In recent years, conveyor belt transport systems have taken on a new significance due to numerous research studies on innovative design solutions. The application of these new developed solutions leads to considerable reduction in operational costs of transport systems, while ensuring their high reliability and service life at the same time. Nonetheless, there are still areas that pose challeng...

Recent field data have shown that the occupant protection in vehicle rear seats failed to keep pace with advances in the front seats likely due to the lack of advanced safety technologies. The objective of this study was to optimize advanced restraint systems for protecting rear seat occupants with a range of body sizes under different frontal crash pulses. Three series of sled tests (baseline ...

is paper presents wireless sensing systems to increase safety and robustness in industrial process control, particularly in industrial machines for marble slab working. e process is performed by abrasive or cutting heads activated independently by the machine controller when the slab, transported on a conveyer belt, is under them. Current slab detection systems are based on electromechanical ...

OBJECTIVE To measure the effect of the WHO Safe Communities model approach to increasing child restraint use in motor vehicles. DESIGN Pre- and post-intervention observations of restraint use in motor vehicles in several sites in the target area, and in a comparison area community. SETTING Community; southeast Dallas, Texas, 2003-2005. INTERVENTIONS A multifaceted approach to increasing u...

In Argentina more than 7,000 people die each year due to traffic injuries. It is an endemic disease, a serious public health problem. There are evidence-based recommendations about how children should ride safety in cars; children through 8 years or 4 feet 9 inches cannot be fastened by the seat belt so they should ride in a child restraint system. These devices significantly reduce the chances...

Reliable “Advanced Driver Assistance Systems” (ADAS) are intended to assist the driver under various traffic, weather and other environment conditions. The growing traffic requires sensors and systems which handle difficult urban and non-urban scenarios. For such systems new cost-efficient sensor technologies are developed and evaluated in the EU-FP7 project “ADOSE (reliable Application-specifi...

This paper formulates a comprehensive econometric structure that recognizes two important issues in crash-related injury severity analysis. First, the impact of a factor on injury severity may be moderated by various observed and unobserved variables specific to an individual or to a crash. Second, seat belt use is likely to be endogenous to injury severity. That is, it is possible that intrins...

For the wear and damage to mine conveyor belts by foreign materials, such as large this paper designs a volume measurement method for materials based on binocular vision of material inon belt, provides safety-warning data over-volume limits belts, prevents belts. In design, first, obtaining camera parameters improve image-edge information, images taken with were then aligned Bouguet stereo corr...

Aldo-keto reductases tighten coenzyme binding by forming a hydrogen bond across the pyrophosphate group of NAD(P)(H). Mutation of the hydrogen bonding anchor Lys24 in Candida tenuis xylose reductase prevents fastening of the "safety belt" around NAD(H). The loosened NAD(H) binding leads to increased turnover numbers (k(cat)) for reductions of bulky-bulky ketones at constant substrate and coenzy...