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...

Historically, the semi-arid socio-ecological systems of dry Centro American corridor have proven resilient to pressures. In the last century these systems, however, have experienced huge environmental and socio-economic changes that have increased the vulnerability of local livelihoods to shocks and perturbations. New approaches are needed to capture complex, uncertain, cross-scale and non-line...

Background: With an ever-increasing number of vehicles on the road, it is inevitable that drivers will need to call upon an increasing use of sensory and motor skills in order to negotiate safely through traffic. Vision is one of the major senses in human beings, and it is definitely necessary for safe driving. Approximately 95% of the sensory input to the brain required for driving comes from ...

The purpose of this Study study is to identify and rank the development drivers of knowledge-based, technology-driven businesses. This work is conducted as a case study in Fars Province Science and Technology Park. It is a descriptive survey in terms of purpose since a part of its data is collected through questionnaires and is of surveying type because it describes the existing conditions. The...

An ecosystem model was created for the Hudson Bay region, Canada, for 1970–2009, aiming to identify ecosystem linkages while bringing together research from diverse sources. The model presented here in detail includes 40 functional groups. Using the Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) modelling framework we are able to provide estimates for previously unknown parameters such as the biomass of fish specie...

in many countries road crashes are the main cause of fatal accidents related to job. the aim of our study was to characterize a population of iranian professional drivers with regard to history of drivers’ road crash incidents and some occupational factors. using swedish version of the nordic questionnaire information about musculoskeletal pain prevalence in last 12 months, demographic features...

The development of the automobile industry and increase in car ownership has brought great traffic pressures to city, among which, difficulty parking become a serious problem majority drivers. An automatic system can help drivers complete operation or task, decision control is an important part system. In this paper, strategy for generating shortest path based on bidirectional breadth-first sea...