This study was designed to identify risk factors associated with violence within a forensic inpatient hospital setting. The primary purpose was to develop a screening tool to aid in the rapid identification of patients requiring high versus low security ward placement. Subjects included 232 consecutive admissions during a five-month period to a 300-bed forensic division within a public-sector p...

From January 1, 2000, to August 31, 2001, a team of environmental health specialists from Public Health-Seattle & King County, a partner in King County's Local Hazardous Waste Management Program, made educational visits to 981 automotive repair shops. The purpose was to give the auto repair industry technical assistance on hazardous waste management without using enforcement action. Through sit...

The basic problems of bed-fence-covers in hospitals were listed for preventing relevant accidents based on the investigation into actual conditions in a hospital in Kawasaki City. There were many elderly aged patients with dementia, higher brain dysfunction or psychosis in the hospital. They sometimes fell into the gaps of bed-fences, resulting in serious accidents. It was due not only to the s...

An evaluation of homicidal ideation is a routine component of a mental status examination and may be evaluated in more depth in forensic evaluations as a dangerousness risk assessment. The evaluation of dangerousness often includes asking about violent fantasies that may have physical or sexual content. The authors examine the circumstances in which the revelation of violent fantasies to a ment...

Climate change is warming up water all over the world, including in San Francisco Estuary. This has caused fish who live there to their behavior unexpected ways. All animals, fish, have regular and specialized behaviors that help them survive. Fish swim, by themselves or groups, move safer habitats, find food mates, just avoid danger. Scientists worry changes these brought on will make estuarie...

The relationship of coping behavior to outcome in depressed patients was examined. Subjects (n=105) with major depressive disorder (n=85), depressive disorder not otherwise specified (n=7) or major depressive disorder with axis I comorbidity (n=13) were followed for 6 months. Their coping behavior (i.e. rumination, active distraction, cognitive distraction and dangerous activities) was defined ...

College students have high rates of heavy drinking, and this dangerous behavior is strongly linked to sexual victimization. Although research has examined risk factors for sexual assault, few studies have simultaneously studied the various pathways through which risks may affect sexual assault and how these pathways may be uniquely different among females and males. As such, the current study u...

Although the role of IT is salient in sporting mega-events (e.g. instant replay, goal-line technology), IS research has not yet paid any attention to the processes by which technologies are selected for and implemented at these mega-events, the strategies used by actors, nor the consequences of such implementations on actors in related sectors and industries. To tackle this underdeveloped resea...

Detect moving object from a video sequence is a fundamental and critical task in many computer vision application. In video surveillance of high-speed railway transport hub, detection of moving object aims to accurately and timely find congestion of passenger flow and other dangerous behaviors in hub. With comparative study on existing methods of moving object detection, a modified background m...