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...

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...

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...

Vector timestamps provide a way of recording the causal relationships between events in a distributed computation. We draw attention to a limitation of such timestamps when used to reconstruct computations in which message overtaking occurred.

Bayesian Networks are employed to model the uncertainty hindering in the overtaking behavior of young drivers in two-lane highways and reveal the traffic related microscopic characteristics that may influence the decision to overtake. Results using data from an experiment conducted on driving simulator show that male drivers, on average, accept smaller gaps for overtaking than female drivers. F...