conclusions tram tracks on public roads are potentially dangerous and can lead to serious injuries and even mortality amongst cyclist. operative intervention is frequently needed. background in cities with trams as public transportation, tram tracks are often on public roads, creating a shared road situation with other road participants like cyclists. beside the risk of direct collisions, this ...

We study a 2004 program designed to motivate Chinese bureaucrats to reduce accidental deaths. Each province received a set of `death ceilings' that, if exceeded, would impede government o cials' promotions. For each category of accidental deaths, we observe a sharp discontinuity in reported deaths at the ceiling, suggestive of manipulation. Provinces with safety incentives for municipal o cials...

one of the complications during a routine dental implant placement is accidental ingestion of the implant instruments, which can happen when proper precautions are not taken. appropriate radiographs should be taken to locate the correct position of foreign body; usually the foreign body passes asymptomatically from gastrointestinal tract but sometimes it may lead to intestinal obstruction, perf...

The paper first discusses early work that predated internet art and that was concerned with active audience participation in electronic art and describes the path of development of the first author’s artworks that have looked at human to human communication through electronic (computer) systems from 1970 until today. The fundamental concept has been to make artworks that explore human communica...

One method of assessing biologic fertility is to measure time to pregnancy (TTP). Accidental pregnancies do not generate a valid TTP value and lead to nonrandom missing data if couples experiencing accidental pregnancies are more fertile than the general population. If factors affecting the rate of accidental pregnancies, such as availability of effective contraception and induced abortion, var...

In China, there are more than 200 million children at present, which is the nation with largest amount of children in the world. The severity of accidental injury among children in China shall be noticed. Accidental injury among children is an important global public health problem. At present, it has become the first killer of children in the world and the main health problem, which threatens ...

In two experiments (total N = 693), we explored whether people are willing to consider paintings made by AI-driven robots as art , and artists . Across the experiments, manipulated three factors: (i) agent type (AI-driven robot vs. human agent), (ii) behavior (intentional creation of a painting accidental creation), (iii) object (abstract representational painting). We found that judge roughly ...

Background: Acute drug poisoning remains an important public health problem and represents the second most frequent accidental disease in children. In this study, we identified epidemiological and clinical features of children admitted for acute drug poisoning and related factors associated with suicidal poisoning. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study in the Department of Pediatrics, ...