16 There has been growing interest in establishing food waste prevention and recovery 17 programs throughout the world. The drive to target food waste stems from increasing concerns 18 about resource conservation, food security, food waste’s environmental and economic costs, and 19 a general trend in the waste management industry to transition to more sustainable practices. 20 Here the drivers ...

Human factors and flight operations experts have been studying crew performance issues with commercial transport autoflight and FMS interfaces for more than 20 years. A group at Boeing, in response to this work, has developed a new autoflight/FMS mode set and new interface design. In this paper, we discuss the drivers for the project, our method for generating autoflight modes, and design princ...

The incidence of fatality over the period 2010-2014 from automobile accidents in North Cyprus is 2.75 times greater than the average for the EU. With the prospect of North Cyprus entering the EU, many investments will need to be undertaken to improve road safety in order to reach EU benchmarks. The objective of this study is to provide local estimates of the value of a statistical life and inju...

Multi-Channel Access has the potential to solve the throughput and scalability issues that mar the performance of 802.11 mesh and adhoc networks. It allows multiple simultaneous transmissions in a radio neighborhood thereby increasing network throughput and scalability. In spite of this potential, it is limited to simulation studies and its implementation on hardware is rare. In this demo, we d...

Aside from R&D, sales and marketing have long been the drivers of commercial success of the pharmaceutical enterprise. Marketing efforts have historically focused primarily on physicians and patients, the underlying engines of demand. However, as the number of expensive therapeutics entering the market grows and the need to contain costs intensifies, a new set of stakeholders—loosely defined as...

From version 2.6.22, the mac80211 framework has been incorporated as part of the stock kernel in Linux. This means millions of Linux based devices depend on this framework to provide wireless networking. The framework provides functionalities and interfaces for wireless device drivers (e.g., ath5k) to delegate common tasks to the kernel and to exchange information between physical and upper lay...

This article presents a study on the sexual lifestyle of long distance lorry drivers in India. Using a questionnaire survey method, a total of 5709 consecutive long distance lorry drivers were interviewed by three trained investigators between March 1994 and August 1994. Results showed that 87% (4949 men) of subjects were sexually promiscuous, of whom only 11% (563) used condoms during commer...

Background: HIV thrives on mobile population. Truck drivers particularly the long distance truck drivers are more vulnerable to HIV infection, because they travel a lot, remain cut off from the mainstream society, often engage in activities such as having unsafe sex with commercial sex workers and fellow crew members, in order to reduce their loneliness. Material & Methods: In this study 75 tru...

conclusions due to the long exposure to the loud noise during the day, hearing loss in drivers is significant. the left ear displays greater loss than the right ear. therefore, strategies to prevent hearing loss in drivers could include education, lifestyle changes and compliance issues related to hearing health, use of personal protective equipment, conducting periodic examinations and early t...