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Amerini, Fabrizio. "Utrum inhaerentia sit de essentia accidentis. Francis of Marchia and the Debate on the Nature of Accidents." Vivarium 44, no. 1 (2006): 96–150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853406778169040.

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AbstractThis paper attempts to provide a general reconstruction of Francis of Marchia's doctrine of accidental being. The paper is divided into two parts. (1) In the first part, I begin by reconstructing the debate on the nature of accidents held before Marchia, showing that such a debate is characterised by a progressive shift concerning the way to understand accidents. While the first Aristotelian interpreters regard accidents especially as inhering modes of being of substances, the majority of theologians and philosophers in the second half of the thirteenth century regard accidents as absolute beings. For them, the problem is no longer to explain if and, if so, how accidents can be distinct from substances, but how accidents and substances can make some one thing. Metaphysically, their primary focus is on explaining what the ontological status of inherence is. Although it is especially the consideration of the Eucharistic case that induces this change, I point out that many philosophers and theologians find in Aristotle's texts the philosophical support for taking this step. (2) In the second part, I focus more closely on Marchia's doctrine, arguing that Marchia's position is a slightly revised version of Scotus's. Unlike Aquinas and Bonaventure, Marchia explains Aristotle's metaphysics of accidents by way of the metaphysics of the Eucharist and not vice versa. So, in order to explain the philosophical consistency of this miraculous case, Marchia maintains that one does not need to modify the notion of inherence by distinguishing actual from potential inherence and including the latter in the accident's essence; rather it is necessary to take the case of the Eucharist seriously and, on this basis, to remove inherence totally from an accident's essence. In conclusion, the Eucharist shows that accidents are absolute beings to which actual inherence pertains contingently, potential inherence necessarily. But like Scotus's, Marchia's doctrine faces some difficulties that remain unresolved.
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Ulfah, Nur, Endo Dardjito, Siti Harwanti, and Damairia Hayu Parmasari. "Work Accident at Sugar Farmers in Banyumas Regency." Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat 18, no. 3 (February 20, 2023): 349–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/kemas.v18i3.35487.

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A work accident is an accidental event in the employment relationship, including diseases of the working relationship, the accident that happened on the way go to work, and coming home in the usual way. Work accidents can be experienced by sugar farmers. In Banyumas Regency, there are about 26.580 Sugar farmers. Based on Kesra Setda Banyumas Regency, from 2017 to November 2019 there were 323 cases of sugar farmers accidents, with 236 disabilities and 87 deaths. The purpose is to analyze the risk factors of work accidents consisting of behavioral and environmental factors. The method is an analytical survey with a cross-sectional approach. The sample was 200 people in Cilongok Districts. Data analysis includes univariate, bivariate, and multivariate. The results show that behavioral factors significantly associated with work accidents are breakfast status (p = 0,010) and unhealthy conditions (p = 0,002). Environmental factors significant to work accidents are past medical history (p = 0.000) and protein adequacy (p = 0,000). Recommendations for this research are socialization about the importance of breakfast and paying attention to the body condition before climbing, also training energy consumption diet of protein corresponding to the workload.
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Yunus, Riyanto. "Traffic Accident Analysis Model In Traffic Accidents That Have No Witness." Estudiante Law Journal 4, no. 2 (February 16, 2022): 208–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.33756/eslaj.v4i2.16211.

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The problem of traffic accidents in the absence of witnesses is very crucial because in traffic accidents, in principle, the presence of witnesses is very important in determining the suspect and victim. Therefore, it is important to reconstruct traffic accident analysis (TAA) in every traffic accident. This is the concern of the compilers to examine how the concept of implementing Traffic Accident Analysis in traffic accidents, as well as to examine the Traffic Accident Analysis proof model in traffic accidents that do not have witnesses. The type of research in writing this proposal is normative research, which includes research on legal systematics, research on the level of legal synchronization, research on legal history, and research on comparative law. The results show that the concept of applying Traffic Accident Analysis in traffic accidents uses two main methods, namely: clinical and statistical approaches. The application of Traffic Accident Analysis is very important to do and becomes an alternative when there is no witness in a traffic accident. This is necessary to assist investigators in reconstructing accidents and determining suspects and victims
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Vuorio, Alpo, Robert Bor, Antti Sajantila, Anna-Stina Suhonen-Malm, and Bruce Budowle. "Commercial Aircraft-Assisted Suicide Accident Investigations Re-Visited—Agreeing to Disagree?" Safety 9, no. 1 (March 12, 2023): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/safety9010017.

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Background: The number of aircraft-assisted suicides can only be considered a rough estimate because it is difficult and, at times, impossible to identify all cases of suicide. Methods: Four recent reports of accidents occurring in 1997 in Indonesia, 1999 in Massachusetts in the United States, 2013 in Namibia, and 2015 in France related to commercial aircraft-assisted suicides were analyzed. This analysis relied on data extracted from the accident reports that supported aircraft-assisted suicide from the: (a) cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR), (b) medical history, (c) psychosocial history, (d) toxicology, (e) autopsy, and (f) any methodology that utilized aviation medicine. There are some limitations in this study. Although all analyzed accident investigations followed ICAO Annex 13 guidelines, there is variability in their accident investigations and reporting. In addition, accident investigation reports represent accidents from 1997 to 2015, and during this time, there has been a change in the way accidents are reported. The nature of this analysis is explorative. The aim was to identify how the various aircraft accident investigators concluded that the accidents were due to suicidal acts. Results: In all four accident reports, FDR data were available. CVR data were also available, except for one accident where CVR data were only partially available. Comprehensive medical and psychosocial histories were available in only one of four of the accident reports. Conclusion: To prevent accidents involving commercial aircraft, it is necessary to identify the causes of these accidents to be able to provide meaningful safety recommendations. A detailed psychological autopsy of pilots can and likely will assist in investigations, as well as generate recommendations that will substantially contribute to mitigating accidents due to pilot suicide. Airborne image recording may be a useful tool to provide additional information about events leading up to a crash and thus assist in accident investigations.
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Rahmawaty, Tiara Ayu, Willy Kriswardhana, Wiwik Yunarni Widiarti, and Sonya Sulistyono. "Analisis Karakteristik Kecelakaan di Ruas Jalan Gadjah Mada Kabupaten Jember." Borneo Engineering : Jurnal Teknik Sipil 4, no. 1 (June 30, 2020): 113–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.35334/be.v4i1.1272.

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Gadjah Mada Road is one of the main roads in the Jember and is an urban road that has high activity. Therefore, it has a history of traffic accidents. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics of accidents at the KFC-Sentot Prawirodirdjo intersection and Sentot Prawirodirdjo-Argopuro intersection, to determine the EAN (Equivalent Accident Number) value, and the accident rate. Accident characteristics were analyzed based on the number of accidents obtained from the Integrated Road Safety Management System (IRSMS) on weekdays and weekends, EAN value was calculated to estimate the accident weight, and accident rate to determine the level of accident vulnerability. From the analysis, the results obtained from 2017-2018 in the KFC-Sentot Prawirodirdjo intersection have 87 accidents and the Sentot Prawirodirdjo-Argopuro intersection in 2014-2018 there were 228 accidents. Most of the accident victims at the KFC-Simpang Sentot Prawirodirdjo intersection were minor injuries and material losses. Vehicles that often involved in accidents were motorcycles. The time of the accident that often occurs was the night (17.01-21.00). The dominant type of accident is a crash when overtaking from the right. Furthermore, for the Sentot Prawirodirdjo-Argopuro intersection, most accident victims were minor injuries and material losses. The vehicle that is often involved is a motorcycle. The time of the most dominant accident is morning (05.01-09.00), and the type of accident that dominates is crash when overtaking from the right.
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Dauvergne, Peter. "Dying of Consumption: Accidents or Sacrifices of Global Morality?" Global Environmental Politics 5, no. 3 (August 1, 2005): 35–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/1526380054794880.

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Private consumption expenditures are now more than 4 times higher than in 1960. The globalization of ever-more growth and consumption has come, however, at a price: global chains of cause-and-effect that obscure social, environmental and ethical responsibility. The result in practice is a global order that accepts the deaths of millions of young people in dangerous and unhealthy environments as tragic, but largely unavoidable, accidents of economic progress. The history of what most call traffic “accidents” is revealing. The hope at the 1896 inquest into the first “accidental death” was this would never happen again. But hope is not action. Today, traffic injures as many as 50 million and kills over one million people ever year. It is, however, no accident that tragedies like these are “accidents” rather than “sacrifices,” as such language softens criticism of the moral, social and ecological crises arising from the current global consumptive order.
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Adhikari, Pralhad. "Relationship Between Work-Related Stress and Accidents: Moderating Role of Safety Factors." National College of Computer Studies Research Journal 2, no. 1 (November 27, 2023): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nccsrj.v2i1.60085.

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Work-related stress has been identified as a risk factor for accidents according to the inadaptability theory of accident causation. The same theory says that increasing adaptability can reduce accidents. So, safety culture can be expected to be a moderator in the relationship between work-related stress and errors or accidents (as a composite construct). A survey was conducted among 431 employees from various industries using the job stress index, safety culture scale, and workplace error-accident history scale with the aim of testing if safety culture mitigates the relationship between workplace stress and errors/accidents. Work-related stress and errors/accidents correlated significantly, r=.18, p<.01. However, safety culture was not found to moderate their relationship. The conclusion is that a safety culture may not reduce the accidents caused because of work-related stress, and alternatives need to be sought. However, other studies with more methodological rigor or more objective data are needed to verify this conclusion.
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Naveen, R., N. Swaroop, Suyash Agrawal, and Anup Kumar Tirkey. "Profile of occupational accidents reporting to a rural Plantation Hospital: A record review." International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health 3, no. 2 (February 10, 2014): 18–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v3i2.6138.

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Background: Plantation industries in India employ over 1 million people and are among the largest private employers in India. Plantations employ both skilled and un-skilled labour’s. The risks of occupational accidents are higher among this population due to the unfavorable working conditions.Objectives: To study the profile of occupational accidents and to describe the time trend of these occupational accidents. To assess changes if any in the profile of occupational accidents reporting to a rural plantation hospital over the last decade.Methodology: A descriptive hospital record review of all the patients presenting with occupational accident from January 2008 to December 2009.Results: 439 patients were registered with history of accidents; among them 196 were occupational accidents. Majority of the victims of the accident were in the age group of 21 – 40 years and were among males. Most common type and site of injuries were superficial injuries on the upper limbs. There is no significant change in the profile on occupational accidents over the last decade. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v3i2.6138
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Kim, Chong Soon. "The History of Radiation Accidents." Journal of the Korean Medical Association 46, no. 10 (2003): 871. http://dx.doi.org/10.5124/jkma.2003.46.10.871.

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Harrell, W. Andrew. "Accident History and Perceived Risk of Injury as Factors Influencing Fatalism about Occupational Accidents." Perceptual and Motor Skills 81, no. 2 (October 1995): 665–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003151259508100260.

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In a survey of 263 employed men and women fatalism about workplace accidents was rated highest by respondents who perceived that their current jobs were dangerous and posed a high risk of personal injury. An individual's prior accident history was not associated with ratings on Accident Fatalism.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "History of accidents"

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Brown, Alexander F. G. (Alexander Frederic Garder) 1970. "Accidents, engineering and history at NASA: 1967-2003." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/55162.

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Thesis (Ph. D. in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS))--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Science, Technology and Society, 2009.
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The manned spaceflight program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has suffered three fatal accidents: one in the Apollo program and two in the Space Transportation System (the Shuttle). These were the fatal fire in Apollo 204 (Apollo 1) in 1967, the explosion of the Solid Rocket Booster in STS-51L (Challenger) in 1986, and the destruction of the orbiter in STS-107 (Columbia). Three astronauts lost their lives in 1967, and in each Shuttle accident seven astronauts were killed. Following each of these fatal accidents, a significant investigation was conducted and a comprehensive investigation report produced. These investigation reports each served to create public narratives of the reasons for the accidents. The reports shaped the accidents' legacies for the space program and for large-scale complex engineering projects more generally. This thesis re-examines the evidence produced to investigate and explain each accident. By analyzing the investigation reports critically, as well as reviewing the accidents themselves, this work considers how engineering cultures and practices at NASA shifted to meet the changing demands of the space program. It argues that the public narratives of the accidents are not completely congruent with the engineering evidence, and that these very selective narratives are influential in shaping future strengths (and weaknesses) at NASA. By re-examining the accident evidence, the reports, and the role of each accident in shaping NASA engineering cultures, the thesis provides a view of engineering very different from what is apparent in previous historical work on the space program.
by Alexander F.G. Brown.
Ph.D.in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society (HASTS
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Kung, Ka-kei, and 龔珈奇. "Fall history and perception of the steepness of stairs by community-dwelling elderly." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46455000.

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Armstrong-Price, Amanda. "Infrastructures of Injury| Railway Accidents and the Remaking of Class and Gender in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain." Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10086071.

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As steam-powered industrialization intensified in mid-nineteenth century Britain, the rate and severity of workplace injuries spiked. At the same time, a range of historical dynamics made working class people individually responsible for bearing the effects of industrial injury and carrying on in the aftermath of accidents without support from state or company. By the midcentury, railway accidents were represented as events that put on display the moral character of individual rail workers and widows, rather than — as in radical rhetorics of previous decades — the rottenness of state or company bureaucracies. Bearing injury or loss in a reserved manner came to appear as a sign of domestic virtue for working class women and men, though the proper manifestations of this idealized resilience varied by gender. Focusing on dynamics in the railway and nursing sectors, and in the sphere of reproduction, Infrastructures of Injury shows how variously situated working class subjects responded to their conditions of vulnerability over the second half of the nineteenth century. These responses ranged from individualized or family-based self-help initiatives to — beginning in the 1870s — strikes, unionization drives, and the looting of company property. Ultimately, this dissertation tells a story about how working class cultural and political practices were remade through the experience of injury and loss.

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Pierce, Marlyn R. "Earning their wings: accidents and fatalities in the United States Army Air Forces during flight training in World War Two." Diss., Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/16879.

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Doctor of Philosophy
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Donald J. Mrozek
This study analyzes the effect of the Army Air Forces’ wartime experience on the selection and training of aviation cadets and the steps taken by the Army Air Forces to reduce the number of accidents and fatalities. Over the course of the war, the US Army Air Forces suffered over 54,000 accidents in the continental United States. These accidents accounted for over 15,000 fatalities, the equivalent of a World War Two infantry division. As a result of this wartime experience the Army Air Forces began instituting and enforcing stricter safety measures and emphasizing safety in all phases of training. By the end of the war, the Army Air Forces had transitioned from an organization with loose standards for selection, training, and safety to one with formal procedures for all three. In the process, the Army Air Forces established a new culture of professionalism for the US Air Force.
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Whipple, Julie Doran. "Crash Course: The Decisions That Brought Down United Flight 173." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2364.

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In December 1978, United Airlines Flight 173 arriving in Portland from Denver with 189 people aboard crash-landed in a suburb at 157th and East Burnside. Ten people were killed and dozens more were injured. The jet ran out of fuel after it had circled for an hour while the crew tried to determine what was wrong with the right main landing gear, which had fallen with a huge double jolt on extension. The investigation that followed the crash placed the blame squarely on the pilot for his negligence in failing to monitor his fuel supply, and secondarily on his crew members, who failed to adequately communicate their concerns about it. The accident was a watershed event in what would become known in the airline industry as crew resource management, a communication model designed to reduce human error by fostering collaborative decision-making and assertiveness training. In the years that have followed the accident, very little has changed in the narrative surrounding it. Articles and docudramas on the plane crash consistently repeat the tale as is, blaming the pilot and shedding no light on the factors that led to the in-flight emergency or on United's role in contributing to the crash. This thesis is a "cold-case" investigation that reveals those contributing factors, which have been so thoroughly ignored. In the words of renowned attorney F. Lee Bailey, "The rule of law requires that all parties who contribute to an accident share in the responsibility for whatever harm has been caused." This is the untold story of all the decisions that brought down United Flight 173, and of the responsibilities heretofore overlooked.
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Rennie, Paul. "An investigation into the design, production and display contexts of industrial safety posters produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents during WW2 and a catalogue of posters." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2005. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/5661/.

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The industrial safety posters produced by Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) during WW2 are evidence of a politically progressive, socially engaged and mass-produced graphic communication in Britain. These characteristics allow the RoSPA posters to qualify, by Walter Benjamin’s criteria, as exemplars of Modernist cultural production in the age of mechanical reproduction. The emergence of these images, within the unlikely context of war, is evidence of the social change identified by George Orwell as a necessary condition of victory. Furthermore, the presence of this material, within an English context, counters the prevailing orthodoxy of an English resistance to Modernism. The thesis describes the administrative and technical determinants of the posters, as indicated by the structure of RoSPA, the personalities behind the campaign and the technical expertise of the printers; Loxley Brothers of Sheffield. Quaker and Nonconformist antecedents are revealed to define the values of both administration and printers. The thesis explores the RoSPA posters’ use of Surrealist techniques and iconography and also their appeal to a wider and international Left community. The address of the RoSPA posters to the neophyte industrial worker offers the opportunity, exemplified by the special case of women workers, to project an “imagined community” beyond the normal tribal and class distinctions of British society through “Social Vision.” The RoSPA posters make explicit a connection, within English Modernism, between community, technology, progress and dissent. A catalogue of posters is appended to the thesis. The RoSPA posters reaffirm the progressive, emancipatory and radical quality of the popular experience of the Home-Front in Britain during WW2. The social changes, precipitated by the circumstances of war, of which the RoSPA posters are a manifestation, alter the role of graphic designer in relationship to community through an embrace of technology. The concept of graphic authorship is, in consequence, irrevocably changed.
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Harrington, Ralph. "The neuroses of the railway : trains, travel and trauma in Britain, c.1850-c.1900." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:28dfe6cd-64ea-4924-a7bd-234c002c0fae.

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This thesis explores some aspects of the cultural history of the railway during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. It argues that the railway was of central importance in creating and shaping Victorian attitudes to the machine and to mechanized civilization in a world increasingly dominated by large scale-technologies. In particular, it explores the significance of negative responses to the railway - fear, anxiety, nervousness, alarm, revulsion - in influencing a range of social, cultural and medical responses to the perceived degenerative threat of technological civilization. The four chapters of the thesis are organized so as to provide a progressive tightening of focus on particular aspects of the railway's significance in this context. The first, most wide-ranging, chapter explores the ways in which the Victorian railway was perceived as both an icon of progress and civilization and as a disruptive, threatening, destructive force. In particular, it seeks to establish the deep-rooted, enduring and influential nature of the fear and anxiety which the railway provoked. The second chapter is concerned with the railway journey as an experience, relating the ambivalence with which the railway was viewed to the journey as a sensory, physical and mental experience. The third chapter focuses on the accident as the most dramatic instance of the dangers of the railway, and relates its significance in contemporary culture to the wider context of the fears provoked by increasingly powerful and potentially destructive technologies. The fourth and final chapter explores the phenomenon of 'railway spine', the obscure nervous condition supposedly suffered by railway accident victims who had seemingly received no actual organic injury, but nonetheless displayed nervous, mental and physical symptoms of serious bodily disorder.
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Bui, Tran Anh-Dao. "The Birth of a Bridge. The Building of the Victoria Bridge in Montreal, 1853- 1859." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023SORUL131.

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L’imposant pont Victoria, long d’environ trois kilomètres, est le premier pont à avoir enjambé le St Laurent. Construit à Montréal entre 1853 et 1859, il est d’une importance cruciale pour le projet ferroviaire du Grand Tronc (GT), dont l’ambition est de relier le Canada Est et le Canada Ouest aux ports maritimes de l’Atlantique et ainsi à l’Europe. Une firme de célèbres entrepreneurs britanniques, Peto, Brassey, Jackson et Betts, est en charge de la construction de la section la plus importante du GT ainsi que du pont Victoria, conçu par l’éminent Robert Stephenson et son assistant Alexander Ross, l’ingénieur en chef du GT au Canada. Il s’agit d’un pont tubulaire dont la construction, achevée deux ans en avance malgré des difficultés financières et diverses épreuves, emploie parfois plus de 3000 ouvriers. Cette thèse contribue à la discussion sur le rôle du Canada dans l'histoire impériale, mais aussi à l'histoire de la circulation des hommes et des savoirs dans un contexte d'industrialisation croissante et de développement mondial du génie civil britannique. Elle étudie les relations entre employeurs et ouvriers sur le chantier et soutient que le pont Victoria est une étude de cas permettant d'analyser le paternalisme et le développement du capitalisme industriel et du travail salarié dans le Canada du XIXe siècle, avec une attention particulière portée à l'analyse du risque et des accidents
The impressive, three kilometres Victoria Bridge across the St Lawrence River, built 1853-1859 in Montreal, was crucially important to the ambitious Grand Trunk Railway (GTR) project designed to better connect Canada East and Canada West to one another, to Atlantic seaports, and thus to Europe. A partnership of famous British contractors, Peto, Brassey, Jackson, and Betts, built the most important section of the GTR and the Victoria Bridge, designed by the eminent Robert Stephenson with his assistant Alexander Ross, the GTR’s engineer-in-chief in Canada. Construction of this massive bridge of tubular design, finished two years ahead of schedule despite financial difficulties and hardships of various natures, at times required the employment of 3000 or more workers. This dissertation contributes to the discussion on the role of Canada in imperial history, but also to the history of the circulation of men and knowledge in a context of rising industrialism and worldwide development of British civil engineering. It analyses the labour relations on the worksite, and argues that the Victoria Bridge is a case study to analyse paternalism and the development of industrial capitalism and wage employment in nineteenth-century Canada, with a particular focus on the analysis of risk and accidents
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Beaven, Stephen W. "Rebound: The Resurrection of a Hometown Team." PDXScholar, 2012. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1182.

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On Dec. 13, 1977, the University of Evansville men's basketball team, its coaches and other university employees were killed in a plane crash at Dress Regional Airport on the city's north side. Months later, a brash outsider named Dick Walters began rebuilding the basketball program. Four years later, he led the Purple Aces to the school's first Division 1 NCAA tournament. This thesis explores the relationship between the town and the team in the years after the crash.
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Schaub, Katherine Elizabeth. "Give Us an Emergency Hospital, The Sooner, The Better: A Progressive Era Experiment in American Health Care." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1596615005804562.

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Books on the topic "History of accidents"

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John, King. Aviation accidents & disasters. Wellington, N.Z: Grantham House, 1995.

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Jones, Charlotte Foltz. Accidents may happen. New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.

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Jones, Charlotte Foltz. Accidents may happen. New York, N.Y: Delacorte Press, 1996.

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Marguet, Serge. A Brief History of Nuclear Reactor Accidents. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10500-5.

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Biasutti, G. S. History of accidents in the explosives industry. Vevey, Switzerland: G.S. Biasutti, 1985.

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Brown, Stacia M. Accidents of providence. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

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Accidents of providence. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.

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Halliday, Hugh A. Wreck!: Canada's worst railway accidents. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 1997.

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ed, Cooter Roger, and Luckin Bill ed, eds. Accidents in history: Injuries, fatalities and social relations. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997.

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Hamilton, Ross. Accident: A philosophical and literary history. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

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Book chapters on the topic "History of accidents"

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Stewart, Paul, and Dagmar Kift. "On fatalities, accidents and accident prevention in coalmines." In Making Sense of Mining History, 212–33. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429243806-10.

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Farrenkopf, Michael. "Accidents and mining." In Making Sense of Mining History, 193–211. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429243806-9.

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Silei, Gianni. "Technological Hazards, Disasters and Accidents." In Environmental History, 227–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09180-8_8.

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Lovett, Lisetta, and Alannah Tomkins. "Accidents in the workplace." In Medical History Education for Health Practitioners, 18–20. London: CRC Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781908911025-6.

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Adriaenssen, Han Thomas. "Digby on Accidents." In International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 203–22. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99822-6_9.

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Marguet, Serge. "The Physics of Nuclear Accidents." In A Brief History of Nuclear Reactor Accidents, 1–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10500-5_1.

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Lloyd-Bostock, Sally. "The natural history of claims for compensation after an accident." In The Aftermath of Road Accidents, 135–44. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003209232-14.

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Clark, Geoffrey A. "Accidents of History: Conceptual Frameworks in Paleoarchaeology." In Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions, 19–41. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76487-0_2.

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Weidmann, Manfred. "Learning from a History of Laboratory Accidents." In Working in Biosafety Level 3 and 4 Laboratories, 83–94. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9783527675357.ch9.

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Marguet, Serge. "The Chernobyl Accident." In A Brief History of Nuclear Reactor Accidents, 267–330. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10500-5_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "History of accidents"

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Sevart, Kevin B. "Tractor Run Over: History and Design Considerations." In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2011-64079.

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This paper will present a brief history of accidents in which a person was run over by an agricultural tractor, without an operator present at the controls. Circumstances which are common in these accidents will be described. Design considerations intended to prevent or reduce injuries and deaths associated with tractor run over will also be described.
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Severson, Kristine, and David Tyrell. "Comparison of Interior Crashworthiness Observed in Passenger Train Accidents and 8G Dynamic Seat Sled Tests." In 2012 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2012-74154.

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The Office of Research and Development of the Federal Railroad Administration conducts engineering research to address protection of passengers and crew during train accidents. This research includes accident investigations and dynamic seat testing to assess occupant injury during simulated accident conditions. Observations from selected accident investigations are compared with dynamic seat test results, based on the requirements in the Standard for Passenger Seats in Passenger Rail Cars, APTA-SS-C&S-99-016 [1], referred to simply as the Seat Standard. The Seat Standard requires sled testing of rail passenger seats to demonstrate that seats provide a minimum level of crashworthiness in the event of an accident. The interior crashworthiness comparisons between accidents and seat tests are based on the deceleration time history (crash pulse), damage to seats and/or tables, injury type and severity, and occupant kinematics. These comparisons have been made to assess the degree to which current test practice produces injury measurements and interior fixture damage that are consistent with the injuries and equipment damage observed in accidents. When test results and accident observations do not compare well, revisions to the prescribed test conditions may be warranted. The following three accidents have been selected for comparison in this paper. They were selected from accident investigations in which the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center participated, the amount of relevant data collected during the investigation, and the dynamic seat test data that was available for comparison of the specific type of seats or tables involved in the accidents. The accidents represent a range of accident speeds, type of equipment, and collision severity: - passenger train to freight train collision with a closing speed of 80 mph in Chatsworth, California, on September 12, 2008 [2]; - passenger train to freight train collision with a closing speed of 33 mph in Chicago, Illinois, on November 30, 2007 [3, 4]; - passenger train to freight car collision with a closing speed of 23 mph in Canton, Massachusetts, on March 25, 2008. A companion paper provides detail on the structural crashworthiness of the cars in the same three accidents, and describes the computer models that were developed to estimate the crash pulse, or acceleration-time history, for each rail car in the accidents [5].
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Thomas A Berry. "Stability Related Accidents Involving Ride-On Mowers History and Design Solutions." In Mid-Central Conference. St. Joseph, MI: American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.13031/2013.29552.

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Sevart, Kevin B. "Ride-On Mower Rollover Accidents: Study and Design Solutions." In ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2016-67718.

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Each year hundreds of ride-on mower operators are injured or killed as the result of rollover accidents. Several studies have indicated that rollover accidents are the most prominent type of fatal ride-on mower accident. Rollover accidents have occurred during actual mowing operations as well as during transport or loading onto transport equipment. The mowers themselves are designed and marketed for either commercial use or consumer use. However, commercial mowers are routinely sold to and used by ordinary consumers as there are no restrictions on such sales. The mechanism of injury is typically the weight of the machine pinning the operator, or personal contact with a rotating cutting blade. Even relatively light-weight mowing machines have caused deaths due to asphyxiation or drowning when an operator was pinned under the machine. Operators that avoid being trapped under the weight of the machine may come into contact with a rotating cutting blade and receive a serious injury, such as an amputation. This paper presents a brief history of industry safety standards applicable to either consumer or commercial mowing machines. A discussion is presented of available accident reports and statistics. Sources of the data reviewed include the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration and the author’s personal investigations. Several common rollover accident modes have been identified. While it is not possible to design a ride-on mower that could not roll over, design considerations should be utilized to minimize the propensity of the machine to roll and to minimize injuries should the machine roll over. This paper describes these design considerations.
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Ferreira Pereira a, Rogério, and Claudia do R. Vaz Morgado a. "Safety Analysis of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout Based on the Functional Resonance Analysis Model (FRAM)." In Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics Conference. AHFE International, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100178.

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The Functional Resonance Analysis Model (FRAM) defines a framework for accident analysis based on the systems theory and resilience engineering, making it more suitable for complex systems. The purpose of this article is the usage of FRAM to understand the variability in the process of offshore drilling in the Deepwater Horizon accident, and the variability that possibly might exist under other offshore drilling operations. The Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico occurred when the Horizon ultra-deepwater semisubmersible oil drilling rig exploded and sank in the northern Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, killing 11 crew members, injuring 17 others and initiating a huge marine oil spill. The Deepwater Horizon is one of the greatest environmental accidents in the history of oil. Recent demands for new discoveries and exploitation has led companies to challenge even deeper waters, as in the cases of companies in Brazil and South Africa indicating a need to better understand the overall drilling process to avoid accidents. Results of FRAM analysis of Deepwater Horizon accident show that functions "drilling" "cement placement" and "temporary abandonment" are main functions and they were not prepared to cope with process variability to ensure that processes involving diverse and complex enterprises were resilient enough to kept working when dealing with disturbances.
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Yan, Guohua, and Chen Ye. "Passive Safety Systems of Advanced Nuclear Power Plant: AP1000." In 18th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone18-29521.

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In the entire history of commercial nuclear power so far, only two major accidents leading to damage of reactor core have taken place. One is Three Mile Island (TMT) accident (1979), which is caused by a series of human error, and the other is Chernobyl accident (1986), which is due to the combined reason of design defects and human errors. After TMI and Chernobyl accidents, in order to reduce manpower in operation and maintenance and influence of human errors on reactor safety, consideration is given to utilization of passive safety systems. According to the IAEA definition, passive safety systems are based on natural forces, such as convection and gravity, and stored energy, making safety functions less dependent on active systems and operators’ action. Recently, the technology of passive safety has been adopted in many reactor designs, such as AP1000, developed by Westinghouse and EP1000 developed by European vendor, and so on. AP1000 as the first so-called Generation III+ has received the final design approval from US NRC in September 2004, and now being under construction in Sanmen, China. In this paper, the major passive safety systems of AP1000, including passive safety injection system, automatic depressurization system passive residual heat removal system and passive containment cooling system, are described and their responses to a break loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA) are given. Just due to these passive systems’ adoption, the nuclear plant can be able to require no operator action and offsite or onsite AC power sources for at least 72h when one accident occurs, and the core melt and large release frequencies are significantly below the requirement of operating plants and the NRC safety goals.
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Wiechel, John, Douglas Morr, Brian Boggess, and Tara Amenson. "Carpal Tunnel Injury in Automobile Collisions." In ASME 2019 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2019-12285.

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Abstract It is trite to say that automobile collisions cause injury due to mechanical force application to the body. It is also understood that carpal tunnel syndrome is a debilitating condition which is caused by mechanical forces applied to the structures of the wrist. With the increased incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome in the 1990’s, automobile accidents have been identified as a cause of carpal tunnel syndrome. Such relationship is often based on a patient’s complaints after the accident and lack of complaint before the accident. Regardless of the patient’s complaint history, a mechanical relationship between the forces present in the accident and the injury must exist. A number of vehicle accident configurations are investigated, and the forces applied to the vehicle occupant’s wrist are identified. The directions and magnitudes of these forces are discussed with respect to their relationship to carpal tunnel syndrome. This analysis shows that in low energy collisions (delta V &lt; 16 kph,10 mph) the forces necessary to cause carpal tunnel syndrome are not present. Other accident situations can cause carpal tunnel syndrome with a prerequisite being sufficient magnitude of force applied directly to the wrist.
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Franca, Josue. "The need of change in complex workplaces of the O&G industry – from controlling human error to understanding the resilience of systems." In AHFE 2023 Hawaii Edition. AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004405.

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Since the first oil drilling in History, the Drake’s well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, until the present-day offshore wells, drilled in the ultra-deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Brazilian Pre-Salt, two aspects have always been present: the notable risks of dealing with crude oil and the need of human adaptabilities in the work systems. From this adaptability, there will be two possible outcomes: the normal work, adaptive and productive, and the accident, unwanted and harmful. For the first, over a long time no attention was given, because if nothing went wrong, (supposedly) there is nothing to do, except to continue working. On the other hand, for this second, the accident, since the first occurrences, dating from the 1st Industrial Revolution, much has been developed, addressed, mainly, on the unwanted action of the human element in a linear system. However, the technological evolution of work systems has transformed linear production lines into current complex sociotechnical systems, where there are intense and dynamic interrelationships between people, machines, and processes, immersed in a distinct organizational culture. In this context, the maintenance of certain linear epistemological concepts for the analysis of risks, as well as the investigation of accidents, seems to be limited, when not mistaken, for understanding and intervening in nowadays complex workplaces. In addition, normal work, that is, work carried out without the occurrence of accidents, as it is what mostly happens, is a notable source of learning, being neglected precisely because it is normal. In view of these considerations, methodologies, and concepts capable of dealing with this, such as FRAM (Functional Resonance Analysis Method) and Safety-I & Safety-II, arises as adequate solutions. In this study, having the O&G Industry as background, some accidents with FRAM are re-examined, as well as some practices of learning from normal work through Safety-I & Safety-II, demonstrating the need of change in complex workplaces of the O&G industry, evolving from controlling human error to understanding the resilience of systems.
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Yang, Ye, Bo Cao, and Yixue Chen. "Simulation of the Atmospheric Dispersion of Radionuclides Using Gaussian Plume Model." In 2013 21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone21-16263.

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The Chernobyl accident and Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant accident are the most serious accidents in the history of the nuclear technology and industry. A large amount of radioactive materials from nuclear power plant were released, leading to huge damage and long-term effect on the environment as well as the human health neighbor to the plant. Therefore, simulating the transport and transformation of radionuclides in the atmosphere is significant for decision makers to take steps at all level. Now, many different dispersion models are widely applied and used to simulate the transport and transformation of radionuclide such as Gaussian model, Lagrangian model and Eulerian model. Though the Eulerian or Lagrangian models have several advantages, such as high spatial resolution, fully 3D descriptions of the meteorological, the simple Gaussian plume model is still widely chosen because of its higher accuracy and faster calculation. In this study, the atmospheric dispersion of leaked radioactive material during nuclear accident is simulated by using Gaussian plume model. The relative concentration distribution of the radionuclides and the trajectory of the distribution centrode are obtained in taking account of different geographical environments, wind direction, wind velocity, and stability category. These results can provide a favorable evidence for the management of nuclear accident emergency.
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Jo, Byeongnam, Wataru Sagawa, and Koji Okamoto. "Experimental Investigation Into Buckling Failure of Slender Metal Plates in Severe Accident Conditions." In 2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone22-30829.

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Buckling failure load of stainless steel columns under compressive stress was experimentally measured in severe accident conditions, which addresses the accidents in Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants. Firstly, buckling failure load defined as load which causes failure of the column (plastic collapse) was measured in a wide range of temperatures from 25 °C up to 1200 °C. The load values measured in this study were compared to numerical estimations by eigenvalue simulations (for an ideal column) and by nonlinear simulations (for a column with initial bending). Two different methods for measurement of the buckling failure load were employed to examine the effect of thermal history on buckling failure. Different load values were obtained from two methods in high temperature conditions over 800 °C. The difference in the buckling failure load between two methods increased with temperature, which was explained by the effect of creep at high temperatures. Moreover, the influence of asymmetric temperature profiles along a plate column was also explored with regard to the failure mode and the buckling failure load. In present study, all of the buckling processes were visualized by a high speed camera.
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Reports on the topic "History of accidents"

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Agüero, Jorge M. Long-Term Effect of Climate Change on Health: Evidence from Heat Waves in Mexico. Inter-American Development Bank, January 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011535.

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This paper uses year-to-year variation in temperature to estimate the long-term effects of climate change on health outcomes in Mexico. Combining temperature data at the district level and three rounds of nationally representative household surveys, an individual's health as an adult is matched with the history of heat waves from birth to adulthood. A flexible econometric model is used to identify critical health periods with respect to temperature. It is shown that exposure to higher temperatures early in life has negative consequences on adult height. Most importantly, the effects are concentrated at the times where children experience growth spurts: infancy and adolescence. The robustness of these findings is confirmed when using health outcomes derived from accidents, which are uncorrelated with early exposure to high temperatures.
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Mills, G. S., K. S. Neuhauser, and J. D. Smith. Study of evacuation times based on general accident history. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), December 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/174688.

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Bennett, River. Health effects of Radiation and Radioactivity + Historic Nuclear Accidents. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), July 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1994261.

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