The quantification and effective representation of safety risks for scenarios in structured road traffic environments of autonomous driving are currently being investigated in an active way. Based on artificial potential fields, a risk-field model fo...
Collision-risk measurements are crucial for ships, as they are necessary for collision avoidance decision making. However, collision risks between ships have not been quantified in unified standards. In this study, a critical collision index is propo...
With the gradual depletion of surface resources, rock instability caused by deep high stress and mining disturbance seriously affects safe mining. To create effective risk management, a rock instability risk field model using microseismic monitoring...
Various driving assistance systems have been developed to reduce the number of automobile accidents. However, the control laws of these assistance systems differ based on each situation, and the discontinuous control command value may be input instan...
It is well known that road traffic safety is one of the crucial topics in the field of automotive safety in assisted driving. In the face of complex traffic scenarios, there are still a large number of unsolved problems in the identification of vehic...
The endowment effect is a phenomenon whereby ownership increases the perceived value of goods, thereby reducing the willingness to trade. This paper presents the results of a field experiment, designed to assess the robustness of this effect when dec...
With the increasing demand for road traffic safety assessment, global concerns about road safety have been rising. This is particularly evident with the widespread adoption of V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) technology, where people are more intensively...
With the advancement of autonomous driving technology, scenario-based testing has become the mainstream testing method for intelligent vehicles. However, traditional risk indicators often fail in roundabout scenarios and cannot accurately define dang...
Field determination and ecological risk assessment of dissolved lead (Pb) were performed at two Yellow Sea sites in China using a continuous automated electrochemical system (CAEDS). This CAEDS instrument includes an automatic triple filter sampler a...
People spend up to 90% of their time indoors where they continuously interact with the indoor environment. Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), and in particular thermal comfort, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), and acoustic and visual comfort, have proven t...
Risk assessment of deep shale reservoirs is very important for subsurface energy development. However, due to complex geological environments and physicochemical interactions, shale reservoir fabric parameters exhibit variability. Moreover, the actua...
With the impacts of climate change and human activities, agricultural drought disaster losses have increased remarkably. Drought disaster risk assessment is a prerequisite for formulating disaster reduction strategies and ensuring food security. Howe...
To enhance the safety of lane changes for connected autonomous vehicles in an intelligent transportation environment, this study draws from potential field theory to analyze variations in the risks that vehicles face under different traffic condition...
The current methods for lightning risk warnings that are based on atmospheric electric field (AEF) data have a tendency to rely on single features, which results in low robustness and efficiency. Additionally, there is a lack of research on canceling...
This paper propose a practical field-based screening protocol for evaluating the risk of hamstring injury. This is done by discerning the most important factors that better explain the underlying structure among various measurements. Following a cros...
19 August 2022
Although autonomous vehicles have introduced a promising potential for improving traffic safety and efficiency, ensuring the safety of autonomous vehicles in complex road traffic environments is still a huge challenge to be tackled. To quickly quanti...
The performance of base-isolated steel structures having special moment frames is assessed. The archetypes, which are designed per ASCE/SEI 7–2016, are simulated in the Finite Element (FE) computational platform, OpenSees. Adopting nonlinear dy...
A dynamic LC trajectory planning algorithm based on the modified driving risk field is proposed to address the issue of dynamic changes during the lane-changing (LC) process. First, a modified driving risk field (MDRF) model is constructed for LC sce...
Japanese modern irrigation management is considered a successful model of water governance worldwide. However, debates continue over whether this success is due to natural water abundance or to water management practices. This study evaluates pre-mod...
Existing CO2 leakage risk assessment frameworks for CO2 capture, geological storage and utilization (CCUS) projects face limitations due to subjective biases and poor adaptability to long-term scale sequestration. This study proposed a dynamic risk a...
Risk and financial cost management are becoming increasingly important in the oil industry, especially in companies that have mature oil fields as assets. In such cases, risk and cost analysis are crucial to their existence. The paper analyzes the ri...
4 January 2018
Children can be exposed to arsenic through play areas which may have contaminated fill material from historic land use. The objective of the current study was to evaluate the risk to children who play and/or spend time at baseball fields with soils s...
This article presents a methodology for risk assessment and management in the development of hard-to-recover hydrocarbon reserves. The proposed methodology integrates Monte Carlo simulation and fuzzy logic methods, which allows for the consideration...
Connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) face constraints from multiple traffic elements, such as the vehicle, road, and environmental factors. Accurately quantifying the vehicle’s operational status and driving risk level in complex traffic scenar...
12 October 2022
The presence of residual Cr(VI) in soils causes groundwater contamination in aquifers, affecting the health of exposed populations. Initially, permeable reactive barriers(PRB) effectively removed Cr(VI) from groundwater. However, as PRB clogging incr...
Every year, approximately 3% of cats and dogs are lost. In addition to passive methods for identifying pets, radiofrequency tracking devices (TDs) are available. These TDs can track a pet’s geographic position, which is transmitted by radio frequenci...
This paper—which is contextualized in the discussion on the methodological pluralism and the main topics of medical geography, the complexity theory in geographies of health, the remaking of medical geography and ad hoc systems of data elaborat...
This paper outlines the specific provisions of Italian legislation regarding workers’ exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from 0 Hz to 300 GHz compared to the minimum health and safety requirements set in European Directive 2013/35/EU. In...
Homo sapiens and their predecessors evolved in the context of the boundary conditions of Earth, including a 1 g gravity and a geomagnetic field (GMF). These variables, plus others, led to complex organisms that evolved under a defined set of conditio...
This work aimed to develop a model to assess the likelihood of injury in track and field athletes, and to establish which factors have the greatest impact. Tests verifying their significance were also reviewed, as well as the method for selecting var...
The parameters of gravity dams and foundation materials objectively exhibit spatial variability due to environmental and load influences, which significantly affect the safety status of dam structures. Therefore, a safety risk analysis method for a g...
The assessment of soil salinization risk at the field scale requires modeling of the spatial variability of soil salinity. This paper presents a probabilistic approach to estimate and map a risk index using all available auxiliary information. A prob...
Magnetic Resonance (MR) technology is extensively used in academic and industrial research laboratories and represents one of the most significant methodologies in clinical radiology. Although MR does not use ionizing radiation, it cannot be consider...
4 March 2017
Background: Children must be recognized as a sensitive population based on having biological systems and organs in various stages of development. The processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination of environmental contaminants with...
27 January 2023
Driver disability has become an increasing factor leading to traffic accidents, especially for commercial vehicle drivers who endure high mental and physical pressure because of long periods of work. Once driver disability occurs, e.g., heart disease...
In order to reduce the harm of induced earthquakes in the process of geothermal energy development, it is necessary to analyze and evaluate the induced earthquake risk of a geothermal site in advance. Based on the tectonic evolution and seismogenic h...
Typhoon Jebi struck Japan on the 4 September 2018, damaging and inundating many coastal areas along Osaka Bay due to the high winds, a storm surge, and wind driven waves. In order to understand the various damage mechanisms, the authors conducted a f...
The frequent and massive use of chlorfenapyr has led to pesticide residues in crops, threatening food safety and human health. However, there is limited research on the detection of tralopyril, which is the major metabolite of chlorfenapyr with high...
Grape cultivation is crucial due to its significant dietary benefits and the production of various byproducts. Fungicides, like boscalid, are frequently applied to protect grape crops from several disease, ensuring both yield and quality. However, th...
Safety and comfort are the two major requirements for the successful implementation of self-driving cars, which are anticipated to constitute the future generation of transportation. To create safe and effective self-driving car trajectories, a novel...
An accurate assessment of the risk of extreme environmental events is of great importance for populations, authorities and the banking/insurance/reinsurance industry. Koch (2017) introduced a notion of spatial risk measure and a corresponding set of...
Extant clinical research has underscored that patients suffering from atrial fibrillation (AF) bear an elevated risk for stroke, predominantly driven by the formation of thrombus in the left atrial appendage (LAA). As such, accurately identifying tho...
22 July 2020
Coccidioidomycosis, also known as Valley fever, has been reported among military personnel in Coccidioides-endemic areas of the southwestern United States since World War II. In this study, the prevalence of Coccidioides was confirmed in different so...
22 July 2022
Disease risk associated with contaminated water, poor sanitation, and hygiene in informal settlement environments is conceptually well understood. From an analytical perspective, collecting data at a suitably fine scale spatial and temporal granulari...
The primary aim of this scoping review was to identify practical risk factors associated with an elevated risk in anterior cruciate ligament injury (ACLI) in elite male field team athletes that can be applied meaningfully in screening tools by team s...
In 2024, the low-altitude economy, as a representative of strategic emerging industries, was written into the government work report for the first time, becoming an important engine for the development of new-quality productive forces. China’s...
In this study, an integrated environmental risk assessment (ERA) study involving frequent monitoring of both water and soil parameters (24 on total), was carried out to assess and compare the environmental risk quality of three pistachio (Pistacia ve...
To reduce carbon emissions in the shipping industry, the energy management problem of the ship-integrated energy system (S-IES) is analyzed in this paper. Firstly, a marine environmental risk field model is constructed to quantify the degree of hazar...
The European Union’s Farm-to-Fork strategy, aiming at increasing the environmental sustainability of farming, is oriented to limit farm inputs that could harm the environment. This restrictive policy affects farmers’ productive choices an...
With the popularization and high-intensity utilization of greenhouse cultivation for crops growth, the pollution of greenhouse soils has been of concern. Therefore, a national-scale survey was conducted to investigate the contamination status, source...
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