Assessment of road safety performance of countries and their comparison is essential in guiding future decisions. The objective of this study is to search for effective safety pillars in road safety capacity strengthening based on the experiences of the leading countries. In this study, we first try to use the results of a structural equations model with partial least squares approach to select...

Road traffic accidents and the effects they subsequently incur are increasing dramatically, and estimating the cost of road traffic crashes could be a vital step in improving the recognition of this widespread problem. The main objective of this paper is to estimate the cost of road traffic crashes in Iran using the Human Capital (HC) Method. Results of this study indicate that the cost of road...

Ground based systems are the main approach used for off-road timber transportation throughout the world. Estimates of terrain transportation costs are required for several forest planning problems and for assessment of harvesting contracts and forest land values. Methods for these calculations can be categorized into two groups. Methods based on average transportation distance predate computers...

1 Mediton Medical Center, 22 El. Venizelou Str. Galatsi, Athens 11147 and Veterans Affairs Medical Center/Cardiology, 50 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20422 and George Washington University School of Medicine, 2121 I Street, Washington, DC. 2 Veterans Affairs Medical Center/Cardiology, 50 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20422 and George Washington University School of Medicine, 2121 I Stree...

We present a simple and inexpensive method for computing the estimates of error in a hierarchical linear radiosity method. Similar to the approach used in [1] for constant radiosity method, we compute lower and upper linear bounds of the actual radiosity function over the surface elements. We carry out this by computing linear upper and lower bounds of the kernel of the radiosity equation. Also...

Gehh ort zum Antragsabschnitt: 14.3 Werkzeuge zur prosodischen Etiket-tierung Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde im Rahmen des Verbundvorhabens Verbmobil vom Bundesministeriumf ur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) unter dem FF orderkennzeichen 01 IV 101 N 0 geff ordert. Die Verantwortung f ur den Inhalt dieser Arbeit liegt bei dem Autor.

The Bell Labs text-to-speech synthesis system for French is part of a multilingual e ort for text-to-speech generation which covers eight languages, including English, Italian, Russian, German, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, etc. The text analysis modules are composed of three main layers of analysis, built in a uni ed framework of nite-state transducers (Mohri & Sproat, 1996; Sproat, 1996). This ...

Für die Tierseuchenbekämpfung stehen Daten aus behördlichen ITSystemen sowie der epidemiologische Ermittlung vor Ort zur Verfügung. Vorhandene Datenbestände sind nicht immer aktuell und nachvollziehbar für jeden Betrieb vorhanden und zusätzliche Ermittlungen im Tierseuchenfall sind zeitintensiv und binden Personal. In diesem Artikel wird ein IT-Tool vorgestellt, welches durch sein technisches u...

Introduction With the decline in the overland Silk Routes in the fifth century AD, traders from West Asia looked increasingly to the sea for alternative routes to China, and the silk they so highly valued. By the seventh century, with new advances in rigging technology and celestial navigation, they had successfully mastered the long seaborne journey, establishing the transoceanic sailing route...