cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Automated Feedback to Foster Safe Driving in Young Drivers: Phase 2 [Traffic Tech]
Creators: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91865
subject: Attitudes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91739
subject: Drivers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97423
subject: Field studies
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89267
subject: Intelligent speed adaptation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93647
subject: Pedals
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89183
subject: Speed control
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90686
subject: Speeding
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91562
subject: Young adults

description: Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA) provides a promising approach to reduce speeding. A core principle of ISA is real-time feedback that lets drivers know when they are driving over the speed limit. The overall goal of the study was to provide insight into the effectiveness and acceptance by young drivers in the United States, of an ISA consisting of an Active Accelerator Pedal (AAP) system using haptic feedback (pedal resistance) to promote specific driving behavior. This project adapted the AAP from an earlier study that used haptic feedback to promote seat belt use. For this study, an upgraded AAP, speed mapping software, and a data logger were installed in two vehicles used for data collection. The AAP provided increased accelerator pedal resistance that required more effort to push the accelerator pedal whenever the driver exceeded the speed limit. It returned to normal pedal force when the vehicle speed dropped back to or below the speed limit. Researchers conducted two separate studies with young drivers (18-24 years old) to examine AAP effects on speeding, driver workload, and satisfaction with the system.
title: Comparative Study and Evaluation of SCRAM Use, Recidivism Rates, and Characteristics [Traffic Tech]
Creators: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91759
subject: Drunk drivers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90848
subject: Drunk driving
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89470
subject: Monitoring
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90972
subject: Recidivism

description: Impaired driving continues to cause hundreds of thousands of alcohol-related crashes each year, many resulting in serious injury or death. Many offenders are repeat offenders despite sanctions and court processes that attempt to dissuade offenders from reoffending. A continuous alcohol monitoring (CAM) device may have a role to play when a repeat offender is court-ordered to maintain a state of sobriety. A CAM device typically consists of an ankle bracelet that conducts alcohol readings by sampling perspiration on the skin. Secure continuous remote alcohol monitoring (SCRAM) refers to a device commercially available from Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc. (AMS). While there are other CAM devices, SCRAM is currently the most widely used. Data from more than 3,000 drinking-and-driving offenders in Wisconsin and Nevada were explored to evaluate the impact of SCRAM on rates and speed of recidivism. Some similarities were apparent between the two States. Offenders using SCRAM showed higher percentages of recidivism than the control offenders in both States, though the difference was not statistically significant. Despite the higher percentage of recidivism in SCRAM offenders, recidivists using SCRAM tended to take more days to recidivate than the comparison group recidivists. This was true in both States. The two States also differ in the criteria used for assignment to SCRAM and it may be worth revisiting those conditions. Despite differences in the administration of the SCRAM program, both States showed that SCRAM can have a positive impact, if not regarding the occurrence of recidivism, at least regarding the number of days to recidivate.
Puukentsefaliit – raske haigus
Creators: name: Gustafson, Rolf
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2002
Subjects: puugid, puukentsefaliit, levik, kliiniline pilt, profülaktika

description: Puukentsefalit on endeemiline  Ixodes-puukidega edasikantav viirus haigus. Inimene haigestub viirusega nakatunud puugi hammustuse tagajärjel. Kujuneb erineva raskusastmega meningoentsefaliit, millest enamus inimesi tervistub. Siiski võib kuni 40% patsientidest esineda mitmesuguseid residuaalnähte – tasakaalu- ja koordinatsioonihäired, peavalu, pareesid. Puukentsefaliidi endeemilistes piirkondades tuleks puukidele eksponeeritud isikud vaktsineerida.
description: Eesti Arst, Aprill 2002
Thermal Monopole Condensation and Confinement in finite temperature Yang-Mills Theories
Creators: name: D'Alessandro, Alessio
name: D'Elia, Massimo
name: Shuryak, Edward
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the connection between Color Confinement and thermal Abelian monopoles populating the deconfined phase of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory, by studying how the statistical properties of the monopole ensemble change as the confinement/deconfinement temperature is approached from above. In particular we study the distribution of monopole currents with multiple wrappings in the Euclidean time direction, corresponding to two or more particle permutations, and show that multiple wrappings increase as the deconfinement temperature is approached from above, in a way compatible with a condensation of such objects happening right at the deconfining transition. We also address the question of the thermal monopole mass, showing that different definitions give consistent results only around the transition, where the monopole mass goes down and becomes of the order of the critical temperature itself.
description: 17 pages, 6 figures and 6 tables
Molekulaartehnoloogia praktilise meditsiini teenistuses.  Antisense-tehnika
Creators: name: Zilmer, Mihkel
name: Mahlapuu, Riina
name: Soomets, Ursel
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2002
Subjects: antisense, fosforotioaadid, peptiidsed nukleiinhapped, mRNA processing, capping, splicing Fomivirsen

description: Järgnevate aastate jooksul jõuab arvatavasti lõpule inimgenoomi projekt ning kogu DNA järjestus on avatud geenmutatsioonide põhjustatud haiguste uuringuteks. Võimalus efektiivselt kontrollida geeni ekspressiooni on olnud ravimieellaste tootjate vaateväljas juba paarkümmend aastat. Ravimieellased (pro-drugs)  on  ained, mis omavad teatud bioloogilist efekti ja mille struktuuri täiustatakse temast ravimi väljatöötamise käigus, et suurendada tema spetsiifilisust ja efektiivsust. Üks huvitavamaid ja praeguseks ka kõige kaugemale jõudnumaid teadusharusid sel alal on antisense-tehnoloogia ehk antisense-oligonukleotiidide kasutamine.
description: Eesti Arst, Aprill 2002
EDITORIALE
Creators: name: Dansero, Egidio
name: De Filippi, Francesca
name: Fantini, Emanuele
name: Semita, Carlo
Publisher: name: JUNCO | Journal of UNiversities and international development COoperation
Year: 2019

description: Presentazione del N. 2/2017
description: JUNCO | Journal of UNiversities and international development COoperation, N. 2 (2017): Gli Atti del Congresso "Food security, agriculture and sustainable development in the Indian Ocean" - Progetto EGALE (FED/2013/320-117) e riflessioni sulla Cooperazione allo Sviluppo
Kroonilise C-hepatiidi ravijuhend
Creators: name: Ott, Kristi
name: Salupere, Riina
name: Prükk, Tiina
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2002

description: Krooniline C-hepatiit on oluline tervishoiuprobleem. Kuni 70% kroonilise viirushepatiidi juhtudest on põhjustanud C-hepatiidiviirus. C-hepatiidiviiruse ülekanne toimub põhiliselt nakatatud vere kaudu. Kuigi verekomponentide ülekande ja teiste meditsiiniliste protseduuride korral jälgitakse tänapäeval ohutusnõudeid, on nakatumine C-hepatiidiviirusega siiski võimalik. Seksuaalset ülekannet esineb harva, perinataalset ülekannet emalt lapsele on vähem kui 6% juhtudest ning rinnaga toitmise ja C-hepatiidiviiruse ülekande vahel seost ei ole. Kroonilise C-hepatiidi üldist sõeluuringut, sealhulgas rasedatel, ei soovitata. Sõeluuring on vajalik riskirühmades, näiteks haigeil, kes on saanud verekomponentide ülekandeid, hemofiiliahaigeil, C-hepatiiti põdeva ema lapsel, süstivatel narkomaanidel, elundidoonoreil ja ka hemodialüüsi haigeil.
description: Eesti Arst, Aprill 2002
title: Evaluation of the Washington State Target Zero Teams Project [Traffic Tech]
Creators: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2015
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88686
subject: Benefit cost analysis
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90730
subject: Crash rates
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90848
subject: Drunk driving
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89721
subject: Evaluation
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90775
subject: Fatalities
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90602
subject: Highway safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90631
subject: Safety programs
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90917
subject: Traffic law enforcement

description: In late 2006, the Washington State Patrol (WSP) assembled a full-time, high-visibility saturation patrol called the Night Emphasis Enforcement Team (NEET). This pilot program, based in Snohomish County and funded by the Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC), employed a detachment of troopers who focused their efforts almost exclusively on the enforcement of impaired driving and related traffic offenses (e.g., speeding and nonuse of seat belts). A 2012 NHTSA Research Note (Cicchino, 2012) indicated that traffic fatalities decreased by 40.3 percent in Snohomish County from 2005 (before the NEET program began) to 2008. In Washington State counties without NEET patrols, traffic fatalities decreased by 17.7 percent during that time. Washington State expanded the NEET program by establishing three detachments of WSP troopers to focus on nighttime impaired-driving offenses. WTSC and the WSP named these detachments Target Zero Teams (TZT) since they supported Washington’s “Target Zero” strategic highway safety plan, which includes the goal of reducing traffic fatalities in Washington State to zero by 2030. From July 2010 to June 2012, Washington deployed one detachment (one sergeant and six troopers) in each of the three largest counties in the State— King, Pierce, and Snohomish. The WTSC also provided TZT grant funding to local law enforcement to conduct overtime enforcement focused on driving under the influence (DUI) offenses. For research purposes, three other counties (Clark, Spokane, and Yakima) were chosen to serve as comparison sites. These counties did not have any formal WTSC-funded TZT activities taking place. The evaluation focused on (a) the program’s effectiveness in increasing DUI enforcement; (b) whether TZT resulted in decreased alcohol-involved driving, crashes, and fatalities in the intervention counties, in relation to the comparison counties and statewide; (c) public awareness and media coverage of the project; and (d) the cost/benefit of TZT to the State of Washington.
RURAL WATER SUPPLY MANAGEMENT IN TANZANIA: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON COWSO STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION AND PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION
Creators: name: Fierro, Alberto
name: Nelaj, Elina
name: Mwendamseke, Ephraim
name: Traini, Luca
name: Muggianu, Claudio
Publisher: name: JUNCO | Journal of UNiversities and international development COoperation
Year: 2019

description: The paper develops an analysis of the Tanzanian legislative and policy framework on rural water supply. It investigates the Cowsos system and assesses the private sector participation in the management of rural water projects. The research developed a quantitative-qualitative integrated approach through a semi-structured questionnaire submitted to District Water Engineers of Dodoma Region. The research shows that Cowsos establishment and registration process lacks of dedicated financial resources, clear guidelines and adequate directives from Central Government to Local Government Authorities, and highlights that Cowsos and the private sector can coexist in a management formula that holds together independence and community participation.
description: JUNCO | Journal of UNiversities and international development COoperation, N. 2 (2017): Gli Atti del Congresso "Food security, agriculture and sustainable development in the Indian Ocean" - Progetto EGALE (FED/2013/320-117) e riflessioni sulla Cooperazione allo Sviluppo
Heat flow of the Earth and resonant capture of solar 57-Fe axions
Creators: name: Danevich, F. A.
name: Ivanov, A. V.
name: Kobychev, V. V.
name: Tretyak, V. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a very conservative approach, supposing that total heat flow of the Earth is exclusively due to resonant capture inside the Earth of axions, emitted by 57-Fe nuclei on Sun, we obtain limit on mass of hadronic axion: m_a<1.8 keV. Taking into account release of heat from decays of 40-K, 232-Th, 238-U inside the Earth, this estimation could be improved to the value: m_a<1.6 keV. Both the values are less restrictive than limits set in devoted experiments to search for 57-Fe axions (m_a<216-745 eV), but are much better than limits obtained in experiments with 83-Kr (m_a<5.5 keV) and 7-Li (m_a<13.9-32 keV).
description: 8 pages
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Creators: name: Board, Editorial
Publisher: name: JUNCO | Journal of UNiversities and international development COoperation
Year: 2019

description: JUNCO | Journal of UNiversities and international development COoperation, N. 2 (2017): Gli Atti del Congresso "Food security, agriculture and sustainable development in the Indian Ocean" - Progetto EGALE (FED/2013/320-117) e riflessioni sulla Cooperazione allo Sviluppo
Kroonilise hepatiidi ravijuhend
Creators: name: Ott, Kristi
name: Salupere, Riina
name: Prükk, Tiina
name: Margus, Benno
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2002

description: Krooniline C-hepatiit on oluline tervishoiuprobleem. Kuni 70% kroonilise viirushepatiidi juhtudest on põhjustanud C-hepatiidiviirus. C-hepatiidiviiruse ülekanne toimub põhiliselt nakatatud vere kaudu. Kuigi verekomponentide ülekande ja teiste meditsiiniliste protseduuride korral jälgitakse tänapäeval ohutusnõudeid, on nakatumine C-hepatiidiviirusega siiski võimalik. Seksuaalset ülekannet esineb harva, perinataalset ülekannet emalt lapsele on vähem kui 6% juhtudest ning rinnaga toitmise ja C-hepatiidiviiruse ülekande vahel seost ei ole. Kroonilise C-hepatiidi üldist sõeluuringut, sealhulgas rasedatel, ei soovitata. Sõeluuring on vajalik riskirühmades, näiteks haigeil,  kes on saanud verekomponentide ülekandeid, hemofiiliahaigeil, C-hepatiiti põdeva ema lapsel, süstivatel narkomaanidel, elundidoonoreil ja ka hemodialüüsi haigeil. Esitatud ravijuhendis on käsitletud kroonilise C-hepatiidi loomulikku kulgu, diagnoosimist, raviprintsiipe ning haigete jälgimise nõudeid. Kroonilise C-hepatiidi ravijuhendi on 24.05.2001. a heaks kiitnud Eesti Gastroenteroloogide Selts.
description: Eesti Arst, 2002
On a Processor Sharing Queue That Models Balking
Creators: name: Zhen, Qiang
name: van Leeuwaarden, Johan S. H.
name: Knessl, Charles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 41A60, 60K25, 90B22

description: We consider the processor sharing $M/M/1$-PS queue which also models balking. A customer that arrives and sees $n$ others in the system "balks" (i.e., decides not to enter) with probability $1-b_n$. If $b_n$ is inversely proportional to $n+1$, we obtain explicit expressions for a tagged customer's sojourn time distribution. We consider both the conditional distribution, conditioned on the number of other customers present when the tagged customer arrives, as well as the unconditional distribution. We then evaluate the results in various asymptotic limits. These include large time (tail behavior) and/or large $n$, lightly loaded systems where the arrival rate $λ\to 0$, and heavily loaded systems where $λ\to\infty$. We find that the asymptotic structure for the problem with balking is much different from the standard $M/M/1$-PS queue. We also discuss a perturbation method for deriving the asymptotics, which should apply to more general balking functions.
description: 36 pages
title: Ignition Interlock: An Investigation into Rural Arizona Judges’ Perceptions [Traffic Tech]
Creators: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2014
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/94008
subject: Alcohol ignition interlock devices
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90848
subject: Drunk driving
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88612
subject: Interviewing
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91701
subject: Judges
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97209
subject: Rural areas
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88916
subject: State laws

description: This study sought to answer several questions regarding 2007 Arizona legislation requiring ignition interlock for all offenders convicted of driving under the influence (DUI), including first-time DUI offenders. At the time the law was passed, Arizona was only one of two States (New Mexico being the other) to require ignition interlock for first-time offenders. Of particular focus in the study were the implications of the legislation for rural areas. The project staff interviewed judges from rural jurisdictions in Arizona who routinely hear DUI cases to gauge their perceptions of the legislation.
Absorption and scattering of radium gamma radiation in water
Creators: name: Smocovitis, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The first part of this thesis describes measurements made with medical radium sources to determine the ratio of the exposure in a large (essentially infinite) water "phantom" to the exposure at the same point in air, i.e., to determine the fractional transmission in an "infinite" water phantom. The fractional transmission was measured as a function of the distance between the radium sources and the measuring instrument. The radium used was sealed in platinum containers which absorbed the primary alpha and beta rays from the radium so that the exposures were due to gamma rays only. All measurements were made with small air-filled ionization chambers with plexiglass walls. Ionization currents were measured with these chambers in water and in air. The corrections which were required to determine the ratio of exposure in water to exposure in air from these measurements and the preliminary experiments necessary to determine the required corrections are described in the thesis. The fractional transmission through water is shown graphically as a function of the distance between source and point of measurement. Also, the relationship is described by an empirical equation. The curve drawn fits the experimental points obtained under a variety of conditions of measurement within the experimental error of 1/2 to 1%. The second part of the thesis describes measurements of ionization currents made with an experimental set-up in which the ionization chamber was at a fixed distance vertically below the radium and the whole assembly was moved relative to the surface of a water phantom. From measurements made with the radium above the surface, in the surface and below the surface of the water, it was possible (a) to obtain data which could be compared with the results of Part I and (b) to obtain correction factors which could be applied to the results of Part I to correct for reduced scatter when the radium was in the surface, rather than well immersed in water. The results of the present experiment are compared with those of previous workers.
IL DIRITTO AL CIBO IN CITTÀ. SENSO E POSSIBILITÀ
Creators: name: Bottiglieri, Maria
Publisher: name: JUNCO | Journal of UNiversities and international development COoperation
Year: 2017

description: The local protection of the Right to food is crucial in order to fulfill this right and to build a “Right to food oriented” Urban food policy. The Turin City Council introduces under § 2 of the City Regulation (Statuto) the acknowledgement of the Right to adequate food. This local act describes the main features of a “Right to food oriented” Urban food policy: Public-private partnership approach, Citizen-tailored local policies, Cross-disciplinary activity.
description: JUNCO | Journal of UNiversities and international development COoperation, N. 1 (2017): L’Università e la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo che cambia: il progetto Uni.Coo; il progetto RUSSADE (FED/2013/320-115) e gli Atti del Seminario “Urban Food Policies”
Bound, virtual and resonance $S$-matrix poles from the Schrödinger equation
Creators: name: Mukhamedzhanov, A. M.
name: Irgaziev, B. F.
name: Goldberg, V. Z.
name: Orlov, Yu. V.
name: Qazi, I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A general method, which we call the potential $S$-matrix pole method, is developed for obtaining the $S$-matrix pole parameters for bound, virtual and resonant states based on numerical solutions of the Schrödinger equation. This method is well-known for bound states. In this work we generalize it for resonant and virtual states, although the corresponding solutions increase exponentially when $r\to\infty$. Concrete calculations are performed for the $1^+$ ground and the $0^+$ first excited states of $^{14}\rm{N}$, the resonance $^{15}\rm{F}$ states ($1/2^+$, $5/2^+$), low-lying states of $^{11}\rm{Be}$ and $^{11}\rm{N}$, and the subthreshold resonances in the proton-proton system. We also demonstrate that in the case the broad resonances their energy and width can be found from the fitting of the experimental phase shifts using the analytical expression for the elastic scattering $S$-matrix. We compare the $S$-matrix pole and the $R$-matrix for broad $s_{1/2}$ resonance in ${}^{15}{\rm F}$
description: 14 pages, 5 figures (figures 3 and 4 consist of two figures each) and 4 tables
Raman shifts in MBE‐grown SixGe1 − x − ySny alloys with large Si content
Creators: name: Schlipf, Jon
name: Tetzner, Henriette
name: Spirito, Davide
name: Spirito, Davide
name: Manganelli, Costanza Lucia
name: Capellini, Giovanni
name: Huang, Michael R. S.
name: Koch, Christoph
name: Clausen, Caterina
name: Elsayed, Ahmed
name: Oehme, Michael
name: Chiussi, Stefano
name: Schulze, Jörg
name: Fischer, Inga A.
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: asymmetric lineshape
subject: Group IV materials
subject: molecular beam epitaxy
subject: semiconductor alloy
subject: SiGeSn
subject: 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften

description: We examine the Raman shift in silicon–germanium–tin alloys with high silicon content grown on a germanium virtual substrate by molecular beam epitaxy. The Raman shifts of the three most prominent modes, Si–Si, Si–Ge, and Ge–Ge, are measured and compared with results in previous literature. We analyze and fit the dependence of the three modes on the composition and strain of the semiconductor alloys. We also demonstrate the calculation of the composition and strain of SixGe1 − x − ySny from the Raman shifts alone, based on the fitted relationships. Our analysis extends previous results to samples lattice matched on Ge and with higher Si content than in prior comprehensive Raman analyses, thus making Raman measurements as a local, fast, and nondestructive characterization technique accessible for a wider compositional range of these ternary alloys for silicon-based photonic and microelectronic devices.
title: Distracted Driving High-Visibility Enforcement Demonstrations in California and Delaware [Traffic Tech]
Creators: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2014
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89565
subject: Cellular telephones
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91917
subject: Distraction
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/88798
subject: Public information programs
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90633
subject: Safety campaigns
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89661
subject: Text messaging
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90917
subject: Traffic law enforcement

description: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates 10% of fatal crashes (3,328) and 18% of injury crashes (421,000) were attributable to distracted driving in 2012. Previous research indicates dedicated law enforcement over a specified period coupled with enforcement-based messaging can reduce observed electronic device use rates. A demonstration, consisting of four high-visibility enforcement (HVE) waves, conducted from April 2010 to April 2011 in Syracuse, New York, and Hartford, Connecticut, saw hand-held phone use drop 32% (from 3.7% to 2.5%) in Syracuse and 57% (from 6.8% to 2.9%) in Hartford (Chaudhary et al., 2014; Cosgrove et al., 2011). Having evidence that high-visibility enforcement is effective in a controlled community setting, the next step was to examine the effectiveness of implementing distracted driving HVE campaigns over a widespread, multi-jurisdictional area. Following a methodology similar to the Connecticut and New York studies, NHTSA initiated two large-scale HVE demonstrations in California and Delaware to examine whether distracted driving-focused HVE can be applied to larger geographic and demographic areas. In November 2012, NHTSA selected the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) and the Delaware Office of Highway Safety (OHS) for the demonstration effort. The States were selected among those that banned the use of hand-held cell phones while driving and made it a violation to write, send, or read text-based communication on an electronic wireless device while driving. Both California and Delaware allow for primary enforcement and their bans apply to all drivers.
GESTIONE COMUNITARIA DEI TERRENI AGRICOLI: VALORIZZAZIONE DEL PATRIMONIO TERRITORIALE E SISTEMI ALIMENTARI LOCALI
Creators: name: Calori, Andrea
name: Agnelli, Guido
name: Magarini, Andrea
name: Petitti, Giacomo
Publisher: name: JUNCO | Journal of UNiversities and international development COoperation
Year: 2017

description: The collective management of agricultural land, has its roots in the common goods of local communities, involving values and practices to greater social and territorial cohesion. In the urban-rural linkage, the “land” resource is a bridge between agriculture, sovereignty, finance and ecology; in this framework agroecology is the scientific and practical substrate for linking all the issues on agricultural land values. In this article we explore different practices that contributed at an unanimous consensus in the international community debate for recognizing in 2012 at FAO the rights on land tenure.
description: JUNCO | Journal of UNiversities and international development COoperation, N. 1 (2017): L’Università e la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo che cambia: il progetto Uni.Coo; il progetto RUSSADE (FED/2013/320-115) e gli Atti del Seminario “Urban Food Policies”
New Approach for Evaluating Incomplete and Complete Fusion Cross Sections with Continuum-Discretized Coupled-Channels Method
Creators: name: Hashimoto, S.
name: Ogata, K.
name: Chiba, S.
name: Yahiro, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a new method for evaluating incomplete and complete fusion cross sections separately using the Continuum-Discretized Coupled-Channels method. This method is applied to analysis of the deuteron induced reaction on a 7Li target up to 50 MeV of the deuteron incident energy. Effects of deuteron breakup on this reaction are explicitly taken into account. Results of the method are compared with those of the Glauber model, and the difference between the two is discussed. It is found that the energy dependence of the incomplete fusion cross sections obtained by the present calculation is almost the same as that obtained by the Glauber model, while for the complete fusion cross section, the two models give markedly different energy dependence. We show also that a prescription for evaluating incomplete fusion cross sections proposed in a previous study gives much smaller result than an experimental value.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
title: Examining New Mexico’s Comprehensive Impaired Driving Program [Traffic Tech]
Creators: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2014
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90848
subject: Drunk driving
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90775
subject: Fatalities
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90631
subject: Safety programs
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90662
subject: Traffic crashes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90917
subject: Traffic law enforcement

description: For many years, New Mexico had one of the highest rates of alcohol-related driving fatalities in the United States. In 2004, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration entered into a cooperative agreement with the New Mexico Department of Transportation. The objective was to demonstrate a process for developing and implementing an enhanced comprehensive impaired driving program, to reduce the number of crashes and fatalities caused by impaired driving. NHTSA contracted with the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE) to examine New Mexico’s efforts.
THE CONTRIBUTION OF CIHEAM TO THE URBAN FOOD POLICIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Creators: name: Calabrese, Generosa J.
name: Raeli, Maurizio
name: Di Terlizzi, Biagio
Publisher: name: JUNCO | Journal of UNiversities and international development COoperation
Year: 2017

description: The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (IAMB) is one of the four institutes of the CIHEAM, its research activities are oriented to organic and sustainable agriculture, land and water management, integrated pest management. In the course of its work, IAMB supported different examples of Proximity and Urban and Periurban Agriculture (UPA). Such experiences highlighted specific issues to address in site specific way, in order to include UPA in the cities contexts.
description: JUNCO | Journal of UNiversities and international development COoperation, N. 1 (2017): L’Università e la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo che cambia: il progetto Uni.Coo; il progetto RUSSADE (FED/2013/320-115) e gli Atti del Seminario “Urban Food Policies”
title: Demonstration of the Trauma Nurses Talk Tough Seat Belt Diversion Program in North Carolina Reaches High-Risk Drivers [Traffic Tech]
Creators: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2014
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91865
subject: Attitudes
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91755
subject: High risk drivers
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90636
subject: Safety education
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/93815
subject: Seat belt use

description: Nationally, more than 8 of every 10 drivers wear seat belts, but individual State belt rates vary from as high as 98% to as low as 69%. Within individual States, rural areas often have lower rates. Strong seat belt laws and highly visible enforcement by State and local law enforcement remind drivers to buckle up on every trip, but some drivers still do not get the message. NHTSA tested whether a special diversion program, a brief intervention class taught by highly respected trauma nurses in a hospital setting, coupled with dismissal of a belt citation would convince these hard to reach drivers to wear their seat belts. The immediate benefit to the driver was payment of a small class fee in lieu of a high citation fee, court costs, and possibly points on their driving or insurance records. The educational benefit to the driver was an improved understanding of seat belts, child safety seats, and preventable injury and rehabilitation consequences. The benefit to local law enforcement was offering offenders a one-time low cost alternative for the violation and a novel way to reinforce their message that seat belts save lives. The Trauma Nurses Talk Tough (TNTT) program began at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland, Oregon, in 1988 to teach risk avoidance behaviors. The target group was high-risk drivers who did not respond to seat belt laws even in a high-belt-use State such as Oregon. Trauma nurses teach the courses at hospitals and tell real-life stories about real people who sustained preventable injuries because they were not wearing seat belts. The nurses use highly graphic visuals to demonstrate the negative physical, medical, rehabilitation, emotional, legal, and financial consequences of not wearing seat belts from their medical point-of-view.
An Equation of State for Anisotropic Solids under Shock Loading
Creators: name: Lukyanov, Alexander A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An anisotropic equation of state is proposed for accurate extrapolation of high-pressure shock Hugoniot states to other thermodynamics states for shocked single crystals and polycrystalline alloys. The proposed equation of state represents mathematical and physical generalization of the Mie-Grüneisen equation of state for isotropic material and reduces to this equation in the limit of isotropy. Using an anisotropic nonlinear continuum framework and generalized decomposition of a stress tensor [Int. J. Plasticity \textbf{24}, 140 (2008)], the shock waves propagation along arbitrary directions in anisotropic solids of any symmetry can be examined. The non-associated strength model includes the distortion effect of the yield surface which can be used to describe the anisotropic strength differential effect. A numerical calculation showed that the general pulse shape, Hugoniot Elastic Limits (HELs), and Hugoniot stress levels for aluminum alloy 7010-T6 agree with the experimental data. The results are presented and discussed, and future studies are outlined.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures
ENHANCED ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES FOR NUCLEAR FORENSIC APPLICATIONS
Creators: name: Dorais, Corinne
Publisher: name: University of Notre Dame
Year: 2023

description: Nuclear forensic analysis is a key component of United States national nuclear security. A strong nuclear forensic analytical capability strengthens both national and global security by providing a deterrent to bad actors and rogue states who seek to engage in nuclear terrorism or warfare. In order to be effective, nuclear forensic scientists must be able to rapidly achieve highly-accurate and -precise physical, chemical, and isotopic measurements of illicit nuclear materials. The work presented in this dissertation aims to contribute to the efficacy of nuclear forensic science by developing reference materials that allow for rapid analytical techniques to be implemented in nuclear forensic investigations. Two reference materials are presented herein. First, a natural uraninite known as the Happy Jack uraninite has been fully characterized with respect to both its chemical (major, minor, and trace element) as well as its uranium isotope compositions. It is remarkably homogeneous with respect to its rare earth element abundances and will allow for rapid, in situ measurements of uranium-rich matrices at high spatial resolution. Second, an adaptable synthesis has been developed that allows for the production of homogeneous reference materials characteristic of post-detonation nuclear debris that will similarly allow for the rapid analysis at high spatial resolution of post-detonation materials. This synthesis can be tailored to be representative of a variety of urban and rural environments, making it a versatile method for nuclear forensic science. This dissertation also examines the behavior of uranium-molybdenum systems. Molybdenum isotopic fractionation in uranium ores is investigated as a potential fingerprint that can be used to identify the origin or processing history of raw ores as well as manufactured uranium ore concentrates. Additionally, the first thermodynamic measurements of a synthetic uranyl molybdate, meta-iriginite [(UO2)Mo2O7(H2O)2] are presented. By understanding the conditions in which uranyl molybdates are likely to form and persist, nuclear forensic investigators may be able to determine the processing history of a sample based in part on the presence or absence of uranyl molybdate compounds.
title: Two Community Distracted Driving Programs Reduce Hand-Held Phone Use [Traffic Tech]
Creators: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2014
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89565
subject: Cellular telephones
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91917
subject: Distraction
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90631
subject: Safety programs
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/89661
subject: Text messaging
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90917
subject: Traffic law enforcement

description: NHTSA’s high-visibility enforcement (HVE) model is a proven technique to change driver behavior and change it quickly, thereby enhancing the effect of traffic laws. HVE combines strong laws, vigorous highly visible law enforcement activity, targeted advertising that emphasizes the enforcement, and evaluation. NHTSA has applied the HVE model to reducing impaired driving, aggressive driving, and speeding. Click It or Ticket, NHTSA’s best known HVE campaign, is credited with increasing the national seat belt rate to its present alltime high. NHTSA tested whether the high-visibility enforcement model could be applied successfully to distracted driving. Unlike seat belts that are worn for an entire trip, a driver may make one or more short phone calls during a trip, increasing the difficulty of observation. Two communities in Connecticut and New York tested the HVE model over one year in four enforcement waves. Both States have strong laws banning the use of hand-held cell phones while driving. Because of the intermittent nature of cell phone and texting use while driving, the extent to which law enforcement officers could devise strategies to vigorously enforce the laws and increase motorists’ perception of the risk of receiving a citation was unknown.
High field current fluctuations in n-type germanium
Creators: name: Hart, Laurence Gilbert
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The work reported here is an experimental and theoretical investigation of high-frequency electrical noise generated in extrinsic single-crystal n-type germanium at high electric fields. The electric field was pulsed so that the lattice temperature remained near 77°K. During the pulse, the electrons quickly reach a non-equilibrium steady-state due to their gaining energy from the electric field and brought to a steady-state by means of collisions with the lattice vibrations. Previous work has been concerned with noise measurements made at right angles to the electric field direction, where anisotropic behaviour was observed. The present measurements, made in the direction of the electric field, also show a high degree of anisotropy. The electrical noise generated is described by the noise temperature, Tn, obtained by adapting the Nyquist formula to the non-equilibrium case. Measurements of Tn, performed at frequencies of 70Mc/s and 30Mc/s, indicated a uniform noise spectrum in this frequency range for all the samples used. The anisotropy of Tn suggested that Tn was explainable on the basis of the many-valley model of the conduction band of germanium, established by previous experimental investigations of the high-field mobility anisotropy. A feature of the many-valley model is that electrons in different valleys of the conduction band, will in general, exhibit different transport behaviour and as a result, transitions between these valleys will result in a noise phenomenon described as "intervalley noise". However, for measurements of Tn in the <100> direction, the "intervalley noise" will vanish, allowing a direct measure of the electron "heating" due to the electric field, the “hot electron noise”. In the <111> an <110> directions, both intervalley and hot electron noise are expected. Both contributions to Tn are evaluated by means of Barrie's extension to the case of many-valley germanium of Stratton's high-field transport theory.
Spiritual capacity? Overseas religious missions in RAMSI-era Solomon Islands
Creators: name: McDougall, Debra
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM) Program, School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, College of Asia & the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2013

description: "This paper focuses on the nexus of overseas Christian missions and secular development agendas in Solomon Islands during the era of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) — an Australian-led intervention that began in 2003 following a five-year period of civil conflict" - page 2
A Superstabilizing $\log(n)$-Approximation Algorithm for Dynamic Steiner Trees
Creators: name: Blin, Lélia
name: Potop-Butucaru, Maria Gradinariu
name: Rovedakis, Stephane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we design and prove correct a fully dynamic distributed algorithm for maintaining an approximate Steiner tree that connects via a minimum-weight spanning tree a subset of nodes of a network (referred as Steiner members or Steiner group) . Steiner trees are good candidates to efficiently implement communication primitives such as publish/subscribe or multicast, essential building blocks for the new emergent networks (e.g. P2P, sensor or adhoc networks). The cost of the solution returned by our algorithm is at most $\log |S|$ times the cost of an optimal solution, where $S$ is the group of members. Our algorithm improves over existing solutions in several ways. First, it tolerates the dynamism of both the group members and the network. Next, our algorithm is self-stabilizing, that is, it copes with nodes memory corruption. Last but not least, our algorithm is \emph{superstabilizing}. That is, while converging to a correct configuration (i.e., a Steiner tree) after a modification of the network, it keeps offering the Steiner tree service during the stabilization time to all members that have not been affected by this modification.
Krooniline vaagnavalu – epidemioloogia ja riskitegurid
Creators: name: Matt, Kadri
Publisher: name: OÜ Celsius Healthcare
Year: 2008
Subjects: krooniline vaagnavalu, epidemioloogia, riskitegurid

description: Korduvad, kroonilise iseloomuga alakõhu- ja seljavalud on eri eas tütarlaste ja naiste sagedased vaevused, kuid ei ole enamasti arsti juurde pöördumise põhjuseks. 14–25%-l juhtudest on aga valu niivõrd häiriv, et sunnib patsienti arsti poole pöörduma, põhjustab korduvat koolist puudumist või töövõimetust ning füüsilist ja emotsionaalset stressi. Sellistel juhtudel lohutab patsiente vähe asjaolu, et ka pärast uuringuid ei leita 2/3-l juhtudest põhjust või et 20%-l diagnoositakse ärritatud soole sündroomi või stressi ilma ühegi uuringuta. Krooniliste vaagnavalude põhjused on mitmekesised, sümptomid kattuvad, diagnostika võib olla aeganõudev ning etiopatogeneetiline ravi keeruline. Diagnostika ja ravi peaksid olema komplekssed, et raviefekt oleks patsiendi jaoks efektiivseim.


Eesti Arst 2008; 87(1):23−26
description: Eesti Arst, Jaanuar 2008
title: NHTSA’s Behavioral Safety Research: Updated, Annotated Bibliography, 1985–2013 [Traffic Tech]
Creators: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Publisher: name: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04gcfqs37
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2014
Subjects: classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/91863
subject: Behavior
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97305
subject: Bibliographies
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90602
subject: Highway safety
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/97413
subject: Research projects
classificationCode: https://trt.trb.org/term/90601
subject: Traffic safety

description: Through many name changes, from the Office of Program Development and Evaluation, the Office of Research and Evaluation, to the current Office of Behavioral Safety Research, our focus has remained on improving the safety of drivers, occupants, pedestrians, and road users. Our studies include laboratory research, field studies, national surveys, and analyses of observational and archival data. Our work over the past decades has significantly enhanced law enforcement strategies, strengthened community traffic safety programs, informed policy decisions, examined emerging issues, and helped to decrease lives lost to motor vehicle crashes. This compendium covers more than 25 years of research, and updates previous editions, now containing brief summaries of over 500 studies published by this office from 1985 to 2013.