There is a lot of traffic at the school entrance since parents are dropping off or picking up their children premises. The situation becomes worse during peak hours. This led to emergence three concerns among about safeguarding children: drop-off location for entry, congestion around school, and road safety facilities. In this context, parental must be investigated in Malaysian context as well,...

This study evaluates individual preferences for five different cycling environments by trading off a better facility with a higher travel time against a less attractive facility at a lower travel time. The tradeoff of travel time to amenities of a particular facility informs our understanding of the value attached to different attributes such as bike-lanes, off-road trails, or side-street parki...

Safe access to voting during the Covid-19 pandemic was a concern across US. In Texas, push for mail-in November 2020 presidential election significantly scaled back when governor restricted each county one secure ballot drop-off location. We evaluate effect of this change, finding that it increased travel times locations drivers and public transit users by 18 32 minutes, respectively, in most a...

This study aims to understand influential factors for Jakarta’s residents to participate in a formal electronic waste recycling programme. It questions the efficacy of providing facilities to collect electronic waste despite the lack of legislated regulations or policies. Using the goal-framing theory as a foundation, a survey conducted on 208 respondents in 2018 revealed that selling obsolete ...

IMPORTANCE Indoor tanning is widespread among young adults in the United States despite evidence establishing it as a risk factor for skin cancer. The availability of tanning salons on or near college campuses has not been formally evaluated. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the availability of indoor tanning facilities on US college and university campuses (colleges) and in off-campus housing surroundi...

We present a procedure to perform and interpret pull-off force measurements during the jump-off-contact process between a liquid drop and rough surfaces using a conventional atomic force microscope. In this method, a micrometric liquid mercury drop is attached to an AFM tipless cantilever to measure the force required to pull this drop off a rough surface. We test the method with two surfaces: ...