A large body of evidence supports the effectiveness of larger health warnings on cigarette packages. However, there is limited research examining attitudes toward such warning labels, which has potential implications for implementation of larger warning labels. The purpose of the current study was to examine attitudes toward larger warning sizes on cigarette packages and examine variables assoc...

BACKGROUND Graphic warning labels are a tobacco control best practice that is mandated in the US for cigarettes under the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. However, smokeless tobacco products are not required to carry graphic warning labels, and as of September 2014, electronic cigarettes in the US carry no warning labels and are aggressively marketed, including with "redu...

This review discusses suicide warning signs in clinical practice and has three simple goals: 1) to help practitioners differentiate in a clinically meaningful fashion between warning signs and risk factors for suicide; 2) to articulate the link among warning signs for suicide, hopelessness, and intent to die; and 3) to assist practitioners in applying warning signs in day-to-day clinical practi...

In this review, we have summarized the findings of fifteen studies of knowledge of stroke warning signs and risk factors in both high- and low-risk populations. In general, there appears to be low levels of knowledge of both risk factors and stroke warning signs among the communities studied. Using free recall, between 20% and 30% of respondents could not name a single risk factor, and between ...

Warning labels can be considered as descriptions added to repeated decisions-from-experience. Limited research so far has looked at the theoretical integration of decisions from descriptions and decisions from experience when the two are available concurrently. We explore how the presence and timing of such warning labels influence behaviour. We expected the provision of warning labels to subse...

This paper describes the development of a personal warning system for preventing construction site accidents involving workers and heavy equipment. The required functions were established on the basis of a past accidents model. The system was designed to send a warning via wireless from a server computer to a worker and relevant parties according to estimation of distance between worker and equ...

Vehicle dynamic safety warning system based on data fusion is researched and designed in this paper. Dynamic information of vehicle, road and environment can be collected in real time. By analyzing and processing these data, active safety warning information is achieved for individual vehicle on different work condition. Security characteristic parameter, road conditions and traffic meteorologi...

The potential use of non-visual warning signals to present spatial information to car drivers has been successfully demonstrated in several recent studies (Ho & Spence, submitted, in preparation; Ho, Tan, & Spence, submitted). Among the three types of spatial warning signals investigated (namely auditory, visual, and vibrotactile), spatial vibrotactile cues were found to be particularly effecti...