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Teen driver's attitudes, knowledge and motor vehicle violations in relationship to Wisconsin's Graduated License law
Get PDFPlan BThe purpose of this research was to determine the extent that restrictions imposed by the Wisconsin Graduated Licensing system are being followed by Polk and Burnett County teenage drivers. As a result of present data which indicates that Wisconsin’s GDL law appears to be working, the researcher was interested in three questions which served as the basis for the study:
1. To what extent are Polk and Burnett County teenage drivers knowledgeable about Wisconsin’s Graduated License law?
2. What are the general attitudes of Polk and Burnett County teens concerning the Graduated License law?
3. To what extent are the restrictions imposed by the Wisconsin Graduated Licensing system being followed by Polk and Burnett County teenage drivers?
The study was conducted by using questionnaires for data collection. There were 481 questionnaires sent out, 124 of those were returned, and 122 were used in the study. Data was collected during June 2003 from subjects age eighteen having a birth date between September 1, 1984, and June 20, 1985, from ten out of the eleven public high schools in Polk and Burnett Counties of Wisconsin. Results of this study revealed that Polk and Burnett County teenage drivers were very knowledgeable about Wisconsin’s GDL law. Interestingly, findings in this area produced no major discrepancy between genders in their responses. It was also found that the subjects’ attitudes varied according to the graduated licensing stage and the data revealed a gender gap. In addition, data revealed exceedingly high GDL law violation percentages to comparably low citation percentages during both the instructional permit and probationary license phases. Here again, gender differences surfaced in GDL violation percentages as well as in respect to citation percentages and extended license restrictions
Other title: Relating to Graduated Drivers License Other title: Graduated Drivers License
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Letter to Jeff King, Chairman, House Transportation GDL Subcommittee, Kansas Legislature, from Deb Miller, Secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation.Letter in support of House Bill 2143, relating to a graduated driver's licensing system for Kansas teen drivers. "This bill addresses the three areas where young drivers are most at risk; more driving experience while in the learning phase, limitations on teen passengers, and nighttime driving when they are first allowed to drive without adult supervision.
Performance of a micro-engineered ultrasonic particle manipulator
No full textAn ultrasonic microfluidic particle manipulator has been modeled and its experimentally measured separation performance has been compared with the modeled results for 1 µm latex particles, and yeast particles in water
The effectiveness of graduated driver licensing
No full textConcern about the high crash rates of beginning drivers has prompted a steadily increasing number of jurisdictions in North America to design and implement graduated driver licensing programs. The primary objective of these programs is to reduce crashes by ensuring new drivers gain experience and mature under conditions of low risk before graduating to more demanding driving conditions. Evidence of the effectiveness of graduated licensing has been growing. Formal evaluations in New Zealand, Florida, Ontario, and Nova Scotia have shown that graduated licensing is associated with significant reductions in collisions. Preliminary findings from ongoing evaluations in Michigan, Kentucky, North Carolina and California also suggest that graduated licensing is effective. This paper outlines the rationale of graduated licensing, describes key features and support for such a system, and discusses its safety effectiveness
The legitimacy of graduated response schemes in copyright law
No full textIn an attempt to curb online copyright infringement, copyright owners are increasingly seeking to enlist the assistance of Internet Service Providers (‘ISPs’) to enforce copyright and impose sanctions on their users.1 Commonly termed ‘graduated response’ schemes, these measures generally require that the ISP take some action against users suspected of infringing copyright, ranging from issuing warnings, to collating allegations made against subscribers and reporting to copyright owners, to suspension and eventual termination of service
Competing or complementing: Driver education and graduated driver licensing
No full textDriver education and graduated driver licensing are two counteÍneasures designed to help reduce the crash risk ofyoung novice drivers. However, while driver education enjoys popular support there is a lack of evidence confirming that it reduces crash risk. In contrast, research has suggested a strong link between the introduction of stronger graduated licensing schemes, which include restrictions such as limits on late night driving or peer passengers, and crash reductions. This paper will present preliminary findings from a survey of novice driver experiences in Queensland. Implications for the better integration of licensing requirements and driving training are discussed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
To sell or not to sell? Pricing strategies of newly-graduated artists
No full textThe paper investigates the pricing strategies of newly-graduated artists and identifies innovative strategies more suited to achieving sustainable practice. Our work is novel in investigating the drivers of discrepancies between artists’ willingness-to-accept (WTA) and potential customers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP). Using mixed-methods, we explore the viewpoints of the ‘public’, by survey, and of ‘newly-graduated artists’ and ‘intermediaries’, by interviews, and interrogate price lists and sales records. Newly-graduated artists find pricing challenging, leading to ‘underpricing’ or ‘over-pricing’. Few artists make sales, reflecting discrepancies between WTA and WTP. Our work has theoretical and practical implications. Pricing reflects the ‘endowment effect’ (Thaler, 1980) and Bourdieu’s ‘avant-garde’ circuit. Our results imply a need for educational institutions and other intermediaries to offer more advice to newly-graduated artists who might benefit from adopting forms of personalized or participative pricing such as ‘Pay What You Want’ and, given the emergence of digital markets, contemporary techniques such as ‘action rules’
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