scholarly journals A Comprehensive Review on the Development of Car Booster Seats for Children

Author(s):  
Ibun Nuraresya ◽  
Umar Nirmal ◽  
P. K. Ng

Over the past decade there has been a deeply troubling increase in the number of vehicle traffic fatalities involving children. Owing to this, many researchers have contributed to research and development on car booster seats for children. In view of this, the current work encompasses a compilation of articles reviewed on car booster seats for children ranging from the years 1988 to 2018. Further than that, this work also provides information relating to the varying designs and specifications of car booster seats. Concurrently, the writers also propose potential future research that could be undertaken in relation to the developments in child car booster seats, which in turn may allow for new research pathways in this area of interest. Finally, taking into consideration the design and safety factors of the current market trend car booster seats for children, the writers also propose possible state of the art car booster seats for various applications.

Author(s):  
A. Sharveswaran ◽  
Umar Nirmal

In this generation, usage of transportation vehicles is drastically increased. It is very important to improve the safety facility in an automobile vehicles. Due to this, many researchers have contributed to research and development on smart wind shield wiper mechanism in automotive. Considering that, the current work compiles a compilation of articles reviewed on smart wind shield wiper mechanism from year 1903 to 2015. Further than that, this work also provides information relating to the varying designs and specifications of smart windshield wiper mechanism. At the same time, the writers also propose potential future research that could be undertaken in relation to the development in wiper mechanism in automotive application, which in turn may allow for new research pathways in this area of interest. Finally, taking into consideration the design and safety factors of the current market trend wiper mechanism, the writes also propose possible windshield washing system for various application.


1967 ◽  
Vol 71 (677) ◽  
pp. 342-343
Author(s):  
F. H. East

The Aviation Group of the Ministry of Technology (formerly the Ministry of Aviation) is responsible for spending a large part of the country's defence budget, both in research and development on the one hand and production or procurement on the other. In addition, it has responsibilities in many non-defence fields, mainly, but not exclusively, in aerospace.Few developments have been carried out entirely within the Ministry's own Establishments; almost all have required continuous co-operation between the Ministry and Industry. In the past the methods of management and collaboration and the relative responsibilities of the Ministry and Industry have varied with time, with the type of equipment to be developed, with the size of the development project and so on. But over the past ten years there has been a growing awareness of the need to put some system into the complex business of translating a requirement into a specification and a specification into a product within reasonable bounds of time and cost.


Author(s):  
Zheng Wang ◽  
Zhixiang Wang ◽  
Yinqiang Zheng ◽  
Yang Wu ◽  
Wenjun Zeng ◽  
...  

An efficient and effective person re-identification (ReID) system relieves the users from painful and boring video watching and accelerates the process of video analysis. Recently, with the explosive demands of practical applications, a lot of research efforts have been dedicated to heterogeneous person re-identification (Hetero-ReID). In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of state-of-the-art Hetero-ReID methods that address the challenge of inter-modality discrepancies. According to the application scenario, we classify the methods into four categories --- low-resolution, infrared, sketch, and text. We begin with an introduction of ReID, and make a comparison between Homogeneous ReID (Homo-ReID) and Hetero-ReID tasks. Then, we describe and compare existing datasets for performing evaluations, and survey the models that have been widely employed in Hetero-ReID. We also summarize and compare the representative approaches from two perspectives, i.e., the application scenario and the learning pipeline. We conclude by a discussion of some future research directions. Follow-up updates are available at https://github.com/lightChaserX/Awesome-Hetero-reID


2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 438-477
Author(s):  
Bryan R Early ◽  
Menevis Cilizoglu

Abstract Policymakers employ economic sanctions to deal with a wide range of international challenges, making them an indispensable foreign policy tool. While scholarship on sanctions has tended to focus on the factors affecting their success, newer research programs have emerged that explore the reasons for why sanctions are threatened and initiated, the ways they are designed and enforced, and their consequences. This scholarship has yielded a wealth of new insights into how economic sanctions work, but most of those insights are based on sanctions observations from the 20th Century. The ways that policymakers employ sanctions have fundamentally changed over the past two decades, though, raising concerns about whether historically derived insights are still relevant to contemporary sanctions policies. In this forum, the contributors discuss the scholarly and policy-relevant insights of existing research on sanctions and then explore what gaps remain in our knowledge and new trends in sanctions policymaking. This forum will inform readers on the state of the art in sanctions research and propose avenues for future research.


2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Corneille ◽  
Mandy Hütter

This article provides a comprehensive review of divergent conceptualizations of the “implicit” construct that have emerged in attitude research over the past two decades. In doing so, our goal is to raise awareness of the harmful consequences of conceptual ambiguities associated with this terminology. We identify three main conceptualizations of the “implicitness” construct: the procedural conceptualization (implicit-as-indirect), the functional conceptualization (implicit-as-automatic), and the mental theory conceptualization (implicit-as-associative), as well as two hybrid conceptualizations (implicit-as-indirect-and-automatic, implicit-as-driven-by-affective-gut-reactions). We discuss critical limitations associated with each conceptualization and explain that confusion also arises from their coexistence. We recommend discontinuing the usage of the “implicit” terminology in attitude research and research inspired by it. We offer terminological alternatives aimed at increasing both the precision of theorization and the practical value of future research.


2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Joshu J. Mountjoy ◽  
Aggeliki Georgiopoulou ◽  
Jason Chaytor ◽  
Michael A. Clare ◽  
Davide Gamboa ◽  
...  

AbstractThe consequences of subaqueous landslides have been at the forefront of societal conscience more than ever in the last few years, with devastating and fatal events in the Indonesian Archipelago making global news. The new research presented in this volume demonstrates the breadth of ongoing investigation into subaqueous landslides, and shows that while events like the recent ones can be devastating, they are smaller in scale than those Earth has experienced in the past. Understanding the spectrum of subaqueous landslide processes, and therefore the potential societal impact, requires research across all spatial and temporal scales. This volume delivers a compilation of state-of-the-art papers covering regional landslide databases, advanced techniques for in situ measurements, numerical modelling of processes and hazards.


2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (14) ◽  
pp. 2198-2214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Ding ◽  
Jianzhuang Xiao ◽  
Qingtian Zhang ◽  
Ali Akbarnezhad

This article presents an extensive overview of state of the art in design and testing of design for deconstruction concrete connections for concrete elements by reviewing and discussing the results of both experimental and numerical studies in this domain. In particular, characteristics and demonstrated behavior of precast dry beam-to-column concrete connections and beam-to-beam concrete connections that possess certain degree of demountability are critically reviewed. Furthermore, the mechanical behavior and structural performance of various design for deconstruction connections are compared and discussed. The comprehensive review presented in this study highlights considerable potential for minimizing the life cycle impact of buildings, especially with regard to energy and material resources, through application of design for deconstruction systems. The results presented in available literature provide a good degree of assurance with regard to safety and feasibility of implementation of design for deconstruction systems in practice. However, it is also revealed that full-scale tests conducted to evaluate the structural feasibility and construction effectiveness of design for deconstruction concrete connections are limited. Directions for future research are provided by discussing the identified challenges and limitations of design for deconstruction systems for concrete structures.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-273
Author(s):  
Lynn A. Addington ◽  
Glenn W. Muschert

This introduction provides an overview to the special issue, which marks the twentieth anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School by considering the effect on policy addressing school violence and mass shootings. We asked each of the contributors to consider changes in their area of interest over the past two decades as well as future research and policy issues. The resulting five contributions take various forms: three are traditional scholarly articles, one is a personal commentary, and one is an afterword that combines a scholarly format with professional reflection. In our introduction, we summarize each one. As each article identifies the need for continued work in this area, and we conclude by providing a few examples of this research.


Światowit ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
Anna Gruszczyńska-Ziółkowska

Archaeomusicological research currently con- ducted at the Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, institutionalised thanks to the financial support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (grant NPRH), gave the opportunity to develop a wider field of research. The project includes not only the documentation of musical instruments but first and foremost experimental studies. We started with completely new research on idiophones (e.g. on the sounds of lithophones and rattles), returned to previously closed topics (e.g. gusli from Opole), and developed reconstruction methods using state-of-the-art technology (e.g. the reconstruction of flutes).


2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Chrisman ◽  
Franz W. Kellermanns ◽  
Kam C. Chan ◽  
Kartono Liano

This article identifies 25 articles that have been particularly influential in shaping the state of the art of research on family businesses. These works were identified based on a citation analysis of family business articles published over the past 6 years in the four journals that publish most of the research. The authors summarize those influential studies and discuss their most important contributions to scholars’ current understanding of family business. By identifying common themes among those studies, the authors are able to provide directions for future research in the field.


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