Xuting Shen, Jianmin Chen, Jiali Li, Julia Kofler and Karl Herrup Division of Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, 604 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms o...

road traffic injuries are known as the most prevalent childhood injury and besides being the greatest cause of child mortality, place an extraordinary burden on health care system. children’s limitation in cognitive, physical and social development makes them more vulnerable in road traffic injuries than adults. their small structure cause challenges to see and be seen and their risk taking beh...

Introduction: Sleepiness may predispose drivers to road traffic accidents. Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome is the most common medical cause of sleepiness. Hence increased neck circumference (NC) and obesity are known as obstructive sleep apnea syndrome risk factors. This study was conducted to assess OSAS role in occurrence of road traffic accidents in sleeping drivers of commercial heavy veh...

The presented system takes the advantage of information-communication technology, ICT and introduces wireless networks’ methodology into vehicles and road infrastructure for a significant enhancement of road traffic safety. Warning signals are transmitted to the back of column of vehicles and it enables the distant drivers to stop in time or to make such operation automatically. Largescale simu...

Behcet’s disease (BD) has a worldwide prevalence which ranges between 0.1/1000 and 1/10,000 with a significant presence in Asian countries from the Mediterranean to Japan, hence the term Silk Road Disease [2]. Turkey has reported the highest prevalence ranging from 80 to 420/100,000. However, there are few reported cases in Africa, North Europe and America [3,4]. Males in western Asia are commo...

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In a search for spectral parameters that can be used to distinguish and to model fricatives, spectral moments, dynamic amplitude, and slope above maximum amplitude were computed for a fricative corpus including sustained fricatives at di erent e ort levels, and fricatives in vowel context. Moments varied signi cantly by frequency range used in computation. M3 appeared to vary the least across f...

Should a rm favor a weaker or stronger employee in a contest? Despite a widespread emphasis on rewarding the best employees, managers continue to tolerate and even favor poor performers. Contest theory reveals that evenly matched contests are the most intense, which implies that a contest designer can maximize each player's e ort by arti cially boosting the underdog's chances. We apply this typ...