The current pilot study examined the roles of two cognitive factors - positive alcohol expectancies of social anxiety reduction and drink refusal self-efficacy relevant to social situations - in mediating greater reduction in alcohol behaviors by the Brief Intervention for Socially Anxious Drinkers (BISAD; n=21) compared to an alcohol psychoeducation (n=20) in a sample of college hazardous drin...

This paper addresses the problem of high-assurance operation for medical cyber-physical systems built from interoperable medical devices. Such systems are diferent from most cyber-physical systems due to their "plugand-play" nature: they are assembled as needed at a patient's bedside according to a specification that captures the clinical scenario and required device types. We need to ensure th...

A crucial factor contributing to the high rate of road accidents involving young people is inexperience, in particular the inability to promptly identify risky situations. The aim of this study is to test the effectiveness of a riding simulator in improving this skill in young inexperienced riders. We use the first fixation latency to measure the improvement in detecting the hazardous object. R...

Infants and toddlers represent an age range at high-risk of injuries and accidental deaths since their lack of skill makes them unable to avoid potentially dangerous situations present in their environment [1-5]. In fact, an environment where infants sleep is an example of a potentially hazardous situation that may result in accidental death caused by strangulation [2,4]. Although such accident...

INTRODUCTION The ever-present risk of mass casualties and disaster situations may result in airway management situations that overwhelm local emergency medical services (EMS) resources. Endotracheal intubation requires significant user education/training and carries the risk of malposition. Furthermore, personal protective equipment (PPE) required in hazardous environments may decrease dexterit...

1. Introduction The potential of remote sensing for the monitoring of the Earth environment and the detection of its temporal variations is well known. A variety of applications in the fields of flood monitoring, forest fire detection, landslide and subsidence, surface deformation and land cover variations were shown in the last ten years using space optical and radar data. However, the real-ti...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Risk analysis for medical devices is a crucial process to grant adequate levels of safety. Identification of device exposure-related hazards is one of the main objectives. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Hazard analysis for hemodialysis devices has been performed by a multidisciplinary team involving engineers and clinical experts. A potential harm list...

We proposed a novel algorithm for instrument segmentation in the robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RALS) images, which will be used for tool tracking to automatically preventing hazardous situations. The proposed algorithm achieved 1mm range of average RMSE of tool tip position in various conditions, which is significantly lower value compared to the previous methods.

The development of molecular nanotechnology (MNT) carries numerous risks, including the production of potentially unhealthy nanoparticles, the possible creation of tiny, destructive, self-replicating robots, and many others. The Precautionary Principle is often invoked when dealing with situations that might be hazardous; however, the label "Precautionary Principle" is attached to at least two ...

This report reviews neurotoxicological principles relevant to situations of hazardous waste disposal. Some of the diagnostic techniques currently used for field assessment of nervous system dysfunction are critically evaluated. These include nerve conduction velocity, evoked potentials, neuropsychological testing and use of the Optacon.