Lane and Terry (2000) defined mood as “a set of feelings, ephemeral in nature, varying in intensity and duration, and usually involving more than one emotion” (p.16). They proposed a conceptual framework for predicting performance from mood states assessed by the Profile of Mood States (McNair, Lorr, & Droppleman, 1971) or its derivatives. The conceptual model indicated that depressed mood infl...

Vehicle crashes are amongst the major causes of mortality and results in losses of lives and properties. A large number of the vehicle crashes occur on rural roads. Accidents become more noteworthy in two-lane roads due to going and coming traffic. Therefore, prediction of crashes and their causes are considerably important to reduce the number and severity of the accidents. The safety index is...

The concept of Ford’s lane keeping sys­ tem includes two variants: The driver can select a warning function and a lane keeping function in case the vehicle leaves its current lane, known as lane keeping alert, ❶, and lane keeping aid, ❷, respectively. Both functions make use of a camera serving as a sensor for iden­ tifying the traffic lane and the lane mark­ ings. Identifying the ve hicle’s ow...

The animals were subjected to hormone treatment for 1 week. Hormones were administered either continuously via osmotic minipumps (m.p.) or intermittently by subcutaneous injections once ( 1 x s.c.) or twice (2 x s.c.) daily. Daily doses were 120 pg for GH and 100 pg for methyltrienolone, respectively. Lane I , control female; lane 2, hypophysectomized (Hx) female; lane 3, female + androgen (met...

In this paper, two formulas were chosen among those that estimate the suspendedsediment discharge in rivers. These two formulas were Lane and Kalinske and Bagnold. Forstudying and knowing the correlation between input parameters and calculated suspendedsediment discharge (CSSD), the SPSS17 software was used. Input parameters in these twoformulas were as: water velocity, water discharge, suspend...

Classification of vehicles from video is used for analysis of traffic, self-driving systems or security systems. This analysis is based on shape, size, velocity and track of vehicles. These features characterize vehicle in background subtraction and feature extraction methods. Extraction is done by active contours and morphological operations. Extracted vehicles are classified by applying vario...

Autonomous driver assistance system is a core component for the robust detection and tracking of lane markings on roads and pedestrian detection. The lane detection method is a major component of intelligent transport system. Lane detection helps to estimate the road geometry ahead as well as lateral position of vehicle. A fast lane detection algorithm is proposed by Hough transform which is fa...

This paper proposes a technique for unwanted lane departure detection. Initially, lane boundaries are detected using a combination of the edge distribution function and a modified Hough transform. In the tracking stage, a linear-parabolic lane model is used: in the near vision field, a linear model is used to obtain robust information about lane orientation; in the far field, a quadratic functi...