Estimations of daylight factors, used to calculate energy savings, typically do not consider occupants’ use of window blinds. The data indicate that such estimations should include some assessment of window blind usage, because over half of the window area is usually occluded in some way by blinds. It appears that many occupants purposely use window blinds to sunlight from penetrating their wor...

vehicle occupants comprise a considerable proportion of traffic crash victims in iran. this paper has focused on vehicleoccupants’ injury severity and employed the classification and regression tree (cart) technique in order toidentify the most important variables affecting the injury severity of these road users in crashes occurred on rural freewaysand multilane highways in iran over a three y...

Buildings currently account for 30–40 percent of total global energy consumption. In particular, commercial buildings are responsible for about 12 percent of global energy use and 21 percent of the United States’ energy use, and the energy demand of this sector continues to grow faster than other sectors. This increasing rate therefore raises a critical concern about improving the energy perfor...

Background: Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are the main public health problems in Iran. The seat belts, which are vehicle safety devices, are imperative to reduce the risk of severe injuries and mortality. Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate injury patterns, severity and outcome among belted and unbelted car occupants who were injured in car accidents. Patients and Methods: This cro...

OBJECTIVE Head injury is the most common cause of death for child occupants in motor vehicle crashes (MVCs). The morbidity associated with nonlethal MVC-related head injuries is of great clinical consequence as well. The purpose of this study was to identify the frequency of, and risk factors for, clinically significant head injury (CSHI) in child occupants in MVCs. METHODS A large, child-spe...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND; Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of death and may be related to social inequality. OBJECTIVE To establish whether patterns of seatbelt use vary between different socioeconomic communities in the Cape Town Metropole, South Africa. METHODS Vehicles and their occupants at 7 high-volume crossings (3 in high-income areas) were placed under surveillance for 2 hours...

CONTEXT Motor vehicle (MV)-related injury is a leading cause of death and emergency department visits in the US. Information has been limited regarding the magnitude and types of injuries suffered by the survivors of MV crashes. OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence and patterns of neck strain/sprain injury among MV occupants treated in US hospital emergency departments. DESIGN AND PARTICIPAN...

BACKGROUND Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are the main public health problems in Iran. The seat belts, which are vehicle safety devices, are imperative to reduce the risk of severe injuries and mortality. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to evaluate injury patterns, severity and outcome among belted and unbelted car occupants who were injured in car accidents. PATIENTS AND METHODS This cr...

This study evaluates Mechanisms of Injury (MOI) that can be rapidly assessed at the scene of accident and may be used as predictors of severe injury for traffic accidents involving occupants in cars or trucks. The objective is to increase the knowledge of how MOI can be used to differentiate whether a patient is severely injured or not. This knowledge can be used to improve trauma triage system...

Previous research in crash injury severity analysis has largely focused on level of injury severity sustained by the driver of the vehicle or the most severely injured occupant of the vehicle. While such studies are undoubtedly useful, they do not provide a comprehensive picture of the injury profile of all vehicular occupants in crash-involved vehicles. This limits the ability to devise safety...