A single-blind randomized study was conducted on young (18-21 years, n = 16) and mature (25-35 years, n = 16) drivers to assess how age, combined with a modest dose of alcohol (0.7 g/kg for males and 0.6 g/kg for females), influenced performance on a driving simulator. The driving tasks included detecting the presence of a vehicle on the horizon as quickly as possible, estimating the point on t...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND For the first time in 2006, cancer became the main cause of death in men in Italy, exceeding cardiovascular disease. The aim of the study was to verify whether the overtaking of cancer male mortality occurred also in Tuscany or in some of its 12 subregional areas and whether there was a geographical trend. METHODS Age-standardized mortality rates from the Tuscan Regional M...

PURPOSE To evaluate a technique for contrast agent preparation as mixing the patients' blood with agitated saline and to compare it with agitated saline alone in diagnosis of cardiac right-to-left shunt in regard to their sensitivity, time window, and distribution of artificially induced microembolic signals. METHODS Fifty-two patients with stroke who had Transesophageal echocardiography prov...

Abstract: A model of passing-overtaking maneuvers in terms of total traffic volume and percent of rickshaws is presented in this paper; the model is applicable to undivided urban streets with relatively high proportion of rickshaws. Effects of nonmotorized rickshaws on passing-overtaking are also presented. The results suggest that rickshaws have an adverse effect on the passing-overtaking mane...

The application of kalman filter in tracking the maneuver target is not available as it is used in tracking the target of uniform motion. Therefore, a improved method for tracking a maneuver target is proposed. In the proposed approach, the maneuver detector provides the estimate of time instant at which a target starts to maneuver, when a target maneuver is determined, the kalman filter model ...

This paper studies the extensions of the infinte-horizon variants of the leximin principle and utilitarianism on the set of infinite utility streams. We especially examine those extensions which satisfy the axiom of Preference-continuity (or Consistency) and the extended anonymity axiom called Q-Anonymity. We formulate new extended leximin and utilitarian social welfare relations (SWRs), called...

The paper presents the preliminary result of the development of the eDPP (enhanced Dynamic Path Predictor) during overtaking situations. The eDPP application offers a higher degree of accident prevention through: advanced driver-information and driver-warning strategies; improved actuation using the new and enhanced ADASIS v2 (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Interface Specifications, version...