Road traffic accidents in Nigeria: causes, impacts and interventions
, 2014 According to the World Health Organization Nearly 3,400 people die on the world's roads every day. Tens of millions of people are injured or disabled every year.
Mohammed, Abdulnasim Idris
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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Accidents among adults in Germany - Results from the accident module of the Panel 'Health in Germany' 2024. [PDF]
J Health MonitSaß AC, Kuhnert R.
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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha +3 more
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Alcohol intoxication and its influence on road traffic accidents: a hospital based study from Pondicherry, India. [PDF]
Sci RepK S AP, S M.
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TAXI, CHILLI AND MOBILE PARTY BRANCH: Reterritorialization of Migrants in Urban Villages, Shenzhen
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In China as well as in other countries, migrants often grapple with urban inequities by actively reshaping the functions and meanings of their environments. While acknowledging established frameworks such as place‐making and urban informality, this study adopts a complementary lens, framing migrants’ everyday practices as a process of ...
Xinrui Gao, Jennifer Day, Sun Sheng Han
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The Distribution and Fracture Patterns of Mandibular Fractures Due to Traffic Accidents: A Retrospective Study. [PDF]
Diagnostics (Basel)Turan Ö, Altın İ.
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Most rich countries in the world and four US states require drivers talking on mobile phones to use hands-free devices. However, previous research has failed to arrive at a consensus on the effect of mobile phones on traffic accidents yet has concluded ...
Kolko, Jed
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Spectral Analysis of the Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Motor Vehicle Fatal Traffic Accidents [PDF]
This report shows that Daylight Saving Time (DST) reduces the number of persons killed in motor vehicle fatal traffic accidents by about one percent. This estimate is based on a spectral (Fourier) analysis of these fatalities which utilizes a filtering ...
Meyerhoff, Norman J. +1 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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