The COVID-19 pandemic caused a variety of social, economic, and environmental changes. This paper examines the employment-related impacts on workers in transportation industry compared to other industries, within different sectors. We estimated random effects logistic regression models test following three hypotheses using monthly Current Population Survey micro-data. One, experienced greater incidence unemployment than industries. Two, there is heterogeneity employment sector. Three,...

Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) human-driven (HDVs) will inevitably coexist on roads in the future, creating mixed-flow traffic. The heterogeneous car-following (CF) behavior of HDVs can degrade control performance CAVs introduce inefficiencies CAV operations. To address these challenges, it is necessary to comprehend HDV CF This driving simulator-based study investigates traffic under three different settings (string-stable, string-unstable, HDV-like). effects congestion level...

Nearly half of electric biker (e-biker)-related crashes caused head injuries that could be preventable by wearing a helmet. This study proposes an integrated Theory Planned Behavior, Health Belief Model, and locus control framework to investigate the underlying psychological factors influencing helmet use intention using survey data in Shanghai. Structural equation model estimation multiple group analyses were conducted understand these heterogeneous impacting factors. motivation, perceived...

Recent consumer surveys and empirical studies suggest linkages between property accessibility, neighborhood built environment, residential values. This paper describes a comprehensive study that was undertaken to understand the impacts of other contributing factors on single-unit multiunit The used sample more than 4,500 2,300 properties collected in 1,800 neighborhoods Adelaide, Australia. Hedonic house price models were applied similarities dissimilarities types accessibility (property...

Automated vehicle (AV) adoption is anticipated to affect millions of motor operators, including gig drivers (platform-based ride-hailing and/or delivery drivers). The multidisciplinary body research investigating worker attitudes towards automation suggests disadvantaged workers are more likely fear status. Gig may have different views about because the unique aspects their work context. To contribute acceptance automation, we analyze focus group and online survey data from a career...

While ride-hailing ridership declined in 2020 due to COVID-19 induced restrictions like stay-at-home orders, food/grocery delivery services became quasi-essential. This study investigates if and how public perceptions of gig work related platform-based changed during the early stages pandemic. We collected a sample 23,845 Twitter posts ('tweets') these within two-week periods before after US emergency declaration. Sentiment analysis on tweets was conducted investigate changes perception...

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA) is a rare disease characterized by recurrent fever episodes, mental retardation of different intensity, anhidrosis, little or no perspiration and congenital pain. Oral self-mutilation also characteristic sign. In this article, we present case who showed these clinical characteristics was treated dental device prevent the patient from injuring his tongue. Neuropathies treatment great challenge for medical teams. Pediatric dentist should...

COVID-19 resulted in health and logistical challenges for many sectors of the American economy, including trucking industry. This study examined how pandemic impacted industry, focused on pandemic’s impacts company operations, health, stress industry employees. Data were collected from three sources: surveys, focus groups, social media posts. Individuals at multiple organizational levels companies (i.e., supervisors, upper-level management, drivers) completed an online survey participated...

The widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) can help attain economic and environmental sustainability by reducing oil dependency greenhouse gas emissions. However, several issues need to be addressed before EVs become a popular vehicle choice among the general public. A key issue is perpetual reduction in EV battery capacity caused degradation over time with usage. This lead reduced driving range cause “range anxiety” for drivers. becomes even more critical developing countries where...

A 21-year-old patient with intellectual disability was admitted for gastroenteritis due to serotonergic medication overdose, and subsequently developed serotonin syndrome. Her symptoms initially improved after the cessation of medications, but worsened 5 days later fentanyl administration during general anesthesia. On emergence, she had convulsions nonresponsive. Subsequent imaging electroencephalography did not demonstrate intracranial pathology or seizure activity. We suspect an...

Being able to grasp objects is a fundamental component of most robotic manipulation systems. In this paper, we present new approach simultaneously reconstruct mesh and dense quality map an object from depth image. At the core our novel camera-centric representation called "object shell" which composed observed "entry image" predicted "exit image". We image-to-image residual ConvNet architecture in shell grasp-quality are as separate output channels. The main advantage corresponding neural...

A 20-year-old female patient with a family history significant for Peutz-Jeghers syndrome presented to the hospital multiple times complaints of abdominal pain. On initial visit hospital, underwent small bowel resection obstruction secondary intussusception, following which she visited again one year later similar and reduction points intussusception without any same. Eventually, second time, along tumor resections. The importance follow-up in patients is particularly essential, part,...