Radius fractures are the most common fractures in childhood. The main mechanism of injury is fall onto an outstretched hand. This retrospective study analyzed the data on 201 children admitted for radius fractures at KBC-Zagreb in the period 2011-2013. The study included 85 girls (42.3%) and 116 boys (57.7%) . The average age of the children was 9.6 years. Radius was injured in the distal segme...

In this article, a recently proposed at basic level novel suspension for road vehicles, the parallel active link (PALS), is investigated in realistic scenario of sport utility vehicle (SUV) full car. The involved rocker-pushrod assembly generally optimized to maximize PALS capability improving performance. To fully release functions dealing with both low- and high-frequency cases, PID control s...

Introduction The complexity and diversity of cars means that conventional eco-ratings such as those used for white goods, present insurmountable difficulties. A number of environmental ratings systems for cars are currently in use, notably in Germany (VCD Auto Umweltliste; Auto Motor u Sport), Sweden (Rototest), but also in the UK (Environmental Transport Association Car Buyers Guide). These ar...

Modern car seats are often equipped with adjustable lumbar supports for reducing fatigue and improving ride comfort in different driving conditions. Studies on the effect of lumbar support on seat dynamic performance and ride comfort are not often seen. This experimental study was designed to investigate how lumbar support affects static and dynamic characteristics of the driver seat of a sport...

In the United States, passenger vehicles are shifting from a fleet populated primarily by cars to a fleet dominated by light trucks and vans (LTVs). Because light trucks are heavier, stiffer, and geometrically more blunt than passenger cars, they pose a dramatically different type of threat to pedestrians. This paper investigates the effect of striking vehicle type on pedestrian fatalities and ...

This paper highlights the potential impact points of a child pedestrian during a crash with the front end of a vehicle. Child anthropometry was defined for ages between 3 and 15 years. It was based on the measurement of seven different segment body heights (knee, femur, pelvis, shoulder, neck, chin, vertex) performed on about 2,000 French children. For each dimension, the 5(th), 50(th) and 95(t...

We propose an original approach for the characterization of video dynamic content with a view to supplying new functionalities for motion-based video indexing and retrieval with query by example. We have designed a statistical framework for motion content description without any prior motion segmentation, and for motion-based video classi cation and retrieval. Contrary to other proposed methods...

Trauma is one of the very frequent interactions of an individual with the environment. Czech authors dealing with trauma in the area of biomechanics are e.g. Jelen (1991), Karas (1996), Turková (1997) and others. Injuries in general, and especially injuries of pregnant women are an important theme in a society – e.g. car injuries representing two thirds of all traumas during gestation are linke...