقاز به عنوان منطقه ای تاریخی و به دلیل دارا بودن ذخایر عظیم هیدرو کربنی از اهمیت ویژه ای برخوردار است. کشورهای این منطقه از عوامل عمده ی بی ثباتی نظیر عوامل جغرافیایی، اقتصادی، امنیتی، اجتماعی و سیاسی رنج می برند. پس از فروپاشی اتحاد جماهیر شوروی کشورهای منطقه از نعمت استقلال ناخواسته ای برخوردار شدند که مشکلات فوق را برای آن ها چندین برابر می کرد. در این روند برخی از این...

Neurobehavioral study on accident-prone motor-vehicle drivers in China.