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Messiah: An ITS drive safety application [PDF]
, 2014 This article describes a novel safety application based on the open source navigation software OsmAnd, which runs on the Android platform. The application offers vehicles with "smart navigation", and maintains a network of the vehicles that use our ...
Calafate, Carlos T +4 more
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Microbial air quality and bacterial surface contamination in ambulances during patient services.
Oman Medical Journal, 2015 OBJECTIVES We sought to assess microbial air quality and bacterial surface contamination on medical instruments and the surrounding areas among 30 ambulance runs during service.
P. Luksamijarulkul, Sirikun Pipitsangjan
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This study describes the work at an emergency and critical care center, focusing on the collaboration of multiple nurses when moving patients from the outpatient department to the ward. This study is an ethnomethodological ethnography based on fieldwork at a hospital and analysis of video data. The patient transport process is temporally organized into
Hiroki Maeda, Yumi Nishimura
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SURFACE TENSIONS: Roads, Potholes and the Embodied Politics of Driving in Urban India
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I draw on the embodied experience of driving into potholes and on bumpy roads in Hyderabad to show how pockmarked roads become a terrain on which political sensibilities are shaped. Drawing on ethnographic material collected over six years, I analyze how potholes shape driving dispositions in a city that is attempting to brand ...
Sneha Annavarapu
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International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2015 Background The objective of this paper is to evaluate the response times and outcome of patients in two groups of patients attended by permanently (PS) and temporarily stationed ambulances (TS) (fluid deployment).MethodsPatients transported and treated ...
M. Peyravi +3 more
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, 2013 In this paper, we address the dynamic Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems. A dynamic location model is presented that tries to locate and relocate the ambulances.
Jemai, Zied, Moeini, Mahdi, Sahin, Evren
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Construction of a dynamic arrival time coverage map for emergency medical services
Open Geosciences, 2018 This article presents a design of coverage maps for emergency journeys made by emergency medical services. The system was designed for the Malopolskie Voivodeship Office in Cracow, Poland.
Piórkowski Adam
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South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde, 2015 BACKGROUND Response time is viewed as a key performance indicator in most emergency medical services (EMS) systems. OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of increased emergency vehicle numbers on response time performance for priority 1 incidents in an ...
Christopher Stein +2 more
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