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Review of Past Nuclear Accidents: Source Terms and Recorded Gamma-Ray Spectra [PDF]
Airborne gamma ray spectrometry using high volume scintillation detectors, optionally in conjunction with Ge detectors, has potential for making rapid environmental measurements in response to nuclear accidents.
Sanderson, D.C.W. +4 more
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Home accidents amongst elderly people: A locality study in Scotland [PDF]
Aim The aim of this locality study was to collect information on reported and unreported accidents amongst elderly people living in one locality in Scotland.
Dunleavy, K +6 more
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Pilot error and its relationship with higher organizational levels: HFACS analysis of 523 accidents [PDF]
Introduction: Based on Reason’s model of human error, the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) was developed as an analytical framework for the investigation of the role of human error in aviation accidents.
Harris, Don, Li, Wen-Chin
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The Manchester Driver Behaviour Questionnaire as predictor of road traffic accidents [PDF]
The Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (DBQ) has mainly been used as predictor of self-reported road traffic accidents. The associations between crashes and the violation and error factors of the DBQ however, may be spuriously high due to reporting bias ...
Kline, Theresa, +5 more
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Culpable versus non-culpable traffic accidents; What is wrong with this picture? [PDF]
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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Biosolubility of high temperature insulation wools in simulated lung fluids
Objective Biosolubility is an important parameter in the understanding of mechanisms involved in pulmonary toxicity of fibrous materials. It can be studied in vitro using models of simulated lung fluids and observing the loss of structural molecules ...
Annapaola Cannizzaro +3 more
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Factors Affecting Indoor Radon Levels in Buildings Located in a Karst Area: A Statistical Analysis
In this paper, the averages annual radon concentrations in buildings placed in a karst area are analyzed in order to understand which factors may affect the occurrence of high levels of radon indoor. Statistical analysis on the radon dataset is performed
Teresa Botti +6 more
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Behavioral determinants in the form of safety performance indicators (SPIs) are increasingly being applied in addition to road traffic crash statistics to evaluate road safety.
Sophie Kröling +2 more
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Introduction: In the shipbuilding industry, workers are exposed to a variety of dangerous chemicals, styrene being one of them. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classified styrene as a chemical belonging to group 2A, which means it is ...
Daniela Pigini +8 more
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Near-miss events are usually identified as adverse events that could have turned into incidents/injuries but, due to an intervention of a safety system or by chance, developed into harmless situations instead.
Giulio Paolo Agnusdei +5 more
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