In July 2011 the NIH announced a new fiveyear, $25.2-million project to conduct research on health effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010. Led by the NIEHS, the project will support population-based and laboratory studies at four Gulf Coast universities. The universities will partner with community organizations to incorporate local concerns into study designs and communicate find...

Seabirds exposed to even a dime-sized amount of oil can die of hypothermia in cold-water regions, but despite repeated requests by Environment Canada, offshore oil operators are failing when it comes to self-monitoring of small oil spills, says new research. Chronic pollution from many small oil spills may have greater population-level impacts on seabirds than a single large spill, suggest rese...

This special report, one of a series based on data from Florida traffic crash reports, presents a quantitative analysis of aggressive driving. Aggressive driving is a phenomenon, which has only recently raised public concern. The media coverage on safety of driving indicates that it is more hazardous today than it was three years ago, reflecting increasing concerns about aggressive driving beha...

Models are essential for defining and developing systems that support run-time decision-making and reconfiguration, and for implementing autonomous and adaptive systems for remote, hazardous, and largely unknown external environments. We show that they can also be used as the operational code throughout the development process, including deployment. Our ability to build systems with this proper...

Olfactory-based mechanisms have been hypothesized for biological behaviors including foraging, mateseeking, homing, and host-seeking. Typically, olfactorybased mechanisms proposed for biological entities combine a large-scale orientation behavior based in part on olfaction with a multisensor local search in the vicinity of the source. Long-range olfactory based search is documented in moths at ...

Every year, inattentive or impaired drivers strike law enforcement officials, emergency personnel, and other workers by the roadside. Preventative efforts include making at-risk parties more conspicuous to oncoming motorists in order to prompt safer driving behaviors. In contrast, this work evaluates active alerting mechanisms designed to induce defensive action from at-risk roadside personnel ...

Safety should be designed into systems from their very conception, which can be achieved by integrating powerful hazard analysis techniques into the general systems engineering process. The primary barrier to achieving this objective is the lack of effectiveness of the existing analytical tools during early concept development. This paper introduces a new technique, which is based on a more pow...

Safety should be designed into future air traffic management systems from their very conception, which can be achieved by integrating powerful hazard analysis techniques into the general systems engineering process. The primary barrier to achieving this objective is the lack of effectiveness of the existing analytical tools during early concept development. This paper introduces a new technique...

conclusions based on the findings obtained, the rate of total waste generation in the amol hospital is similar in range to that of other iranian hospitals, however, the hazardous fraction of this waste was high in comparison to other previous studies, and this is probably due to improper separation and management of the waste materials. results based on this study’s findings the average rate of...

Providing a safe work environment is an important goal for any hospital pharmacy department. Historically, great care has been exercised in the receipt, storage, preparation, distribution, administration, and disposal of cytotoxic drugs. Although other drugs have been acknowledged as potentially hazardous, most facilities do not have processes to identify and ensure their safe and consistent ha...