Half of the world’s road traffic deaths involve vulnerable users—pedestrians, motorcyclists, and cyclists. In Malaysia, there are several strategies introduced to improve safety level school children. However, crashes involving children still worrisome. Recent trends involved in vicinity have become nation’s concern. Therefore, this study aims investigate contributing factors pedestrian-vehicle...

Noyes, FR, Barber-Westin, SD, Smith, ST, Campbell, T, and Garrison, TT. A training program to improve neuromuscular and performance indices in female high school basketball players. J Strength Cond Res 26(3): 709–719, 2012—The purpose of this study was to determine if a sports-specific training program could improve neuromuscular and performance indices in female high school basketball players....

Carpooling is an appropriate solution to address traffic congestion and to reduce the ecological footprint of the car use. In this paper, we address an essential problem for providing dynamic carpooling: how to compute the shortest driver’s and passenger’s paths. Indeed, those two paths are synchronized in the sense that they have a common subpath between two points: the location where the pass...

The main drop-out reasons from the sport of roller skating amongst Iranian youth skaters has been examined. A questionnaire with 53 items (adopted from Enoksen, 2011) representing seven subscales namely: training factors and facilities, executive factors and team, education and work obligations, motivational aspects, social-cultural environment, choice of other sport activities and interests an...

A systematic study of collisions between surfactant-free organic drops in aqueous electrolyte solutions reveals the threshold at which continuum models provide a complete description of thin-film interactions. For collision velocities above ~1 μm/s, continuum models of hydrodynamics and surface forces provide a complete description of the interaction, despite the absence of surfactant. This inc...

Dynamic electrochemical etching technique is optimized to produce tungsten tips with controllable shape and radius of curvature of less than 10 nm. Nascent features such as "dynamic electrochemical etching" and reverse biasing after "drop-off" are utilized, and "two-step dynamic electrochemical etching" is introduced to produce extremely sharp tips with controllable aspect ratio. Electronic cur...

the research mainly intends to evaluate performance of strontium aluminum polyphosphate as an eco friendly zinc free anticorrosion pigment in formulation of the protective primer based on epoxy resin. comparing to zinc phosphate, the most effective content of the modified pigment was determined through electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. according to pull-off, the superior sapp incorporated...

This article reviews literature on biofilter research both in laboratories and at confined livestock facilities. The purpose is to give an up‐to‐date review of biofilters used to mitigate of odors and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from agricultural facilities using biofilters. More specifically the article addresses: 1) Factors concerned in design and operation of biofilters such as media p...

ii) The control valve Manufacturer can only state the Inherent valve characteristics, which refer to the flowrate (F) – valve travel position (m or Z) relationship, when the pressure drop across the control valve (DPV) is constant. Note that the pressure drop across the control valve (DPV) can be almost constant only if the piping system pressure drop (DPS) is concentrated at the control valve ...