Some reasons for lowering the legal drink-drive limit in Britain

The current legal limit on drivers? blood alcohol content was set at 80mg/100ml nearly 40years ago and there are now only two other Member States of the European Union, both ofthem small countries, with limits higher than 50mg/100ml. Deaths from drink driving inGreat Britain stopped falling 10 years ago, and show signs of rising. The reasons for thesetting of the current limit in 1967 and changes since then are discussed, and a fresh look istaken at the likely annual reduction in deaths on the road in Great Britain if the limit herewere lowered to 50mg/100ml. Lowering the limit is seen not as a measure to be taken inisolation, but as part of a substantial initiative to resume and sustain a clear downwardtrend in death and injury resulting from the avoidable excess risk of driving after drinking

Reaching NNLOPS accuracy with POWHEG and MiNLO

We describe how a simulation of Higgs boson production accurate at next-to-next-to-leading order and matched to a parton shower can be built by combining the POWHEG and MiNLO methods and using HNNLO results as input.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to the proceedings of the LC13 Workshop, September 16-20, 2013, ECT*, Trento, Ital

How many deaths are we prepared to accept?

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Single-top production with the POWHEG method

We describe briefly the POWHEG method and present results for single-top s- and t-channel production at hadron colliders.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to the proceedings of the XVIII International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, DIS 2010, April 19-23, 2010, Firenze, Ital

Travel survey data required to inform transport safety policy and practice

The risk of accidental death per hour spent using the roads in Hong Kong is about I I times the average risk per hour in the rest of everyday life. Other kinds of travel also have risks. Changes in travel patterns affect the numbers of people killed and injured in transport accidents. This means that all policies that affect travel patterns also affect the numbers killed and injured in transport accidents, and conversely, changing travel patterns may itself be a way of reducing these numbers. Investigation of these interactions between travel patterns and amount of death and injury in transport accidents can benefit greatly from various kinds of data that are already commonly collected in travel surveys. But the range of such investigations could be extended in useful ways if some additional items of data could be collected in travel surveys. There is also scope for the methods used in travel surveys to be extended in new ways to improve understanding of the occurrence of transport accidents and people's involvement in them by supplementing with surveys akin to travel surveys the data that are recorded when accidents occur

The Roman Contribution to the Common Law

Although the Roman law was not received in England to the extent that it was received on the Continent, Professor Re submits that its influence was hardly less pervasive. The concepts, the terminology, the universality, and the jurisprudential principles of that vast system were transmitted and infused into the body of English law throughout its development. While the growth of the Anglo-American law still continues, so may the contributions to its development by the Roman law, whose own growth so closely parallels the growth of civilization

Inconsistency, paraconsistency and ω-inconsistency

In this paper I'll explore the relation between ω-inconsistency and plain inconsistency, in the context of theories that intend to capture semantic concepts. In particular, I'll focus on two very well known inconsistent but non-trivial theories of truth: LP and STTT. Both have the interesting feature of being able to handle semantic and arithmetic concepts, maintaining the standard model. However, it can be easily shown that both theories are ω-inconsistent. Although usually a theory of truth is generally expected to be ω-consistent, all conceptual concerns don't apply to inconsistent theories. Finally, I'll explore if it's possible to have an inconsistent, but ω-consistent theory of truth, restricting my analysis to substructural theories.Fil: Da Re, Bruno. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas - Sadaf; Argentin