Unintentional movement synchronization is often emerging between interacting humans. In the present study, we investigate the extent to which the incongruence of movement trajectories has an influence on unintentional dyadic movement synchronization. During a target-directed tapping task, a participant repetitively moved between two targets in front of another participant who performed the same...

CONTEXT The source and ownership of guns used by children to shoot themselves or others is largely unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine the ownership and usual storage location of firearms used in unintentional and self-inflicted intentional firearm deaths and injuries. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING King County, Washington. PATIENTS Youths aged from birth to 19 years who sought m...

INTRODUCTION Recent changes in unspecified unintentional injury mortality for the elderly by U.S. state remain unreported. This study aims to examine U.S. state variations in mortality from unspecified unintentional injury among Americans aged 65+, 1999-2013; METHODS Using mortality rates from the U.S. CDC's Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS™), we examined unspec...

Background: Accidents may occur at any time and in location. Unintentional accidents have life-threatening consequences. Anyone with basic first aid knowledge can assess the situation intervene to provide proper care. This research aims public attitudes toward its related aspects Saudi Arabia. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted between April May 2023 investigate knowledge, a...

Unintentional injuries are predictable and preventable. Yet every hour, a child in the United States dies from an unintentional injury. Globally, the number is even more staggering, with nearly 1 million children dying from unintentional injuries each year. Motor vehicle-related injuries, burns, drowning, falls, suffocation or choking, and poisoning are just a few of the unintentional injury ri...

BACKGROUND Childhood injury is a major public health problem around the world and those injuries have negative impacts on children and their families. The purpose of this study was to compare the behavioral characteristics between Chinese school-age children (6 to 11 years of age) with and without unintentional injuries and to identify behavioral risk factors for school-age children with uninte...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a computerised self-adjusting anticoagulant algorithm to predict appropriate warfarin dosing and to assess its use in clinical practice. DESIGN A 3-year audit of anticoagulant control in patients managed by doctors and pharmacists using computer decision support and an evaluation of the impact of dose adjustments made by the users. PARTICIPANTS 366...

Urban gas pipelines usually have high structural vulnerability due to long service time. The locations across urban areas with population density make the easily exposed external activities. Recently, may also been target of terrorist attacks. Nevertheless, intentional damage, i.e. attack, was seldom considered in previous risk analysis pipelines. This work presents a dynamic activities pipelin...