This paper describes an attempt to shed some light on road safety in Asia Pacific region by characterizing and assessing its road accidents. The relevant national road accident data were extracted from centralized data sources of international agencies. Due to data incompleteness and missing values, 21 Asia Pacific countries, presenting more than half of the world’s population, were selected fo...

Vehicle seat suspension is one of very important components to provide ride comfort, in particular, commercial vehicles, to reduce driver fatigue due to long hours driving. This paper presents a study on active control of seat suspension to reduce vertical vibration transmitted from uneven road profile to driver body. The control problem will be firstly studied by proposing an integrated seat s...

OBJECTIVE Road traffic injuries (RTIs) are the leading cause of disability-adjusted life years lost in Oman, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. Injury prevention strategies often overlook the interaction of individual and behavioural risk factors in assessing the severity of RTI outcomes. We conducted a systematic investigation of the underlying interactive effects of age and gender on the ...

Aqueous Solvation Method for Recombinant Spider Silk Proteins

give access to the through pavements only at limited intervals. Where pavements pass through highly developed areas, I think such service drives will be necessary to overcome constant interference of traffic turning in and out of the property with through traffic. These service drives would not, of course, be improved to nearly as high type as the through pavements. In most cases a surfacing of...

Since the ancient times Iran has always played a significant role in the Transportation Industry due to its strategic position in the silk road that connected Asia to Europe and Middle East to .Ancient Iranians are believed to be the pioneers of land transportation in the world and transportation has always been considered as one of the most ancient and historical Industries in Iran . Nowadays ...

The process, dialogues, and attitudes of vocational engineering high school students in a web problem-based learning (WPBL) system Kuo-Hung Tseng a , Chi-Cheng Chang b & Shi-Jer Lou c a Graduate Institute of Business and Management, Meiho University, No. 23, Ping Kuang Road, Neipu Hsiang, Pingtung, Taiwan, R.O.C b Department of Technological Application and Human Resource Development, National ...

The Young Scholars Program at the Institute for Systems Research of the University of Maryland at College Park is an innovative summer research experience for high school students from Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Its goal is to steer talented high school seniors toward higher education and careers in science and engineering. One particularly popular component of this program is a tw...

Translating R&D and inventive efforts into a market product is characterized by significant financial skills, and the ability to overcome technical and instititonal barriers. Research into and translation of new technologies such as biotechnology products to the market requires even greater resources. This paper aims to understand the key factors that foster or hinder the complex process of tra...