http://www.safetylit.org/Welcome to SafetyLit, the online source for recent research about injury prevention.Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failurehttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184623_34Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning from coal and gas heaters is a public health concern in Turkey. This study estimated the prevalence, mortality rate and clinical predictors of severity of CO poisoning cases treated at the emergency unit of the Uludağ Univer...Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failurehttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_183512_34This paper presents manageable, mathematical models of a vehicle occupant and a belt restraint system. These low-order models are relevant in the development of controlled restraint systems, which aim at lowering injury criteria by real-time control of the...Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failurehttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_183513_34This paper describes in detail the comparison of structural responses and their effect on occupant responses between the moving deformable barrier and oblique pole test modes, including the test protocol, dummies and injury metrics. The temporal sequence o...Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failurehttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184115_34To design comprehensive traffic safety measures, the risk of the occurrence of traffic accidents must be objectively evaluated. It is difficult, however, to evaluate the effects of traffic measures in terms of the change in the number of traffic accidents,...Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failurehttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184718_34Today, in the midst of economic crisis, senior executives at US automakers and influential industry analysts frequently reflect on the progression that safety testing has taken from the crude trials done on the road, to controlled laboratory experiments, a...Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failurehttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184474_34This study reports on a new geoscientific method to estimate the post-burial interval (PBI) and potential post-mortem interval (PMI) date of homicide victims in clandestine graves by measuring decomposition fluid conductivities. Establishing PBI/PMI dates ...Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failurehttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184652_34BACKGROUND:: Installation of red light cameras (RLC) at intersections associated with a high number of traffic accidents are currently in use to reduce the number of traffic collisions. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the sustained effe...Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failurehttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184602_34The authors report on a pre-school child with a typical presentation of the trauma caused by a car safety belt and termed the seat-belt syndrome. The deceleration mechanism which throws the upper body forward in the presence of a rigid belt over the abdomi...Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failurehttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_183943_34Background Increasing the coefficient of friction of the shoe-surface interaction has been shown to lead to increased incidence of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries, but the causes for this increase are unknown. Previous studies indicate that speci...Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failurehttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184321_34During a Christmas party, two male guests started fighting. The perpetrator was allegedly pushed onto a glass table by the victim or fell into the table together with that man so that the glass top broke and caused a cut wound on the perpetrator's back....Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failurehttp://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=citations.viewdetails&citationIds[]=citjournalarticle_184121_34Coal has been mined in the United States since colonial times and coal mining has always been a dangerous occupation. Despite the dangers involved in coal mining, coal is essential to the functioning of our society. Coal provides energy for products, busin...