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High Tech Hunks of Steel: Fixed-Site Amusement Rides and Safety Under State Regulation [PDF]
, 2004 Tomorrow is the big day! Little Bobby Missoula is going to turn ten tomorrow and his parents have promised to take him to Outlandish Adventures, an amusement park that Bobby has seen advertised on television.
Kingsley, Jennifer
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Postmortem Examination of a Griffon Vulture Most Likely Killed by Lightning
DiversityThere are numerous reports of animals being struck by lightning, but the number of science-oriented studies in which a necropsy is performed, and the findings are documented, is relatively few and mostly focused on mammals.
Rusko Petrov +2 more
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Further identification and treatment modalities in telephone mediated lightning strike [PDF]
The results are presented of a prospective survey of people injured by lightning impulses transmitted by the public telephone system. The results are compared with those of a previous retrospective survey.
Andrews, Christopher J., Darveniza, Mat
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Methodology for development of drought Severity-Duration-Frequency (SDF) Curves [PDF]
, 2014 Drought monitoring and early warning are essential elements impacting drought sensitive sectors such as primary production, industrial and consumptive water users.
Abdul Jamil, Muhammad Mahadi +4 more
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Characteristics of a multi-stroke “bolt from the blue” lightning-type that caused a fatal disaster
Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2019 Observational data from the low-frequency electric-field detection array (LFEDA) and radar were used to study the precise location of a fatal accident caused by a lightning in Conghua, Guangzhou, China, 2017.
Xiangpeng Fan +4 more
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Lightning mortality rate in Colombia for the period 1997 – 2014
Revista UIS Ingenierías, 2018 In many countries, the natural phenomenon of lightning has been studied take into consideration climatic and physiographic conditions. The atmospheric discharges are responsible for the death of more than 6000 people per year around the world.
Audrey Soley Cruz-Bernal +3 more
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Spartan Daily, September 10, 1999 [PDF]
, 1998 Volume 113, Issue 8https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/9437/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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The Risk of Unexploded Ordnance on Construction Sites in London [PDF]
, 2018 Greater London, among many large cities, was subject to bombing by the German military in both the World Wars and was the target of many air raids during the Second World War (WW2).
BBC +17 more
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Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2018 Background: Lightning is an uncommon but potentially devastating cause of injury in both developed and developing countries. These injuries feature high mortality and significant long-term morbidity, thus prompt preventive and protective measures are ...
Kasunee Kalubowila +2 more
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The QT interval in lightning injury with implications for the cessation of metabolism hypothesis [PDF]
An hypothesis is presented to provide an alternative to the Cessation of Metabolism hypothesis often invoked in lightning injury. Cessation of Metabolism has been proposed to explain the observation of good recovery after a prolonged period in cardiac ...
Andrews, Christopher J. +2 more
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