Browsing Social Sciences by Type "Conference Paper"

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    • Human Factors in Driving Accidents: A Cognitive Investigation in the Gulf Context 

      Alotaibi, Yasmeen Nabeel; Al sulaiti, Latifa Abdulla; Aljabri, Muna Said; Soliman, Abdrabo Moghazy ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Human factors were reported by researchers to be the reason behind the majority of car accidents; examples of these factors were: inattention, stress, distraction, decision making, drugs and alcohol abuses. Most of such ...

    • New Simulation Model for Workload Analysis Addressing Occupational Stress in a Production Company 

      Abdelzaher, Abdulrahman A.; Kharbeche, Mohamed ( Elsevier , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      In today's world, occupational stress is identified as a major health issue within most organizations. The reason the spotlight has been focused on occupational stress in recent years is that it can have a negative impact ...

    • Smartphone-based Vehicle Telematics for Naturalistic Driving Studies 

      Tarlochan, Faris; Dun, Susan; Mohammed, Semira Omer; Kharbeche, Mohamed; Soliman, Abdrabo; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      Motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) are the eighth leading cause of death worldwide. Globally, there are 1.35 million deaths with 50 million injuries annually. It is important to understand and record how people drive and ...

    • Solving a Bus Routing Problem Arising in Doha 

      Aljundi, A.; Khatib, M.A.; Kharbeche, M.; Haouari, M. ( IEEE Computer Society , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      The generic variant of the school bus routing problem requires finding a set of routes that cover a predefined set of student pickup locations in order to minimize travel time while satisfying various constraints. In this ...

    • Tweet sentiment analysis with pronoun choice reveals online community dynamics in response to crisis events 

      Shaikh, Samira; Feldman, Laurie Beth; Barach, Eliza; Marzouki, Yousri ( Springer Verlag , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      We describe the emergence of an online community from naturally occurring social media data. Our method uses patterns of word choice in an online social platform to characterize how a community forms in response to adverse ...