Each year, before the summer holidays begin, first Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) flagship conference of year takes place. This year’s IEEE Vehicles Symposium (IV’22) was a great success, gathering more than 400 researchers and practitioners from industry universities, with 75% registrants attending on site.

We apply a cognitive modeling approach to the problem of measuring expertise on rank ordering problems. In these problems, people must order a set of items in terms of a given criterion (e.g., ordering American holidays through the calendar year). Using a cognitive model of behavior on this problem that allows for individual differences in knowledge, we are able to infer people's expertise dire...

Despite the reduction of mortality rate in the past years, coronary artery diseases (CADs) are the main reason of death in the world. Many factors including changes in nurses and medical staffs, numbers of beds influence the mortality rate of patients admitted in holidays and night time. The objectives of this study were to clarify the association between mortality rate and off-hours and holida...

A critical review was given to the diagnostic transition of hyperactive children, i.e., from attention deficit disorder to attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Based on the new diagnostic criteria for hyperactive children, or hyperkinetic disorders in ICD-10, 12 of 122 (9.8%) children with a bi...

OBJECTIVE ADHD is managed by stimulants that are effective but can cause growth retardation. Prescribers should ideally monitor children and trial a "drug holiday" to enable catch-up growth. Our aim was to map the experience of drug holidays from ADHD medication in children and adolescents. METHOD A comprehensive search of the literature identified 22 studies published during the period 1972 ...

Vitamin D has been linked with many health outcomes. The aim of this longitudinal study, was to assess predictors of seasonal variation of 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25(OH)D) (including use of supplements and holidays in sunny destinations) at a northerly latitude in the UK (57°N) in relation to bone health indicators. 365 healthy postmenopausal women (mean age 62.0 y (SD 1.4)) had 25(OH)D measureme...