Recently there has been a sizeable increase in research on fatigue and accidents in transportation. Therefore a meeting was convened last year to discuss prevalence, mechanisms and countermeasures, with the intention to produce an international consensus document. It was concluded that official statistics strongly underestimate prevalence, and that a reasonable estimate, based on research, lies...

Stomatopods (mantis shrimp), numbering over 450 species, are renowned for their exceptional visual and chemosensory abilities and yet virtually nothing is known about their use of acoustic signals. We present acoustic recordings and analyses of the sounds of a stomatopod, Hemisquilla californiensis. This species generates tonal, low frequency sounds, which we term ‘rumble’, that are spectrally ...

CHONDRITIC METEORITE PARENT BODY NECESSARY? J. M. Friedrich, J. Troiano, D. Rumble III, M. L. Rivers, Department of Chemistry, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024 (email: [email protected]), Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 5251 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington DC 2...

Prevention of road crashes is a major priority in most countries. The present thesis focuses on driver sleepiness and road crashes. The general aim of the thesis was to explore the relation between driver sleepiness and driver impairment and the changes that precede a crash or a similar safety-critical event, but also what constitutes good reliable behavioural / physiological measures of sleepi...