ID: 321 It is believed that increasing truck volumes contribute to traffic congestion, pavement deterioration and crashes due to differences in the physical and operational characteristics of trucks and passenger cars. A 2002 US DOT report showed that the number of crashes involving commercial trucks had increased by 40.3% over the last two decades. Based on Insurance Institute for Highway Safe...

background while cyclists and pedestrians are known to be at significant risk for severe injuries when exposed to road traffic accidents (rta) involving trucks, little is known about rta injury risk for truck drivers. objectives the aim of this study was to analyze the injury severity in truck drivers following rtas. patients and methods our local accident research unit prospectively documented...

As refrigeration has become one of the basic needs people of this era. The permanent demand of refrigerator is continuously increases in India and also in the whole world. The energy consumption in the refrigeration is also increases. Approximately it contribute around 13% energy consume in this sector. In the kitchen appliances, only the refrigerator consumes power continuously throughout a da...

The water-cooled heat exchanger is one of the key components in a pulse tube refrigerator. Its heat exchange effectiveness directly influences the cooling performance of the refrigerator. However, effective heat exchange does not always result in a good performance, because excessively reinforced heat exchange can lead to additional flow loss. In this paper, seven different water-cooled heat ex...

In this paper, some results concerning the k-truck problem are produced. First, the algorithms and their complexity concerning the off-line k-truck problem are discussed. Following that, a lower bound of competitive ratio for the on-line k-truck problem is given. Based on the Position Maintaining Strategy (PMS), we get some new results which are slightly better than those of [1] for general cas...

BACKGROUND HIV prevention programmes for truck drivers form part of the HIV control efforts, but systematic data on the outputs and cost of providing such services in India are not readily available for further planning and use of resources. METHODS Detailed cost and output data were collected from written records and interviews for 2005-2006 fiscal year using standardized methods at six samp...

Domestic refrigerator-freezers are very widely used for food preservation. There is still growing demand especially in developing countries like India. The growth rate in India for domestic refrigerators is about 15 percent. A large inventory of such appliances exists in India. In recent years, an emphasis is paid to improve the energy efficiency of domestic refrigerator-freezers have to reduce...

background: long distance truck drivers (ldtds) and their sexual health risk behaviors have been associated with greater prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (stis), hiv and hepatitis virus transmission. however, there is no information about iranian ldtds' high-risk behaviors. the aim of this investigation was to estimate the prevalence of high-risk behaviors in iranian ldtds. methods...

In this paper, we present an innovative decision support system that simultaneously provides predictive analytics to logistic nodes as well as to collaborating truck companies. Logistic nodes, such as container terminals, container depots or container loading facilities, face heavy workloads through a large number of truck arrivals during peak times. At the same time, truck companies suffer fro...

Quantum technology promises revolutionizing applications in information processing, communications, sensing and modelling. However, efficient on-demand cooling of the functional quantum degrees of freedom remains challenging in many solid-state implementations, such as superconducting circuits. Here we demonstrate direct cooling of a superconducting resonator mode using voltage-controllable ele...