Accidents on Mountains

[on Home Accidents].

Accidents on hospital wards.

Eight hospitals reported 781 non-iatrogenic accidents occurring to patients and visitors under 16 years of age during an 18 month period up to October 1989. Accidents more often involved boys and children aged 3 to 5 years old. Falls from a height, slips, and striking accidents were common by day and falls by night. A total of 41% of accidents to inpatients occurred when parents were present. O...

[Epidemiological data on children's accidents].

Mountains on Titan: Modeling and observations

[1] We have developed a thermal model of Titan’s interior to study changes in volume during partial freezing or melting of a subsurface ocean due to heat flux variations from the interior. We find that the long‐term cooling of Titan can cause global volume contraction DV/V ∼0.01. We then simulate two‐dimensional contractional deformation of Titan’s icy lithosphere, finding that contractional de...

The Effects of Global Warming on Mountains

Mountain regions are characterized by sensitive ecosystems, enhanced occurrences of extreme weather events and natural catastrophes; they are also regions of conflicting interests between economic development and environmental conservation. Once regarded as hostile and economically nonviable regions, mountains have in the latter part of the twentieth century attracted major economic investments...