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High rate of crashes at roundabouts involving cyclists can be reduced with careful attention to conflict paths - Cumming B.
Background Victoria has a high rate of cyclist involvement in crashes at roundabouts (whole state, 24%; inner suburban, 49%. Aims Why are cyclists involved in so many roundabout crashes? What can be done to improve cyclist safety? Methods A literatur...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 29, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Findings of the follow-up survey--GRSI Beijing project of improving vulnerable road user safety at junctions - Yuan A, Chen YY.
Background During 2006-2009, Beijing Transportation Research Center, Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) and Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP) worked together on a project to improve vulnerable road user (VRU) safety at junctions in Beijing. Six...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 29, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Evaluation of noise producing toys and the product standard criteria - McLaren S, Parker L, Page W.
Background A selection of commercially available imported toys was assessed for acoustic safety by testing to the voluntary toy safety Standard. The results were compared to allowable noise levels for adults in a working environment. Aims/Objectives/Pur...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 29, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Effects of speed radar camera in reducing road traffic crashes: experiences from Kenya - Kibogong DK, Chowdhury SM.
Background Road traffic injuries are among the top 10 causes of death accounting for 2.1% of total global mortality. Excess and inappropriate speed is responsible for a high proportion of the mortality and morbidity that result from road crashes. Over spee...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 29, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

A picture is worth a thousand words: utilising social media to better understand all-terrain vehicle crash mechanisms of real patients - Jennissen C, Price M, Harland K, Denning G.
Background Most surveillance sources provide limited data on the sequence of events during ATV crashes. This limitation provides the rationale to investigate less traditional sources such as social media sites where video sharing has become very popular. ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 29, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

A family intervention to increase the use of seatbelts on ROPS tractors - Stoneman Z, Jinnah-Ghelani H, Rains G, Brightwell B.
Background Almost all tractor roll-over fatalities can be prevented by the use of safety equipment such as Roll-Over Protection (ROPS) and seatbelts. Unfortunately, many farmers still do not wear seatbelts on ROPS tractors. Aims This is part of a larger...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 29, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Ultralight fractal structures could bear heavy loads
Structures could be easily fabricated using 3D printing techniques
Source: PhysicsWeb News - November 28, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Blogging and microblogging to disseminate your research. Here's why:
Blogs and microblogs (e.g. Twitter) are vital tools for academics to publicly communicate about research developments and findings, to announce publications and share presentations and to write about relevant research issues.
Source: Elsevier Updates: Physics - November 28, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Italy cancels €1bn SuperB collider
Italian government pulls funding for particle accelerator
Source: PhysicsWeb News - November 28, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Louisiana education court case highlights Bobby Jindal's creationism state
Lawsuit over school voucher programme calls attention to controversial policy, which could hamper governor's ambitionsLouisiana governor Bobby Jindal is rapidly emerging as a new "moderate" Republican voice, but a court case beginning Wednesday is set to shine light on a controversial policy in his state which sees government funding given to schools that teach creationism.The case has been brought by a Louisiana teachers union and is aimed at a voucher scheme whereby some parents can take their children out of poor state schools and get vouchers to use at private schools.One of the most controversial aspects of the progra...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 28, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Paul Harris Tags: Republicans United States Creationism Louisiana World news guardian.co.uk US politics Law Education Religion Science Source Type: news

Graphite experiment shines new light on giant planets, white dwarfs and laser-driven fusion
Researchers are dealing with unexpected results of an experiment with strongly heated graphite (up to 17,000 Kelvin). The findings may pose a new problem for physicists working in laser-driven nuclear fusion and may also lead astrophysicists to revise our understanding of the life cycle of giant planets and stars.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - November 28, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news

Crash fatality risk differences between access and non-access controlled highways in Pakistan: a low-income country - Sodhar I, Bhatti J, Khoso A, Shiekh N, Razzak J.
Background Urbanisation around highways is frequent in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and can affect traffic safety negatively if it is inadequately-planned. Access control has shown to reduce significantly highway crashes in developed countries ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 28, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Clothing-related motorised two-wheeler crashes: results from a traffic injury surveillance study, Karachi, Pakistan - Khan UR, Nukhba Z, Junaid B, Shahzad S, Rashid J, Razzak JA.
Introduction Recently, cases of clothing-related entanglement in motorcycles have been increasingly reported from India and Pakistan but no epidemiological studies are available for such crashes. Objective To assess the injury burden and severity of clo...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 28, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Black spot overlap matching for motorcycles and cars - Walton D, Buchanan J.
This research determines the size of the location-specific component of motorcycle crashes by comparing the degree of overlap between car and motorcycle crash rates at the same or similar locations drawn from the NZ crash record contained in the CAS databa...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 28, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Black spot identification on the expressway network to a guideline of road safety improvement in Bangkok of Thailand - Jantakat Y, Kangkhajitre C.
The problem of deaths and injuries is currently acknowledged to be a global phenomenon with authorities virtually in all countries of the world. The study intends to identify the black spot locations along the expressway network in Bangkok from the acciden...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 28, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Are food delivery riders' motorcycle safety helmets safe? - Kulanthayan S, Lai GS, Kaviyarasu Y, Nor Afiah MZ.
Background In Malaysia traffic crashes are a huge problem with 414 421 road crashes and 6872 deaths in year 2010 (PDRM, 2011). Motorcycle deaths contribute about 60% of total fatalities in Malaysia. Aim The main aim of this study is to determine the f...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 28, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

All-terrain vehicles: deadly on and off the road - Jennissen C, Harland K, Ellis D, Denning G.
Background The increasing popularity of all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) has been accompanied by an alarming rise in ATV-related deaths. Aims/Objectives/Purpose To compare fatal ATV crashes on and off the road in order to more fully understand the contributi...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 28, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

All-terrain vehicles on the road: a serious traffic safety concern - Jennissen C, Buresh C, Harland K, Ellis D, Denning G.
Background On-road all-terrain vehicle (ATV) crashes are frequent despite most US states having laws restricting road use. Aims/Objectives/Purpose To determine the demographics, and the mechanisms and outcomes of injuries of on-road versus off-road ATV ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 28, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

?! Effect of vehicle characteristics on crash severity: Portuguese experience - Guilhermina T, Nagui R, Margarida C.
This research explores the crash severity for the population of crashes resulting in injuries and/or fatalities. Real world crash data were collected from the Portuguese Police Republican National Guard records for the Porto metropolitan area, for the peri...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 28, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

The hidden reality: parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos by Brian Greene | book review | @GrrlScientist
This engaging book describes several theories of multiverses (because obviously one isn't enough) that physicists have developed over the years, including a good explanation of string theory and why it's relevant, and a defence of physicists doing too much theoretical workWhen I was at school I devoured popular science books, from Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, to the more obscure From Quarks to Quasars. These books were the factual equivalent of hard science fiction -- their purpose was to explain new ideas in one area of science to the lay public. More recently, I think science writing has evolved to include a more literary ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 28, 2012 Category: Science Authors: GrrlScientist, Bob O'Hara Tags: Blogposts guardian.co.uk Science Source Type: news

Michael Brooks's top 10 time travel books
From Albert Einstein to Douglas Adams, the author picks out the best scientific and fictional accounts of an enduringly compelling dreamTime imprisons us. I never met my paternal grandfather, but I am told he was an extraordinary sprinter in his youth. I am slightly obsessed with the notion of visiting the 1930s to watch that Jamaican-born teenager course down the track at his high school in New York. And yet I must, fist shaking in the air, face the fact that this will never happen – can never happen.To understand the science of time travel is a curse. I am despondent that the laws of physics conspire to prevent any con...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 28, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Michael Brooks Tags: Science fiction Culture guardian.co.uk Books Features Science and nature Source Type: news

US military chiefs 'planned to blow up the moon with nuclear bomb' as show of Cold War muscle, physicist claims
US Military chiefs, keen to intimidate Russia during the Cold War, plotted to blow up the moon with a nuclear bomb, according to project documents kept secret for for nearly 45 years.
Source: The Independent - Science - November 28, 2012 Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news

Christmas gifts 2012: the best science books
Tim Radford chooses the finest science books of the last yearWant to know the ultimate secret of matter? Just catch a Higgs boson as it blasts into existence and out again inside your colossal collider. Smash the nuclei of hydrogen together at almost the speed of light, and watch the fragments fly, 20 million times a second.You are looking for a particle that will exist for one billion trillionth of a second before metamorphosing not just once but twice. So you have to guess what the boson's second generation particles are going to look like, and here's the hard bit – they will be particles you already know. As a Glasgow...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 28, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Tim Radford Tags: The Guardian Best books of 2012 Culture Particle physics Higgs boson Reviews Science and nature Source Type: news

US military chiefs planned to blow up the moon with nuclear bomb as show of Cold War muscle, physicist claims
US Military chiefs, keen to intimidate Russia during the Cold War, plotted to blow up the moon with a nuclear bomb, according to project documents kept secret for for nearly 45 years.
Source: The Independent - Science - November 28, 2012 Category: Science Tags: Science Source Type: news

Legacy Collection gives new life to science classics
Elsevier employees take you behind the scenes as they digitize books dating back to 1950
Source: Elsevier Updates: Physics - November 28, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

On This Day in Science History - November 29 -- Doppler Effect
November 29th is Christian Andreas Doppler's birthday. Doppler was an Austrian physicist best known for the Doppler effect. Doppler wrote in a paper titled "On the Colored Light of Double ...Read Full Post
Source: About.com Chemistry - November 28, 2012 Category: Chemistry Source Type: news

On This Day in Science History - November 28 - Enrico Fermi
November 28th marks the passing of Enrico Fermi. Fermi was an Italian physicist who made many advances in the field of nuclear physics. He was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize ...Read Full Post
Source: About.com Chemistry - November 27, 2012 Category: Chemistry Source Type: news

Royal Society Winton prize for science goes to James Gleick
Finalists required to join panel discussion before winner announcedThere's always an awkward moment before somebody opens the envelope and reveals the winner, and it usually has to be filled with urbane chatter and cautious modesty. I'll end the suspense now: the £10,000 Royal Society Winton prize for science books was won by James Gleick with The Information, an account of communication technology which sweeps from prehistoric talking drums to telegraph wires and the modern internet.The awkward delay on this occasion was compounded by a television timetable: the winner was to be announced and interviewed live on Channel ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 27, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Tim Radford Tags: Culture News guardian.co.uk Books Science and nature Source Type: news

Blogging and microblogging to disseminate your research. Here is why:
Blogs and microblogs (e.g. Twitter) are vital tools for academics to publicly communicate about research developments and findings, to announce publications and share presentations and to write about relevant research issues.
Source: Elsevier Updates: Physics - November 27, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

West Physics partners with OnPoint Medical
Medical and health physics consulting firm West Physics Consulting announced (more)
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - November 27, 2012 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

Quantum-dot photodetector offers short cut for electrons
New device dispenses with conventional thin-film architecture
Source: PhysicsWeb News - November 27, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

New methods for cooling of ions developed
Among the most important techniques developed in atomic physics over the past few years are methods that enable the storage and cooling of atoms and ions at temperatures just above absolute zero. Scientists have now demonstrated in an experiment that captured ions can also be cooled through contact with cold atoms and may thus be stored in so-called ion traps in a stable condition for longer periods of time. This finding runs counter to predictions that ions would actually be heated through collisions with atoms.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - November 26, 2012 Category: Science Source Type: news

Learn how to create a simple and effective personal academic website
An academic personal website takes you a step further in terms of increasing your visibility, because it is an ideal place to showcase your complete research profile.
Source: Elsevier Updates: Physics - November 26, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Brain drain in Italy?
For the past few years, the media has been reporting on a “brain drain” in Italy, with academics and students worried about the economy, job opportunities and government cuts in research and development spending. However, a recent analysis and shows that Italy’s universities ...
Source: Elsevier Updates: Physics - November 26, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Scientists from Bangalore and Mainz develop new methods for cooling of ions
(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) Among the most important techniques developed in atomic physics over the past few years are methods that enable the storage and cooling of atoms and ions at temperatures just above absolute zero. Scientists from Bangalore and Mainz have now demonstrated in an experiment that captured ions can also be cooled through contact with cold atoms and may thus be stored in so-called ion traps in a stable condition for longer periods of time.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 26, 2012 Category: Biology Source Type: news

On This Day in Science History - November 25 -- Julius Robert von Mayer
November 25th is Julius Robert von Mayer's birthday. Mayer was a German physician who had a hobby of studying physics. Most of his work centered around how energy was transferred ...Read Full Post
Source: About.com Chemistry - November 24, 2012 Category: Chemistry Source Type: news

Tiny sensor measures mass and temperature
Device could detect single viruses and be used for environmental monitoring
Source: PhysicsWeb News - November 24, 2012 Category: Physics Source Type: news

Tyre rolling kinematics and prediction of tyre forces and moments: part II - simulation and experiment - Wei Y, Oertel C, Shen X.
There are two aims for the second part of this paper: verifying the theory presented in the first part through parameter variation and comparison between simulation and experiment, and to study the effect of the belt structure on the cornering properties o...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Tyre rolling kinematics and prediction of tyre forces and moments: part I - theory and method - Oertel C, Wei Y.
A new method to describe tyre rolling kinematics and how to calculate tyre forces and moments is presented. The Lagrange-Euler method is used to calculate the velocity and contact deformation of a tyre structure under large deformation. The calculation of ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Topometry optimisation for crashworthiness design using hybrid cellular automata - Mozumder C, Renaud JE, Tovar A.
An objective in crashworthiness design is to obtain energy-absorbing components. This task has been efficiently undertaken using the Hybrid Cellular Automaton method. This method combines the CA paradigm with nonlinear, dynamic finite element analysis. Lig...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Selection of a relevant indicator - Road casualty risk based on final outcomes - Kukić D, Lipovac K, Pešić D, Vujanić M.
There are no dilemmas among the academics and experts whether it is important and necessary to analyze the road casualty risk. The road casualty risk analysis is a very efficient way of filtering the most dangerous sections, roads or specific territories. ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Safety performance functions using traffic conflicts - El-Basyouny K, Sayed T.
Recent research has shown that traffic conflicts provide useful insight into the failure mechanism that leads to road collisions while being more frequent and of minor social cost. However, the relationship between collisions and conflicts must first be es...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Safety analysis of belted occupant in reclining seat - Tang L, Liu JH.
A Hybrid III 5th percentile female dummy model is used to evaluate the effectiveness of seat cushion angle designs and seat cushion support concepts on protection of occupants in a reclined seating position in an LS-DYNA platform. Since the 5th percentile ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Reducing occupational fatalities by using NIOSH 3rd generation automatically deployable rollover protective structure - Alkhaledi K, Means K, McKenzie Jr. E, Smith J.
Each year tractor rollovers cause injuries or deaths for farmers despite the fact that an effective safeguard was available in the form of a rollover protective structure (ROPS); however, many ROPS were removed by the tractor's owners, because the ROPS is ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Numerical-experimental analysis of a semi-curtainsider according to the standard EN 12642-XL - Malon H, Castejon L, Viñuales A.
Today, countries such as Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands require compliance under the standard EN 12642-XL to load and unload trucks, semi-trailers and curtainsiders in their territory. Compliance under these regulations is a problem for manufacturers...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Modelling and control of the sliding kingpin anti-jackknife device - Koussoulas NT, Manesis S.
Jackknifing is a major cause of disasters in traffic accidents involving articulated trucks. In this work, we examine a tractor/semi-trailer combination that is equipped with a device which allows the kingpin junction to slide along the rear tractor axle. ...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Model-based winter road classification - Casselgren J, Sjödahl M, LeBlanc JP.
An investigation of different road conditions has been conducted using a short-wave infrared (SWIR) light online sensor to examine the possibility of estimating road condition parameters such as porosity, depth and roughness. These parameters are essential...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Measuring stud and rubber friction on ice under laboratory conditions - Rantonen M, Tuononen AJ, Sainio P.
A linear friction tester is used to test stud and rubber friction on ice. Studs are metallic objects inserted into tyre treads to improve winter tyre performance. Special small-scale rubber specimens, with and without studs, are used in this study. To begi...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Measurement of machinery safety level in the European market: Characterisation of the compliance within the scope of MD98/37/EC - Cordero CA, Sanz JLM, Otero JE, Guijosa JMM.
The aim of this investigation was to setup the procedure to measure the efficiency of market control activities in the European framework. This was carried out by means of analysing the data collected in the last five campaigns of control of industrial pro...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Improving intelligibility at a safety critical point: In flight cabin safety - Molesworth BRC, Burgess M.
The present study was designed to examine the impact of noise cancelling headphones on the intelligibility of auditory information, specific to the aviation industry. The majority of airlines in western countries prohibit the use of personal electronic dev...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - November 23, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news