BACKGROUND Iranian people celebrate the last Wednesday eve of the year as Chaharshanbe Suri and use explosives and firecrackers as part of this festival. OBJECTIVES This study concerned fireworks injuries related to the Chaharshanbe Suri festival in Tabriz, a provincial capital in East Azerbaijan, Iran, to evaluate the epidemiology and provide data to prevent and manage these accidents. PAT...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to calculate injury rates and describe the epidemiology of holiday-related injuries among children who were aged < or =19 years and presented to US emergency departments (EDs) from 1997 through 2006. METHODS Data on holiday-related injuries obtained from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System were an...

An amphiphilic polythiophene-based chemosensor shows optical changes accompanied by the formation of random coils (i.e., fireworks) from backbone-planarized structures upon addition target oxyanions such as pyrophosphate and citrate. The difference in responses to enables pattern recognition-based discrimination a mixture. More information can be found Research Article Tsuyoshi Minami et al.