Background: Occupational accidents cause death and disabilities among millions of workers around the world. The mining industry is among the riskiest occupations in this respect. This study aims to investigate interventions made and challenges faced by the health system in response to the Zemestan-Yurt Mine explosion in the Golestan Province, Iran, 2017. Materials and Methods: In this article,...

To cite: Barnard EBG, Rimmer J, McD Johnston A. Thorax 2013;68:794–795. Three patients with unusual additional sounds heard on auscultation of the precordium were admitted to a military hospital in Afghanistan. Patient 1: A male in his 20s was shot in his left flank. Injuries included a left haemothorax and visceral injuries. An intercostal drain (ICD) was inserted. After surgery, he was admitt...

Participants in recent discussions of AI-related issues ranging from intelligence explosion to technological unemployment have made diverse claims about the nature, pace, and drivers of progress in AI. However, these theories are rarely specified in enough detail to enable systematic evaluation of their assumptions or to extrapolate progress quantitatively, as is often done with some success in...

On 12 August 2000 two explosions damaged the Russian submarine, the Kursk. The largest event was well recorded at seismic networks in northern Europe, which we then modeled. We developed a hybrid method based on generalized ray theory that treats an explosive source embedded in a fluid and recorded along continental paths. Matching record sections of observations with synthetics, we obtain an e...

Correspondence It would appear that four bodies are concerned , the driver, the public, the insurance companies, and the doctors. The first three might be taken together, for I understand that the insurance companies are no more concerned with the elderly driver as an insurance risk than with anyone else; in fact if the amount of premium required is a criterion he is considered to be less of a ...

Abstract The Cambrian Explosion by nature is a three-phased explosion of animal body plans alongside episodic biomineralization, pulsed change generic diversity, size variation, and progressive increase ecosystem complexity. was time crown groups nested numbers stem with high-rank taxonomy Linnaean system (classes above). Some temporarily succeeded while others were ephemeral underrepresented f...

The optical afterglow of the gamma-ray burst GRB 970508 (z = 0.835) was a few hundred times more luminous than any supernova. Therefore, a name ‘hypernova’ is proposed for the whole GRB/afterglow event. There is tentative evidence that the GRBs: 970228, 970508, and 970828 were close to star forming regions. If this case is strengthened with future afterglows then the popular model in which GRBs...

Delayed detonation in an exploding white dwarf, which propagates from an off-center transition point rather than from a spherical transition shell, is described and simulated. The differences between the results of two-dimensional simulations and the one-dimensional case are presented and discussed. The two-dimensional effects become significant in transition density below 3rho7, where the ener...