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Assessment of seat belt use in University of Cape Coast campus, Ghana

Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 2018
The paper assesses seat belt use by vehicle occupants such as drivers, front-right passengers and two rear seat passengers in University of Cape Coast campus (UCC), Ghana.
Comfort Ogunleye-Adetona, Thomas Ojo, Francis Afukaar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

In Defence of Walkability as a Crime Prevention Strategy

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT New Urbanist ideas promoting walkability have many benefits. But they are criticised by proponents of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), who blame street connectivity for facilitating target recognition, providing access and escape routes and weakening informal surveillance.
Jose Pina‐Sánchez, Ian Loader
wiley   +1 more source

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

Promet (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, Milan Vujanić, Dalibor Pešić, Boris Antić   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cross‐Prudence and Optimal Prevention

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study optimal prevention in the presence of a correlated nonfinancial background risk. Under positive correlation, cross‐prudence in the nonfinancial attribute reduces optimal prevention. We establish this result in the most direct extension of the standard prevention problem with binary marginal distributions and show that ...
Jingyuan Li, Richard Peter, Lin Zhou
wiley   +1 more source

Cenozoic tropical carbonate platforms in the Santos Basin, SE Brazilian Margin

Sedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tropical carbonate platforms accompanied the latitudinal shifts of the tropical belt throughout the Cenozoic. Their flat‐topped geometries were influenced by a specific set of processes, including climate and sea‐level changes, carbonate facies, tectonics and continental runoff.
Mateus Gama, Gabriel Tagliaro, Adolfo Britzke, Pedro Bauli, Otavio Neto, Luigi Jovane   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Intersectional Dynamics of Skill Underutilization: A Case Study of College‐Educated Iranian Migrant Women in California

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are paradoxical and sociological questions surrounding migrants of certain ethno‐national backgrounds—particularly women—whose high levels of education do not consistently translate into employment commensurate with their skills, resulting in what is commonly termed “brain waste.” This study critically examines the role of employer ...
Homa Sadri
wiley   +1 more source

Can Age or Height Define Appropriate Thresholds for Transition to Adult Seat Belts? An Analysis of Observed Seat Belt Fit in Children Aged 7-12 Years. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022
Parab A, Whyte T, Albanese B, Bilston L, Koppel S, Charlton JL, Olivier J, Keay L, Brown J.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Effective Factors of Seat-Belt Use in Front Seat Passenger on Urban Trips of Bushehr: Application of Protection Motivation Theory

آموزش بهداشت و ارتقاء سلامت ایران, 2019
Background and Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the constructs of protection motivation theory (PMT) for predicting seat-belt use in front seat passenger on urban transportation.
Nahid Soltani, Rahim Tahmasebi, Sahar Haghighatjoo, Azita Noroozi   +3 more
doaj  

Influence of seat belt use behavior and road traffic crash experience on the use of child restraint systems: A step further

Journal of King Saud University: Engineering Sciences
Seat belts and child restraint systems (CRS) are important in-car safety components capable of preventing serious injuries and death in the event of a car crash.
Farhan Muhammad Butt, M.A. Dalhat, Khurram Shahid Minhas, Abdulhamid Al-mojil   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source