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Coproduction as a Causal Process

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT That many public goods and services are coproduced jointly by government agencies (regular producers) together with clients and citizens (consumer producers) represents a fundamental insight, although it has proven a challenge to define coproduction clearly and to study it rigorously.
Gregg G. Van Ryzin
wiley   +1 more source

Seatbelt submarining injury and its prevention countermeasures: How a cantilever seat pan structure exacerbate submarining

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2015
The purpose of this study and a case report was to demonstrate seat belt webbing induced injury due to seatbelt submarining during the frontal motor vehicle crash. Submarining is an undesired phenomenon during a frontal crash scenario and is dependent on
Chandrashekhar K Thorbole
doaj   +1 more source

2005 Seat Belt Usage Survey, June 12, 2006 [PDF]

, 2006
During the spring and summer of 2005, two surveys were taken of motor vehicle drivers’ and passengers’ seat belt usage. These surveys are before and after parts of the “Click it or Ticket” education and enforcement campaign. The whole project starts with

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Seat Belt Usage in Injured Car Occupants: Injury Patterns, Severity and Outcome After Two Main Car Accident Mechanisms in Kashan, Iran, 2012

Archives of Trauma Research, 2015
Background: Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are the main public health problems in Iran. The seat belts, which are vehicle safety devices, are imperative to reduce the risk of severe injuries and mortality.
M. Mohammadzadeh, Mohammad Paravar, Azadeh Sadat Mirzadeh, J. Mohammadzadeh, Soroush Mahdian   +4 more
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Turning Vulnerability Into Strength: How Independent Regulatory Agencies Enhance Accountability and Build Stakeholder Trust

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trustable environments are highly appreciated for regulatory performance, but difficult to emerge. A condition for making trust work is to accept vulnerability, and this holds both for stakeholders and agencies in public governance. Trust‐related vulnerability can be understood as a dynamic perception of potential harm derived from entering ...
Jacint Jordana, Juan Carlos Triviño‐Salazar   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge, attitude and use of seat belt among commercial drivers in Sokoto Metropolis

Sahel Medical Journal, 2010
Background: Every year about 1.2 million people are killed on the world′s roads and up to 50 million are injured or disabled as a result of road traffic accidents.
A O Abiola, I A Rufa′l, A K Ladan, B K Nura, MTO Ibrahim   +4 more
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Complete Transection of the Abdominal Wall Secondary to Being a Rear Seat-Belted Passenger

Case Reports in Surgery
Garrett and Braunstein introduced the concept of the “seat belt sign” in motor vehicle collision (MVC) victims. They defined this as abdominal wall bruising from a lap belt. These signs of trauma are not uncommon. However, “seat belt syndrome,” a pattern
Jamshed Zuberi, Yousef Masoudpoor, Severija Saladziute, Emma Morel, Daniel Garcia, Diya Khetan, Erem Tutal, Natasha Becker, Peter Park, Stephanie Bonne   +9 more
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Leading the Worldwide Movement to Improve Road Safety [PDF]

, 2013
Bloomberg Philanthropies' $125 million, five-year Global Road Safety program is aimed at reducing preventable road traffic deaths and injuries in ten countries through initiatives including increased seat-belt and helmet usage, reduced speed limits ...

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Seatbelt use and risk of major injuries sustained by vehicle occupants during motor-vehicle crashes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies [PDF]

, 2018
BackgroundIn 2004, a World Health Report on road safety called for enforcement of measures such as seatbelt use, effective at minimizing morbidity and mortality caused by road traffic accidents.
A Akobeng, A Baker, A Renson, A Sen, Abdul-Razak Abubakari, AF Hefny, AK Abbas, Antony R. Morgan, B Fréchède, BT McMullin, C-Y Kuo, CS Crandall, DA Hyman, DC Viano, DF Stroup, DM Stein, F Hillary, F O’Kelly, FM Abu-Zidan, G-M Han, H Yasuoka, J Inamasu, J Inamasu, J IntHout, JK Kuan, JR Funk, JS Cummins, K Dalal, L Evans, Leopold Ndemnge Aminde, M Peden, M-S Lin, MA Bjurlin, MA Reed, N Kulvatunyou, N McGrath, Nicole Fouda Mbarga, O Achildi, OJ Ogundele, P Raychaudhuri, PA Anderson, PM Ho, RD Rao, RH Friis, S Biswas, S Blows, S Wotherspoon, Seat-belts and child restraints, SM Blake, T Sugimoto, TB Dinh-Zarr, V O’Dowd, VM Nantulya, Y Matsui   +53 more
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ATHLETIC: An exoskeleton countermeasure exercise device for resistive and plyometric training in deep‐space missions

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Prolonged exposure to weightlessness leads to loss of muscle and bone mass. Therefore, astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) currently perform mandatory daily exercises. ISS missions usually last 6 months, and future missions will become significantly longer when going, for example, to Mars.
Jonas Böcker, Jochen Zange, Torsten Siedel, Guillaume Fau, Sebastian Langner, Thomas Krueger, Jörn Rittweger   +6 more
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