This study set out to evaluate the effectiveness of Antilock-Brakes (ABS) on motorcycles in reducing real-life crashes. Since the European Parliament has voted a legislation to make ABS mandatory for all new motorcycles over 125cc from 2016, the fitment rate in the entire Europe is likely to increase in the years to come. Previous research, however, analyzed mostly large displacement motorcycle...

Gerardo Adesso, Salvatore M. Giampaolo, and Fabrizio Illuminati* Dipartimento di Fisica “E. R. Caianiello,” Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via S. Allende, I-84081 Baronissi (SA), Salerno, Italy CNR-INFM Coherentia, Napoli, Italy; CNISM, Unità di Salerno, Salerno, Italy; and INFN, Sezione di Napoli-Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, Salerno, Italy Grup d’Informació Quàntica, Universitat Autónoma d...

Recommendations of the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society Committee on Device Failures and Complications MASSIMO SANTINI,* JOHANNES BRACHMANN,† RICCARDO CAPPATO,‡ WYN DAVIES,§ JERONIMO FARRÈ,‖ SAMUEL LEVY,¶ AURELIO QUESADA,# RENATO P. RICCI,** EDWARD ROWLAND,†† NEIL SULKE‡‡ From *San Filipo Neri Hospital, Rome, Italy, †Klinikum Coburg, Germany, ‡Policlinico S. Donato, Milan, Italy, §St. Mary H...

We report on the observation of γ-rays above 25GeV from the Crab pulsar (PSR B0532+21) using the MAGIC I telescope. Two data sets from observations during the winter period 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 are used. In order to discuss the spectral shape from 100MeV to 100GeV, one year of public Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) data are also analyzed to complement the MAGIC data. The extrapolation...

Laurent Bertoletti1,2; Marc Righini2; Henri Bounameaux2; Luciano López-Jiménez3; Eros Tiraferri4; Adriana Visonà5; Manuel Monreal6 and the RIETE Investigators* 1Thrombosis Research Group, EA3065, Univ Saint-Etienne, Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France; 2Division of Angiology and Haemostasis, Department of Internal Medicine, Geneva Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; 3...

Italy and Spain, as countries of recent immigration and high irregularity rates, have struggled to adapt their statistical system, especially their population registers, to adequately reflect the presence of an increasing number of immigrants in their territory. The population registers of the two countries have adapted differently to these changing realities: Spain introduced significant impro...

M. Burrello, I. C. Fulga, E. Alba, L. Lepori, 4 and A. Trombettoni 6 Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands Instituto de F́ısica Fundamental, IFF-CSIC, Calle Serrano 113b, 28006 Madrid, Spain IPCMS (UMR 7504) and ISIS (UMR 7006), Université de Strasbourg and CNRS, Strasbourg, France Departamento de F́ısica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193...

E. Perfetto,1,3 J. González,1 F. Guinea,2 S. Bellucci,3 and P. Onorato3,4 1Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain 2Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain 3INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, P.O. Box 13, 00044 Frascati, Italy 4Depart...

Adam Vallés,1,* Vincenzo D’Ambrosio,2 Martin Hendrych,1 Michal Mičuda,3 Lorenzo Marrucci,4 Fabio Sciarrino,2 and Juan P. Torres1,5 1ICFO—Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain 2Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Roma 00185, Italy 3Department of Optics, Palacký University, 17 listopadu 12, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Repu...

a Department of Surfaces and Coatings, ICMM-CSIC, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain b Departamento de Física Aplicada and Instituto Nicolás Cabrera, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid, Spain c Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas, CSIC, Avda. Gregorio del Amo 8, E-28040 Madrid, Spain d Department of Biochemical Sciences of the Uni...