Alcohol plays a part in the deaths of 7,000 Australians and costs the nation more than $A7 billion every year. It contributes to countless motor vehicle, maritime and workplace accidents and instances of domestic violence and malicious damage. Cases of depression and suicide have been attributed to the misuse of alcohol. There have also been some recent worrying developments. Binge drinking has...

This study examines the association between trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among 157 help-seeking children (aged 8-17). Structured clinical interviews are carried out, and linear and logistic regression analyses are conducted to examine the relationship between PTSD and type of trauma exposure controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity. Confrontation with traumatic new...

conclusions the findings of this study indicated that the economic burden of tbis was high in fatal accidents in fars province so that it was equivalent to 0.00011% of iran’s gross domestic product (gdp) in 2013. therefore, more attention has to be paid to the rules to prevent the fatal accidents. results deaths resulting from tbis due to traffic accidents in shiraz imposed 6.2 billion rials (5...

Introduction Burns are a major global public health problem. It is estimated that over 300 million burn victims die each year worldwide. Most accidents are domestic or on workplace and involve mainly women and children. With the advances made in the care of burned patients, the mortality has decreased in recent years and the inhalation injury has become the leading cause of death in these patie...

Current robot platforms are being employed to collaborate with humans in a wide range of domestic and industrial tasks. These environments require autonomous systems that are able to classify and communicate anomalous situations such as fires, injured persons, car accidents; or generally, any potentially dangerous situation for humans. In this paper we introduce an anomaly detection dataset for...

The deterioration of the technical condition plant equipment is a common phenomenon today. This increasingly contributing to breakdowns and accidents, according experience national international authorities. Plants that are operating with an inadequate maintenance strategy nowadays approaching end their design life thus represent increased risk accidents. Ageing processes often accelerated by o...

The incidence of road side accidents and trauma has increased several folds in developing nations and so is the number of therapeutic interventions and advancement in management of such victims1. However, on numerous occasions such episodes can lead to life threatening condition thus raising the mortality and morbidity associated with such accidents. These risks are accentuated in pregnant wome...

This work consists of eight chapters, by eight different authors on various branches of personal hygiene r viz.?(1) Digestive apparatus, (2) the skin and its appendages, (3) vocal and respiratory apparatus, (4) the ear, (5) the eye, (6) the brain and nervous system, (7) physical exercise, (8) domestic hygiene. An appendix, dealing with baths, accidents, and poisoning, completes the work, the Ed...