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Predictors and Motivation for Seat Belt Use – A Case Study in Bosnia and Herzegovina

open access: yesPromet (Zagreb), 2019
The use of seat belts, for drivers and car occupants, results in reducing the rate of fatalities and severe road injuries. In this research, the methodology of the survey was applied through the self-reporting behaviour of the respondents who determined ...
Zoran Injac   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A spatial and temporal analysis of seat-belt usage and seat-belt laws [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Seat-belt usage has increased significantly in the US since the introduction of mandatory seat-belt usage laws in the 1980`s. This paper analyzes the impact of these laws on increasing seat-belt usage while controlling for other state-specific variables.
Majumdar, Arnab   +2 more
core  

Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
wiley   +1 more source

Delayed presentation of an entrapped small bowel loop stricture in a case of seat belt injury with the seat belt sign: laparoscopic resection and anastomosis

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gastrointestinal Intervention
Seat belt-related injuries are frequent and are often associated with a specific injury pattern known as “seat belt syndrome.” The presence of the seat belt sign can facilitate the early identification of seat belt injuries, which can help prevent the ...
Raju Badipati   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

The Effectiveness of Swiveling Seats in Protecting Reclined Occupants in Highly Autonomous Driving Environments during Frontal Crashes

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
High-tilt reclined seats are one of the most popular configurations in highly automated vehicles; however, current restraint systems cannot protect out-of-position occupants in this type of seat.
Fang Tong   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancing Missouri Traffic Safety with a Primary Enforcement Seat Belt Law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In 1984, New York became the first state to enact a mandatory seat belt law; since then, the District of Columbia and every state except New Hampshire have adopted similar laws.
Hutton, Jessica   +1 more
core  

Tales of Cyberspace and Artificial Intelligence: Diverging Stakeholderships?

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the evolution of the Internet from the 1990s to the 2020s and compares it with the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly following the public launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. It identifies both parallels and divergencies between these two overlapping technological domains, focusing on the growing ...
Johan Eriksson, Giampiero Giacomello
wiley   +1 more source

Seat belt-related injuries: A surgical perspective

open access: yesJournal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2017
Introduction: Legislation making seatbelt use mandatory is considered to have reduced fatal and serious injuries by 25%, with UK government estimates predicting more than 50,000 lives saved since its introduction.
Tahir Masudi   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi‐clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, historians, as well as those in adjacent disciplines, have often been unable to gain access to sufficient records or data to conduct analysis of who supports
Evan Smith, Lauren Pikó
wiley   +1 more source

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