The aim of this work is the creation of a realistic driver model to help develop new technologies to aid drivers in the execution of their driving tasks. A realistic driver model can reduce the time-consuming trial and error process of designing products, and thereby reduce the vehicle’s development time and cost. The overall goal of this research is to develop an interface between driver and v...

Collision warning/collision avoidance (CW/CA) systems must be designed to work seamlessly with a human driver, providing warning or control actions when the driver’s response (or lack of) is deemed inappropriate. The effectiveness of CW/CA systems working with a human driver needs to be evaluated thoroughly because of legal/liability and other (e.g. traffic flow) concerns. CW/CA systems tuned o...

OBJECTIVES The primary aim of this study was to determine how Parkinson's disease (PD) affects driving performance. It also examined whether changes in driver safety were related to specific clinical disease markers or an individual's self rating of driving ability. METHODS The driving performance of 25 patients with idiopathic PD and 21 age matched controls was assessed on a standardised ope...

With advances in next-generation sequencing(NGS) technologies, large number of multiple 1 types of high-throughput genomics data are available. A great challenge in exploring cancer 2 mechanism is to identify the driver genes from the mutation genes by analyzing and integrating 3 multi-types genomics data. Breast cancer is known as a heterogeneous disease. The identification of 4 subtype-specif...

background the most accidents can be directly attributed to human factors. hence, more traffic crashes result from driver malfunctioning which from among them, the driver behavior is a proximal factor in the road traffic injuries causation chain. objectives this study aims to investigate relationship between aberrant driving behaviors questionnaire (dbq factors) and self-report crashes involvem...

Power MOSFETs require a gate drive circuit to translate the on/off signals from an analog or digital controller into the power signals necessary to control the MOSFET. This paper provides details of MOSFET switching action in applications with clamped inductive load, when used as a secondary synchronous rectifier, and driving pulse/gate drive transformers. Potential driver solutions including d...

In this paper, a printed wideband Yagi-Uda antenna with a novel folded dipole driver is proposed. The folded dipole driver is comprised of a folded dipole and a microstrip feedline which functions as an internal balun to mainly determine its wide impedance bandwidth. With the optimized parameters, an operating band of 1.69 GHz ∼ 2.72 GHz can be obtained. Besides the folded dipole driver, the br...

This analysis identified the underlying dimensions of driver performance using data obtained from drivers engaged in secondary manual tasks. Randomly chosen subjects balanced for age and gender used one of five advanced navigation and communication systems while driving on a closed roadway. Fifteen driver performance variables were averaged and standardized across subjects for 79 tasks. There w...

Driving is a complex process that places considerable demands on cognitive and physical functions. Many complications of diabetes can potentially impair driving performance, including those affecting vision, cognition and peripheral neural function. Hypoglycemia is a common side-effect of insulin and sulfonylurea therapy, impairing many cognitive domains necessary for safe driving performance. ...

In this paper, we apply a new methodology to the design of barrier synchronization in ATM networks. To improve performance, a small set of core subopera-tions is moved to the device driver or to the network adapter rmware. Three diierent barrier algorithms are studied. The results of analysis and simulation indicate which algorithms are best suited for the proposed methods and show that impleme...