Protecting Salt Vulnerable Areas Using an Enhanced Roadside Drainage System (ERDS)

MOTORCYCLE CRASHES INTO ROADSIDE BARRIERS STAGE 4: Protecting motorcyclists in collisions with roadside barriers

Understanding and Protecting Vulnerable Financial Consumers

This article considers how consumer protection law and policy should address the interests of particularly vulnerable financial consumers. Specifically, the article proposes a taxonomy of vulnerability which helps to identify (a) what makes consumers particularly vulnerable, and (b) how consumer protection law and policy can respond to these causes in a way that provides such consumers with app...

Protecting Vulnerable Road Users from Injury

In its latest global assessment of road safety, the World Health Organization (WHO) reminded us that half of the 1.2 million fatalities occurring each year on the world’s roads concern vulnerable road users (VRUs), with children and elderly being overrepresented among victims [1]. ‘‘Vulnerable road user’’ is a term applied to those most at risk in traffic, i.e. those unprotected by an outside s...

Using spatial analysis to identify areas vulnerable to infant mortality.

OBJECTIVE To analyze the spatial distribution of infant mortality and identify clusters with high risk of death in the first year of life. METHODS The Thiessen (Voronoi) polygon method was used to analyze spatial distribution of the infant mortality rate, calculated by municipality. The triennium 2006 - 2008 was used as a reference to estimate the average infant mortality rate, and the first ...

MATLAB CODE FOR AN ENHANCED VIBRATING PARTICLES SYSTEM ALGORITHM

Vibrating particles system (VPS) is a new meta-heuristic algorithm based on the free vibration of freedom system’ single degree with viscous damping. In this algorithm, each agent gradually approach to its equilibrium position; new agents are generated according to current agents and a historically best position. Enhanced vibrating particles system (EVPS) employs a new alternative procedu...