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Herb Wharton, Aboriginal stockman and author, Mount Isa, Queensland, 1994 /
Title devised by cataloguer from information provided by photographer.; Part of: Cattle Camp series of portraits of Aboriginal drovers, Mount Isa, Queensland, 1994.; Mode of access: Online
Car drivers’ preferences for ISA policy measures
Intelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA), an in-vehicle system that can either warn the driver or directly limit the vehicle’s speed when the speed limit is reached, is generally believed to have a large potential to increase road safety. However, policy makers hesitate to take policy measures that may increase ISA use. Public acceptance of ISA or policy makers’ perception of it is regarded to play an important role in this. This paper aims to increase this insight by reporting car drivers’ preferences for ISA policy measures based on stated choice experiment conducted in the Netherlands. Respondents made choices between various implementation strategies (mandatory ISA and voluntary ISA with financial incentives) given a chosen policy measure. The policy measure describes which drivers group (speed offenders, professional drivers or all drivers) is targeted and which ISA type (warning or limiting) is stimulated. The results point out that car drivers especially prefer that policy makers would impose ISA on speed offenders and to a lesser extent also on professional drivers, while they prefer a voluntary ISA for themselves. Use of voluntary ISA can be stimulated by offering financial incentives, of which purchase subsidy is preferred above annual tax cuts. Furthermore, car drivers prefer warning ISA for themselves and also for professional drivers, while they prefer limiting ISA for speed offenders. In addition, the results indicate that females and the older age group prefer ISA policy measures more than males and young drivers, but overall car drivers’ preferences seem to be rather homogeneous.Engineering, Systems and ServicesTechnology, Policy and Managemen
A dual infection of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) virus and a togavirus-like virus in ISA of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar in New Brunswick, Canada
Two viruses, infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) virus and a novel togavirus-like virus, were isolated from ISA disease outbreaks that were first reported as a new syndrome, haemorrhagic kidney syndrome (HKS) affecting farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. on the East coast of Canada. Laboratory confirmation of ISA diagnosis was initially complicated by isolation of only the togavirus-like agent using the CHSE-214 cell line. Here we demonstrate that a clinical sample from a disease outbreak of ISA contained a mixture of ISA virus and togavirus-like virus. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) confirmed the presence of both viruses during serial passage of cultures in SHK-1 and CHSE-214 cells. Virus harvested at passage level 3 in both cell lines caused high mortalities and severe gross pathology consistent with ISA virus infection in experimentally inoculated Atlantic salmon parr (approximately 35 g) in freshwater, beginning 12 d post inoculation. ISA virus was detected by virus isolation from kidney and liver tissues of all dead or moribund fish tested. A comparison of virus isolation, 1-step procedure RT-PCR and RNA dot-blot hybridization for detection of ISA virus (ISAV) in fish tissues showed virus isolation to have 100% sensitivity, followed by RT-PCR (66 and 28% sensitivity in kidney and liver, respectively), with RNA dot-blot hybridization as the least sensitive method (20 and 10% sensitivity in kidney and liver, respectively). No togavirus-like virus was detected in these samples by virus isolation. Moreover, another togavirus-like virus isolate grown in CHSE-214 cells in the absence of any other detectable pathogen was non-pathogenic in experimentally inoculated fish. This study confirms that the original ISA outbreaks in New Brunswick, Canada, were caused solely by ISAV
Mr McCafferty [?] standing on a hill overlooking Mt. Isa, Queensland, 1965? [transparency] /
Title devised from caption on slide mount.; Part of The Reverend Andrew Leslie McKay collection of photographs relating to Inland Australia, 1950-1976.; "Mt. Isa"--In ink on slide mount.; Mould spots.; This image and PIC/9193/411, 412 and 413 are a series of vistas of Mt. Isa.; Identification of Mr McCafferty is uncertain.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4181332; Collection donated by Mrs Lyn McKay, widow of Reverend Les McKay, through their daughter Dr. Judith McKay
Isa Lake on the Continental Divide, Yellowstone National Park.
Isa Lake on the Continental Divide, Yellowstone National Park
Transition to ISA: Changes in Audit Documentation Practice
Th e article considers the eff ects of transition to ISA in audit documenting. Th e author analyzes base audit documenting problems, existing before the transition to ISA, discloses ISA specifi c features, refl ected in the change of approach to audit documenting, explores the main results the transition to ISA in formation of auditor working papers.</jats:p
Mr McCafferty [?], with his right foot on a tree, looking over Mt. Isa, Queensland, 1965? [transparency] /
Mould spots. Colour loss across bottom.; Part of The Reverend Andrew Leslie McKay collection of photographs relating to Inland Australia, 1950-1976.; This image and PIC/9193/409,411,412 and 413 are a series of vistas of Mt. Isa.; Identification of Mr McCafferty is uncertain.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4181336; Collection donated by Mrs Lyn McKay, widow of Reverend Les McKay, through their daughter Dr. Judith McKay
Members of the Mount Isa branch of the Alumni at a meeting on 16 June 1972
Members of the Mount Isa branch of the Alumni at a meeting on 16 June 1972. Mr and Mrs B.H. Brady, Mrs N.J. Morgan and Mr J.A. O'Shea
Members of the Mount Isa branch of the Alumni at a meeting on 16 June 1972
Members of the Mount Isa branch of the Alumni at a meeting on 16 June 1972. l to r: Mr P.C. Neale, Mr G.D. Horne, Mrs G.D. Horne, Mr I.A. Goddard and Miss J.M. Wells
What drives the Acceptability of Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA)?
To have knowledge about the acceptability of Intelligent Transport systems (ITS) is most beneficial for the development of supported implementation strategies. So far, different theories and methods, also stemming from other domains, have been used to define and conceptualize the notion of acceptability. In a previous paper, we developed a theoretical concept to define acceptability of ISA based on different theories and methods used in ITS & ISA research. In the current paper we aim to find out which predefined indicators are relevant to define the acceptability of ISA. Background factors, contextual issues and ISA-device related factors are used as indicators to predict the level of acceptability. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is used to define the direct and indirect effects.Infrastructures, Systems and ServicesTechnology, Policy and Managemen
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