Search results for "TRADE"

Evaluating the safety of platooned heavy vehicles: A case study

2016

In the right lane of motorways with trucks' overtaking prohibition is very common the formation of platoons of heavy vehicles. Although this traffic controls strategies can increase the capacity of passing lane, in the right lane may occur increases of rear-end collisions. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the safety of the platooned heavy vehicles by means a closed-form stream model. The case study of the Italian motorway A22 was examined. The sampling of platoons was performed in four observation sections.In the research have been investigated platoons with 2/20 heavy vehicles for each platoon. Many traffic parameters have been evaluated: frequencies of the number of platoons, …

A model to evaluate heavy vehicle effect in motorway traffic flow

2017

Highway operating conditions are also determined by interactions between passenger cars and heavy vehicles in the flow. Therefore, a suitable model which describes and predicts the heavy vehicle effect can be useful to achieve more realistic criteria to evaluate the Level of Service (LOS) for infrastructures in the uninterrupted flow. After reviewing briefly the models available in literature to take account of the effects on operating conditions due to heavy vehicles, the paper examines some traffic data analysis of the Italian A22 motorway and later presents a closed-form traffic model for heavy vehicles via the queuing theory. Some applications of this model are displayed for operational…

Market Timing with Moving Averages: Anatomy and Performance of Trading Rules

2015

The underlying concept behind the technical trading indicators based on moving averages of prices has remained unaltered for more than half of a century. The development in this field has consisted in proposing new ad-hoc rules and using more elaborate types of moving averages in the existing rules, without any deeper analysis of commonalities and differences between miscellaneous choices for trading rules and moving averages. The first contribution of this paper is to uncover the anatomy of market timing rules with moving averages. Our analysis offers a new and very insightful reinterpretation of the existing rules and demonstrates that the computation of every trading indicator can equiva…

Comparing Performances of Turbo-roundabouts and Double-lane Roundabouts

2012

Starting from assumptions regarding the arrival process of circulating streams and according to models based on the gap-acceptance theory, the paper is aimed at comparing operational performances between basic turbo-roundabouts and double-lane roundabouts. The paper proposes applications of the Hagring model for entry capacity estimations at double-lane roundabouts and turbo-roundabouts, these latter, in particular, featured by movements with only one or two conflicting traffic streams. This model allows to use, in fact, a bunched exponential distribution to quantify the distribution of major vehicle headways; it also considers specific values different by each lane for behavioural paramete…

2015

AbstractThe genetic conflict between parents and their offspring is a cornerstone of kin selection theory and the gene-centred view of evolution, but whether it actually occurs in natural systems remains an open question. Conflict operates only if parenting is driven by genetic trade-offs between offspring performance and the parent’s ability to raise additional offspring, and its expression critically depends on the shape of these trade-offs. Here we investigate the occurrence and nature of genetic conflict in an insect with maternal care, the earwig Forficula auricularia. Specifically, we test for a direct response to experimental selection on female future reproduction and correlated res…

Comunicación y conocimiento

2005

Ponencia de José Vidal-Beneyto en el "II Encuentro Internacional Complutense Ciencia y Sociedad: Globalización, pobreza y desarrollo. Los retos de la cooperación internacional" (IUDC - UCM, 15-17.11.2004).

Signal transduction pathways of membrane expression of proteinase 3 (PR‐3) in human endothelial cells

1997

At present, the exact mechanism of the pathogenic effect of anti-PR-3 antibodies remains unknown. Interaction of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) with human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) may play a key role. Recently we were able to show that ANCAs recognize their target antigen, PR-3, translocated into the membrane of HUVECs. The objective of this study was to investigate regulation, i.e. signal transduction pathways, of PR-3 expression in endothelial cells. HUVECs were isolated according to the method of Jaffe et al. and cultured under standard conditions. A cyto-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with unfixed cells was performed. Membrane-expressed PR-3 w…

La cultura delle vie di trasporto.

2010

Notiziario della SIIV su Le Strade N.1454, Gennaio/Febbraio 2010 (casa Ed. la fiaccola,Milano)-ISSN: 0373-2916.

ALTA FORMAZIONE ALLA RICERCA. A BRESCIA DAL 5 AL 9 SETTEMBRE, LA NONA EDIZIONE DELLA SCUOLA ESTIVA SIIV

2011

Pagina associativa della Società Italiana di Infrastrutture Viarie sulla rivista Le Strade vol.9 N. 1470 anno CXIII (casa Ed. la fiaccola, Milano)-ISSN: 0373-2916, PAG. 158

A scuola di grandi infrastrutture

2011

Pagina associativa della Società Italiana di Infrastrutture Viarie sulla rivista Le Strade vol.10 N. 1471 anno CXIII (casa Ed. la fiaccola,Milano)-ISSN: 0373-2916, PAG. 127