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Impact of Secondary Prevention on Mortality in the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program: Effectiveness of Occupational High‐Risk Management

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Since 1997 the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program (BTMed) has offered medical exams to construction workers employed in US nuclear weapons facilities. The process consists of two steps: (1) a detailed work history interview; and (2) a medical exam.
Knut Ringen   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study of relationship between motion of mechanisms in gas operated weapon and its shock absorber

open access: yesDefence Technology
The article deals with the motion of the breech block carrier and the weapon casing of an automatic weapon mounted on a flexible carriage and the base of the weapon.
Jiri Balla   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Global "No" to a Nuclear-Armed Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Presents survey findings from twenty-one countries about views on Iran's nuclear weapons program, economic sanctions, military action, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as trends in favorability ...

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‘Somewhere We Can Call Home and…Be Normal’: Findings From the Justice Housing Programme Evaluation

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between homelessness or unstable housing and reincarceration is well documented. The initial month after a person is released from custody is a period of particular vulnerability, with an increased risk of homelessness and return to prison.
Helen Taylor, Lorana Bartels
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-UAV Obstacle Avoidance and Formation Control in Unknown Environments

open access: yesDrones
To address the issues of local minima, target unreachability, and significant formation disruption during obstacle avoidance in the conventional artificial potential field (APF), a control approach that integrates APF with optimal consensus control which
Yawen Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The critical vulnerabilities of civilian nuclear operations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The exploitation for peaceful purposes of nuclear knowledge and nuclear technology is inevitably connected to the exploitation of the same phenomena for military purposes.
Smith, Ron C.
core   +1 more source

Understanding Youth Assaults of Police Officers in Australia: A Power Threat Meaning Framework Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores youth violence towards police officers in Australia through the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) to better understand the underlying factors contributing to such violence; focusing on power dynamics, childhood adversity, and trauma.
Dimitra Lattas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
wiley   +1 more source

Risk and Recreation: Differences Due to Gender, Age and Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Dr. Burger explores the differences in risk perception due to gender, age and education with regard to recreation activities on former U.S.
Burger, Joanna
core   +2 more sources

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