INTRODUCTION Lightning is the second most common storm-related cause of death. The mortality following lightning strike is 10% to 30% and a large proportion of these people suffer cardiopulmonary arrest at the time of the strike. Much less commonly, solid organ injuries occur from either primary or secondary blunt force trauma. CASE PRESENTATION To the best of our knowledge, this is the first...

The vast majority of newspaper reports of lightning injury portray direct strike as the predominant mechanism. However, direct strike actually causes only a small number of the injuries. This paper will review the mechanisms of injury as well as a likely distribution between the mechanisms of injury in an attempt to dispel the myth that the majority of injuries and deaths are caused by 'direct'...

[1] Several large strike slip earthquakes have occurred in various tectonic settings in the past 5 years, adding well documented data to the global collection of moment and length estimates for such earthquakes. Based on this augmented dataset, we reexamine the controversial issue of scaling of seismic moment with length of rupture. We find that the global dataset of large strike-slip earthquak...

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Strikes as a consequence of labour conflicts occur about 28 times as much in France as in the Netherlands. This paper examines the institutional differences underlying these differences in strike activity. Our empirical analysis shows that strike activity is high in France if workers were successful in obtaining relatively high wage increases in collective labour agreements in the previous year...

This paper proposes a Laplace-transform-based approach to price the fixed-strike quantile options as well as to calculate the associated hedging parameters (delta and gamma) under a hyperexponential jump diffusion model, which can be viewed as a generalization of the well-known Black–Scholes model and Kou’s double exponential jump diffusion model. By establishing a relationship between floating...

Lightning strike can result in varied neurologic consequences ranging from hypoxic encephalopathy to intracranial hemorrhage. However, lightning strike resulting in cerebellar stroke is very rare. We present the case of a patient who developed cerebellar ataxia following a lightning strike. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed infarcts in both cerebellar hemispheres. The patient recovered with m...

Hunger strike is a regularly reported problem in prison. Although clinical situations are rarely severe, hospitalisation is often considered. In consequence, it is not only physicians working in prisons, but also hospital medical teams who face challenges related to hunger strike, involving somatic, psychological, legal and human rights aspects. Furthermore, deontological rules must be strictly...

The research is set to examine Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strikes and academic performance of students in Ekiti State University (EKSU) Ado-Ekiti. The research employed multistage sampling technique to select the faculties and the departments from where six hundred and four (604) respondents were selected, questionnaires and interviews were employed to draw information from res...

An investigation into the moisture content in the fleece of Merino sheep was commenced after proposing the hypothesis that moisture and relative humidity were required at the skin surface for the survival of the 1st instar larvae and the initiation of a strike. A method for drying wool was developed which created a minimal disturbance to its normal constituents. It was shown that, in dry weathe...