STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a combined intervention on children's travel behaviour, stage of behavioural change and motivations for and barriers to actively commuting to school. DESIGN A quasi-experimental trial involving pre- and post-intervention mapping of routes to school by active and inactive mode of travel and surveys of "stage of behaviour change" and motivations for and b...

Seabird tracking has become an ever more popular tool to aid environmental procedures such as the designation of marine protected areas and environmental impact assessments. However, samples used are usually small and little consideration is given to experimental design and sampling protocol. European shags Phalacrocorax aristotelis were tracked using GPS technology over three breeding seasons ...

This paper considers management education and specifically how student learning has been impacted by the online replacement teaching offered universities during COVID-19 pandemic. The study utilizes a gain model which students’ own perception of their learning, separates provision theoretical explicit knowledge (distance travelled) from that practical tacit understanding (journey travelled). In...

When we walk in our environment, we readily determine our travelled distance and location using visual cues. In the dark, estimating travelled distance uses a combination of somatosensory and vestibular (i.e., inertial) cues. The observed inability of patients with complete peripheral vestibular failure to update their angular travelled distance during active or passive turns in the dark implie...

background: road traffic accident is a worldwide public health issue that has its highest impact on low and middle income countries including malaysia. many previous studies concerned on the causality of the actual accidents and little attention were given to near miss incidents. hence, the current study was designed to determine the prevalence and associated factors for near miss incident amon...

The vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is an extension of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) with earliest, latest, and service times for customers. The VRPTW routes a set of vehicles to service customers having earliest, latest service times. The objective of the problem is to minimize the number of vehicles and the distance travelled to service the customers. The constraints of ...

Route taken and distance travelled are important parameters for studies of animal locomotion. They are often measured using a collar equipped with GPS. Collar weight restrictions limit battery size, which leads to a compromise between collar operating life and GPS fix rate. In studies that rely on linear interpolation between intermittent GPS fixes, path tortuosity will often lead to inaccurate...