Road Traffic injuries are known as the most prevalent childhood injury and besides being the greatest cause of child mortality, place an extraordinary burden on health care system. Children’s limitation in cognitive, physical and social development makes them more vulnerable in road traffic injuries than adults. Their small structure cause challenges to see and be seen and their risk taki...

OBJECTIVE Regular checking of the fitness to drive of elderly car-license holders is required in some countries, and this will become increasingly important as more countries face aging populations. The present study investigated whether the analysis of saccadic eye movements could be used as a screening method for the assessment of driving ability. METHODS Three different paradigms (prosacca...

Using a Web-based portfolio assessment system to elevate project-based learning performances Chi-Cheng Chang a & Kuo-Hung Tseng b a Department of Industrial Technology Education, National Taiwan Normal University, No. 162, Section 1, He-Ping E. Road, Taipei, Taiwan, 106 b Graduate Institute of Business Management, Meiho Institute of Technology, No. 23, Ping Kuang Road, Neipu Hsiang, Pingtung, T...

Translating R&D and inventive efforts into a market product is characterized by significant financial skills, and the ability to overcome technical and instititonal barriers. Research into and translation of new technologies such as biotechnology products to the market requires even greater resources. This paper aims to understand the key factors that foster or hinder the complex process of tra...

Die Informationslogistik erforscht intelligente Systeme zur bedarfsgerechten Informationsversorgung. Die Anwender erwarten die richtigen Informationen zur richtigen Zeit am richtigen Ort in einer geeigneten Präsentation. In diesem Papier beschreiben wir ein informationslogistisches Framework, mit dessen Hilfe informationslogistische Anwendungen und insbesondere die Informationsversorgung eines ...

Geh ort zum Antragsabschnitt: 14.6 Prosodische Etikettierung Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde im Rahmen des Verbundvorhabens Verbmobil vom Bundesministerium f ur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) unter dem F orderkennzeichen 01 IV 101 N0 gef ordert. Die Verantwortung f ur den Inhalt dieser Arbeit liegt bei dem Autor.

Over the past decade, the emergence of the `environmental protest' movement has created significant policing challenges for any force unfortunate enough to play `host' to a major road construction project. Once constructed, the Birmingham Northern Relief Road (BNRR) will be the United Kingdom's first `tolled motorway'. The scheme is hugely controversial because its environmental impact on 27 mi...

If environmental quality positively a ects the productivity of labor in R&D and pollution is caused by the use of a non-renewable resource, it is socially optimal to postpone extraction and to intertemporally adjust R&D e ort.

Since highway improvement project selection requires screening thousands of road segments with respect to crashes for further analysis and final project selection, we provide a two-step project selection methodology and describe an application case to demonstrate its advantages. In the first step of the proposed methodology, we will use odds against observing a given crash count, injury count, ...