In Europe traffic accidents are now widely recorded in national data bases. In view of the massive amounts of accident data, the use of data mining tools is essential to sift truly relevant information, and to extract reliable relations between injuries severity and potential causation factors. We present an innovative data mining approach for in depth investigation of causation in accidents da...

Is the Addiction Severity Index–Multimedia Version a viable alternative to the expensive and potentially unreliable Standard Addiction Severity Index? The Addiction Severity Index– Multimedia Version is a CD-ROM based simulation of the interviewer-administered Standard Addiction Severity Index (ASI-MV, 2003). This study has clients in treatment self-administer the Addiction Severity Index – Mul...

Ship-related marine oil spills pose a significant threat to the environment, and while it may not be possible prevent such incidents entirely, effective clean-up efforts can minimize their impact on environment. The success of these is influenced by various factors, including accident-related factors as type accident, location, environmental weather conditions, well emergency response-related a...