BACKGROUND Falls are a significant source of morbidity and mortality in older adults, with up to 53% of these falls due to tripping. To aid in preventing trip-related falls, the factors that increase an individual's risk of falling following a trip must be identified. This study investigated whether an older adult's gait influences their risk of failing following a trip. METHODS Trips were in...

In the transportation literature in general and the travel behaviour literature specifically, there is no consensus on the representation of weather in behavioural models, ranging from studies that use direct meteorological measurements, such a continuous variable for inches of rainfall or temperature, to indicator variables (which themselves are often subjectively derived) for qualitative weat...

Optimization based control methods for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles require the knowledge of an entire driving cycle and an elevation profile to obtain the optimal performance over fixed driving route. In this paper, the method using traffic information to predict the future driving cycle and the optimal control strategy based on Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle (PMP) are investigated in orde...

BACKGROUND Myofibroblasts are the critical effector cells in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis which carries a high degree of morbidity and mortality. We have previously identified Type II TGFβ receptor interacting protein 1 (TRIP-1), through proteomic analysis, as a key regulator of collagen contraction in primary human lung fibroblasts--a functional characteristic of myofibroblasts, and ...

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract This paper presents an attempt of simulating daily fluctuations of river discharge at global scale. Total Runoff Integrating Pathways (TRIP) is a global river routing model which can help to isolate the river basins, inter-basin transport ...

Rapid technological developments in the field of personal communication services probe visions of a next generation in Advanced Traveller Information Services (ATIS). These technological developments provoke a renewed interest in the use and effect of such next-generation ATIS among academia as well as practitioners. To understand better the potential use and effects of such next-generation ATI...

Controlled Language (CL) for Ontology Editing tools offer an attractive alternative to naive users, wishing to create Ontologies. However despite the benefits of CLs, users are still required to learn the correct syntactic structures in order to use the Controlled Language properly. Referring to CL vocubulary/syntax rules can be time consuming, annoying and in certain cases may prevent uptake o...

This work reconsiders the concept of community-based trip sharing proposed by Hasan et al. (2018) that leverages structure commuting patterns and urban communities to optimize sharing. It aims at quantifying benefits autonomous vehicles for sharing, compared a car-pooling platform where are driven their owners. In considered problem, each rider specifies desired arrival time her inbound (commut...

Planning a trip to a particular destination can be a time consuming and daunting task. There is a wide range of information sources available, each claiming to present the best deals and the most complete tourist information. This information as well as the current weather, budget constraints, time constraints, and personal preferences all need to be taken into account when planning the perfect...