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Analysis of Important Factors Having an Impact on Safety in Road Tunnels – Research Findings
Aim: This article presents relevant safety issues in road tunnels based on the results of a survey and evacuation experiments conducted on real scale in two existing road tunnels in Poland.
Natalia Schmidt-Polończyk
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Real-time video fire/smoke detection based on CNN in antifire surveillance systems
This work presents a real-time video-based fire and smoke detection using YOLOv2 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in antifire surveillance systems. YOLOv2 is designed with light-weight neural network architecture to account the requirements of embedded
S. Saponara+2 more
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N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification is an important mechanism in miRNA processing and maturation, but the role of its aberrant regulation in human diseases remained unclear. Here, we demonstrate that oncogenic primary microRNA-25 (miR-25) in pancreatic
Jialiang Zhang+27 more
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2020 Olympics’ legacy for tobacco control in Japan
Tobacco control advocates in Japan face a difficult struggle. Not only can the tobacco industry can easily influence the public and lobby politicians but due the Japanese government holding one-third of the shares of Japan Tobacco (JT), tobacco ...
Chris Rathbone
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BackgroundIt is well-established that smoking is associated with life satisfaction. However, much less is known about how smoking frequency is related to life satisfaction and if self-rated health (SRH) mediates such a relationship.
Weixi Kang
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Before 1980 the argument that passive smoking was a serious health hazard was rather tenuous. It was claimed that it produced allergic reactions, impaired driving ability, reduced exercise tolerance in patients with cardiorespiratory disease and increased the risk of bronchitis and pneumonia in first-year children.
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Black carbon lofts wildfire smoke high into the stratosphere to form a persistent plume
Up in smoke Extensive and intense wildfires in the Pacific Northwest of the United States in 2017 injected large quantities of smoke into the stratosphere. Yu et al.
P. Yu+13 more
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Roflumilast is effective in reducing COPD related exacerbations and improving CAT score
We present a case of a 85-year-old man who suffered from several chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) related exacerbations and hospitalizations.
Biagio Polla
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The monitoring of wildfire smoke is important to help mitigate impacts on people such as by sending early warnings to affected areas. Received signal levels (RSLs) from radio links have been used as an opportunistic way to accurately measure rainfall and
Adrien Guyot+6 more
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Diathermy smoke: hazardous to health? [PDF]
The heat used in electrocautery causes cells to boil and explode, or simply dry up, producing a gaseous by-product known as diathermy smoke. This smoke may have mutagenic and carcinogenic potential, similar to that of cigarette smoke (Spearman et al ...
Brown, Steven, Dunn, Lynda
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