This study investigates the effects of green signal countdown display (GSCD) and red signal countdown display (RSCD) on driver behaviours, and thus on intersection safety and efficiency. Three driver responses to GSCD, including late-stopping ratio, dilemma zone and decision to cross, and three driver responses to RSCD, including early start ratio, start-up delay, and discharge headway are obse...

OBJECTIVE To examine the link between different weapons used in modern wars and their potential to injury civilians. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data about hospital admissions. SETTING Hospitals of the International Committee of the Red Cross. SUBJECTS 18 877 people wounded by bullets, fragmentation munitions, or mines. Of these, 2012 had been admitted to the ...

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Live-trapping capture-recapture studies of animal populations with fixed trap locations inevitably have a spatial component: animals close to traps are more likely to be caught than those far away. This is not addressed in conventional closed-population estimates of abundance and without the spatial component, rigorous estimates of density cannot be obtained. We propose new, flexible capture-re...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert Davis works for the American Red Cross as health and measles delegate, based in Nairobi, Kenya. A 1978 graduate of the Johns Hopkins University, he has just started his 25th year in Africa, where he has worked with WHO, UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee, and Save the Children Fund. The views expressed in this editorial are his own.

If there is any primary rule of science, it is . . . acceptance of the obligation to acknowledge and describe all of re a l i ty, all that exists, e ve rything that is the case. . . . it must accept within its jurisdiction e ven that which it cannot understand or explain, that for which no theo ry exists, that which cannot be measured, predicted, controlled, or o rd e red. . . . It includes all...

Trauma Research Center, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Iranian Red Crescent Medical Center, Tehran, IR Iran Nephrology and Urology Research Center, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Corresponding author: Behzad Einollahi, Nephrology and Urology Research Center, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran. E-mail: behzad.e...

On 18 May the Hungarian Red Cross celebrated the centenary of its foundation and International Review has the pleasure of publishing a summary of its history, written by the President of its Executive Committee, Mr. Jdnos Hantos. International Review extends its congratulations and best wishes to the Hungarian Red Cross and its most sincere thanks to Mr. Jdnos Hantos for his contribution to thi...