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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"injures"”.
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Analysis of the Aboriculture Industry Safety Culture from the Standpoint of Injures, Illnesses, Employee Response, and Industry Standards
<p>The author researched 215 recorded injuries and illnesses to all field employees between January 1, 1991 and July 1, 2002 at an arboricultural company in California. Detailed interviews were conducted with each of the 38 field employees to determine employee perceptions of safety training, …
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An in vitro study to characterize a new automated high throughput neuronal stretch injury system
… constructed a fully automated version, which injures neuronal cell cultures in uniaxial regime and provides the high experimental yield required in pharmaceutical and neuroscience studies. In this investigation, a new methodology for culturing primary cortical neurons of rat origin was …
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Autonomous ground cover clearing utilizing a robotic wheel loader
… to workers, from fatigue and repetitive work injures, to direct harm in hazardous locations. To address these challenges a robotic system capable of autonomous clearing of non-compacted material is presented, focusing on detection, clearing strategy and clearing validation. The robotic design …
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What makes war? Assessing Iron Age warfare through mortuary behaviour and osteological patterns of violence.
… In Hampshire, individuals with perimortem injures are often found in special deposits such as pits, ditches and domestic areas, suggesting their use in ritual processes that distinguish them from the general population. This provides a basis for understanding warfare and violence during the …
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Blades, Blood and Bandages: A Qualitative Investigation of Self-Injury
The perspective of the individual who self-injures has been under-represented in research. This study places the meaning of self-injury for these individuals at its core. People who self-injure can offer comprehensive and discerning insights into the behaviour. This study confirms the findings of …
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Are the current Zambian constitutional provisions sufficient in preventing abuse of power by the executive organ of government?
… that punches holes in judicial independence and injures the last line of defence. It is as such imperative that the colossal presidential powers are reduced to allow a flourishing democratic society. In the view that the current Constitution does not have adequate provisions to prevent abuse of …
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A Mobile Augmented Memory Aid for people with Traumatic Brain Injury
… when an external mechanical force traumatically injures the brain. The 2010/2011 population-based study shows that the total incidence of TBI in New Zealand has increased to 790 per 100,000 population. Memory impairment is the most common symptom and affects most TBI survivors. Memory impairments …
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The Magical Mystery Donkey Tour
… and conflicts. At the end of Part II she injures her ankle and must head home. In the projected Part III, the narrator mulls over her breakup with the Berber lover and subsequent aimless existence with other hippies in Morocco; she is also dealing with her ankle injury, which has stopped …
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Mechanisms of methylenedianiline toxicity to rat biliary epithelial cells
… produce polyurethanes and epoxy resins, rapidly injures biliary epithelial cells (BEC) of rats in vivo. DAPM also increases biliary inorganic phosphate and glucose, suggesting that DAPM loosens hepatic tight junctions. Early ultrastructural alterations in BEC mitochondria, however, suggested a …
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Disease in the Cretaceous: a comparative study of Iguanodon and hadrosaur palaeopathology
… is reviewed, along with a description of the injures and diseases affecting the modern living relatives of dinosaurs (crocodiles and birds), and the palaeopathologies reported in the ornithopod literature are outlined and quantified. Afterward, the database is expanded with a wide range of …
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A more perfect union.
… and pawns Kate's engagement ring, Kate seriously injures others in a drunken driving accident, and Eli, having come to believe that his troubles all began with Kate's father's assassination, decides to kill the President of the United States as retribution. A More Perfect Union explores the …
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Lower body exoskeleton for walking gait assistance and performance augmentation using compliance controlled actuators
… after stroke or traumatic brain/spinal cord injures requires ahighly intensive and task-specific therapy-based approach. Currently many patients with thesetypes of pathologies are confined to wheelchairs, which results in a sedentary lifestyle causingother critical secondary health conditions …
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The effects of rapid stretch injury on rat neocortical cultures
… injury research. This modular system stretch-injures neuronal cultures in either a 24-well culture plate format or six individual wells simultaneously. Custom software control allows the user to accurately program the pressure pulse parameters to achieve the desired substrate deformation and …
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The biology of the tobacco flea beetle in Virginia: Epitrix parvula (F.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
… insect pests of tobacco in Virginia. The adult injures the plants by eating small irregular holes in the leaves and the larva by feeding on the roots of the plants. The tobacco flea beetle hibernates in the adult stage in leaves and trash around the edge of tobacco fields and also under trash in …
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Evaluating the legitimacy of national security practices and anti-terrorism legislation
… a tunnel before detonating the bomb causing injures and deaths, police have a positive obligation to protect the lives of the people. The correct assumption that the police can make is that the suicide bomber is more likely to detonate the bomb. This whole area of positive obligation and the …
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Infortuni e malattie nel sottosuolo: prevenzione e assistenza sanitaria nella miniera di Montevecchio (1863 – 1996)
Starting from the investigations conducted in the last few years in the field of medicine and welfare, this research has its main aim in identifying and understanding the functions, the role and the internal structure of healthcare camps within Sardinian mining sector., and particularly in the …