Despite the fact that buildings are designed to meet occupants' needs, many do not perform as planned, impacting upon both building performance and comfort. Analyzing comfort based on questionnaire surveys requires specific information appropriate use of visualization techniques identify possible dissatisfactory problems. However, existing studies provide a user-friendly interoperable with Buil...

Today’s architectural design approaches do not adequately address the relationship between users’ spatial, environmental and psychological experiences. Domestic experience generally indicates cognitive perceptions physical responses within dwelling spaces. Therefore, without a clear perception of occupants’ experiences, it is difficult to identify proper solutions for domestic environment. To u...

BACKGROUND Vehicle accidents in Greece are among the leading causes of death and the primary one in young people. The mechanism of injury influences the patterns of injury in victims of vehicle accidents. OBJECTIVE Identification and analysis of injury profiles of motor-vehicle trauma patients in a Greek level I trauma centre, by road-user category. PATIENTS AND METHODS The trauma registry ...

Injuries will inevitably occur when restraining loads are exerted on a car occupant by a seat belt during a crash. This study investigated the nature, frequency, and severity of such injuries to the chest and abdomen. Vehicle, occupant, and injury details were obtained from accidents occurring in the Midlands of England. The sample was chosen with emphasis on fatal and serious injuries while al...

Crash protection for an aging population is one of the primary drivers of contemporary passive safety research, yet estimates of the potential benefit of age-optimized systems have not been reported. This study estimates the number killed and injured in traffic crashes due to the age-related reduction in tolerance to loading. A risk-saturation model is developed and calibrated using 2000-2007 d...

OBJECTIVES To study the factors affecting anatomical region of injury, severity, and mortality among road users in United Arab Emirates so as to improve preventive measures. METHODS Data of the Trauma Registry of Al Ain city were collected prospectively over 3 years (2003-2006) at the main trauma hospital. For traffic injuries, the following were assessed: gender, nationality, road user type,...

Energy delivery to households can count up to 50% of primary energy consumption in the United States. As proactive response to this classical engineering sentiment, much efforts made to address this energy delivery process, however, have one one caveat in common: targeting at conditioning only air, despite it being a proxy of occupant comfort. What if we rethink the process of how we delivery e...

The aim of this study was to determine the potential benefits of retrofitting a seat belt reminder device to passenger vehicles in the Australian fleet. The analysis was restricted to vehicles up to ten years of age at the time of retrofitting which were assumed to have at least a driver airbag fitted. While seat belt wearing rates have been observed at around 95% in the front seat, non–wearing...