The primary purposes of a vehicle driver's seat, is to allow them to complete the driving task comfortably and safely. Within each class of vehicle (e.g. passenger, commercial, industrial, agricultural), there is an expected driving position to which a vehicle cabin is designed. This paper reports a study that compares two driving positions, in relation to Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs), in t...

Evidence from the early and late industrializes shows that technology, as the commercial application of scientific knowledge, has been a major driver of industrial and economic development. International technology transfer is now being recognized as having played an important role in the development of the most successful late industrializes of the second half of the 20th Century. Our society ...

Abstract: Sleep disordered breathing (SDB), including sleep apnea, is very prevalent in commercial drivers and contributes significantly to higher healthcare and liability costs. Without a mandated screening program, driver and physician recognition of this condition remains low. Our corporate supported recognition and treatment program for SDB utilizes an objective screening tool that yields a...

Higher data throughput in optical packet switched interconnection networks can be achieved by minimizing the guard times through faster transition of the switching element. A hybrid integration of a semiconductor optical amplifier with its current driver is presented, which exhibits over 40 % faster transition time compared to current commercial devices.

Electrical IO is becoming limited by copper interconnect channel losses that depend on frequency and distance. Package-to-package optical interconnects see negligible frequency-dependent channel losses, but data rates are limited by the intrinsic optical dynamics and electrical parasitics of the optical devices. This thesis presents 90nm CMOS front-end circuits which apply techniques to operate...

This article presents the findings of research on the global economic impact of GM crops since their commercial introduction in 1996. It updates part of the findings of earlier analysis presented by the authors in AgBioForum 8(2&3), 9(3), and 11(1).1 The analysis concentrates on farm income effects because this is a primary driver of adoption amongst farmers (both large commercial and small-sca...

The field of knowledge management is of great importance in the commercial world, in part because technological economies are increasingly knowledge based, but also through a growing realization that intellectual capital is the key driver in organizational success, and that an organization’s people are the locus of much of its knowledge. In education, it has received little attention , 5 , alth...