Download or read book Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation written by Neville A Stanton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the latest advances in research and development, design, operation and analysis of transportation systems and their complementary infrastructures. It reports on both theories and case studies on road and rail, aviation and maritime transportation. The book covers a wealth of topics, from accident analysis, vehicle intelligent control, and human-error and safety issues to next-generation transportation systems, model-based design methods, simulation and training techniques, and many more. A special emphasis is given to smart technologies and automation in transport, as well as to user-centered, ergonomic and sustainable design of transport systems. The book, which is based on the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Human Factors in Transportation, held on July 17–21, Los Angeles, California, USA, mainly addresses transportation system designers, industrial designers, human–computer interaction researchers, civil and control engineers, as well as vehicle system engineers. Moreover, it represents a timely source of information for transportation policy-makers and social scientists dealing with traffic safety, management, and sustainability issues in transport.
Download or read book Over the Handlebars written by Don Gately and published by Don Gately. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide spectrum of motorcycling is covered in these stories - touring, desert racing, motocross, antiques, marriage and motorcycling. Most are fiction, but a few are real experiences. Although most of these stories, opinions and essays were published in motorcycle magazines years back, they have a timeless quality that makes them as interesting and valid today as then.
Download or read book Innovative Computing and Communications written by Aboul Ella Hassanien and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amidst Traffic written by Michel Sauret and published by . This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amidst Traffic" is a collection of high-caliber, interconnected short stories with a literary flair: A short-order cook digs a hole in his back yard to escape nightmares of mutilated children; A woman covers her body in tattoos to hold on to emotions that continue to slip away; A soldier who returns home from Iraq struggles with the idea of gratitude, which, if resolved, may save his marriage; A man begins a game of watching strangers to see what it feels like to play God. All of these stories, and others, are linked somehow. With each tale, more lines and connections begin to form. What initially feels like chaos, gradually begins to take order. A purpose exists that is unveiled by the end. Every story is crafted with a sense of compassion for the human spirit, while seeking answers about the conflicts we live through in everyday life. The characters in these stories will make you care about their struggles and hope for their redemption.
Download or read book Safety Leadership written by Robert J. de Boer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed at those who are responsible for the overall performance of organisations, divisions or departments in diverse industries such as healthcare, aviation, construction, oil and gas, nuclear, railways and defence, this book introduces a new safety paradigm in comprehensible and practical terms. It aims at improving safety and overall organisational performance through a doable, different and directed approach using multiple small steps. This book will help readers in understanding how to integrate the natural variability of human performance – and our ability to compensate for unpredictability elsewhere – into organisational systems, thereby ensuring successful outcomes. It covers important topics, including complexity, effective workplace innovations, micro-experiments, maintaining alignment between rules and reality, maximising learning and restoring relations. It includes practical examples and supporting material referenced in the expansive notes section. This book: Presents multiple small steps that collectively facilitate the improvement of safety Discusses improving safety in routine work;, not triggered by accidents Covers a chapter on what to do when things go wrong Discusses these methods with the help of numerous vignettes Has a separate section on each industry Safety professionals, academicians, researchers and students (undergraduate and graduate) in health and safety, human factors, ergonomics, occupational health and safety will also appreciate the brevity and clarity of this work in conveying the latest scientific insights on safety.
Download or read book Nobody s Road written by and published by Indies United. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: n 2045 America is ruled by ‘The Brain’. It’s a country of dried-up rivers, computer project educations, holographs, and robots. Most species have died off and even fresh air is scarce. Children don’t form bonds and therefore can’t love. They become drones – dangerous killers. The answer lies on a road in Pindar Corners but to find it is to risk the loss of your soul. In need of a hero, Harry Erin Cooper steps up to the plate and, along with his wife, Adina, they restore what should have been.
Download or read book Play to the End written by Robert Goddard and published by Delta. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intricate, fascinating and deeply satisfying to the last page -- another classic Robert Goddard mystery. Actor Toby Flood, formerly of big and small screen but now seldom seen on either, arrives in Brighton with the other cast members of the Joe Orton play Lodger in the Throat. They have been on tour since September, but hopes of a West End transfer have been abandoned and they are all looking forward to the end of the run the following Saturday. Flood is visited that night by his estranged wife, Jenny, now living with wealthy entrepreneur Roger Colborn. Jenny runs a shop in the Lanes and is worried about a strange man who is hanging around outside. Roger has dismissed her concerns but Jenny persuades Toby, for old times’ sake, to do something. The next day Flood trails the man and confronts him. Derek Oswin is an unemployed loner who blames Roger Colborn for his father’s death from cancer on account of dangerous practices at the now-closed plastics factory run by Roger and his late father, Sir Walter Colborn. However, Oswin is a fan of Flood’s and eventually he agrees to lay off. Then, Colborn gets wind of Flood’s contact with Jenny and tries to buy him off, but Flood sees only a longed-for opportunity to win Jenny back, and presses for answers to a host of questions surrounding the death of Sir Walter seven years earlier. Before he fully understands the risks he is running, Flood finds himself entangled in the mysterious -- and dangerous -- relationship between the Oswins and the Colborns. The prospects of him surviving until the close of the play suddenly start to look far from good.
Download or read book Roma written by Roma Ravn and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about the varied incidents that Roma has experienced in over her eighty-five years. Roma came from somewhat straightened beginnings. Her father was a gold miner, only returning to his home many kilometers away in another state once or twice a year. Roma was an intelligent child who loved all creatures large and small—and sometimes a little too well. Her education was a double major at her university in medicine and geology, but family circumstances caused her to have to choose between them partway through her studies. She was the youngest and first female geologist appointed to the government mines section and was sent all over Australia prospecting and examining mining areas. Her adventures along the way make for very amusing and interesting reading. It clearly shows her sense of the ridiculous and also the unexplained in this country. Her downtime between contracts allowed her to do research on a great many science subjects, many of which she gained diplomas from.
Download or read book What s Next written by Robert Buren and published by No Better Time Inc.. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Buren thought he had it all: a loving family, a great career, and an ambitious future. But all this was thrown into doubt one day in the woods when he experienced a life-altering accident. Robert had to learn how to rebuild his life and recover his dreams from a new perspective: sitting in a wheelchair afflicted with chronic neuropathic pain. Robert’s epic journey involves adversity, heartache, and tragedy. But his positive mindset and philosophy of life helped him adjust to his new life while pursuing the ultimate athletic challenge: the Ironman. As a paratriathlete, Robert pushes his body and mind to their limits, overcoming all barriers on his own personal road to Kona… This book tells the story of a remarkable person at the most difficult time of his life. Through love, hard work, and determination, the author is able to learn how to live with adversity and pursue his goals. This inspiring story will make you laugh and make you cry, while providing life lessons on how to react when the unthinkable happens.
Download or read book Parallel Dimensions written by Lisa Graziano and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China s Holy Hikes written by Jacob Lotinga and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While China counted down to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, university English teacher Jacob Lotinga embarked on a journey of discovery by hiking China's holy mountains - some Buddhist, some Taoist.Fancy chatting with Buddhist and Taoist monks and nuns, rubbing shoulders with pilgrims and porters, or drinking cool water from a bowl in a peak-top temple guesthouse while humming Cui Jian's 'Fake Monk'?China's Holy Hikes offers readers eight irresistible and illuminating holy mountain sketches, vanishing into the mist and cloud of five Taoist and three Buddhist peaks and meeting a host of interesting characters along the way. It also offers a glimpse of different regions, covers some social issues and provides insight into the psychology of one hiker.Author Jacob Lotinga has taught English at four mainland Chinese universities and has also worked in South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong.
Download or read book Sheridan Nurseries written by Edward Butts and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-10-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully designed book tells the 100-year story behind Ontario's beloved Sheridan Nurseries from its creation by Howard and Lorrie Dunington-Grubb to its overwhelming success today. This is a chronicle of history, natural inspiration, and a love of gardening.
Download or read book Sylvia Plath Day by Day Volume 2 written by Carl Rollyson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her death in 1963, Sylvia Plath has become an endless source of fascination for a wide audience, ranging from readers of The Bell Jar, her semiautobiographical novel, to her groundbreaking poetry as exemplified by Ariel. Beyond her writing, however, interest in Plath was also fueled in part by the nature of her death—a suicide while she was estranged from her husband, Ted Hughes, who was himself a noteworthy British poet. As a result, a steady stream of biographies of Plath, projecting an array of points of view about their subject, has appeared over the last fifty-five years. Now biographer Carl Rollyson, the author of two previous biographical studies of Plath, has surveyed the vast amount of material on Plath, including her biographies, her autobiographical writings, and previously unpublished material, and distilled that data into the two volumes of Sylvia Plath Day by Day. As the follow-up to volume 1, volume 2 commences on February 14, 1955, the day Plath wrote to her mother declaring her intention to study in England, a decision that marked a major turning point in her life. With brief signposts provided by the author, this volume follows Plath through the entirety of her marriage to Hughes, the challenges of simultaneously raising a family and nourishing her own creativity, and the major depressive episodes that ultimately led to her suicide in 1963. By providing new angles and perspectives on the life of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated poets, Sylvia Plath Day by Day offers a comprehensive image of its enigmatic subject.
Download or read book Ergonomics for Design and Innovation written by Debkumar Chakrabarti and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Indian Society of Ergonomics (HWWE), held in Guwahati, India, on December 1-3, 2021. By highlighting the latest theories and models, as well as cutting-edge technologies and applications, and by combining findings from a range of disciplines including engineering, design, health care, management, computer science, and behavioral science, it provides researchers and practitioners alike with a comprehensive, timely guide on user-centered design for quality life, human factors and ergonomics, design applications, cognitive processing, and response. It also offers an excellent source of innovative ideas to stimulate future discussions and developments aimed at applying knowledge and techniques to optimize system performance, while at the same time promoting the health, safety, and well-being of individuals. The proceedings includes papers from researchers and practitioners, scientists and physicians, institutional leaders, managers, and policy makers that contribute to constructing the human factors and ergonomics approach across a variety of methodologies, domains, and productive sectors.
Download or read book Intervention written by Julian May and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1987-09-28 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An origin story of Julian May’s Galactic Milieu Trilogy and a link to her Saga of Pliocene Exile—“a superb piece of speculative fiction” (Library Journal). They have always been among us—the telepaths, the persons possessing higher mind-powers that have been called “metapsychic”—but they have always been few and far between and their abilities weak or erratic. Until now . . . Human evolution makes a quantum leap. And all over the world, people begin to be born with extraordinary minds. Some of them are geniuses and some are very ordinary. But all of these metapsychic operants have mind-powers that “normal” humanity considers amazing—and dangerous. Intervention paints this advent of Homo superior in a broad and colorful chronicle that begins in 1945 and culminates in 2013. Its many characters reveal the impact of higher mind-powers upon the possessors themselves, upon their “normal” associates, and upon a troubled society striving to avoid nuclear annihilation. The metapsychic operants are secretive and fearful at first. When they reveal themselves they are regarded with awe, exploited, and finally persecuted. They are torn by the dilemma of what role to play: are they destined to save the “normal” from global war, even if it means that they must use their mental powers to subjugate the race that gave birth to them? The book’s principal protagonists are members of the Remillard family of New Hampshire—whose descendants are featured in Julian May’s worldwide bestselling Saga of Pliocene Exile. Intervention details with humor, thundering action, and scientific insight a world where the human mind does much more than think—a world that is fantastic, but by no means implausible.
Download or read book Growing up Amid Uncertainties written by Abiodun Giwa and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kareem was a young boy living in Nigeria, and all he wanted was an education. Kareem had seen the power of education. In his home country, having an education meant you were a master; having no education meant you were a slave or dimwitworthy of being looked down upon. The hope for education and a job in government or commerce was overwhelming. Kareems journey to attain an education would not be simple. The joy of going to class was cut short when he was prematurely pulled from school due to his familys financial hardship. With no hope in sight, Kareem abandoned his fathers intention of teaching him to be a bike repairman. He became a homeless walker of the streets, barely surviving for years until finally, thirty years later, he arrived in the United States. Growing Up amid Uncertainties is the memoir of an indigent African persevering against social, political, and economic hardship to fulfill the dream of a good education and a better life. Kareem faced many obstaclesincluding the assassination of his brotherbefore reaching American soil. This is his story: an example of the importance of public school education for the betterment of individual lives as well as society at large.
