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Most of the world’s population is concentrated in accumulated spaces in the form of cities, making the concept of urban planning a significant issue for consideration by decision makers. Urban vulnerability is a major issue which arises in urban mana...

Physical hazards, such as bullet particles and bone fragments, in wild meat could be introduced by processes applied whilst killing game meat animals. These hazards may pose a health risk to non-suspecting consumers and must therefore be identified,...

In order to improve the safety status and the quality of the landscape affected by surface mining, it is important that practical strategies for dealing with the excavations are identified. The aim of the work presented in this paper was to carry out...

The need to retain individuals longer in the workforce is acknowledged in many high-income countries. The present study therefore aimed to examine the importance of physically demanding work tasks (PDWT) and physically hazardous work environment (PHW...

Clostridium botulinum produces Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), causing a rare but potentially deadly type of food poisoning called foodborne botulism. This review aims to provide information on the bacterium, spores, toxins, and botulisms, and describ...

The accurate assessment of landslide hazards is important in order to reduce the casualties and damage caused by landslides. Landslide hazard assessment combines the evaluation of spatial and temporal probabilities. Although various statistical appro...

Conventional structural design frameworks assess natural hazards as statistically independent phenomena, a practice that can lead to significant underestimation of risk for structures subjected to sequential or concurrent hazards. The generation of p...

The poultry abattoir industry continues to grow and contribute significantly to the gross domestic product in many countries. The industry expects working shifts of eight to eleven hours, during which workers are exposed to occupational hazards which...

Forecasting research repeatedly finds that simple methods can match or beat complex ones out of sample. We test this in a safety-critical domain, near-real-time prediction of fire hazard state and structural damage, using a simulator-grounded benchma...

This paper presents an experimental evaluation of a smart glasses-based cyber-physical system for the recognition of dangerous objects and the detection of dynamic life-threatening events. The proposed system integrates real-time computer vision and...

This study investigates the impact of workplace physical hazards on job satisfaction in the construction industry, focusing on the mediating role of mental threats and the moderating effects of perceived job quality and security. The study findings i...

This review consolidates data on the most significant chemical, biological, and physical contaminants found in honey and other bee products that may have a negative impact on human health. It focuses on the various groups of compounds that affect the...

Sendai Framework Target G and SDG Indicator 11.b.2 require multi-hazard risk information that local governments can write into procedures that they are able to defend, which in turn requires models whose claims can be audited. We propose an audit fra...

Traditional methods for detecting foodstuff hazards are time-consuming, inefficient, and destructive. Spectral imaging techniques have been proven to overcome these disadvantages in detecting foodstuff hazards. Compared with traditional methods, spec...

To improve the ability to prepare for and adapt to potential hazards in a city, efforts are being invested in evaluating the performance of the built environment under multiple hazard conditions. An integrated physics-based multi-hazard simulation fr...

The occupational health and safety of agricultural workers is a topic that has a direct impact on the agricultural sector worldwide. For this reason, investigations into ergonomic factors are relevant to the health and safety of agricultural workers....

Natural hazards may temporarily or permanently interrupt the normal operation of rural road networks. The potential social, economic, environmental and physical impacts of natural events on rural road infrastructures empirically evidence the need to...

Animal slaughter plans and related activities must not increase the number of hazards in meat. In their nature, these processes must reduce possible hazards to minimum or acceptable levels. This is a generally accepted concept worldwide; hence, autho...

This review paper examines the extent of employer, worker, and labour union concerns to occupational health hazard exposure, as a function of previously reported and investigated complaints. Consequently, an online literature search was conducted, en...

The beneficial health effects of physical activity, in particular moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), are well documented, but there is an ongoing scientific debate whether the domain matters, i.e., whether leisure time physical activity i...

Tunnel seepage in heterogeneous ground can trigger hydrogeological hazards such as concentrated water inflow, groundwater depletion, deformation of surrounding structures, and subsequent eco-environmental degradation. However, these processes are sti...

Machine Learning (ML) is increasingly applied for the control of safety-critical Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in application areas that cannot easily be mastered with traditional control approaches, such as autonomous driving. As a consequence, the s...

Ship damage control (DC) is pivotal to platform survivability in the face of battle damage and severe accidents. The DC context features multi-hazard coupling among flooding, fire, and smoke, as well as fast system dynamics and intensive human–...

The use of powered hand tools and equipment that exposes track workers to HAV vibration and other biomechanical hazards in the USA was investigated by a research team, following scientific principles and guidelines including protecting confidentialit...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are getting increasingly complex and interconnected. Consequently, their inherent safety risks and security risks are so intertwined that the conventional analysis approaches which address them separately may be rendered...

(1) Background: The purpose of this article was to investigate the association between self-reported physical activity (PA) and all-cause mortality in ambulatory patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), stage 4–5 including maintenance dialysis. (2...

Coasts are highly dynamic and geo-morphologically complex systems that are exposed to several factors such as waves, extreme meteorological events and climate change. It is also well-recognized that coastal zones, characterized by an increasing popul...

Coal mining causes overlying rocks to collapse and be destroyed. Overburdened crevasses provide a channel for gas discharge, which is a serious safety hazard. To study the evolution characteristics and migration pattern of overburdened fissures durin...

Landslides pose a significant threat worldwide, leading to numerous fatalities and severe economic losses. The city of Manizales, located in the Colombian Andes, is particularly vulnerable due to its steep topography and permeable volcanic ash-derive...

A comparative methodology between advanced statistical tools and physical-based methods is carried out to ensure their reliability and objectivity for the evaluation of co-seismic landslide hazard maps. To do this, an inventory of landslides induced...

Global climate change has increased severe torrential hazards, particularly debris flows in mountainous regions. After floods and earthquakes, debris flows are the most devastating natural hazard in the world. The effects of debris flow on human life...

The analysis of the vulnerability of vernacular buildings to climatic hazards is nowadays a subject of significant importance due to the consequences of climate change. This study assesses the vulnerability of vernacular buildings to three climatic h...

Many landslides triggered by earthquakes have caused a countless loss of life and property, therefore, it is very important to predict landslide hazards accurately. In this work, regional seismic landslide data were obtained via a field survey, remot...

In this study, rigid polyurethane (PU) and polyisocyanurate (PIR) foam samples made from renewable material (tall oil fatty acid) based polyols were analyzed by pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) to obtain information about the...

Objective: To study the trajectories of work ability and investigate the impact of multisite pain and working conditions on pathways of work ability over a six-year period. Methods: The longitudinal study was conducted with Finnish food industry work...

Plastic particles, including microplastics, are increasingly common contaminants of the food chain, raising concerns over human health effects. The objective of this work was to contribute to a better understanding of their presence in food and feed...

Geographic patterns determine geogenic radon factors that, changing over the territory, form spatial structures of different scales associated with regional and local variations. The study of these structures is important for assessing the possibilit...

In this work, we use the first-principles method to study in details the characteristics of the adsorption of hazardous NO₂, NO, CO₂, CO and SO₂ gas molecules by pure and heteroatom (Ti, Si, Mn) modified Al₆₀N₆₀ nanoclusters. It is found that the pur...

Food adulteration refers to the alteration of food quality that takes place deliberately. It includes the addition of ingredients to modify different properties of food products for economic advantage. Color, appearance, taste, weight, volume, and sh...

Rainfall-induced landslides pose a significant threat to human life, destroy highways and railways, and cause farmland degradation in the Loess Plateau. From 19 June 2013 to 26 July 2013, continuous and heavy rainfall events occurred in the Tianshui...

Caffeine has beneficial effects on firefighter job performance reducing fatigue and improving psychomotor vigilance. However, excessive caffeine intake may raise blood pressure (BP) following a bout of acute exercise among adults with elevated BP. Th...

A physical geographers’ scope of practice is not defined by any regulatory or academic organization, so perception of the potential contribution of physical geography to sustainability research has been nebulous or informal, at best. In order to unde...

Global Positioning System (GPS) and geodetic control networks are used today for analyzing and monitoring time-dependent crustal deformations, providing a series of accurate positional measurements to deliver information on positional changes and def...

The pyroclastic fall deposits mantling mountain slopes in the Campania region (Southern Italy) represent one of the most studied geomorphological frameworks of the world regarding rainfall-induced debris flows threating urban areas. The proposed stud...

The significance of the impulse product parameter P is reviewed, which is believed to be the most universal parameter for subaerial landslide tsunami (impulse wave) prediction. This semi-empirical parameter is based on the streamwise slide momentum f...

Earthquake-tsunamis, including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, with approximately 227,898 casualties, and the 2011 Tōhoku Tsunami in Japan, with 18,550 people missing or dead [...]

Reliability assessment of semiconductor devices increasingly requires the consideration of multiple degradation mechanisms acting simultaneously over long stress durations. Conventional lifetime qualification and prediction approaches rely on simplif...

This study focuses on the utilisation of lab-based activities to enhance the learning experience of engineering students studying water engineering and geosciences courses. Specifically, the use of “floodopoly” as a physical model demonst...

Bisphenols (BPs) are ubiquitous environmental endocrine disruptors that cause various human health hazards and pollute water, soil, and the atmosphere to varying degrees. Although various studies have investigated the pollution characteristics and he...

This paper systematically investigates the interaction between pipes and soil under geo-logical disaster conditions by combining small-scale physical experiments with mul-ti-method numerical simulations. Three analytical models—namely the Smoot...