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- Hu, Han, et al.
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Severe Traffic Crash Speaks : Safety Facts From Mountain Roads in China
- 2013
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference Road Safety on Four Continents. - Linköping : Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- objective to build up a systematic mountain road safety enhancement technology, this study analyses severe traffic crashes from 2006 to 2010 occurred on an inter-regional mountain arterial road network in south China. In order to digest these crash data collected from local traffic police stations, the authors conduct the in-depth crash analysis from the aspect of human, vehicle, road, and management. By developing the definition sets for crash deterministic causing factors judging system, the deterministic causes of severe accidents on mountain roads in China are deeply investigated. Results of our analysis indicate that human factor does weigh the most in the occurrence of the severe crashes; main crash types on mountain roads are running-off road, headon collision, overturned; Almost 76% severe crashes occurred on slope/curve combination sites; and freight car shall be given more attentions in reducing the severe accidents.
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- Hu, Jingmei, et al.
(författare)
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Speed Control Effect Study on Optical Illusion Deceleration Markings
- 2013
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference Road Safety on Four Continents. - Linköping : Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The optical illusion deceleration marking is one of the commonly used speed control measures. In this research, the authors analyzed operating speed and trajectory of motor vehicle at intersection where optical illusion deceleration marking is installed. Quantitative and qualitative evaluation on effect of optical illusion deceleration marking is conducted. Results showed that optical illusion deceleration marking would help to reduce operating speed and average speed by 5-10km/h, to regulate motorcycle driver behavior, and to reduce speed difference, so that driving safety is ensured. Optical illusion deceleration marking is suitable for accident prone road sections on two-lane highways which main vehicle types are passenger car and motorcycle.
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- Li, Jinhai, et al.
(författare)
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Effects of Roadway Segment Alignments and Locations on Rural Two-Lane Highway Crash Rates
- 2013
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference Road Safety on Four Continents. - Linköping : Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper investigates the effects of road segment alignment and location on rural two-lane highway crash rates by taking the mileage of segment types into consideration. Roadway segments are classified and redefined according to the segment alignment and location. The definitions of crash rates in terms of segment alignment and location are presented respectively. The study gathers crash data and the roadway geometric information of rural two-lane highways in southwest of China and crash rates of each segment type are proposed by utilizing the proposed definitions. The result indicates that gentle-slope & sharp-curve segments and intersections tend to have extremely higher crash rates than the other types of segments.
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- Li, Jingmei
(författare)
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Genetic determinants of breast cancer risk
- 2011
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main purpose of this thesis was to identify genetic risk factors using both hypothesis-based and hypothesis-free approaches. In an attempt to identify common disease susceptibility alleles for breast cancer, we started off with a hypothesis-free approach, and performed a combined analysis of three genome-wide association studies (GWAS), involving 2,702 women of European ancestry with invasive breast cancer and 5,726 controls. As GWAS has been said to underperform for studying complex diseases such as breast cancer, we investigated to see if the variance explained by common variants could be increased by studying specific disease subtypes. Breast cancer may be characterized on the basis of whether estrogen receptors (ER) are expressed in the tumour cells. The two breast cancer tumour subtypes (ER-positive and ER- negative) are generally considered as biologically distinct diseases and have been associated with remarkably different gene expression profiles. ER status is important clinically, and is used both as a prognosticator and treatment predictor since it determines if a patient may benefit from anti-estrogen therapy. We thus performed an independent GWAS using a subset of ER-negative breast cancer cases and all of the controls from the initial genome-wide study, and, in addition, also evaluated whether the two cancer subtypes are fundamentally different on a germline level. Besides hypothesis-free GWAS, we also conducted hypothesis-based analyses based on candidate pathways to identify common variants associated with breast cancer. Several studies have examined the effect of genetic variants in genes involved in the estrogen metabolic pathway on mammographic density, but the number of loci studied and the sample sizes evaluated have been small and pathways have not been evaluated comprehensively. We evaluated a total of 239 SNPs in 34 genes in the estrogen metabolic pathway in 1,731 Swedish women who participated in a breast cancer case-control study. Slightly venturing outside the genetic scope of this thesis, we looked at a breast cancer risk factor - body size - that is associated with very different postmenopausal breast cancer risks at different time points in a woman’s lifetime, namely, birth, childhood, and postmenopausal adult. The significance of these studies will be apparent when, using the new genetic and epidemiological knowledge found, we are able to classify women according to high or low risk of breast cancer on the basis of genetic disposition or other breast cancer risk factors, so that appropriate interventions and disease management decisions may be made, to ultimately reduce incidence and mortality of breast cancer.
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