The tidal excursion length along the Shatt Al-Arab estuary was estimated based on mathematical relation proposed by Parsa and Shahidi (2010). field measurements of water level, bathymetry, discharges were conducted to fulfill objective study. results revealed that is site-specific depends characteristics location which include phases, geometry. However, indicated there are pronounced difference...

This paper uses the context of a longitudinal rural study, which examined the extent of psychological trauma and predictors of that trauma following road accidents, to highlight issues for road accident survivors. It then outlines what counselling and psychological services are currently offered to road accident victims by the insurance companies and by a voluntary agency, the Road Trauma Suppo...

This paper describes common features in data sets from motor vehicle insurance companies and proposes a general approach which exploits knowledge of such features in order to model high-dimensional data sets with a complex dependency structure. The results of the approach can be a basis to develop insurance tariffs. The approach is applied to a collection of data sets from several motor vehicle...

INTRODUCTION Injuries and fatalities due to large truck and other vehicle crashes have decreased over the last decade, but motor vehicle injuries remain a leading cause of death for both the working and general populations. The present study was undertaken to determine semi truck driver and sleeper berth passenger injury risk in a moving semi truck collision using a matched-pair cohort study. ...

Supply chains are exposed to different risks, which can be mitigated by various strategies based on the characteristics and needs of companies. In collaboration with Ford, we develop a decision support framework choose best mitigation strategy against supply disruption risk, especially for companies operating small supplier base low inventory levels. Our is multistage stochastic programming mod...