The Association Between Risk-taking Behavior and Helmet Use Among Motorcyclist

the relationship between l2 learning strategy use and motivation among iranian efl learners

راهکاهای یادگیری که تحت عنوان "اعمال و رفتارهایی که توسط زبان آموزان بکار برده می شود جهت یادگیری موفق تر، هدفمندتر و جذاب تر زبان" (آکسفورد، 1989) تعریف شده است، نقش قابل توجهی در یادگیری زبان خارجی ایفا می کند. در مطالعات اخیر تأثیر عوامل مختلفی مانند سن، جنسیت، سطح بسندگی، فرهنگ، انگیزه، نوع نگرش، ویژگی های شخصیتی و... در استفاده و انتخاب راهکارهای یادگیری زبان بررسی شده است. در میان عوامل ب...

The effects of a mandatory motorcycle helmet law on helmet use and injury patterns among motorcyclist fatalities.

BACKGROUND The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has found that motorcycle helmets are 37% effective in preventing death and 65% effective in preventing brain injuries in a crash. Unfortunately, in 1995 Congress lifted federal sanctions against states without helmet laws and since then there have been a number of primary motorcycle helmet laws repealed or weakened. More liv...

Cooling of Motorcyclist Helmet with Thermoelectric Module

This paper deals with the development of cooling system for motorcycle helmet using thermoelectric technology. The system consists mainly of a heat sink and thermoelectric module. When electrical voltage is applied to the thermoelectric module, it will create a temperature difference across the thermoelectric module. This phenomenon is also known as Peltier effect, is being used to utilize elec...

Risk-Taking Behavior Under the Effect of Emotional Stimuli Among Children and Adults

Risk-taking has an important role in human’s life, either positive or negative. Thus, finding a method to control or drive this in a particular way could affect individuals and communities’ health by discouraging negative risks such as reckless driving or encouraging positive risks. Emotion induction is one of the methods that can enhance or reinforce risk-taking according to the perceived emot...

The association between personality and risk taking