Ways of experiencing the patient encounter 1 Ways of experiencing the patient encounter 2 ABSTRACT Background: The aim of the present paper is to describe and analyse the impact of

The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) prediction models are fitted and validated based on crash data collected from a selected number of states in the United States. Therefore, for a jurisdiction to be able to fully benefit from applying these models, it is necessary to calibrate or recalibrate them to local conditions. The first edition of the HSM recommends calibrating the models using a one-size-f...

The traditional manual approach of pavement condition evaluation is being replaced by more sophisticated automated vehicle systems. Although these systems have eased and hastened management processes, research ongoing to further improve their performances. An average state road agency handles thousands kilometers the network, most which multiple lanes. Yet, for practical reasons, are designed e...

Coordination is an essential ingredient of joint activity in humanagent-robot teams. In this paper, we discuss some of the challenges and requirements for successful coordination, and briefly how we have used KAoS HART services framework to support coordination in a multi-team humanrobot field exercise.

PURPOSE To summarize currently existing research regarding the assessment of functional capacity in low back injured workers. METHOD Literature review. RESULTS Methods of functional capacity evaluation are described and critical components of an examination of functional capacity identified in relationship to federal occupational categorization and guidelines. CONCLUSIONS Evaluation of th...

whereas in other states similar roads are financed locally. Larger governments attain scale economies. However, they also tend to be more bureaucratic and have higher operating costs, all else being equal, because of problems such as span of control. A study was done to relate highway expenditures with the share of expenditure by state governments to determine how governments should allocate ex...

manual citrus harvesting is commonly performing hard, expensive and time consuming. in this study, a factorial experiment with a completely randomized design in three replications was performed to find out the effect of frequency (three levels of 5, 7.5 and 10 hz), vibration time (three levels of 10, 15 and 20 seconds) on harvesting capacity and losses of thomson cultivar of orange. the results...

In this paper, we study the capacity of Vehicular Ad Hoc NETwork (VANET). Due to the particular topology of such a network, results on the capacity of two dimensionnal ad hoc networks are not convenient. Indeed, the nodes are ditributed on a line (the road or the highway), thus they form a chain of nodes. This particular topology reduces the spatial reuse with regard to two dimensionnal network...