health, fail at their work or drop out of university. A university is a specialised community, with a particular pattern of selection, varying techniques for processing its material and with a 'wastage rate' that is of national concern. There are special stresses?social, academic and cultural?to which its population are subject. These can erode a vulnerable, developing personality, provoke a la...

• We study the impact on road safety of announced one-day speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO). SLMO are accompanied by media campaigns that provide information dangers speeding. find reduce traffic accidents and casualties about eight percent. Immediately after end, return to usual level. Drivers react an increased detection probability violations. Providing speeding does not alter speeder...

The lack of a detailed landslide inventory makes research on the vulnerability of people to landslides highly limited. In this paper, the authors collect information on the landslides that have caused casualties in China, and established the Landslides Casualties Inventory of China. 100 landslide cases from 2003 to 2012 were utilized to develop an empirical relationship between the volume of a ...

Analysis of the causes of train accidents is critical for rational allocation of resources to reduce accident occurrence in the most cost-effective manner possible. Train derailment data from the FRA rail equipment accident database for the interval 2001 to 2010 were analyzed for each track type, with accounting for frequency of occurrence by cause and number of cars derailed. Statistical analy...