Figure 1 shows the front side of the booth on the very last day, August 13, 2015, when Augustus Jayaraj joined Cheon-Sig Lee and Sarjinder Singh with 40 elephants. There were already 100 monkeys of different colors, 100 female giraffes, 100 male giraffes, and 100 spidermen. There were also three dozen flashing balls and 100 tiny bears. For the first three days, these toys were given freely to t...

In this foreword, we attempt to recall some memories annotated with appropriate photographs from the booth STAT-HAWKERS at the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM)-2013 held in Montreal, Canada during August 3–8, 2013. There were three main advertising posters: one for the book, “Thinking Statistically: Elephants Go to School”; second for the monograph, “Advanced Sampling Theory with Applications: H...

The roadside unit (RSU) plays an important role in VANET environments for privacy preservation. In order to conserve the privacy of a vehicle, the issued certificate must be updated frequently via RSUs. If a certificate expires without being updated, the services for the vehicle will be terminated. Therefore, deploying as more as possible RSUs ensures that the certificate can be updated before ...

Many researchers have failed to utilize back-calculation to estimate traffic emissions effectively or have obtained unclear results. In this study, the back-calculation of traffic-related PM10 emission factors based on roadside concentration measurements was analyzed. Experimental conditions were considered to ensure the success of back-calculation. Roadside measurements were taken in a street ...

Occupational exposure to lead is common among automobile technicians and constitutes 0.9% of total global health burden with a majority of cases in developing countries. The aim of this study was to determine and compare the blood lead levels of automobile technicians in roadside and organised garages in Lagos State, Nigeria. This was a comparative cross-sectional study. Data were collected usi...

Vehicular ad-hoc networks are expected to be a key enabling technology for the development of future Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs), by delivering a wide range of services, spanning from safety alerting to route guidance and entertainment. Most of ITS applications require vehicles on the road to access the Internet through wireless communications with road-side units. The high vehicl...