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Damages for a Decedent’s Pre-Impact Fear: An Element of Damages under Alaska’s Survivorship Statute [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
  This study is formed with respect to finding a suitable optimization method of the total costs for the number of jobs that are executed in a FEM solver at Scania. FEM (Finite Element Method) is a solution method for solid mechanic problems.
Sydnor, Thomas D., II
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Microbial etiology and management of lung abscesses in near-drowning survivors

open access: yesJournal of Rare Diseases
Background Drowning is a leading global health issue, causing approximately 236,000 deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization. Non-fatal drowning, or near-drowning, occurs more frequently and is associated with severe pulmonary ...
Tamer A. Addissouky
doaj   +1 more source

Severe Metabolic Acidosis and Pulmonary Edema: A Near-Drowning Case

open access: yesJournal of Pediatric Research, 2018
Drowning is defined as a situation which results in the death of the patient within the first 24 hours, while “near-drowning” refers to all conditions of submersion which does not cause death but brings about morbidity and damaging effects. A twenty-five-
Yasemin Çoban, Mehmet Davutoğlu
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Predictors of Swimming Ability among Children and Adolescents in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Swimming is an important source of physical activity and a life skill to prevent drowning. However, little research has been conducted to understand predictors of swimming ability. The purpose of this study was to understand factors that predict swimming
Irwin, Carol   +3 more
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Skeleton Islands of New Zealand and elsewhere [PDF]

open access: yes, 1969
Skeleton Islands are a variety of the class of islands resulting from subsidence of dissected land, subcategory 4a of a classification of islands here offered. Such islands are characterised by development of a sprawling outline with a narrow axial ridge
Cotton, C.A.
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Accidental immersion and unintentional drowning of rural children: An investigation for the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In New Zealand drowning amongst preschoolers is one of the leading causes of death. The monetary and emotional costs to society are devastating and cannot be underestimated .
Mahony, Lisa   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Planetary nebula progenitors that swallow binary systems

open access: yes, 2015
I propose that some irregular `messy' planetary nebulae owe their morphologies to triple-stellar evolution where tight binary systems evolve inside and/or on the outskirts the envelope of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars.
Soker, Noam
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Developing effective child death review : a study of ‘early starter’ child death overview panels in England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Aim This qualitative study of a small number of child death overview panels aimed to observe and describe their experience in implementing new child death review processes, and making prevention recommendations.
Basarab-Horwath, Janet Anne   +3 more
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Severe acute kidney injury associated with immersion into seawater

open access: yesCogent Medicine, 2017
Near drowning is an important, but rarely reported precipitant of acute kidney injury (AKI). The underlying pathophysiology is thought to be ischaemic kidney injury, but diagnostic uncertainty has arisen due to reports of isolated AKI in the absence of ...
Ian R. Logan, Alison L. Brown
doaj   +1 more source

The Danish Drowning Cohort: Utstein-style data from fatal and non-fatal drowning incidents in Denmark

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology
Background Effective interventions to reduce drowning incidents require accurate and reliable data for scientific analysis. However, the lack of high-quality evidence and the variability in drowning terminology, definitions, and outcomes present ...
Niklas Breindahl   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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