As part of Michigan's effort to track trends in safety belt use within the state over time, the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute conducted 20 statewide surveys of safety belt use between 1984 and 1998. Results indicate that Michigan safety belt use trends for drivers and front-right passengers are similar to other statewide and national trends. Belt use in Michigan incre...

OBJECTIVE To increase teen seat belt use among drivers at a rural high school by implementing the Drive Alive Pilot Program (DAPP), a theory-driven intervention built on highway safety best practices. METHODS The first component of the program was 20 observational teen seat belt surveys conducted by volunteer students in a high school parking lot over a 38-month period before and after the mo...

The Khoy Ophiolitic Complex (KOC) as a part of Tethyan, Izmir-Ankara- Erzincan and Bitlis-Zagros sutures of South East (SE) Turkey is broadly exposed around Khoy region (NW Iran). This complex comprises dismembered fragments of mantle lithosphere, obducted oceanic lithosphere and parts of volcanic arc remnants. The Khoy Ophiolitic Complex can be structurally divided into two major eastern and w...

Ultramafic rocks of the ophiolitic complexes are prone to alteration and degradation, and therefore, ease of mobility of heavy metals such as nickel (Ni), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), lead (Pb), and vanadium (V), resulting in environmental hazards. The ultramafic rocks of the ophiolitic realm of Kurdistan province, west of Iran, show field and compositional evidence for such hazardous conditions...

Backgrounds and Objectives: Using seat belt has a considerable role in reducing human damage. The aim of this study was to compare trend of seat belt use rate during 4 years, from 2007 to 2010, in Golestan province (northern Iran). Materials and Methods: This was a population-based cross-sectional study that enrolled 3999 subjects aged 15-65 years during four years (2007 = 1000 cases, 2008 = 10...

We study the dynamical excitation that large planetesimals, scattered either by Neptune or Jupiter, could have provided to the primordial Edgeworth–Kuiper belt and the asteroid belt. Using both a refined Monte Carlo approach and direct numerical integration, we show that the Monte Carlo method is useful only to give qualitative insight into the resulting excitation, but cannot be trusted from a...

The systemic effects of wearing an industrial back belt for a repetitive asymmetric lifting task between knee and waist height have been investigated. Belt wearing significantly reduced the average heart rate by 5.3 beats per minute, constituting 21% reduction of the metabolic cost due to the exercise. Back belt significantly reduced the average systolic blood pressures by 9 mm of Hg. For manua...

Using energy absorption systems in the structures with malfunctioning components is of paramount importance. By absorbing the seismic energy, these systems help the components of the structure to remain resilient during earthquake. In the present study, viscous dampers were applied in order to enhance the reactions of tall building with belt truss. To assess the response of a structure un...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to investigate the influence of pelvic belts on the stability of the pelvis and to discuss the treatment of peripartum pelvic instability. STUDY DESIGN In six human pelvis-spine preparations, sagittal rotation in the sacroiliac joints was induced by bidirectional forces directed at the acetabula. Weight-bearing was mimicked by the application of a ...