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    The effect of obesity on the restraint of automobile occupants

    Forman, Jason / Lopez-Valdes, Fransicso J. / Lessley, David et al. | Tema Archive | 2009
    As obesity rates increase, the protection of obese occupants will become increasingly important in vehicle and restraint design. As a first ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    Prediction of severe eye injuries in automobile accidents: static and dynamic rupture pressure of the eye

    Kennedy, Eric A. / Voorhies, Katherine D. / Herring, Ian P. et al. | Tema Archive | 2004
    pressure of porcine eyes has been shown to be significantly higher (p = 0.01) than human eyes in both static and dynamic loading rates. Also, the ...

    The association of weight percentile and motor vehicle crash injury among 3 to 8 year old children

    Zonfrillo, Mark R. / Nelson, Kyle A. / Durbin, Dennis R. et al. | Tema Archive | 2010
    between weight percentile and the risk of significant injury for children 3 - 8 years in MVCs. This was a cross-sectional study of children aged 3 ...

    Injury risk for children in rear impacts: Role of the front seat occupant

    Jermakian, Jessica Steps / Arbogast, Kristy B. / Durbin, Dennis R. et al. | Tema Archive | 2008
    cases and deformation of the front seat back into the child's space was reported in 8 % of cases. For those children with seatback deformation ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    The potential for further development of passive safety

    Frampton, Richard / Leanrd, James | Tema Archive | 2009
    functional requirements were identified for crashworthiness improvement: a reduction of seatbelt loads on the chest and abdomen in frontal crashes ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    SUV rollover in single vehicle crashes and the influence of ESC and SSF

    Kallan, Michael J. / Jermakian, Jessica Steps | Tema Archive | 2008
    increased risk of rollover. The authors' research objective was to look at changes in rollover rates for single vehicle crashes in the modern SUV ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    Influence of active muscle contribution on the injury response of restrained car occupants

    Bose, Dipan / Crandall, Jeff R. | Tema Archive | 2008
    injury outcome of an occupant using a simplified numerical musculoskeletal model. The activation levels for 12 major muscle groups loading the ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    Opportunities for reduction of fatalities in vehicle-guardrail collisions

    Gabler, Hampton C. / Gabauer, Douglas J. | Tema Archive | 2007
    the protection of motorcyclists, who now account for 32 % of guardrail fatalities, and car and light truck occupants in side impact, who now ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington
    Keywords: Kraftwagen

    A field data analysis of risk factors affecting the injury risks in vehicle-to-pedestrian crashes

    Zhang, Guanjun / Cao, Libo / Hu, Jingwen et al. | Tema Archive | 2008
    crashes. The inclusion criteria were pedestrians: (a) aged 14 years or older, (b) with a height of 1.5 m and taller, and (c) who were injured in ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    The evaluation of the safety benefits of combined passive and on-board active safety applications

    Page, Yves / Cuny, Sophie / Zangmeister, Tobias et al. | Tema Archive | 2009
    One of the objectives of the European TRACE project (TRaffic Accident Causation in Europe, 2006-2008) was to estimate the proportion of ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    The potential for automatic crash notification systems to reduce road fatalities

    Lahausse, Julie A. / Fildes, Brian N. / Page, Yves et al. | Tema Archive | 2008
    This predictive study investigated the effectiveness of Automatic Crash Notification (ACN) systems in reducing road fatalities, due to ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    Investigation of the performance of safety systems for protection of the elderly

    Augenstein, J. / Digges, K. / Bahouth, G. et al. | Tema Archive | 2005
    need for more benign safety systems to protect the elderly in low severity crashes. Design of safety systems for the elderly should give ...

    Deflections from two types of human surrogates in oblique side impacts

    Yoganandan, Narayan / Pintar, Frank A. | Tema Archive | 2008
    located at the same level of the thorax. In addition, data were compared with deflections from similar PMHS tests obtained using chestbands placed ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    Feasibility of transdermal ethanol sensing for the detection of intoxicated drivers

    Webster, Gregory D. / Gabler, Hampton C. | Tema Archive | 2007
    resulted in a peak lag time of approximately 33 minutes, while a dose of 60 ml of ethanol resulted in a peak time lag of 53 minutes. The time lag ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    An evaluation of the EuroNCAP crash test safety ratings in the real world

    Segui-Gomez, Maria / Lopez-Valdes, Francisco J. / Frampton, Richard | Tema Archive | 2007
    significant relationships between the EuroNCAP body region scores and real injury outcome except for the protection to pelvis-femur-knee in frontal ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    Seat integrated and conventional restraints: A study of crash injury/fatality rates in rollovers

    Padmanaban, Jeya / Burnett, Roger A. | Tema Archive | 2008
    for belted drivers in vehicles with conventional seatbelts compared to belted drivers in vehicles with seat integrated restraint systems (SIRS ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    Event data recorders in the analysis of frontal impacts

    German, A. / Comeau, J.L. / McClafferty, K.J. et al. | Tema Archive | 2007
    descriptor of collision severity used in most real-world crash databases. One of the limitations of delta-V is that it does not account for the time ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    Characteristics of the injury environment in far-side crashes

    Digges, K. / Gabler, H. / Mohan, P. et al. | Tema Archive | 2005
    in velocity and extent of damage were important factors that relate to crash severity. The median severity for crashes with serious or fatal ...
    Keywords: Kraftwagen

    Misuse of booster cushions - An observation study of children's performance during buckling up

    Osvalder, Anna-Lisa / Bohman, Katarina | Tema Archive | 2008
    Booster cushions are effective tools to protect children from injuries in car crashes, but there remains a large amount of misuse. The aim ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington

    Analysis of large truck rollover crashes

    McKnight, A.James / Bahouth, George T. | Tema Archive | 2008
    rollover. The third large crash contributor involved steering: over-steering to the point of rolling over, not steering enough to stay in lane, and ...
    Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine , Barrington