Vespa scooters from Piaggio, Italy were one of the most iconic brands in the Indian scooter segment during the 80s and 90s.This was the phase when two wheeler segments was mostly dominated by scooters with leading players like Bajaj and Piaggio.Slowly two wheelers markets saw a gradually shift from scooters with gears to gearless scooters.Currently
Natural selection in bats with historical exposure to white-nose syndrome
Abstract Background Hibernation allows animals to survive periods of resource scarcity by reducing their energy expenditure through decreased metabolism.However, hibernators become susceptible to psychrophilic pathogens if they cannot mount an efficient immune response to infection.While Nearctic bats infected with white-nose syndrome (WNS) suffer
Refined dynamic analysis of three slab tracks on bridge structures under various high-speed train loads
The dynamic performance of three slab ballastless tracks in the China Railway Track System (CRTS), which is supported by a simply supported box girder under various train loads, were comprehensively investigated with refined rigid-flexible coupled models.A refined rigid-flexible coupled model of vehicle-multi layer track-bridge system was developed
Individual participant data meta-analysis of prognostic factor studies: state of the art?
Abstract Background Prognostic factors are associated with the risk of a subsequent outcome in people with a given disease or health condition.Meta-analysis using individual participant data (IPD), where the raw data are synthesised from multiple studies, has been championed as the gold-standard for synthesising prognostic factor studies.We assesse
Integrating market and technology uncertainties into the projected cost of power technologies: a case of Korea
Like many countries responding to climate change, Korea also faces an unprecedented transformation of its power sector into a low-carbon system.To evaluate the most advantageous combination of technologies and necessary policies for achieving the goals of such a transformation, this study decomposes Wall Sconce the historical development of the tot