Psychosocial factors predicting risky sexual behaviour among long distance truck drivers in Lagos, Nigeria by Abiodun Musbau Lawal, Benjamin Oladapo Olley

“…In line with the conceptualisation of Information, Motivation and Behavioural skills model, we examined the extent that HIV knowledge, attitude towards condom use, peer support to condom use, perceived vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and condom use self-efficacy will independently and jointly explain sexual risk behaviours of LDTDs in a haulage company in Lagos, Nigeria. A cross-sectional survey design was used and 154 drivers with ages ranging from 27 to 68 years (M = 44.03, SD = 8.82) completed copies of a questionnaire comprising demographics and measures of psychological variables. …”
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Multi-hazard risk characterization and collaborative control oriented to space in non-coal underground mines by Menglong Wu, Nanyan Hu, Yicheng Ye, Qihu Wang, Xianhua Wang

“…Statistical analysis of non-coal underground mine accidents from 2000 to 2022, revealing the characteristics of non-coal underground mine accidents and 5 risk types were identified, including cage fall accident, powered haulage accident, fire accident, mine water inrush accident, and roof fall and rib spalling accident. …”
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Mine Field Preparation and Coal Mining in Western Donbas: Energy Security of Ukraine—A Case Study by Oleksandr Haidai, Vladyslav Ruskykh, Nataliia Ulanova, Vira Prykhodko, Edgar Cáceres Cabana, Roman Dychkovskyi, Natalia Howaniec, Adam Smolinski

“…The case study helps determine the coal losses because of pillar leaving and to improve the stability of the main haulage roads located in the zone of the stooping effect as well as to achieve additional coal production in the mine. …”
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Fuel Consumption, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Energy Efficiency of Wood-Harvesting Operations: A Case Study of Stora Enso in Finland by Hanna Haavikko, Kalle Kärhä, Asko Poikela, Mika Korvenranta, Teijo Palander

“…The share of fuel consumption was 52.5% for harvesters (cutting), 39.5% for forwarders (forest haulage), and 8.0% for forest machine relocations. …”
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Freight transportation in logistics industry of Singapore- a feasibility study on autonomous trailers by Ngai, Chin Pang

“…This prompts more containers to pass through seaports to be transported to its final destination inland. Inland container haulage operations are required to complete the last mile delivery of containers from ports to warehouses. …”
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Diversity and Changes in Energy Consumption by Transport in EU Countries by Tomasz Rokicki, Grzegorz Koszela, Luiza Ochnio, Kamil Wojtczuk, Marcin Ratajczak, Hubert Szczepaniuk, Konrad Michalski, Piotr Bórawski, Aneta Bełdycka-Bórawska

“…The reduction of energy consumption in transport depends on changes in road haulage, e.g., the pace of introducing innovative energy-saving technologies in automotive transport.…”
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A Simulation Experimental Study on the Advance Support Mechanism of a Roadway Used with the Longwall Coal Mining Method by Hui Liu, Zhenhua Jiang, Wansheng Chen, Fei Chen, Fenglin Ma, Donghao Li, Zhaoyang Liu, Hongke Gao

“…The test shows that under the condition of no advance passive support, the maximum characteristic deformation of surrounding rock in the haulage roadway and ventilation roadway is 7.1 cm and 10.1 cm, respectively. …”
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Minimizing the Risk of Disease Transmission in Emergency Settings: Novel In Situ Physico-Chemical Disinfection of Pathogen-Laden Hospital Wastewaters. by Emanuele Sozzi, Kerline Fabre, Jean-François Fesselet, James E Ebdon, Huw Taylor

“…The research presented here evaluated the design and operation of a novel treatment system, successfully used by Médecins Sans Frontières in Haiti to disinfect CTC wastewaters in situ, eliminating the need for road haulage and disposal of the waste to a poorly-managed hazardous waste facility, thereby providing an effective barrier to disease transmission through a novel but simple sanitary intervention. …”
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A transition from a large open pit into a novel “macroblock variant” block caving geometry at Chuquicamata mine, Codelco Chile by German Flores, Alex Catalan

“…Its current depth of 1100 m, length of 4500 m and width of 3000 m, resulting in haulage distances of over 11,000 m from pit bottom to the processing plant or waste dumps, with waste/ore ratio greater than 4 and much lower grades, are effectively determining its profitable limit by the end of this decade. …”
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Caracterização do mercado de fretes rodoviários para produtos agrícolas Characterization of the highway freight market for agricultural products by Marcelo Gimenes Soares, José Vicente Caixeta Filho

“…Taking into consideration the accomplishment of the quality of freight information, for both supply and demand sides of the transportation service, data for selected agricultural commodities were collected, as well as the identification of the main characteristics of the road haulage. The difference in the freight values for each commodity was noted, as was the distinct freight market structure for grains (sugar, corn, soybeans and soybean meal), which has been more spread out and perhaps less professional if compared with the transportation market for liquids, such as orange juice and soybean oil.…”
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Recognition of LHD Position and Maneuvers in Underground Mining Excavations—Identification and Parametrization of Turns by Justyna Witulska, Paweł Stefaniak, Bartosz Jachnik, Artur Skoczylas, Paweł Śliwiński, Marek Dudzik

“…The key algorithms developed in the field of inertial data concern: identification of cycles and components of the haulage process operations, identification of dynamic overloads, technical diagnostics of rotating elements, assessment of road conditions (bumps, slopes, damages), assessment of the technical condition of the pavement, assessment of the operator’s driving style, and finally the machine location in the mining excavation. …”
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Life Cycle Assessment of an NMC Battery for Application to Electric Light-Duty Commercial Vehicles and Comparison with a Sodium-Nickel-Chloride Battery by Antonella Accardo, Giovanni Dotelli, Marco Luigi Musa, Ezio Spessa

“…This paper presents the results of an environmental assessment of a Nickel-Manganese-Cobalt (NMC) Lithium-ion traction battery for Battery Electric Light-Duty Commercial Vehicles (BEV-LDCV) used for urban and regional freight haulage. A cradle-to-grave Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) of NMC111 is provided, operation and end-of-life stages are included, and insight is also given into a Life Cycle Assessment of different NMC chemistries. …”
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An innovative approach for gob‐side entry retaining in deep coal mines: A case study by Deyuan Fan, Xuesheng Liu, Yunliang Tan, Lei Yan, Shilin Song, Jianguo Ning

“…Finally, field practice was applied at the No. 31120 haulage roadway of the Suncun coal mine in China, and in situ investigations were conducted for verification. …”
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Deformation and failure laws of roadway surrounding rock and support optimization during shallow-buried multi-seam mining by Jun Wang, Jian-Guo Ning, Yun-Liang Tan, Shan-Chao Hu, Wei-Yao Guo

“…Finally, these proposed support schemes are used in the subareas of No. 20314 auxiliary haulage roadway. The field monitoring results show that the roadway displacement is small and bolt (cable) forces are stable, and the support effect is excellent. …”
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Deformation mechanism and control technology of large section gateway with top coal in coal mine by Peng Yanghao, Yang Jie, Cheng Jinguo, Gao Lei

“…In order to solve the support problem of large section gateway with top coal in coal mine, the 7105 working face haulage gateway in Wangzhuang coal mine was taken as engineering example, large section top-coal roadway plastic zone form, displacement and stress evolution law of surrounding rock when naked entry equilibrated conditions were analyzed by using numerical simulation.Based on platts' natural equilibrium arch theory, the top-coal roof of large section roadway with stable coal-walls caving arch mechanical model was established, and layered caving arch height was obtained by mathematical calculation, using the roadway sides plastic zone mechanical model was used to work out the plastic zone width of the top-coal roadway sides. …”
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Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels Will Drive Repositioning of Horticulture by Danielle D. Treadwell, Lincoln Zotarelli, Peter J. Dittmar, Jeffrey G. Williamson, Marcio F.R. Resende Jr., Ana D. Martin-Ryals, Carlos Messina, Christopher C. Gunter, Andrew D. Hanson, Simon P. Michaux

“…Major variables that will influence outcomes include energy use in fertilizer manufacture, in farm operations, and in haulage to centers of consumption. Taking six increasingly popular fruit and vegetable crops and the top two horticultural production states as examples, here we use simple proxies for the energy requirements (in gigajoules per ton of produce) of fertilizer, farm operations, and truck transport from Florida or California to New York to compare the relative sizes of these requirements. …”
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Simulation of the pulsating current traction motor by Yuriy M. Kulinich, Sergey A. Shukharev, Denis Yu. Drogolov

“…The objective is to develop technical requirements to the new electric engines, including implementation of the set haulage performance of locomotive, providing for constant power in the certain range of the running speed, as well as required properties in case of the supply network parameters change, selection of the weight and dimensions parameters ensuring fitting of the traction electric engines in the locomotive underframe, and other important tasks. …”
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Evolution of Solid Waste Management System in Lahore: A Step towards Sustainability of the Sector in Pakistan by Asif Iqbal, Abdullah Yasar, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Faiza Sharif, Amtul Bari Tabinda, Imran Ali Sultan, Syeda Adila Batool, Rafia Haider, Anum Shahid, Muhammad Murtaza Chaudhary, Maqsood Ahmad

“…The waste management sector in Lahore has achieved sustainability in waste collection and haulage components by gaining experience from international outsourcing and, now, sharing its knowledge with other municipalities to strengthen the sector in the country. …”
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Intelligent Predictive Maintenance (IPdM) in Forestry: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities by Jamal Maktoubian, Mohammad Sadegh Taskhiri, Paul Turner

“…An important component in sustainable bioenergy from biomass supply chains will be confidence in consistent production costs linked to guarantees about harvest and haulage machinery reliability. In this context, this paper examines the issue of machinery maintenance and advances in machine learning and big data analysis that are contributing to improved intelligent prediction that is aiding supply chain reliability in bioenergy from woody biomass. …”
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Scientific and methodological approaches to the substantiation of the forest machines energy-saving and environmentally friendly parameters by Mykola Borys, Oleg Machuga, Natalia Shevchenko, Nestor Byblyuk

“…The substantiation, characteristics calculation and analysis hydro mechanical transmission choice method in timber haulage is developed. The methodology of energy approach for engineering estimation of the intensity of the process of rutting formation due to repeated passage of the forestry machine with the soil surface has been developed. …”
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