Browsing by Author "Schall, Mark"

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Categorization of Coast Guard Aviation Mishaps Following Aircraft Model Transitions: A Natural Language Processing Approach

Kauffman, Andrew (2022-03-03) ETD File Embargoed

Aircraft model transitions at United States Coast Guard (USCG) air stations present a unique, and often hidden, set of hazards that may only be identified through reported mishaps. Although all USCG aviation mishaps are ...

Challenges and Opportunities Associated with the Adoption of Wearable Technologies in the Workplace

Zhang, Xuanxuan (2020-07-07) ETD File Embargoed

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are painful and costly health conditions that affect workers in many industries, especially manufacturing. Wearable sensors such as inertial measurement units (IMUs) are direct ...

Characterizing Full Shift Physical Risk Factors among Hand Planter Forestry Workers

Granzow, Robert (2016-12-08)

Low back and neck/shoulder pain are commonly reported among reforestation hand planters. While some studies have documented the intensive cardiovascular demands of hand planting, limited information is available regarding ...

Data Analytics Methods for Supply Chain Risk Management with Applications in Transportation and Manufacturing Safety

Mehdizadeh, Amir (2021-12-06)

Supply chain management aims to understand and explain how organizations should collaborate within a chain to improve the overall competitiveness of the chain and smooth the flow of the money, material, and information ...

Design Improvements for School Bus Emergency Evacuation Systems

Gunter, Leslie A (2019-04-18)

DISSERTATION ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to: (1) Evaluate a rear emergency door intervention designed to improved passenger flow rate during evacuation. Two school bus mock up test fixtures were fabricated ...

Determination of Safe Guidelines for One-Hand Lifting

Pentikis, John (2017-04-19)

The broad aim of this research is to better understand the effect asymmetric lifting has on the low back and trunk muscles. Collecting anthropometric, muscle and lever arm information at the L-3 region of the back, muscle ...

The Development and Evaluation of a Cumulative Exposure Integration Method Based on Fatigue Failure Theory

Huangfu, Rong (2018-12-07)

Cumulative exposure to physical risk factors has been identified as one of the major contributors to the development of workplace musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Linear integration methods have been widely used to quantify ...

Development and Validation of a Cumulative Exposure Shoulder Risk Assessment Tool Based on the Fatigue-Failure Theory

Bani Hani, Dania (2019-11-15)

Exposure to physical risk factors and the resultant cumulative loading has been identified as a major contributing factor for the development of workplace musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Nevertheless, the dose-response ...

Effects of Intersection Features on Wrong-Way Driving

Wang, Jin (2018-03-22)

Wrong-way driving (WWD) crashes are much more likely to result in serious injuries or fatalities compared to all other crashes. The analysis performed in this dissertation shows, specifically, that the risk of a fatality ...

Evaluating Responses to One-handed Carrying among Older and Obese Individuals

Badawy, Mohamed (2018-11-30)

Manual material handling (MMH) is associated with the development of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Older and obese workers are more susceptible to MSDs in comparison to younger, non-obese workers. One-handed ...

Evaluation of Physical Risk Factors for Musculoskeletal Disorders among Reforestation Workers in the Southeastern United States

Granzow, Robert (2018-11-30)

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are a major concern for society due to their high prevalence and the magnitude of their direct and indirect costs. Exposure to physical risk factors in the work environment ...

Evaluation of School Bus Emergency Evacuation Systems With Regard to Physical Capabilities of Young Children

Abulhassan, Yousif (2016-03-28)

Motorized school buses have been used to transport children for over a century and are known to be the safest mode of transportation for students traveling to and from school. Between 2001 and 2008, only 1% of student ...

Extreme Environment Reliability of Components for Computing with SAC305 and Alternative High Reliability Solders

Sanders, Thomas (2016-05-11)

The semiconductor and packaging industries have been moving away from the use of Lead (Pb) due to the increasing awareness of the health and safety concerns surrounding its use. For many applications, the industry has moved ...

Human Performance in Cyber-Vulnerable Highly Automated Unmanned Aerial Systems

Stutts, Isaac (2020-02-05) ETD File Embargoed

Automation is ever present in today’s complex systems of systems. Originally created to ease workload and burden on the human operator and to increase safety by automating dangerous tasks, automation has become practically ...

Impact of Rest and Secondary Intervention on the Development of and Recovery from Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Human and Rat ModelsImpact of Rest and Secondary Intervention on the Development of and Recovery from Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders in Human and Rat Models

Smith, Tianqi "Tenchi" Gao (2019-04-25)

Experts from different fields study the development of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) from different perspectives: epidemiologists identify potential MSD risk factors, traditional ergonomists analyze motions, and medical ...