Driven to Distraction Joe Coyne slides into the driver’s seat, starts up the car and heads to town. The empty stretch of interstate gives way to urban congestion, and Coyne hits the brakes as a pedestrian suddenly crosses the street in front of him. But even if he hadn’t stopped in time, the woman would have been safe. She isn’t real. Neither is the town. And Coyne isn’t really driving. Coyne is demonstrating a computerized driving simulator that is helping researchers at Old Dominion University (ODU) examine how in-vehicle guidance systems affect the person behind the wheel. The researchers want to know if such systems, which give audible or written directions, are too distracting — or whether any distractions are offset by the benefits drivers get from having help finding their way in unfamiliar locations. "We’re looking at the performance and mental workload of drivers," said Caryl Baldwin, the assistant psychology professor leading the research, which involves measuring drivers’ reaction time and brain activity as they respond to auditory and visual Cues. The researchers just completed a study of the mental workload involved in driving through different kinds of environments and heavy vs. light traffic. Preliminary results show that as people "get into more challenging driving situations, they don’t have any extra mental energy to respond to something else in the environment," Baldwin said. But the tradeoffs could be worth it, she said. The next step is to test different ways of giving drivers navigational information and how those methods change the drivers’ mental workload. "Is it best if they see a picture...that shows their position, a map kind of display" Baldwin said. "Is it best if they hear it" Navigational systems now on the market give point-by-point directions that follow a prescribed route. "They’re very unforgiving," Baldwin said. "If you miss a turn, they can almost seem to get angry." That style of directions also can be frustrating for people who prefer more general instructions. But such broad directions can confuse drivers who prefer route directions, Baldwin said. Perhaps manufacturers should allow drivers to choose the style of directions they want, or modify systems to present some information in a way that makes sense10 for people who prefer the survey style, she said. Interestingly, other research has shown that about 60 percent of men prefer the survey style, while 60 percent women prefer the route style, Baldwin said. This explains the classic little thing of why men don’t like to stop and ask for directions and women do, Baldwin added. What kind of directions do men and women prefer
A. Women prefer more general directions and men prefer route directions.
B. Men prefer more general directions and women prefer route directions.
C. Both men and women prefer general directions.
D. Both men and women prefer route directions.
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A. 产后7个月内,体温有2次超过38℃,白细胞10×109/L以上
B. 产后24小时后至10天内,用口表每天测4次体温,其中二次达到或超过38℃
C. 分娩24小时后至30天内,腋下表体温超过38℃连续2次
D. 分娩当天,有一次体温超过38℃
E. 分娩后10天,体温38~40℃,阴道持续流血及脓性分泌物,有恶臭
A、B、C三方协议共同出资设立振华有限责任公司。3月份A按规定手续在当地工商银行开立了临时存款账户,出资人A、B、C分别存入40、30、10万元。在验资期间,鉴于设立公司需活动经费,A欲在临时存款账户上取出5万元现金。5月20日振华有限责任公司成立,按规定在工商银行开立了基本存款账户存入70万元,并要求银行于开户当日以转账方式支付给光宏公司30万元用于购置一设备。6月中旬,振华公司在农行、建行又开立了两个一般存款账户,并决定今后公司职工工资、奖金统一从农行的一般存款账户上支取。 要求:根据支付结算法律制度的有关规定,回答下列问题: 公司开立两个一般存款账户是否符合规定说明理由。
Contrary to the popular belief that premature babies should be kept in an isolated, womblike environment, periods of slow, firm massage strokes and limb movements may give them a better chance to survive.
1. Male and Female Pilots Cause Accidents Differently Male pilots flying general aviating(private) aircraft in the United States are more likely to crash due to inattention or flawed decision - making, while female pilots are more likely to crash from mishandling the aircraft. These are the results of a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. The study identifies the differences between male and female pilots in terms of circumstances of the crash and the type of pilots error involved. "Crashes of general aviation aircraft account for 85 percent of all aviation deaths in the United States. The crash rate for male pilots, as for motor vehicle drivers, exceeds that of crashes of female pilots," explains Susan P. Baker. MPH, professor of health policy and management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. "Because pilot youth and inexperience are established contributors to aviation crashes, we focused on only mature pilots, to determine the gender differences in the reasons for the crash. " The researchers extracted data for this study from a large research project on pilot aging and flight safety. The data were gathered from general aviation crashes of airplanes and helicopters between 1983 and 1997, involving 144 female pilots and 267 reale pilots aged 40 -63. Female pilots were matched with male pilots in a 1 : 2 ratio, by age, classes of medical and pilot certificates, state or area of crash, and year of crash. Then the circumstances of the crashes and the pilot error involved were categorized and coded without knowledge of pilot gender. The researchers found that loss of control on landing or takeoff was the most common circumstance for both sexes, leading to 59 percent of female pilots’ crashes and 36 percent of males. Experiencing mechanical failure, running out of fuel, and landing the plane with the landing gear up were among the factors more likely with males ,while stalling(失速) was more likely with females. The majority of the crashes - 95 percent for females and 88 percent for males - involved at least one type of pilot error. Mishandling aircraft kinetics was the most common error for both sexes, but was more common among females( accounting for 81 percent of the crashes)than males (accounting for 48 percent). Males, however, appeared more likely to be guilty of poor decision - making, risk - taking, and inattentiveness, examples of which include misjudging weather and visibility or flying an aircraft with a known defect. Females, though more likely to mishandle or lose control of the aircraft, were generally more careful than their male counterparts. The majority of the crashes are due to bad weather conditions.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned