1. Introduction The development of intelligent vehicle safety systems is rapidly moving from autonomous systems relying on vehicle's own sensors towards cooperative systems utilising communications between vehicles or between infrastructure and vehicles. The paper discusses the results of two recent European studies assessing the socio economic impacts of intelligent vehicle systems, including ...

9 Scenarios 15 9.1 The Software Breeder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 9.1.1 Socio-economic and Business Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 9.1.2 Technological Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 9.2 Artificial Beings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 9.2.1 Socio-economic and business...

background and purpose: equity in access to health care has become a desirable policy objective. therefore, accessibility to health care should be provided based on health needs rather than socio- demographic variables. this will lead to a better utilization of health care and improvement of equity in health. the aim of this paper is to examine the effects of family socio-economic status as an ...

nowadays democracy is considered to be one of the most important parameters of development in new era. as a result, the trend toward democratization of a society’s culture is an essential step to achieve a stable development. in that case, identifying the relationship between acceptability of democracy and socialcultural factors is very important. in this study, using the method of survey and q...

BACKGROUND: The rate of total edentulism is said to be increasing in developing countries and this had been attributed mainly to the high prevalence of periodontal diseases and caries. Several reports have shown that non-disease factors such as attitude, behavior, dental attendance, characteristics of health care systems and socio-demographic factors play important roles in the aetiopathogenesi...

In this article physical activity, screen time, and academic work are studied as mediators between socio-economic status and sleep duration among school children in India. Participants were 268 school children aged 10-15 from Pune, India. They were sampled from private schools and impoverished public schools. We found that the highest socio-economic status children reported almost an hour and a...

Socio-economic maps contain important information regarding the population of a country. Computing these maps is critical given that policy makers often times make important decisions based upon such information. However, the compilation of socio-economic maps requires extensive resources and becomes highly expensive. On the other hand, the ubiquitous presence of cell phones, is generating larg...

Brucellosis is a highly contagious zoonotic and devastating disease that affects households’ potential to improve their well-being through trade in livestock and livestock commodities. Despite the disease being endemic in Zambia, there is inadequate information, on its socio-economic impact on the well-being of households rearing livestock. Therefore, a crosssectional study was conducted in Wes...