SCALING AND MULTIFRACTALITY IN ROAD ACCIDENTAL DISTANCES

Accidental distance dynamics is investigated, based on the road accidental data of the Great Britain. The distance distribution of all the districts as an ensemble presents a power law tail, which is different from that of the individual district. A universal distribution is found for different districts, by rescaling the distribution functions of individual districts, which can be well fitted by the Weibull distribution. The male and female drivers behave similarly in the distance distribution. The multifractal characteristic is further studied for the individual district and all the districts as an ensemble, and different behaviors are also revealed between them. The accidental distances of the individual district show a weak multifractality, whereas of all the districts present a strong multifractality when taking them as an ensemble.

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Health and Gender Comparisons in the Long-Haul Trucking Industry

AAOHN Journal ◽

10.1177/216507990905701003 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 57 (10) ◽

pp. 405-413 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Diane M. Layne ◽

Bonnie Rogers ◽

Susan A. Randolph

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Information ◽

Health Care Access ◽

Health Problems ◽

Health Care Information ◽

Male And Female ◽

The Road ◽

On The Road ◽

Trade Magazines ◽

And Gender

This descriptive pilot study was conducted to determine whether health conditions and health care access differ between male and female long-haul truck drivers. Data indicated that 54% of men and 66% of women had a health care provider, but 21% of men and 35% of women had no health insurance. Male and female drivers both reported common health problems (e.g., back pain, sinus problems, hypertension, headaches, and arthritis). While working, drivers of each gender often waited until returning home to seek treatment for health problems. Approximately half of the drivers expressed dissatisfaction with health care while “on the road.” Occupational and environmental health nurses could address the health needs of drivers by conducting examinations and distributing wellness information at truck stop clinics and from mobile health vans, posting health information within truck stop driver lounges, creating interactive websites with real-time health care information, attending trucker trade shows to conduct health screenings, or providing health information through occupational or trade magazines and newsletters.

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Design and Fabrication of Steering Gear Mechanism with Movable Headlights Using Embedded Systems

International Journal of Scientific Research in Science Engineering and Technology ◽

10.32628/ijsrset218433 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 180-187

Author(s):

Kemparaju C.R. ◽

Mohammed Nabeel Ahmed ◽

B Meghanath ◽

Mayur Laxman Kesarkar ◽

Manoj DR

Keyword(s):

Embedded System ◽

Human Life ◽

Harmful Effect ◽

Steering System ◽

Steering Wheel ◽

The Road ◽

Steering Mechanism ◽

On The Road ◽

Safety Features ◽

The Individual

The main aim of any design must not solely be targeted on customer satisfaction however conjointly customer safety following this the amount of accidents are witness solely because of poor lighting facilities provided in automobiles on curved road static headlights are insufficient since they point tangential it along any point of curve instead of pointing in the vehicles direction so to avoid this problem steering controlled headlamp system has been projected which might hopefully flip out to be a boon to the individual driving through the sinusoidal roads throughout night times. Special safety features are built into cars for years some for the security of car’s occupants only, and some for the security of others. One among the alternatives available in design and fabrication of steering controlled headlight system. car safety is important to avoid automobile accidents or to minimise the harmful effect of accidents, especially as concerning human life and health. automobiles are controlled by incorporating steering controlled headlight mechanism. The Ackerman steering mechanism helps the motive force to guide the moving vehicles calls on the road by turning it right or left consistent with his needs thus a combination of the steering system and embedded system link kills the headlights within the direction as per the rotation of the steering wheel. this mechanism has been incorporated in BMW, Audi Q-7 and Benz etc., to make sure a safer drive, but our main aim is to implement the system in all vehicles at lower cost.

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Determination of the Dynamic Vehicle Model Parameters by Means of Computer Vision

Communications - Scientific letters of the University of Zilina ◽

10.26552/com.c.2019.3.28-34 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 28-34

Author(s):

Daniil A. Loktev ◽

Alexey A. Loktev ◽

Alexandra V. Salnikova ◽

Anna A. Shaforostova

Keyword(s):

Computer Vision ◽

Road Traffic ◽

Deformable Body ◽

Model Parameters ◽

Vehicle Model ◽

The Road ◽

Complex Approach ◽

On The Road ◽

The Individual

This study is devoted to determining the geometric, kinematic and dynamic characteristics of a vehicle. To this purpose, it is proposed to use a complex approach applying the models of deformable body mechanics for describing the oscillatory movements of a vehicle and the computer vision algorithms for processing a series of object images to determine the state parameters of a vehicle on the road. The model of the vehicle vertical oscillations is produced by means of the viscoelastic elements and the dry friction element that fully enough represent the behavior of the sprung masses. The introduced algorithms and models can be used as a part of a complex system for monitoring and controlling the road traffic. In addition, they can determine both the speed of the car and its dynamic parameters and the driving behavior of the individual drivers.

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Therapeutic Dilemma in personalized medicine

Current Reviews in Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology ◽

10.2174/1574884716666210525153454 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

Author(s):

Ehab S. EL Desoky

Keyword(s):

Personalized Medicine ◽

Gradual Change ◽

Metabolizing Enzymes ◽

The Road ◽

Type2 Diabetes ◽

Practice Of Medicine ◽

Long Time ◽

On The Road ◽

The Individual ◽

Oral Hypoglycemic Drugs

: The practice of medicine depends over a long time on identifying therapies that target an entire population. The increase in scientific knowledge over the years has led to the gradual change towards individualization and personalization of drug therapy. The hope of this change is to achieve a better clinical response to given medications and reduction of their adverse effects. Tailoring of medicine on the road of personalized medicine considers molecular and genetic mapping of the individual. However, many factors still impede the smooth application of personalized medicine and represent challenges or limitations in its achievement. In this article, we put some clinical examples that show dilemmas in the application of personalized medicine such as opioids in pain control, fluoropyrimidines in malignancy, clopidogrel as antiplatelet therapy and oral hypoglycemic drugs in Type2 diabetes in adults. Shaping the future of medicine through the application of personalized medicine for a particular patient needs to put into consideration many factors such as patient’s genetic makeup and life style, pathology of the disease and dynamic changes in its course as well as interactions between administered drugs and their effects on metabolizing enzymes. We hope in the coming years, the personalized medicine will foster changes in health care system in the way not only to treat patients but also to prevent diseases.

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Picturing Saul’s Vision on the Road to Damascus: A Question of Authority

Biblical Interpretation ◽

10.1163/15685152-00253p05 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 364-398 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Deborah Thompson Prince

Keyword(s):

Rhetorical Analysis ◽

Reception History ◽

The Road ◽

Artistic Representations ◽

Personal Authority ◽

On The Road ◽

The Individual ◽

Changes Over Time ◽

Over Time ◽

Divine Guidance

Saul’s vision of the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1-9) has been a popular theme for artists over the centuries because it expresses something meaningful to both the artists and their audiences. Meaning, however, changes over time. My aim in this article is to explore how and why the narrative of Acts asserts the authority of Saul’s vision and how audience perception of this authority evolved over time, as evident in artistic representations of Saul’s vision. By employing literary and rhetorical analysis, I will clarify the claim that the author of Acts employs this vision as a reliable message from God by exploring two related issues: (1) the centrality of the life of the community to the function of the vision; and (2) the establishment of credibility by means of the shared visionary experiences of unrelated corroborative witnesses. However, as many visual interpretations of Saul’s vision indicate, the conception of this vision encounter as divine guidance for a whole community did not continue to be a central part of its value for later Christians. On the contrary, Paul’s personal authority and/or transformation become(s) the significant outcome of the vision for later audiences. Therefore, this article will also engage in the study of reception history to show how perception of the authority granted to this vision changed over time and ultimately reframed the power of the vision by elevating the transformation of the individual over the transformation of the community. 

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The End of Neo-Kraepelinism

Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry ◽

10.1891/1559-4343.14.2.87 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 87-90 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

David H. Jacobs ◽

David Cohen

Keyword(s):

Mental Disorders ◽

Biological Information ◽

Biological Research ◽

Statistical Manual ◽

The Road ◽

Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽

Social Difficulties ◽

Psychological Difficulties ◽

On The Road ◽

The Individual

In 1980, the American Psychiatric Association asserted that its subject matter was straightforwardly medical and created a diagnostic manual—Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (3rd ed.; DSM-III)—consisting of supposedly discrete and independent mental disorders based on what were meant to be low-inference, easily observed sets of symptoms. It was taken for granted that such mental disorders existed and that biological research over time would unearth their specific somatic causes. The idea was to purge psychiatric diagnosis of jargon and unverified and unverifiable psychosocial theories of etiology and thereby place psychiatry on the road to discoveries regarding somatic pathology and causation that has proven so fruitful in the rest of medicine. When DSM-5 is published in 2013, however, biological information about the individual being diagnosed will play the same role as it did in DSM-III—namely, nothing. This article summarizes why adopting medicine as a model for conceptualizing personal distress and social difficulties was and is naïve and misguided. It is time for the mental health industry to stop pretending that psychological difficulties can be reduced to morbid physiology.

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Arbeidsinnkludering som en vei til varig arbeidslivstilknytning og et verdig voksenliv: Hvordan metoder for arbeidsinnkludering kan brukes i opplæringen av lærekandidater

Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training ◽

10.3384/njvet.2242-458x.211131 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Eva Martinsen Dyrnes ◽

Dan Roger Sträng

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Secondary School ◽

Working Life ◽

Ability To Work ◽

The Road ◽

Upper Secondary Education ◽

Upper Secondary ◽

On The Road ◽

The Individual ◽

Permanent Work

The labour market in many European countries is changing and for many young people it leads to challenges in gaining a lasting connection to working life. School dropout and deficiencies in their education lead to challenges for many young people on the road to adulthood. Students who find it difficult to complete a vocational education in upper secondary school, now have the opportunity to be training candidates in a practically oriented education with a limited number of competence goals. Work inclusion means that the individual's ability to work will be examined in various ways to increase the possibility of permanent work. However, work inclusion is a complex phenomenon, where several actors may be involved and where the goals and progress plan will vary. This is costly and stressful for both the individual and the society. Working life is a central learning arena within upper secondary education, and there will be a need to facilitate participation in this arena also for students with a need for adapted education.

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Sex and love on the road

The Hippie Trail ◽

10.7228/manchester/9781526114624.003.0003 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Sharif Gemie ◽

Brian Ireland

Keyword(s):

Historical Context ◽

Sexual Revolution ◽

Male And Female ◽

Private Space ◽

The Road ◽

Limited Opportunity ◽

On The Road

The chapter begins by re-telling one female traveller’s unusual experience on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Some historical context concerning the nature and limits of the ‘sexual revolution’ is given. It is pointed out that for most travellers, there was little private space, and therefore only limited opportunity for the initiation or development of relationships. The different experiences of male and female travellers are then considered: it is clear that women were usually a minority among the travellers, and that they suffered a particular form of harassment as they travelled. Male travellers’ attitudes to female travellers are considered: it is noted that they often valued them. Men’s experiences are discussed, including their contrasting attitudes to prostitution. The chapter ends by considering the experience of four travellers who found life-partners while travelling.

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Gabriel Marcel and the question of human dignity

Human Affairs ◽

10.1515/humaff-2017-0011 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Marián Palenčár

Keyword(s):

Human Dignity ◽

Philosophical Thinking ◽

Gabriel Marcel ◽

The Road ◽

The Social ◽

On The Road ◽

Service To Others ◽

Basic Ideas ◽

The Individual ◽

Mystery Of Being

AbstractThis article explores the concept of human dignity in the work of French philosopher Gabriel Marcel. It demonstrates how this lesser-known aspect of his philosophical thinking is organic to his work and draws attention to the current relevance of the way he resolves the question of human dignity for philosophy and ethics. The first part of the article looks at the basic ideas behind Marcel’s understanding of man as a being on the road, as unfinished, temporal, in the process of becoming, and creatively open on the road of transcendence to the mystery of being. This is followed by an explanation of Marcel’s criticism of the traditional understanding of human dignity (on both the social and ontological levels), which has degenerated into the formalism. Criticizing this rationalist (Kantian) conception of dignity as a particular kind of power, Gabriel Marcel produces an original conception of existential dignity as weakness—the fragile vulnerable finitude of the human individual. But it is an active weakness/finitude that lies in the ability of the individual to creatively resist attempts to humiliate him and in his effort to recognize his unique human values. Part of this finitude, on the inter-subjective level, is an encounter with the neighbour in love, which is a service to others in defence of man’s weakness. The author draws attention to the fact that Marcel’s conception of human dignity has been partially accepted in philosophy, ethics and bioethics.

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