OBJECTIVE To analyze the characteristics of visits resulting from land transport injuries. METHODS A total of 5,934 visits in four hospital emergency departments (ED) were analyzed, in the state of São Paulo, in 2005. A questionnaire based on the following three models was used to collect data: World Health Organization (WHO), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Pan American ...

Motorcyclists account for 23% of global road traffic deaths and over half of fatalities in countries where motorcycles are the dominant means of transport. Wearing a helmet can reduce the risk of head injury by as much as 69% and death by 42%; however, both child and adult helmet use are low in many countries where motorcycles are a primary mode of transportation. In response to the need to inc...

This paper explains how to simulate the motorcyclists’ behaviour in an existing traffic model : ARCHISIM. ARCHISIM is an INRETS’ project which aims at simulating traffic evolution as a result of the different behaviours of actors of the simulation. We present the differences of motorcyclists’ behaviors with those of other road users (car drivers, pedestrians) and why these behaviours are not su...

OBJECTIVES To study the factors affecting anatomical region of injury, severity, and mortality among road users in United Arab Emirates so as to improve preventive measures. METHODS Data of the Trauma Registry of Al Ain city were collected prospectively over 3 years (2003-2006) at the main trauma hospital. For traffic injuries, the following were assessed: gender, nationality, road user type,...

BACKGROUND Trauma caused by motorcycle-related injuries is extensive, expensive and increasing. Recent American literature reported that in 2004 the chance of a motorcyclist dying was 34 times greater than that for someone using any other motor vehicle for every mile travelled. In the United Kingdom a motorcyclist is killed or seriously injured every 665,894 km, compared with 18,661,626 km for ...

Outage detection and management has been a long-standing problem in power distribution networks. Outages are caused by protective devices closing off a part of the network to automatically isolate it. Usually, a short circuit fault will trigger this protective operation. We employ the term outage detection to denote the task of finding the status of the protective devices, and the term fault de...

the running status of it can be more comprehensive judged through acquisition and analysis of vibration signal for water pump rotary machinery. Therefore, the collection of vibration signal is the key to monitor equipment running status and diagnose faults. This paper introduces water pump fault diagnosis system based on DSP and wavelet transform, and the system can realize water pump vibration...