The evaluation of the biomechanical performance that can be expected from alternative designs for restrained occupant rollover protection was approached through the use of finite element modeling. Finite element models of vehicle designs and the Hybrid III dummy were used to evaluate elements of alternative rollover occupant protection system designs. Results from rollover crash tests of a prod...

In this paper, we propose a novel system to localize a sound source in any planar direction using only two microphones. In our system, the two microphones are asymmetrically placed on a sphere, thus, 1) the diffraction by the sphere and the asymmetrical arrangement of the microphones give the localization cue including the frontback judgment, and 2) unlike the dummy head system, no previous mea...

The ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) was set up in 1993 and has already shown significant effects by 2010. This study empirically investigates the effect of trade creation on intra-ASEAN trade for the period of 1986 to 2010. Using the gravity model, we find that major determinants of bilateral trade in ASEAN are GDP, population, relative endowment, distance and common border. A dummy variable ...

This paper presents methods for improving the attention span of workers in tasks that heavily rely on their attention to the occurrence of rare events. The underlying idea in our approach is to dynamically augment the task with some dummy (artificial) events at different times throughout the task, rewarding the worker upon identifying and reporting them. The proposed approach is an alternative ...

Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings. We show that the coefficient on a group indicator va...

Issues that are related to decision making that is based on dispersed knowledge are discussed in the paper. A system, that was proposed in the article [12], is used in this paper. In the system the process of combining classifiers in coalitions is very important and negotiation is applied in the clustering process. The main aim of the article is to compare the results obtained using five differ...

While passwords, by definition, are meant to be secret, recent trends have witnessed an increasing number of people sharing their email passwords with friends, colleagues, and significant others. However, leading websites like Google advise their users not to share their passwords with anyone, to avoid security and privacy breaches. To understand users’ general password sharing behavior and pra...

Bumb and Hoede have shown that a cooperative game can be split into two games, the reward game and the fine game, by considering the sign of quantities c v S in the c-diagram of the game. One can then define a solution x for the original game as x = x r − x f , where x r is a solution for the reward game and x f is a solution for the fine game. Due to the distinction of cooperation rewards and ...

A new method for measuring and analyzing customer satisfaction is presented in this paper. The mathematical model expresses the fundamental relationship between criteria and the overall utility which expresses the global customer satisfaction. The procedure used to estimate the basic model is dummy variable regression with constraints. The method can very simply consider nonmetric data by codif...