Working conditions of 20 Swedish pig transport drivers (PTD) were assessed by a questionnaire, workshop, and recorded postures movements during on-farm loading, driving, unloading at abattoir vehicle cleaning. High arm positions high frequencies shoulder problems indicated an excessive physical load on shoulders. Extreme crouching inside vehicles lower back the PTDs. Inadequate design loading a...

Inland waters, such as lakes, reservoirs and rivers, are important sources of climate forcing trace gases. A key parameter that regulates the gas exchange between water atmosphere is transfer velocity, which itself controlled by near-surface turbulence in water. While lakes reservoirs, mainly driven atmospheric forcing, shallow rivers streams it generated bottom friction gravity-forced flow. La...

Abstract Despite a recent resurgence of observational studies attempting to quantify the ice-induced attenuation ocean waves in polar oceans, physical processes governing this phenomenon are still poorly understood. Most analyses have attempted relate spatial rate wave frequency, but not considered how relationship depends on ice, wave, and atmospheric conditions. An in-depth analysis wave-buoy...

Climate change is causing sea ice loss on Arctic continental shelves, resulting in increases of shelf-derived materials to the Ocean. Sediment-water interaction can chemically transform water as it moves across shelf, enriching shelf waters nutrients and carbon, which impact primary productivity greenhouse gas cycling. However, drivers sediment-water Ocean are poorly understood. In this study, ...

The incidence of fatality over the period 2010-2014 from automobile accidents in North Cyprus is 2.75 times greater than the average for the EU. With the prospect of North Cyprus entering the EU, many investments will need to be undertaken to improve road safety in order to reach EU benchmarks. The objective of this study is to provide local estimates of the value of a statistical life and inju...

Multi-Channel Access has the potential to solve the throughput and scalability issues that mar the performance of 802.11 mesh and adhoc networks. It allows multiple simultaneous transmissions in a radio neighborhood thereby increasing network throughput and scalability. In spite of this potential, it is limited to simulation studies and its implementation on hardware is rare. In this demo, we d...