PURPOSE Seatbelt use during pregnancy is important to improve maternal and fetal survival after motor vehicle collisions. However, because the rear seatbelt of a motor vehicle tends to make contact with the neck, even if it is adequately used, some pregnant women sitting in the rear seat opt not to fasten the belt. The purpose of this study is to explore seatbelt-neck contact for pregnant women...

A large number of passenger information systems for public passenger transport exist in Europe at national level but their trans-national interoperability is very limited. A passenger information system depends on many underlying heterogeneous information systems; ranging from management of transport infrastructure network, public transport infrastructure objects, public passenger transport ser...

Previous vehicle-to-pedestrian simulations and experiments using pedestrian dummies and cadavers have shown that factors such as vehicle shape, pedestrian anthropometry and pre-impact conditions influence pedestrian kinematics and injury mechanisms. Generic pedestrian bucks, that approximate the geometrical and stiffness properties of current vehicles, would be useful in studying the influence ...

The automobile industry today is the most lucrative industry. Due to increase in disposable income in both rural and urban sector and availability of easy finance are the main drivers of high volume car segments. Further competition is heating up with host of new players coming in and global brands like Porsche, Bentley, and Ferrari all set to venture in Indian market. This research will be hel...

For the purpose of reproducing complex vehicle-pedestrian interactions using a simplified and standardized vehicle model, a previous study has developed a computational model for a generic buck to reproduce car-small sedan interaction using a standardized vehicle front model. Although the previous study validated the buck model using a finite element (FE) model for a pedestrian dummy in terms o...

Risk has always motivated security in general terms; both assurance and IT governance approaches to security begin with a focus on risk, but the connection between risk and technical security is soon lost. As a result it is usually impossible to quantify the value of security features, or give metrics for the value of a security design compared to alternatives. This thesis describes the Securit...

The only approved clot-busting medical treatment in ischemic stroke, intravenous thrombolysis (IVT), is not without complications. One of the major reasons for withholding the therapy remains fear of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH), which can worsen patients’ outcomes. The number needed for IVT to cause fatal sICH is 36.5, and to cause any worsening of outcome (≥1 grade on modified R...

INTRODUCTION Obesity has been shown to increase the risks of some types of injury in crashes. One way in which obesity may increase injury risk is by changing the routing of the belt relative to the underlying skeletal structures. METHODS Belt fit was measured in a laboratory study of 54 men and women, 48 percent of whom were obese, defined by body mass index (BMI) of 30 kg/m(2) or greater. T...