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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Use of car crashes resulting in fatal and serious injuries to analyze a safe road transport system model and to identify system weaknesses.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate a model for a safe road transport system, based on some safety performance indicators regarding the road user, the vehicle, and the road, by using crashes with fatally and seriously injured car ... Read more...

Analysis of large truck rollover crashes.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVES: Close to a tenth of all large truck crashes result from rolling over during some maneuver. The aim of this study was to identify causes of these serious events as well as preventive measures that could be taken to reduce their number. ... Read more...

Survey of descriptors on cigarette packs: still misleading consumers?

23 Sep 2009 AIM: In September 2008, the New Zealand (NZ) Commerce Commission issued a warning to the major tobacco companies to remove "light" and "mild" descriptors from cigarette packaging. Despite published evidence that suggested tobacco companies had ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Environment Design'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Reconciling the construct of walking in physical activity and transportation research. 29 Sep 2009
• Use of car crashes resulting in fatal and serious injuries to analyze a safe road transport system model and to identify system weaknesses. 29 Sep 2009
• Analysis of large truck rollover crashes. 29 Sep 2009
• Survey of descriptors on cigarette packs: still misleading consumers? 23 Sep 2009
• The colour of medicine. 6 Sep 2009
• Peridomestic Lyme disease prevention: results of a population-based case-control study. 30 Aug 2009
• Transpiration and root development of urban trees in structural soil stormwater reservoirs. 24 Aug 2009
• Re-meandering German lowland streams: qualitative and quantitative effects of restoration measures on hydromorphology and macroinvertebrates. 20 Aug 2009
• The occurrence of unfavorable thermal conditions on human health in central europe and potential climate change impacts: an example from Cracow, Poland. 20 Aug 2009
• The design and validation of a spatial microsimulation model of obesogenic environments for children in Leeds, UK: SimObesity. 16 Aug 2009
• Scaling laws between population and facility densities. 10 Aug 2009
• Structural interventions for addressing chronic health problems. 10 Aug 2009
• Creating a healthy, positive work environment: a leadership imperative. 30 Jul 2009
• Childhood body mass index in community context: neighborhood safety, television viewing, and growth trajectories of BMI. 30 Jul 2009
• Are fiddler crabs potentially useful ecosystem engineers in mangrove wastewater wetlands? 27 Jul 2009
• Urban built environments and trajectories of mobility disability: findings from a national sample of community-dwelling American adults (1986-2001). 26 Jul 2009
• Sand fences in the coastal zone: intended and unintended effects. 21 Jul 2009
• Situating hazard vulnerability: people's negotiations with wildfire environments in the U.S. southwest. 12 Jul 2009
• The relative importance of road density and physical watershed features in determining coastal marsh water quality in Georgian Bay. 12 Jul 2009
• Paediatric driveway run-over injuries: time to redesign? Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Environment Design'

Definition: The structuring of the environment to permit or promote specific patterns of behavior.

Descriptor UI: D004779

Alternative terms: Environment Design; Design, Environment; Designs, Environment; Environment Designs;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; statistics & numerical data; trends;

Tree Number: I01.283; I01.880.709.359; N06.230.200;

History Note: 74(72)

Technical Notes: DF: ENVIR DESIGN