Bellcore's Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) system and HNC's MatchPlus system represent two attempts to model and exploit the inter-relationships among terms to improve information retrieval. Most information retrieval methods depend on exact matches between words in users' queries and words in documents. Typically, documents containing one or more query words are returned to the user. Such metho...

ECG is accustomed for measuring the rate and periodicity of heart pulses, also the chamber’s placement and size, the existence of any injury to the heart, and the consequences of instruments or drugs wont to regulate the heart, example pacemaker. This paper demonstrates the comparison of ECG obtained from the person identification mechanism of automobile drivers beneath several physiological st...

Squamous cell carcinoma of the scrotum is rare and to the best of our knowledge has never been reported from Nigeria. We report on a case thought to be occupation-related in a 42-year old Nigerian taxi driver who had previously been an automobile mechanic and later a long-haul truck driver. He presented with a stage D disease and only palliation was feasible.

BACKGROUND Motor-vehicle crashes (MVCs) are a leading cause of death of young Americans and Canadians. Aggressive driving and driving at high speed are frequently cited as contributing to crashes. Consumer and safety associations have raised concern that driving behaviour portrayed in automobile commercials may influence consumer-driving behaviour. However, the prevalence of aggressive driving ...

A growing issue in the area of vehicular ride comfort is that of child safety seats. Postural, thermal and vibrational comfort considerations are finding their way into child seat design. This paper makes some observations regarding the current state of child safety seat design, then goes on to present the results of vibration tests performed over two road surfaces using two child seats and two...

In this paper, we study learning generalized driving style representations from automobile GPS trip data. We propose a novel Autoencoder Regularized deep neural Network (ARNet) and a trip encoding framework trip2vec to learn drivers’ driving styles directly from GPS records, by combining supervised and unsupervised feature learning in a unified architecture. Experiments on a challenging driver ...

This paper tries to answer the following question: What type of support should be given to an automobile driver when it is determined, via some method to monitor the driver’s behavior and the traffic environment, that the driver’s intent may not be appropriate to a traffic condition? With a medium fidelity, moving-base driving simulator, three conditions were compared: (a) Warning type support ...

Results based on traac accident analysis indicate that a leading cause for automobile accidents is due to a diminished vigilance on the part of the driver. Two major factors that may result in a reduction of a driver's alertness are drowsiness and intoxication. Developing eeective technologies for measuring drowsiness/intoxication is therefore imperative for reducing automobile accidents. The d...

Automobile driver information as displayed on marked road signs indicates the state of the road, traffic conditions, proximity to schools, etc. These signs are important to insure the safety of the driver and pedestrians. They are also important input to the automated advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), installed in many automobiles. Over time, the arrow-road markings may be eroded or oth...