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PPE detector: a YOLO-based architecture to detect personal protective equipment (PPE) for construction sites

PeerJ Computer Science, 2022
With numerous countermeasures, the number of deaths in the construction industry is still higher compared to other industries. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is constantly being improved to avoid these accidents, although workers intentionally or ...
M. Ferdous, Sk. Md. Masudul Ahsan
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A systematic survey of adults’ health-protective behavior use during early COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, and the United States, and vaccination hesitancy and status eight months later

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022
Adoption of health-protective behaviors, including social distancing measures, are a mainstay of mitigating pandemics, so it is important to understand the characteristics associated with those who use them or not.
J. Christopher Perry, Vera Bekes, Claire J. Starrs   +2 more
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Environmental impact of personal protective equipment distributed for use by health and social care services in England in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2021
Objective To quantify the environmental impact of personal protective equipment (PPE) distributed for use by the health and social care system to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in England, and model strategies for mitigating the environmental impact ...
C. Rizan, M. Reed, M. Bhutta
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Mathematical modeling of COVID-19 transmission dynamics between healthcare workers and community

Results in Physics, 2021
Corona-virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease that has affected different groups of humankind such as farmers, soldiers, drivers, educators, students, healthcare workers and many others.
Lemjini Masandawa, Silas Steven Mirau, Isambi Sailon Mbalawata   +2 more
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices of personal protective measures among hemodialysis nurses in Benghazi

Libyan International Medical University Journal, 2017
Background: This study intended to assess knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding standard precautions concerning health care-associated infections (HAIs) among hemodialysis nurses in hemodialysis centers in Benghazi.
L Abdulmalek
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Compliance with safety measures and risk of COVID-19 transmission among healthcare workers

Future Science OA, 2022
Aim: This study aimed to determine the compliance of healthcare workers (HCWs) with the hospital safety measures and the prevalence of hospital-acquired COVID-19 infection among them. Methodology: HCWs at King Abdullah University Hospital (KAUH) assigned
Nawaf J Shatnawi, Zaid Mesmar, Gaith A Al-Omari, Wesam AL-Sheyab, Nabil A AlZoubi, Mohammed AL-Ghazo, Shadi Hamouri, Ibraheem AL-Faori, Ali Bani-Essa, Ismail Matalka, Yousef S Khader, Anwar Batieha   +11 more
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Risk homeostasis in information security:challenges in confirming existence and verifying impact [PDF]

, 2017
The central premise behind risk homeostasis theory is that humans adapt their behaviors, based on external factors, to align with a personal risk tolerance level.
Renaud, Karen, Warkentin, Merrill
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Effectiveness of personal protective health behaviour against COVID-19

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a pandemic, and over 80 million cases and over 1.8 million deaths were reported in 2020.
C. Lio, Hou Hon Cheong, Chin Ion Lei, I. Lo, Lan Yao, C. Lam, Iek Hou Leong   +6 more
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Risk perception, but also political orientation, modulate behavioral response to COVID-19: A randomized survey experiment

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Prior work has shown that accurately perceiving the risk for COVID-19 is associated with higher adherence to protective health behaviors, like face mask use, and more acceptance of governmental restrictive measures such as partial or complete banning of ...
Fernando Torrente, Fernando Torrente, Daniel Low, Adrian Yoris, Adrian Yoris   +4 more
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Virtual Reality Medical Training for COVID-19 Swab Testing and Proper Handling of Personal Protective Equipment: Development and Usability

Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022
Efficient and riskless training of healthcare professionals is imperative as the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic still rages. Recent advances in the field of Virtual Reality (VR), both in software and hardware level, unlocked the true potential of ...
Paul Zikas, Steve Kateros, Nick Lydatakis, Mike Kentros, Efstratios Geronikolakis, Manos N. Kamarianakis, Giannis Evangelou, Ioanna Kartsonaki, Achilles Apostolou, T. Birrenbach, A. Exadaktylos, T. Sauter, George Papapagiannakis   +12 more
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