background and objective: sleepiness is one of the important factors in motor vehicle accidents, especially in commercial drivers (cds). obstructive sleep apnea (osa) has an important role in developing sleepiness. the stop-bang questionnaire is used in medical examinations of commercial drivers in iran by law. this study aimed to investigate the judgment that drivers prefer not to report their...

Habitat conversion for agriculture is a major driver of biodiversity loss, but our understanding of the demographic processes involved remains poor. We typically investigate the impacts of agriculture in isolation even though populations are likely to experience multiple, concurrent changes in the environment (e.g. land and climate change). Drivers of environmental change may interact to affect...

Model checking has been successfully employed for verification of industrial hardware systems. Recently, model checking techniques have also enjoyed limited success in verifying software systems, viz., device drivers. However, there are several hurdles which must be overcome before model checking can be used to handle industrial-scale software systems. This article reviews some of the prominent...

Net Promoter Score (NPS) has become the de facto standard for customer surveys; however, how can you get specific information about what drives customer referrals out of a “one question” survey? The goal of this paper is to explain how NPS survey results can be leveraged for achieving software business success, using Six Sigma concepts. The approach includes detection, selection, and validation...

Computer Vision (CV) and Machine Learning (ML) have seen a tremendous evolution within the last 15 years. One of the main drivers of this success is the application of machine learning methods to computer vision tasks (image registration, segmentation, 3D reconstruction, tracking, object detection, image classification, ...). These days it is widely agreed that difficult computational problems ...

Quantitative and systems pharmacology concepts and tools are the foundation of the model-informed drug development paradigm at Merck for integrating knowledge, enabling decisions, and enhancing submissions. Rigorous prioritization of modeling and simulation activities has enabled key drug development decisions and led to a high return on investment through significant cost avoidance. Critical f...

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exposure to vibration is the cause of some occupational injuries and diseases. objective of this study was determination of vibration exposure of tractor drivers and assessment of musculoskeletal disorder . this cross-sectional and descriptive- analytical study was administrated to 95 tractor drivers to census method and measuring induced vibration to the drivers was done in three axis, x, y, a...

Due to the technology available, most previous work in teleoperated robotics used relatively low-resolution video links and provided limited perceptual feedback to the teleoperator. In most cases, these projects reported only limited teleoperator success compared to vehicles with human drivers on-board. We set out to build a high-fidelity teleoperation system which takes advantage of recent tec...

A publication from PwC's Deals M&A Integration practice At a glance Despite best intentions, acquisitions too often fall short of meeting set expectations. A disciplined approach to integration will improve a dealmaker's chance of success and keep value drivers behind the deal in focus. Dealmakers that follow a disciplined integration approach will be able to build momentum, gain support and in...