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Accident Prevention in Maryland [PDF]
Public Health Reports (1896-1970), 1965 THE IMPORTANCE of accidents as a cause of mortality has been highlighted by the continued drolp in the percentage of deaths from other causes, particularly the communicable diseases. Among children over 1 year of age and adolescents, accidents now rank as the leading cause of death, primarily because preventive medicine has succeeded in lowering the ...
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Accident rates and the impact of daylight saving time transitions
, 2018 One-third of nations have adopted some form of Daylight Saving Time (DST). Associated costs and benefits include impacts on accident rates. Using data from 12.6 million accident claims in New Zealand during 2005-2016, we model accident rates as a ...
Thomas Barnes +3 more
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Culpable versus non-culpable traffic accidents; What is wrong with this picture? [PDF]
, 2007 It is often implicitly or explicitly assumed in traffic accident research that drivers with accidents designated as non-culpable are a random sample from the population.
af Wåhlberg, Anders, +3 more
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Zinc fever in a painter and varnisher: a case report
Journal of Medical Case ReportsBackground Zinc fever is well described in medical literature, particularly in workers after handling zinc-containing materials at high temperatures e.g., in the welding of hot-dip galvanized steel sheets.
Kerstin Belting +4 more
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Key risk indicators for accident assessment conditioned on pre-crash vehicle trajectory
, 2018 Accident events are generally unexpected and occur rarely. Pre-accident risk assessment by surrogate indicators is an effective way to identify risk levels and thus boost accident prediction.
Y.D. Wong +7 more
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Gender-related aspects in occupational allergies – Secondary publication and update
World Allergy Organization Journal, 2017 For years occupational allergies have been among the most frequently recorded occupational diseases, and both the skin as well as the respiratory tract may be affected. An estimated 9 to 15% of adult asthma is (partially) caused by work-related exposure.
Monika Raulf +3 more
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The Fukushima accident was preventable [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2015 The 11 March 2011 tsunami was probably the fourth largest in the past 100 years and killed over 15 000 people. The magnitude of the design tsunami triggering earthquake affecting this region of Japan had been grossly underestimated, and the tsunami hit the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant (NPP), causing the third most severe accident in an NPP ...
Costas Synolakis, Utku Kânoğlu
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Animal allergens and their presence in the environment
Frontiers in Immunology, 2014 Exposure to animal allergens is a major risk factor for sensitization and allergic diseases. Besides mites and cockroaches, the most important animal allergens are derived from mammals.
Eva eZahradnik, Monika eRaulf
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, 2018 This study intended to investigate the interactions between accident severity levels and traffic signs in state roads located in Croatia, and explore the correlation within accident severity levels and heterogeneity attributed to unobserved factors.
Babić, Dario +3 more
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Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2014 [b]introduction and objective[/b]. The relationship between allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma is well characterized. However, it remains unknown whether an association exists between symptoms of upper and lower airway diseases and occupational ...
Frank Hoffmeyer +9 more
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