With gasoline at a record $2.50 a gallon in the United States, and with the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, now is a good time to see where the United States has been and where it might be heading in the near future, in regard to automobiles and government policies to regulate their efficiency. In this paper, I will first look at the recent history of American energy policy as applied...

BACKGROUND Occupational and environmental exposures mostly represent mixtures of genotoxic agents, whereas the specificity of biomarker measurements varies widely. Exploration of correlations among biomarkers contributes to the further progress of molecular cancer epidemiology and to the selection of the optimal biomarkers for the investigation of human exposure to carcinogens. The aim of this ...

Automobile crashes are the leading cause of death for those aged 3 to 33, with 43,005 (118 per day) Americans killed in 2002 alone. Seat belt use reduces the risk of serious injury in an accident, and refraining from using a cell phone while driving reduces the risk of an accident. Cell phone use while driving increases accident rates, and leads to 2,600 U.S. fatalities each year. An active pro...

A green windshield at night reduces acuity from 20/32 to 20/46, and combined with pink glasses to 20/60. Resolution thresholds decreased from 10 to 42 seconds of arc, so that a pair of objects that could be seen through a clear windshield at 100 feet decreased to 25 feet through the green. Other visual functions found "defective in night-driving conditions with tinted glass" were stereo acuity,...

Based on reviewing resource theory, social capital theory, organizational learning, and technological evolution and related theories, and analyzing of environments that auto mobile enterprises in China face, the authors put forward a conceptual framework of competitive advantage and technology catching up of Independent Brand automobile enterprises in China. The model indicates that market iden...

Comfort on automobile seats is lived daily by thousands of drivers. Epistemologically, comfort can be understood under the theory of complexity, since it emerges from a chain of interrelationships between man and several elements of the system. This interaction process can engender extreme comfort associated to the feeling of pleasure and wellbeing or, on the other hand, lead to discomfort, nor...

BACKGROUND By law, applicants for driver's licenses not only have to have sufficient vision, but also have to use this sight reliably. The nystagmus patient takes advantage of ocularly induced head turns and other forms of compensation. In the approved test procedures he is deprived of such compensations. MATERIALS AND METHODS The eye movements of a nystagmus patient were recorded oculographi...

Executive Summary We develop a consumer-level model of vehicle choice to shed light on the erosion of the U.S. automobile manufacturers' market share during the past decade. We examine the influence of vehicle attributes, brand loyalty, product line characteristics, and dealerships. We find that nearly all of the loss in market share for U.S. manufacturers can be explained by changes in basic v...

anthropometry is the study of human body dimensions and proportions among different races. in work environments, poorly designed workstations and tools reduce productivity and can lead to fatigue and musculoskeletal injuries. this study aimed to determine the anthropometric characteristics of iranian workers in comparison to three other asian countries. this cross-sectional study evaluated 400 ...

It is coming to the twelfth periodical five-year plan in China. When taking national and international situation into consideration, China will be still in the strategic period full of opportunities, in which industrial reconstruction is her main task. Automobile industry is basic, mainstay and strategic .in nature. It has a large added value, a long industrial chain and is high technologies lo...