background injuries and accidents are the first cause of death in the first 5 years of children life in the world; the present study was conducted to investigate the extent and distribution of accidents in the infants under one year in hamadan province, iran. materials and methods:this cross-sectional descriptive-analytic study was carried out using of   data of injuries and accidents related t...

background: approximately, 90% of workplace accidents are due to human errors. the study of the relationship between individual differences and accidents and injuries are beneficial in the prevention of these accidents. the aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism and occupational accident rates in the petro...

background trauma constitutes a major public health problem in our country and contributes significantly to unacceptably high morbidity and mortality. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the epidemiology of trauma in dead patients referred to shahid rajaee trauma hospital, shiraz, iran. patients and methods in a cross-sectional study, all patients with trauma admitted to our center were enr...

Designers and accidentologists have to collaborate in order to develop new safety systems. Accidentologists recognize Accident Scenario as a powerful tool to provide designers with the required knowledge about accident. However, an accident scenario has to be presented in a way that both designers and accidentologists can understand and use. The fact that designers and accidentologists do not s...

So far 22 criticality accidents have been reported (McLaughlin et al., 2000) including JCO accident in Japan. All cases took place with fuel solution or slurry except one case of metal fuel. It was not clear that what was actually happening during those criticality accidents except the JCO accident, for which a fission power profile was reproduced from a gammaray monitoring data (Tonoike et al....

An accident is a deviation from expected behavior of event that adversely affects the property, living body or persons and the environment. Security in vehicle to vehicle communication or travelling is primary concern for everyone. The work presented in this article documents the designing of an accident detection system. The accident detection system design informs the police control room or a...

fuzzy logic is one of the concepts that has created different scientific attitudes by entering into various professional fields nowadays and in some cases has made remarkable effects on the results of the practical researches. however, the existence of stochastic and uncertain situations in risk and accident field, affects the possibility of the forecasting and preventing the occurrence of the ...

background: it is believed that improved safety culture/climate is a fundamental element to accident prevention. therefore, development a scale to assess safety climate is a step towards accident control. the purpose of this study was to construct a persian safety climate questionnaire. methods: the study took place in tehran and esfahan oil refineries in iran in 2010. an initial questionnaire ...

myelodysplastic syndromes (mds) are a group of hematological disorders ranging from chronic refractory anemia to leukemia. there are some reports about association of mds with autoimmune disorders and vasculitis. in this study we describe a patient with mds and vasculitis presenting with central nervous system (cns) involvement. a clinical response to immunosuppressive therapy was also observed...