The classification of hidden dangers in urban gas pipelines plays a vital role in the smooth operation of urban gas pipelines and in solving the problem of hidden safety dangers in urban gas pipelines. In recent years, the number and proportion of po...
This work proposes an intelligent grey-wolf-optimizer-improved Apriori algorithm (GWO-Apriori) to mine the association rules of hidden dangers in hydrogen pipeline transmission stations. The optimal minimum support and minimum confidence are determin...
The hidden danger is the direct cause of coal mine accidents, and the number of hidden dangers in a certain area not only reflects the current safety situation, but also determines the development trend of safety production in this area to a large ex...
With the rapid development of water conservancy engineering and infrastructure construction, there are many safety hazards in the construction process of water conservancy engineering, so it is of great significance to study the potential hazards in...
Ice avalanche (IA) has a strong concealment and sudden characteristics, which can cause severe disasters. The early identification of IA hidden danger is of great value for disaster prevention and mitigation. However, it is very difficult, and there...
To enhance the risk management capacity of petrochemical enterprises, this paper presents a systematic and in-depth study of risk hierarchical control and hidden danger investigation technologies. Firstly, a risk hierarchical control system was devel...
Traditional electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) technology confronts bottlenecks such as the volume effect in the detection of termite nests in levees, while the ERT based on deep learning has insufficient interpretation accuracy due to small sam...
The heating industries are extremely dispersed in China, and most heating enterprises are small in scale, poor in foundation, and chaotic in safety management. The construction method of the double prevention mechanism of heating enterprises in China...
As the carrier of electric energy transmission, transmission lines undertake the important task of electric energy distribution and transfer. However, with the increasing frequency of construction using large machinery such as tower cranes and excava...
This study aims to enhance the detection and assessment of safety hazards in small-scale reservoir engineering using advanced image processing and deep learning techniques. Given the critical importance of small reservoirs in flood management, water...
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been extensively used in the monitoring of natural hazards such as floods and landslides. Predicting whether natural hazards will cause serious harm to important facilities on the ground is an important subject of s...
Based on meteorological observations, traffic flow data and information of traffic accidents caused by fog or agglomerate fog along the expressways in Jiangsu Province and Anhui Province in China from 2012 to 2021, key impact factors including meteor...
Over the last several decades, plasticizers have seamlessly integrated themselves into our daily routines, permeating a vast array of commonly encountered products such as food containers, toys, medicines, building materials, electronic devices, cosm...
Herbal and dietary supplements represent a multi-billion-dollar industry reportedly used by over half of American adults. However, these products are not regulated by the Federal Drug Agency and contain a wide range of contaminants, leading to over 5...
This review delves into the intricate relationship between excess folate (vitamin B9) intake, especially its synthetic form, namely, folic acid, and its implications on health and disease. While folate plays a pivotal role in the one-carbon cycle, wh...
With the aging of the global population, neurodegenerative diseases are emerging as a major public health issue. The adoption of a less sedentary lifestyle has been shown to have a beneficial effect on cognitive decline, but the molecular mechanisms...
Microplastic (MP) contamination is a globally recognised issue in aquatic environments, and recently, there has been an increase in investigations focusing on lake contamination, revealing significant amounts of dispersed MPs. However, our understand...
Aircraft-missed approaches pose significant safety challenges, particularly under adverse weather conditions like wind shear. This study examines the critical factors influencing wind-shear-related missed approaches at Hong Kong International Airport...
Electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products have seen significant growth in sales and usage in recent years. Initially promoted as potentially less harmful alternatives to traditional tobacco, recent scientific evidence has raised serious conce...
The plant-based dietary pattern has been recommended for its potential health and environmental benefits, but its association with bone loss needs to be further explored. This study aimed to investigate the association between three plant-based diet...
The regular ore body of the Xianglushan tungsten mine has been completely exploited. The remaining residual ore bodies face numerous hidden dangers, such as large and numerous abandoned mining areas, disorderly and small-scale mining sequences, delay...
Both latent and active TB infections are caused by a heterogeneous population of mycobacteria, which includes actively replicating and dormant bacilli in different proportions. Dormancy substantially affects M. tuberculosis drug tolerance and TB clin...
This paper presents the application of a weak magnetic fields magnetovision scanning system for detection of dangerous ferromagnetic objects. A measurement system was developed and built to study the magnetic field vector distributions. The measureme...
In patients with a cow’s milk protein allergy, the presence of these allergens in medicines, even in trace amounts, can trigger serious allergic reactions. The study of milk-related excipient prevalence in 165 antiasthmatic medicines, based on the in...
The original rock stress field is mainly divided into the σHZ-dominant stress field, the σZ-dominant stress field, and the σH-dominant stress field. Via theoretical analysis, the plastic zone morphology and the orientation of roadwa...
As a harmless detection method, terahertz has become a new trend in security detection. However, there are inherent problems such as the low quality of the images collected by terahertz equipment and the insufficient detection accuracy of dangerous g...
Earth and rock dams are an important part of the flood control system, and hidden dangers in such dams are a serious threat to project safety. The application of a single geophysical exploration technology is associated with multiple solutions and li...
Imaging objects hidden behind an opaque shelter provides a crucial advantage when physically going around the obstacle is impossible or dangerous. Previous methods have demonstrated that is possible to reconstruct the image of a target hidden from vi...
In order to address the issues of unclear risk grading control, lack of safety management, and hidden danger investigation and management processes, this paper used a mining enterprise as the backdrop for an engineering example. The “evaluation...
7 May 2022
The rapid development of software applications and the increasing use of the Internet have raised many questions about the impact of this technology on the lives of adolescents, especially on “digital natives.” The advent of social networ...
3 July 2025
Background: Unintentional injuries are the primary cause of death and disability among children. This study aimed to examine the current status of home environments for children aged 0–6 years in the Shanghai area of China and assess the factor...
Urban safety production is a core component of social safety and is associated with the production, storage and transport of hazardous chemicals, which are potential sources of disaster in an urban area. Chemicals’ locations in a city present a...
Risk and security are two symmetric descriptions of the uncertainty of the same system. If the risk early warning is carried out in time, the security capability of the system can be improved. A safety early warning model based on fuzzy c-means clust...
Identifying risk factors and improving safety “immunity” is beneficial to chemical enterprises to reduce the occurrence of production accidents. In this paper, an immune system model has been built according to the bionics principle, and...
Based on actual safety management difficulties and needs, this paper aims to screen and extract the key accident potential factors of personal injuries and deaths within the electric power industry to provide a reference for electric power companies’...
Forerunner UAV refers to an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a downward-looking camera flying in front of the advancing emergency ground vehicles (EGV) to notify the driver about the hidden dangers (e.g., other vehicles). A feasibility demonstra...
Identification of potential landslide hazards is of great significance for disaster prevention and control. CNN (Convolutional Neural Networks), RNN (Recurrent Neural Networks) and many other deep learning methods have been used to identify landslide...
The problem of corporate debt is a hidden danger to China’s economic growth and financial stability. This paper studies the effect of regional marketization on the debt burden of the local enterprises based on a fixed effects model. The result...
21 December 2016
Intersections are one of the major locations where safety is a big concern to drivers. Inappropriate driver behaviors in response to frequent changes when approaching intersections often lead to intersection-related crashes or collisions. Thus to bet...
In the framework of the H2020 CLEANDEM project, a small robotic vehicle was equipped with a series of different sensors that were developed for the preliminary inspection of areas possibly contaminated by radiation. Such unmanned inspection allows to...
Many scholars turn to emotions to understand irrational behavior. We do the opposite: we turn to rationality and game theory to understand people’s emotions. We discuss a striking theory of emotions that began with the game theory of credible threats...
The present systematic review addresses the influence of occupational exposures on prostate cancer risk. Eleven studies were analyzed for a range of occupational exposures, including but not limited to firefighting, physical activity, night shift wor...
Landslide geological disasters, occurring globally, often result in significant loss of life and extensive economic damage. In recent years, the severity of these disasters has increased, likely due to the frequent occurrence of extreme rainstorms as...
In recent years, due to the rapid growth of mankind’s demand for energy, harmful gases (SOx) produced by the combustion of sulfur-containing compounds in fuel oil have caused serious problems to the ecological environment and human health. Ther...
(1) Background: Fish is a good source of protein, iron, and zinc, which are key nutrients for infant growth and development, as well as a source of energy for adults and the elderly. Due to mercury contamination in both the terrestrial and aquatic en...
It is quite likely that the origins of prayer are to be found in ancient mourning and bereavement rites. Primeval ritual prayer was codified and handed down socially to become a deep-rooted feature of people’s cultural behavior, so much so, that it m...
The special properties of soy preparations make them common additives for food production and can be dangerous for sensitive individuals. Our aim was to check consumers’ awareness of potential risks of soy preparations added to numerous food pr...
X-ray security inspection processes have a low degree of automation, long detection times, and are subject to misjudgment due to occlusion. To address these problems, this paper proposes a multi-objective intelligent recognition method for X-ray imag...
Recently, studies on the remote detection of dangerous objects on the person have gained importance with increased security problems. Therefore, the use of passive millimeter waves in security systems is increasing because they are harmless to health...
Occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) is a serious public health issue. Although a number of effective hepatitis B vaccines are available, hepatitis B still poses a threat to global public health. Patients with OBI are usually asymptomatic, but there ma...
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