A single grey-scale camera based object classification system for vehicle airbag deployment control in wide and frequent illumination variations is introduced. Image sequences are acquired using an active illumination systems that is used to minimise the effects of the widely varying levels of ambient illumination, combined with a means of shadow suppression. Twodimensional information of the o...

A single grey-scale camera based object classification system for vehicle airbag deployment control in wide and frequent illumination variations is introduced. Image sequences are acquired using an active illumination systems that is used to minimise the effects of the widely varying levels of ambient illumination, combined with a means of shadow suppression. Twodimensional information of the o...

OBJECTIVE To estimate prevalence of car safety seat (CSS) misuse for newborns on hospital discharge; and to identify potential risk and protective factors for CSS misuse. STUDY DESIGN We randomly sampled 291 mother-baby dyads from the newborn unit of an academic health center. Participants completed a survey and designated someone (themselves or another caregiver) to position their newborn in...

This review examines the risk that passenger airbags pose for children and discusses behavioral and technologic measures aimed at protecting children from airbag deployment. Although airbags reduce fatal crash injuries among adult drivers and passengers, this safety technology increases mortality risk among children younger than age 12. The magnitude of the risk is multiplied when children are ...

BACKGROUND General aviation accidents involving children are rare, but when they do happen, little is known about the children involved, including their age, restraint status, and injuries. This lack of information is due to the fact that the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) did not always collect detailed data about passengers involved in accidents. METHODS Consequently, in 2011, ...

To protect the driver of off-highway dump trucks from the harmful vibration, this paper presents the comparison results to determine the optimal damping of the seat system by different optimization design plans. Three optimization schemes are considered including individually optimizing the damping of the cushion, individually optimizing the damping of the seat suspension, and integrately optim...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated an education, distribution, and fitting program for increasing age-appropriate and correct child restraint use. METHODS We performed a cluster randomized trial involving 28 early childhood education centers in low socioeconomic status areas in Sydney, Australia. The main outcome was optimal restraint use defined as age-appropriate restraints, installed into the vehicle...

Based on 12 months of ethnographic, interview and archival research in a poor rural county China, this article argues that three state policies, namely the concentration educational resources seat, decision to make access county-seat public schools conditional upon homeownership school districts, (former) one-child policy, have compelled households participate real-estate market meet reproducti...

OBJECTIVES To increase booster seat use among low income parents. DESIGN/METHODS A pre-test/post-test design conducted in nine daycare centers with post-test observations four to eight weeks after the intervention. INTERVENTION Parents who participated in an educational training received free seats, educational programs were provided to all daycare staff and children, and signs in parking l...