9,914 research outputs found
Monte Carlo GPS based Solution for speed limit indicator.
No full textA comprehensive research has been undertaken to design and develop the GPS based, low cost and easily installable speed limit indicator in public and private vehicles. The device includes the building efficient GPS mapping technique for defining sentinels and a database for sentinel’s storage utilizing minimum memory. These sentinels contain all concerned information required for navigation. Road safety is a crucial issue, ignorance of which can lead to fatalities. These fortuities happen due to speeding which often occurs due to lack of available information about speed limits on particular roads. An algorithm is developed and implemented in C language for simulation purposes by analysing complexities of road structures. Various road tests are performed to illuminate the technical problems in real time. Roads characteristics are examined and different hazards have been optimized through algorithm to resolve problems, faced by drivers. More importantly, it has been implemented within a Field Programmable Gate Array (FGPA), which verifies the simulation result as well
The health and welfare of thoroughbred horse trainers and stable employees
No full textThe research described in this report aimed to provide a detailed and personalised account of the ways in which trainers and stable employees cope with the demands of their jobs, and of the influence of their involvement in the horse racing industry on their personal health and welfare. The research was commissioned by Racing Victoria Limited (RVL), in response to a need to identify ways in which the racing industry can better support trainers and stable employees, and enhance the overall quality of their day-to-day lives in the horse racing industry. The project was supported by the Victorian Government through funding from the Racing Industry Development Program.
The methodological framework used to gather information was similar to that used for 'The Welfare of Retired Jockeys' investigation (Speed, Seedsman & Morris, 2001), employing a quantitative survey approach to yield a broad range of data across a large sample of horse trainers and stable employees, and a qualitative approach to gain a more in-depth insight into key issues relating to their work and personal well-being. Formulation of the recommendations listed in this report was undertaken by members of the Victoria University research team, following an extensive analysis and synthesis of all the data and information obtained
African American Storyteller, Victoria A. Casey McDonald
No full textIn the deep resonance of storyteller Victoria A. Casey McDonald’s voice, you will hear her tell stories about growing up in Western North Carolina, and the kind of Christmas she had as a child. The late Victoria was our friend, a CSA board member, author, and “Stories of Mountain Folk” interviewer
The welfare of retired jockeys
No full textRetirement is a part of life. In the general workforce, retirement is usually by personal choice and is associated with many years of prior planning and preparation, to allow for the provision of income sources deemed necessary to meet future personal needs, as well as the setting up of alternative lifestyle choices. Research has shown that successful adjustment to retirement can exert an important influence on the overall health and wellbeing of the individual. The research described in this report is in response to a call by the Minister for Racing for an investigation into the welfare of retired jockeys, so as to identify strategies for the Government and the racing industry to provide better options for jockeys when they leave behind their riding career. The investigation comprised a series of four studies designed to provide an exploratory and descriptive account of: (1) current trends and issues in the retirement of jockeys in Victoria, Australia, from the perspectives of both retired jockeys and jockeys currently engaged in the sport, and of (2) retirement support services and strategies made available to jockeys by racing bodies in Victoria and elsewhere, and to the athletes of other sports by their corresponding sporting associations. The main findings of the research are summarised in this report
Art Forum - Lynn, Victoria
No full text4 September 2002. -- Victoria Lynn is a distinguished curator and writer who has worked in the field of contemporary and Australian visual arts over the last two decades. She has recently been appointed Director of Creative Development at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, an innovative exhibition venue located at Federation Square in Melbourne, due to open later this year. She is currently Chair of the Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council. From 1991 to 2001 she was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the numerous exhibitions she has curated have received substantial critical acclaim. She is the author of many articles, catalogue essays and edited collections, and books on artists Marion Borgelt and Eugene Carchesio. In her lecture she will discuss both Australian and International work, the challenges at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and the different modes and understandings of what the moving image can and might be understood as
Experimental investigation of droplet oscillation and impact on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces with varying wettability
No full textA liquid repellent surface can potentially be used to reduce
ice accretion on surface and improve asset integrity and
safety in harsh environment. Icing on a hydrophobic surface
is affected by the oscillation of water droplets impacting on
the surface. This paper uses a statistical design of
experiments method to investigate the effects of surface
temperature (A), impact speed (B), droplet temperature (C),
and surface wettability (D) on the oscillation time of a
droplet. The Design Expert software was used to analyze 38
data points. It was found that the impact speed and surface
wettability are significant factors. The interaction effect
between surface temperature and droplet temperature, and
that between surface temperature and surface wettability are
also significant. The oscillation time increased significantly
on a hydrophobic surface. Visualization with a high-speed
camera showed that the liquid droplet started to freeze at the
moment when the oscillation fully stopped
Black Fashion Designers Symposium: Dr. Victoria Rovine “Fashion in Africa and Beyond”
No full textDr. Victoria Rovine, “Fashion in Africa and Beyond” at The Museum at FIT's annual fashion symposium, Black Fashion Designers, held on Monday, February 6, 2017. The one-day symposium featured talks by designers, models, journalists, and scholars on African diasporic culture and fashion.Victoria Rovine is an associate professor of art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of African Fashion, Global Style: Histories, Innovations, and Ideas You Can Wear
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Progress of Victoria : a statistical essay / by William Henry Archer.
No full textAt head of title: Intercolonial Exhibition essays, 1866.; "Intended as an introductory handbook to the annually-published Statistics of Victoria" -- Pref.; Written by author in his capacity as Registrar-General of Victoria.; Includes index.; Ferguson, J.A. Australia, 6085; Electronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2009
Does a video speed task predict risky speeding behaviour in young and inexperienced drivers?
No full textVehicle crashes account for the highest number of fatalities for persons aged between 17 and 25 years of age in New Zealand. Despite a myriad of factors precipitating vehicle crashes, excess or inappropriate vehicle speed has been identified as the greatest predictor of crash likelihood and severity. Excess or inappropriate speed reduces a driver’s control over the vehicle, while exaggerating both collision force and the distances required in stopping or safely manoeuvring. One of the major differences identified between young and inexperienced and older more experienced drivers is the ability to adapt driving behaviour to road conditions. Young drivers are more prone to speeding through both a lack of awareness of risks and a desire to seek out novel and stimulating experiences. Recent developments in cognitive models of risk taking propose that older more experienced drivers may adapt their speed by “feeling out” the road conditions, where as young drivers may depend more upon posted limits to determine their speed. A video speed task was developed to measure speed preferences on a selection of road conditions (or ‘environments’) commonly confronting New Zealand motorists. Analyses of speed preferences revealed that young and inexperienced drivers preferred speeds close to the road-limit irrespective of conditions, whereas older and more experienced drivers preferred speeds clearly below the road limit, and demonstrated greater variation in speed preferences on different road environments. This suggests that young and inexperienced drivers both prefer faster speeds and may use the road limit as a target in determining an appropriate speed. Older and more experienced drivers prefer slower speeds, and adapt driving to changing road conditions. Faster preferred speeds were found to be related to a riskier attitudes towards driving in general, and more lenient attitudes toward speeding in particular. In addition, faster preferred speeds were found to be related to a heightened enjoyment of risk taking, as well as the number of speeding convictions issued in the previous 12 months. The used video speed task provided a convenient measure of speeding behaviour in natural driving scenarios, and appeared to be sensitive to differences in the way drivers adjust their behaviour across changing driving conditions. The video speed task might be useful in determining differences in speed choice between day and night time driving scenarios, as well as expanding the road conditions to including wet or foggy driving situations. This may be particularly useful in determining the pre- and post-effectiveness of driver training programs
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