BACKGROUND Wrist anthropometrics and posture have been implicated in the development of carpal tunnel syndrome, yet it remains unclear how external measurements relate to carpal tunnel parameters in neutral and non-neutral postures. The purposes of this study were (i) to evaluate the effect of slice orientation on several indices of carpal tunnel size and shape and (ii) to examine the relations...

Vehicular connectivity can be fairly considered a future killer application, adding extra value to the car industry and operator’s services. Its main feature is to provide car safety and passenger comfort. Thus the issue of content distribution for these emerging vehicular applications needs to be handled carefully. In this paper we have done comparative study of different systems that can be u...

In the last few years Wireless Vehicular networks have been in the limelight for their potential in many human applications such Road Safety, Info-Mobility, Infotainment, Environmental Monitoring, etc. The research community responded to the new emerging needs designing a number of applications, algorithms, and protocols to cope with the vehicular environment. Differently from tactical ad hoc n...

Despite recent progress for vehicular communication in research, development, field tests, and standardization, security is still in an early phase though it represents a crucial part of the vehicular communication system. So far, no vehicular security architecture has been proposed which integrates existing individual solutions for vehicle registration, data integrity, authentication, and so o...

Vehicular traffic simulations are useful in applications such as emergency planning and traffic management, for rapid response and resilience. Here, a parallel traffic simulation approach is presented that reduces the time for simulating emergency vehicular traffic scenarios. We use a reverse computation-based optimistic execution approach to parallel execution of microscopic, vehicular-level m...

This article provides a panorama on the security in vehicular networks’ environments. The special characteristics of these environments are presented and a general classification for the different types of attacks illustrated by some relevant attacks examples is introduced. Consequently, some key security requirements and security challenges are derived, considering Intelligent Transportation S...

Vehicular ad-hoc networks have gained a significant attention during the last decades from the industry and academia with the goals of increasing road safety and traffic management among others. However, vehicles are normally constrained by resources, including computation, storage, and radio spectrum bandwidth. Many emerging applications demand complex computation and large storage, including ...

Mitigation of atmospheric pollution has been a topic of concern over the past decades. In this study, tree rings have been used to reconstruct past climates as well as to assess the effects of recent climatic and environmental changes on tree growth. Vehicular emission is one of the major sources of pollutants in the atmosphere and this study focused on the Haatso-Atomic road which over the yea...

geophysical techniques remain the only ways to remotely and non-destructively sense the earth’s near subsurface and as such have the most promising prospect for rapid and accurate detection of underground tunnels. today, electrical resistivity and seismic refraction geophysical methods have been greatly developed to identify structures and underground cavities. in this study, the ability of the...