Trauma and short-fuse weather warning perceptions

Short-Term Weather Forecasting

Personal warning system for vessels under bad weather conditions

Many services provide weather forecasts, including severe weather alerts for the marine. It proves that many ships neglect the warnings because they expect to be able to handle the bad weather conditions. In order to identify possible unsafe situations the Coast Guard needs to observe marine vessel traffic 24 hours, 7 days a week. In this paper we propose a system that is able to support the Co...

Short-term Prediction of Weather Parameters Using Online Weather Forecasts

While people need to know tomorrow’s weather to decide suitable activities and precautions, so do the “intelligent” building management systems. The accuracy of the short-term prediction of the ambient conditions is particularly import for the development of predictive control strategies. Although the shortterm prediction methods for outside air temperature have been extensively studied, reliab...

Weather-adapted Vehicle Detection for Forward Collision Warning System

A preceding vehicle detection method for forward collision warning system is proposed. The proposed method utilizes the horizontal and vertical edges instead of underneath shadow to detect preceding vehicles without being influenced by variant weather conditions. We first extract horizontal edges and then check the vertical edges above horizontal edges to confirm the location of a horizontal ed...

Does Weather Matter? The Effect of Weather Patterns and Temporal Factors on Pediatric Orthopedic Trauma Volume

OBJECTIVES Orthopaedists often speculate how weather and school schedule may influence pediatric orthopedic trauma volume, but few studies have examined this. This study aims to determine: how do weather patterns, day, month, season and public school schedule influence the daily frequency of pediatric orthopedic trauma consults and admissions? METHODS With IRB approval, orthopedic trauma data...