AIMS Rupture-prone atherosclerotic plaques are characterized by inflammation and a large necrotic core. Inflammation is linked to high metabolic activity. Advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) and their major precursor methylglyoxal are formed during high metabolic activity and can have detrimental effects on cellular function and may induce cell death. Therefore, we investigated whether plaque...

Spatial analysis techniques are widely used as an effective approach for prone road traffic accident classification. This paper will present the results of empirical behavioral testing on spatial classification using Multicriteria Decision Making (MCDM) method. The performance MCDM is compared arterial and collector types processed with multicriteria parameters. was chosen because it can be a d...

In this paper we study various geometric predicates for determining the existence of and categorizing the configurations of lines in 3D that are transversal to lines or segments. We compute the degrees of standard procedures of evaluating these predicates. The degrees of some of these procedures are surprisingly high (up to 168), which may explain why computing line transversals with finite-pre...

Maxillary incisors are the most frequently injured teeth in the primary and permanent dentition. Stage of adolescence show a significant number of dental injuries as they engage in contact sports. Children with accident prone profile, i.e. class II division I or class I type II malocclusion are more prone for injuries because of the proclined maxillary incisors. Supernumerary teeth are those th...

Police road accident data from Great Britain for 1990-2009 were analysed. RR(NF) is the risk of a casualty occurring in the first half of road crossing, the half nearest to the pedestrian's starting position at the roadside, compared to the risk of it occurring in the second half. Children and younger adult pedestrians had a high relative risk of being killed or seriously injured in the nearsid...

The pipeline spanning is triggered by the unevenness of seabed. cyclic fatigue loadings from subsequent scouring make be prone to failure which can cause loss integrity and even catastrophic accident. However, probabilistic modeling a free subsea challenging task due its dynamic characteristics uncertain information. This paper proposes methodology that could capture uncertainty time dependence...

Road accident prediction plays an important role in accessing and improving the road safety. Besides the conventional generalized linear regression, the prediction approaches based on fuzzy logic and neural networks have increasingly been proven to have a significant accident-predicting capability in recent years. However, fuzzy logic and neural network have their respective limitations. For ex...

background: accidents are the second cause of death in iran and one of the significant challenges in public health. they can affect people in all ages. in this study, we try to calculate years of life lost due to intentional and unintentional injuries, which is considered as one of the main indicators for prioritizing public health problems.   methods: this study is a practical cross sectional ...

construction industry is the second most contributor of gross domestic product and the high rates of accidents /fatalities have tarnished the image of construction industry in india. the importance of safety at site cannot be underscored and it needs the combined attention of all stakeholders to address the issue of safety in construction industry in india. although the construction industry pl...

Presently, LWR (light-water reactor) fuel cladding (tube) is made from Zr-base alloys (e.g., Zircaloy). However, in steam at temperatures above 1000 K (727 °C), these alloys oxidize rapidly, stripping oxygen from water molecules and producing hydrogen, which may cause explosion. Moreover, Zr-base alloys are prone to GTRF (“grid-to-rod” fretting) failure, in which flowinduced vibration of fuel r...