Few guidelines are available on providing safe transportation for children who cannot use conventional auto restraints. This article discusses the misuse of restraints and reviews several modified car seats and other restraints that have been tested and that meet safety standards.

sumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the United States Department ofAgriculture/Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS) the U.S. Department of Labor and its Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulate the use of chemicals in interstate commerce. Because each of these agencies arose through different enabling legislation and ...

Functional safety is critical to the automotive industry because no one would like take any risk due hazards caused by, for example, failures or unintended behaviors of electrical and/or electronic systems that are installed in serial production road vehicles [1] .

While the importance of developing software for privacy and authentication on the Internet can hardly be gainsaid today, the process of bringing standards to fruition can be a long and arduous one. We have used prototyping methods to track the efforts of the Internet Engineering Task Force network security group (IPSEC), concentrating on the software challenges and advantages posed by the stand...

Standardized safety practices for investigational drugs in clinical research protocols are limited and the vast majority of research pharmacists have concerns regarding its safety. Identified areas for medication safety risks include protocol complexity, medication ordering, and the processes for packaging, storage, and dispensing investigational medications. Inclusion of a pharmacist creates m...

The aim of the paper is to search for common guidelines for the future development of speech databases for less resourced languages in order to make them the most useful for both main fields of their use, linguistic research and speech technologies. We compare two standards for creating speech databases, one followed when developing the Slovene speech database for automatic speech recognition –...

Near-ultraviolet (UV-A: 315-400 nm), "black-light," electric lamps were invented in 1935 and ultraviolet insect light traps (ILTs) were introduced for use in agriculture around that time. Today ILTs are used indoors in several industries and in food-service as well as in outdoor settings. With recent interest in photobiological lamp safety, safety standards are being developed to test for poten...