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Driving Outside the Wire: Examining Factors Impacting Veterans’ Postdeployment Driving [PDF]

open access: yesOTJR: Occupational Therapy Journal of Research, 2020
Combat Veterans (CVs) deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan experience driving difficulty, based on medical conditions and/or deployment exposures, elevating their risk of motor vehicle crash-related injury or death. To address grounded theory rigor and incorporate constructs such as the Person Environment Occupation Performance model, we revised the ...
Sandra Winter   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Fuel Consumption Tabulation in Laboratory Conditions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Environmental degradation has come about for a number of factors including the use of fossil fuels in vehicles for everyday use. This paper attempts to understand the relationship between fuel consumption and various engine performance parameters under ...
Alghadhi, Mostafa   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

The impact of driving time, distance, and socioeconomic factors on outcomes of patients with locally advanced rectal cancer

open access: yesPublic Health in Practice, 2020
Objectives: Cancer patients experience disparities due to socioeconomic status (SES) factors. We assessed the impact of SES factors on outcomes in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) who received neoadjuvant chemoradiation (nCRT) and ...
Joanna Gotfrit   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Farmland Use Transition in a Typical Farming Area: The Case of Sihong County in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain of China

open access: yesLand, 2021
An in-depth exploration of the dynamics and existing problems in farmland morphology is crucial to formulate targeted protection policies. In this study, we constructed a morphological evaluation index system to identify the characteristics of farmland ...
Ligang Lyu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research on Efficiency of Marine Green Aquaculture in China: Regional Disparity, Driving Factors, and Dynamic Evolution

open access: yesFishes, 2023
It is imperative to achieve the high-quality development of fisheries and green transformation of mariculture. Based on the data of marine aquaculture fisheries in China from 2006 to 2019, this research uses the Super-SBM (Slacks-Based Measure) model to ...
Wei Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Emission characteristics of nonmethane hydrocarbons from private cars and taxis at different driving speeds in Hong Kong [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Vehicular emissions are the major sources of a number of air pollutants including nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) in urban area. The emission composition and emission factors of NMHCs from vehicles are currently lacking in Hong Kong.
Blake, DR   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Trends in technology, trade and consumption likely to impact on microbial food safety [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Current and potential future trends in technology, consumption and trade of food that may impact on food-borne disease are analysed and the key driving factors identified focusing on the European Union and, to a lesser extent, accounting for the United ...
Cole, M.B.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Driving anger and factors related to aggressive driving among Serbian drivers

open access: yesTraffic Injury Prevention, 2020
Objective: Driving anger has been found to be a motivational determinant of risky and aggressive driving. The study reported in this article focused on research questions concerning the conceptualization of driving anger and relationships between driving anger and aggressive driving.
Boško Matović   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Finite driving rate and anisotropy effects in landslide modeling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In order to characterize landslide frequency-size distributions and individuate hazard scenarios and their possible precursors, we investigate a cellular automaton where the effects of a finite driving rate and the anisotropy are taken into account.
D. G. Fredlund   +13 more
core   +1 more source

What Factors Drive Taper Corrosion? [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Arthroplasty, 2018
Adverse local tissue reactions to corrosion products can lead to total hip arthroplasty failure. Although this problem has been well known for more than 25 years, it has seemingly increased in frequency over the recent years. The occurrence of corrosion is multifactorial-depending on implant, patient, and surgeon factors.
Robin Pourzal   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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