Study on toxic exposures in urban environments
...were 5 to 10 times lower in air conditioned subway cars as compared to underground subway stations. This ...tive at removing the steel dust from the passenger cars and that much of the increased exposure is probably occurring on the station platforms." "It is im...Risk of death in car crashes reduced if all occupants wear seat belts
... on the same side of the car. There were 61,834 cars with two front-seat targets; 7,969 targets were in... front of a right rear occupant. There were 5,278 cars with two rear targets; all left rear targets had a driver in front of them and 90 percent of right r...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2004 class of inventors
...ning data for rapidly moving vehicles ranging from cars to missiles. Getting also made significant contributions to the early development of radar and Projects Mercury and Gemini. Parkinson created and ran the NAVSTAR GPS Joint Program Office from 1972-78. As the program's first manager, he has been th...Lactation program increases rate of breast feeding
...nce, uses a taxi service that allows women without cars to come to the hospital to participate in the Friday luncheons," she said. Additionally, Meier has recruited and trained five breast-feeding peer counselors to help the new mothers with breast-feeding. All five had infants in the Rush NICU and part...Why youngsters try to do impossible things
...slide down miniature slides, squeeze into tiny toy cars and sit in dollhouse chairs. "Even infants can discriminate the size of objects, so the question is why children sometimes ignore the fact that the objects are so small," said David Uttal, associate professor of psychology at Northwestern and study ...New UNC, EPA 9/11 study suggests that pollutants posed small cancer risks
...ment used in the cleanup produced the PAHs, as did cars and buses in New York City. "We found that the lev...0 liters of heating oil and fuel from thousands of cars parked under the World Trade Center. "We believe that this study is important because it shows the t...When looking isn't seeing: Is cockpit design flawed?
...drivers run into highly visible, stationary police cars in broad daylight. To reduce the incidence of these events, a large amount of research in psychophysics and ergonomics has examined how display characteristics effect our ability to simultaneously process multiple features in the visual environment. ...Day-long drivers at risk of cardiovascular problems as a result of traffic pollution
...o fine particles and pollutants that accumulate in cars driving at varying speeds in road traffic enhances...alysed the sources of pollutants inside the patrol cars of nine healthy young male patrol officers working on North Carolina highways. On the basis of previ...Spinal repair pioneer to speak in NY on 20th Jan
...way has been washed away by a flooding river. The cars are still able to travel, the drivers remember where they wish to go, the tanks are full of fuel. The situation will not be repaired by adding more cars, or filling up the tanks to overflowing. What is required is to repair the roadway, to lay a br...... of children under the age of 5 who died in parked cars as a result of heat. Between 1995 and 2002, 171 deaths were recorded in this age group. Around one in four of the children had managed to climb into an unlocked car by themselves, but almost three quarters of the children had been left in a car by ad...