A portable thermal chamber with a volume of only 2.5 l capable of reaching temperatures over the −5C to 70C range was designed and constructed. In order to make the thermal chamber lightweight and portable, two series connected thermoelectric modules were used as actuators since their size and performance characteristics allow the portability and precise temperature control. The PID control pro...

Scalable Implementation of Finite Elements by NASA (ScIFEN) is a parallel finite element analysis code written in C++. ScIFEN is designed to provide scalable solutions to computational mechanics problems. It supports a variety of finite element types, nonlinear material models, and boundary conditions. This report provides an overview of ScIFEi (“Sci-Fi”), the implicit solid mechanics driver wi...

Semantic Web technology has been a significant driver of recent research in Service Oriented Architectures to automate tasks such as discovery and reuse of services. However, commercial service providers currently offer their services only as web applications and do not generally offer Semantic Web Service interfaces for querying. In this paper, we consider the synthesis of such web application...

This paper targets the content selection problem in generating appropriate information in the domain of in-car navigation. It describes an algorithm that models driver’s knowledge about roads and routes and uses this knowledge to tailor turn-by-turn instructions from a commercial routing service to those more suitable to the individual driver’s background. This content selection component is on...

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) have the potential to accomplish a major contribution to road safety. This is valid for minor crashes to very severe accidents with personal injuries. The Allianz Centre for Technology attends the development of new driver assistance systems by carrying out accident analysis and estimating the efficiency of new ADAS. In this context new ADAS from differ...

background: although visual impairment of drivers is a very important risk factor for car accident, a few published papers have explored this issue in iran. this study aims to evaluate the visual fitness of public vehicle drivers in kerman province, southeast of iran. methods: a total of 4,003 public vehicle drivers were examined by one ophthalmologist for visual fitness in kerman province betw...

prevalence of chronic disease could be adversely having an effect on the capability of the driver. in addition, it must increase probability of accidents. the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between chronic medical conditions and contribution in crashes among drivers. in this cross-sectional study, the populations were professional truck drivers. the numbers of 323 people were...

In subscription services, customers who leave the company can be divided into two groups: customers who do not renew their fixed-term contract at the end of that contract, and others who just stop paying during their contract to which they are legally bound. Those two separate processes are often modeled together in a so-called churnprediction model, but are actually two different processes. Th...

Objective: The aim of this work is to develop a new index to assess the alertness state of drivers based on the respiratory dynamics derived from an inductive band. Background: Detection of drowsiness while driving is a leading objective in advanced driver assistance systems. A biomedical variable like thoracic effort, which is related to autonomic nervous system, provides direct information of...