Logistic model of injury risks in single vehicle crashes in urban neighborhoods
Road crashes not only claim lives but also impose an economic burden on society due to loss of productivity. Researchers are continuously developing crash models to get a better understanding of the...
View ArticleManaging speed at school and playground zones
Since speeding is one of the major causes of frequent and severe traffic accidents around school and playground areas, many jurisdictions have reduced the speed limits in these areas to protect...
View ArticleInjury risk in collisions involving buses in Alberta, Canada
With 2000 to 2007 crash data, this study investigated the factors that contributed to injuries in collisions that involved at least one bus in the province of Alberta, Canada. Crashes of all types of...
View Article(In press)Effect of number of motor units and muscle fibre type on surface...
Reduction in number of motor units (nMU) and fast fibre ratio (FFR) is associated with disease or atrophy when this is rapid. There is a need to study the effect of nMU and FFR to analyse the...
View ArticleA multinomial logit model of pedestrian-vehicle crash severity
This article estimated a multinomial logit model to identify the factors determining the severity of pedestrian-vehicle crashes in South Korea. Our results showed that relative to minor crashes, fatal...
View ArticleUnlocking the black box of the conceptual relationship between HRM system and...
Despite the promising relationship that has been reported between HRM and Organization Performance (OP) in the last two decades, it is found that good HRM system and practices do not directly lead to...
View ArticleEfficient, decentralized computation of the topology of spatial regions
The capability to query the topology of spatial regions is fundamental to today's centralized spatial computing systems, like spatial databases and GIS. By contrast, this paper explores decentralized...
View ArticlePromises and pitfalls of using social media in public e-procurement: An...
Social Media (SM), in recent years, is emerging as a common platform for low cost information exchange, and has attracted a critical mass of users both at corporate and retail levels. Theoretically, SM...
View ArticleInertia effect on buckling-induced auxetic metamaterials
Auxetic metamaterials have enhanced indentation and penetration resistance due to their high shear strength and modulus. Its auxetic performance under dynamic loading cases is an important property for...
View ArticleTopology optimization for microstructures of viscoelastic composite materials
The viscoelastic response of materials is often utilized for wide applications such as vibration reduction devices. This paper extends the bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO)...
View ArticleDesign optimization of scaffold microstructures using wall shear stress...
Tissue scaffolds aim to provide a cell-friendly biomechanical environment for facilitating cell growth. Existing studies have shown significant demands for generating a certain level of wall shear...
View ArticlePassive optical network survivability: protection, detection and restoration
Passive optical network (PON) technologies have received increasing attention as demand for fibre access networks has grown. Enhancing fibre access network reliability provides lower operational costs,...
View ArticleImproving housing responses to Indigenous patterns of mobility
Differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships to people and place are important contributors to Indigenous homelessness and tenancy failure. The concept of Indigenous temporary...
View ArticleMetabolic profiling of a transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans Alzheimer model
Despite decades of research, no early-onset biomarkers are currently available for Alzheimer's disease, a cureless neurodegenerative disease afflicting millions worldwide. In this study, transgenic...
View ArticleIn the Passenger Seat: Investigating comfort measures in autonomous cars
The prospect of driverless cars wide-scale deployment is imminent owing to the advances in robotics, computational power, communications, and sensor technologies. This promises highway fatality...
View ArticleNanostructured holograms for broadband manipulation of vector beams
We report a new type of holographic interface, which is able to manipulate the three fundamental properties of light (phase, amplitude, and polarization) over a broad wavelength range. The design...
View ArticlePolarization-dependent thin-film wire-grid reflectarray for terahertz waves
A thin-film polarization-dependent reflectarray based on patterned metallic wire grids is realized at 1 THz. Unlike conventional reflectarrays with resonant elements and a solid metal ground, parallel...
View ArticleOverlapping forms of knowledge in environmental governance: comparing...
Public sector environmental governance involves complex interactions between different forms of knowledge. Public sector reforms have important implications for environmental governance by changing the...
View ArticleEfficient, decentralized computation of the topology of spatial regions
The capability to query the topology of spatial regions is fundamental to today's centralized spatial computing systems, like spatial databases and GIS. By contrast, this paper explores decentralized...
View ArticleUltra-thin perfect absorber employing a tunable phase change material
We show that perfect absorption can be achieved in a system comprising a single lossy dielectric layer of thickness much smaller than the incident wavelength on an opaque substrate by utilizing the...
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