An internet survey has been conducted among drivers in the Netherlands and Japan to study their attitude towards Green ITS. The survey focuses on driving behavior and ITS experience, attitude towards environment, and Green ITS preferences. The results show that money-related information gives the most effective motivation for drivers to follow fuel efficient behavior; the least preferred inform...

Several innovations are introduced to ameliorate error in space object attitude estimation. A radiometric measurement noise model is developed to define the observation uncertainty in terms of optical, environmental, and sensor parameters. This reduces biases in the space objects’ posterior state distributions. Additionally, a correlated angular rate dynamics model is adopted to decouple the ef...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Low consumption of fruit and vegetable is frequently viewed as an important contributor to obesity risk. With increasing childhood obesity and relatively low fruit and vegetable consumption among Thai children, there is a need to identify the determinants of the intake to promote fruit and vegetable consumption effectively. SUBJECTS/METHODS This cross-sectional study was...

BACKGROUND The residents' knowledge, attitudes and practices related to ambient air pollution and health will help to improve the understanding of environmental protection and make environmental health policies more targeted and effective. This study aimed at knowing the attitudes and behaviors towards ambient air pollution and health. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Ningbo,...

We conducted a mail survey of practicing pediatricians in Georgia to assess their knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding recording patients' environmental histories. Of 477 eligible pediatricians, 266 (55.8%) responded. Fewer than one in five reported having received training in environmental history-taking. Pediatricians reported that they strongly believe in the importance of environme...

This paper reports on construction of a scale to measure a firm’s stance towards creative consumers – those adapting, modifying or transforming a proprietary offering. The instrument assesses an organization’s awareness of its creative customers, its attitude towards its creative customers, and finally the action taken in response. Tests of reliability and validity resulted in three clearly def...

In this research, the concepts of attitude and personality trait as well as their roles in agents’ decision-making concepts are discussed with regard to job selection and team member selection in multiagent team formation. This research introduces the concept of attitude to guide an agent’s behavior and personality trait to model other agents’ behavior tendency and identify helpfulness of them ...