Optimally minimizing delay times at signalized intersections can significantly improve both traffic flow and safety. However, most traffic flow optimizing tools do not measure the effect on safety. This study uses nonlinear programming (NLP) algorithms to optimally minimize delay times and employs both Safety performance functions (SPFs) and empirical Bayes (EB) before-after methodology to meas...

conclusions based on of this study, management has an important role in creating a positive safety climate. individual characteristics can influence thee safety climate. management commitment to safety is an important factor in the success of safety programs. results final scoring was done on a scale of one through ten. the highest scores were achieved in personal values (mean score, 8.7 ± 1.36...

an interface part is used between clutch pedal and clutch cable in peugeot, samand, rd and peugeot pars. this part is consisted of two pieces. the main body is made of polyamide 6.6 and the second part is made of ck45.due to the fact that the two pieces are made of different assembling geometry with respect to each other, therefore, has caused performance problems which may result in clutch cab...

  Background: Factor VII concentrates are used in patients with congenital or acquired factor VII deficiency or treatment of hemophilia patients with inhibitors. In this research, immunoaffinity chromatography was used to purify factor VII from prothrombin complex (Prothrombin-Proconvertin-Stuart Factor-Antihemophilic Factor B or PPSB) which contains coagulation factors II, VII, IX and X. The a...

five-zone simulating moving bed (smb) system, designed for ternary separation, is a modified form of standard four-zone smb which is only effective in binary separation. it was reported in literature that the five-zone smb separates the extract-ii stream with a lower purity value than that of raffinate and extract-i streams. to address this issue, five zone smb was designed, using safety margin...

a brief background to the development of the rock engineering design process is given, showing that since the development of the science of mathematics, deterministic methods have been used to perform various calculations. the variability of rock properties and support characteristics have always been known. however, they were not explicitly used in design but compensated for by the use of a sa...

This study aims to validate, using finite element analysis (FEA), the design concept by comparing the fatigue behavior of hip implant stems coated with composite (carbon/PEEK) and polymeric (PEEK) coating materials corresponding to different human activities: standing up, normal walking and climbing stairs under dynamic loadings to find out which of all these models have a better performance in...