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Response of fatal landslides to precipitation over the Chinese Loess Plateau under global warming
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Rain-induced loess landslides are especially prevalent in the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). Some became fatal landslide disasters, leading to numerous casualties and significant socioeconomic losses.
Xiaodan Guan +5 more
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Characteristics of injuries resulting from falls from height in the construction industry
Singapore Medical Journal, 2023 Introduction: Falls from heights contribute to 34% of fatal accidents in Singapore. Of these, 51% of the accidents occur in the construction industry. This retrospective review, of all persons falling from heights in the construction industry from 2006 ...
Venkataraman Anantharaman +3 more
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A Decade Long Slowdown in Road Crashes and Inherent Consequences Predicted for South Africa
Frontiers in Future Transportation, 2021 Globally, there are 1.35 million road fatalities every year, which are estimated to cost governments approximately US$ 518 billion, making road fatalities the eighth leading cause of death across all age groups and the leading cause of death of children ...
Dimakatso Machetele, Kowiyou Yessoufou
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Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences, 2020 الملخص: أهداف البحث: على الرغم من الانتشار المتزايد للغرق، فإن سلوكيات البحث عن الرعاية الطبية بين ضحايا الغرق لا تزال غير مستكشفة في بنغلاديش. تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى استكشاف سلوكيات البحث عن الرعاية الطبية بين ضحايا الغرق في بنغلاديش.
Mohammad J. Hossain, MPH +5 more
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Incipient fault detection of chiller based on improved CVA [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 The chiller plays an important role for providing comfort environment. Once, the incipient faults are missed, they may develop to be fatal faults and further lead to equipment damage and casualties.
Qu Jiehui +3 more
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Proposed Design Philosophy for Seismic-Resistant Buildings
Civil Engineering Dimension, 2019 Modern seismic design and technologies have undergone tremendous developments. In modern design codes, building structures subjected to high earthquake loads are allowed to experience plastic deformations without collapsing, and the design is permitted ...
Nanang Gunawan +2 more
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Urban, Planning and Transport Research, 2023 Pedestrian fatalities constitute a fourth of all road deaths in Ghana. Footbridges are recent countermeasures deployed to improve pedestrians’ safety in Ghana.
James Damsere-Derry +1 more
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Fatal head and neck injuries in military underbody blast casualties [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 2018 Introduction Death as a consequence of underbody blast (UBB) can most commonly be attributed to central nervous system injury. UBB may be considered a form of tertiary blast injury but is at a higher rate and somewhat more predictable than injury caused by more classical forms of tertiary injury. Recent studies have
Sarah K Stewart +2 more
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Hypothetical Control of Fatal Quarrel Variability
Entropy, 2021 Wars, terrorist attacks, as well as natural catastrophes typically result in a large number of casualties, whose distributions have been shown to belong to the class of Pareto’s inverse power laws (IPLs).
Bruce J. West
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background Most studies have focused on injuries sustained by intoxicated drivers themselves, but few have examined the effect of drunk driving on injury outcomes among VRUs (vulnerable road users) in developing countries. This study aims to evaluate the
Hui-An Lin +8 more
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