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Life Exposed
On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects.Life Exposedis the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post-Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, Adriana Petryna uses anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far more immediate and stark than those described by policymakers and scientists. She asks: What happens to politics when state officials fail to inform their fellow citizens of real threats to life? What are the moral and political consequences of remedies available in the wake of technological disasters?
Through extensive research in state institutions, clinics, laboratories, and with affected families and workers of the so-called Zone, Petryna illustrates how the event and its aftermath have not only shaped the course of an independent nation but have made health a negotiated realm of entitlement. She tracks the emergence of a \"biological citizenship\" in which assaults on health become the coinage through which sufferers stake claims for biomedical resources, social equity, and human rights.Life Exposedprovides an anthropological framework for understanding the politics of emergent democracies, the nature of citizenship claims, and everyday forms of survival as they are interwoven with the profound changes that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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When a blizzard and a terrible accident cause a power failure at Chicago's O'Hare air traffic control facility and a devastating mid-air collision, passenger Donovan Nash, a pilot with a hidden past, fights decompression, oxygen deprivation, and damaged controls to keep the plane from crashing.
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A Human Error Approach to Aviation Accident Analysis
As aircraft have become more reliable, humans have played a progressively more important causal role in aviation accidents. Consequently, a growing number of aviation organizations are tasking their safety personnel with developing accident investigation and other safety programs to address the highly complex and often nebulous issue of human error. Yet, many safety professionals are illequipped to perform these new duties.
The purpose of the present book is to remedy this situation by presenting a comprehensive, userfriendly framework to assist practitioners in effectively investigating and analyzing human error in aviation. Coined the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), its framework is based on James Reason's (1990) well-known \"Swiss cheese\" model of accident causation. In essence, HFACS bridges the gap between theory and practice in a way that helps improve both the quantity and quality of information gathered in aviation accidents and incidents.
The HFACS framework was originally developed for, and subsequently adopted by, the U.S. Navy/Marine Corps as an accident investigation and data analysis tool. The U.S. Army, Air Force, and Coast Guard, as well as other military and civilian aviation organizations around the world are also currently using HFACS to supplement their preexisting accident investigation systems. In addition, HFACS has been taught to literally thousands of students and safety professionals through workshops and courses offered at professional meetings and universities. Indeed, HFACS is now relatively well known within many sectors of aviation and an increasing number of organizations worldwide are interested in exploring its usage. Consequently, the authors currently receive numerous requests for more information about the system on what often seems to be a daily basis.
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Aviation disasters : the world's major civil airliner crashes since 1950
David Gero has compiled a catalogue of major air disasters since the 1950s. He investigates every type of calamity, including those caused by inclement weather and inhospitable terrain, mechanical failure and pilot error, and that spectre of more recent times -- terrorism.
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Cannabis, alcohol and fatal road accidents
This research aims to estimate the relative risks of responsibility for a fatal accident linked to driving under the influence of cannabis or alcohol, the prevalence of these influences among drivers and the corresponding attributable risk ratios. A secondary goal is to estimate the same items for three other groups of illicit drugs (amphetamines, cocaine and opiates), and to compare the results to a similar study carried out in France between 2001 and 2003.
Police procedures for fatal accidents in Metropolitan France during 2011 were analyzed and 300 characteristics encoded to provide a database of 4,059 drivers. Information on alcohol and four groups of illicit drugs derived from tests for positivity and potential confirmation through blood analysis. The study compares drivers responsible for causing the accident, that is to say having directly contributed to its occurrence, to drivers involved in an accident for which they were not responsible, and who can be assimilated to drivers in general.
The proportion of persons driving under the influence of alcohol is estimated at 2.1% (95% CI: 1.4-2.8) and under the influence of cannabis at 3.4% (2.9%-3.9%). Drivers under the influence of alcohol are 17.8 times (12.1-26.1) more likely to be responsible for a fatal accident, and the proportion of fatal accidents which would be prevented if no drivers ever exceeded the legal limit for alcohol is estimated at 27.7% (26.0%-29.4%). Drivers under the influence of cannabis multiply their risk of being responsible for causing a fatal accident by 1.65 (1.16-2.34), and the proportion of fatal accidents which would be prevented if no drivers ever drove under the influence of cannabis is estimated at 4.2% (3.7%-4.8%). An increased risk linked to opiate use has also been found to be significant, but with low prevalence, requiring caution in interpreting this finding. Other groups of narcotics have even lower prevalence, and the associated extra risks cannot be assessed.
Almost a decade separates the present study from a similar one previously conducted in France, and there have been numerous developments in the intervening years. Even so, the prevalence of drivers responsible for causing fatal accidents under the influence of alcohol or narcotics has stayed remarkably stable, as have the proportion of fatal accidents which could in theory be prevented if no drivers ever exceeded the legal limits. The overall number of deaths from traffic accidents has dropped sharply during this period, and the number of victims attributable to alcohol and/or cannabis declined proportionally. Alcohol remains the main problem in France. It is just as important to note that one in two drivers considered to be under the influence of cannabis was also under the influence of alcohol. With risks cumulating between the two, it is particularly important to point out the danger of consuming them together.
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Challenger
\"Early readers will learn about the science behind the Challenger disaster through ... leveled text and photo illustrations\"-- Provided by publisher.
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ZUCIU LIETUVOS KELIUOSE DINAMIKA IR PRIEZASTYS
Lietuva yra vienintele Europos Sajungos valstybe nuo 2011 m. iki 2021 m. daugiau kaip 50 % sumazinusi zuciu skaiciu keliuose. Taciau net ir esant reiksmingam progresui Lietuvoje 1 mln. gyventoju tenka 53 zutys ir salis vis dar atsilieka nuo ES vidurkio, kuris 2021 m. buvo 45 zuvusieji 1 mln. gyventoju. Sio tyrimo tikslas--statistiniais metodais nustatyti zuciu Lietuvos keliuose 2019-2021 m. dinamika, sistemiskai ivertinti siu ivykiu priezastis bei pasiulyti veiksnius (kriterijus), kurie leistu pagerinti eismo saugumo situacija Lietuvoje ir pasiekti Europos Sajungos saliu vidurki. Tyrime atlikta 2019-2021 m. Lietuvos automobiliu keliuose ivykusiu eismo ivykiu, kuriuose zuvo zmones, analize. Isnagrineta ivykiu pasiskirstymo pagal ju priezastis dinamika per tiriama laikotarpi. Nustatyta, kad svarbiausios mirtinu eismo ivykiu Lietuvoje priezastys yra susijusios su netinkamu vairuotoju ir pesciuju elgesiu. Tai yra vairavimas apsvaigus nuo alkoholio ar narkotiniu medziagu, leidziamojo greicio virsijimas arba nesaugaus greicio parinkimas. Taip pat didele itaka mirtiniems eismo ivykiams turi netinkama arba nesaugi infrastruktura ir bloga transporto priemoniu technine bukle. Atlikus kitu mokslininku tyrimu rezultatu analize, ivertinus kitu saliu patirti, sukurtas i 3 grupes suskirstytas veiksniu (priemoniu) sarasas. Siu priemoniu panaudojimas leistu toliau mazinti ivykiu skaiciu Lietuvoje. Ateities tyrimuose planuojama nustatyti pateiktu veiksniu svarba remiantis ekspertu nuomone. Reiksminiai zodziai: eismo ivykis, avarija, zutis, eismo saugumas, vairuotojai, pestieji, eismo ivykio priezastis, vairuotoju elgesys, saugus greitis, infrastruktura, transporto priemones technine bukle, PIN Award.
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The Politics of Invisibility
Before Fukushima, the most notorious large-scale nuclear accident the world had seen was Chernobyl in 1986. The fallout from Chernobyl covered vast areas in the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Europe. Belarus, at the time a Soviet republic, suffered heavily: nearly a quarter of its territory was covered with long-lasting radionuclides. Yet the damage from the massive fallout was largely imperceptible; contaminated communities looked exactly like noncontaminated ones. It could be known only through constructed representations of it. InThe Politics of Invisibility, Olga Kuchinskaya explores how we know what we know about Chernobyl, describing how the consequences of a nuclear accident were made invisible. Her analysis sheds valuable light on how we deal with other modern hazards -- toxins or global warming -- that are largely imperceptible to the human senses.Kuchinskaya describes the production of invisibility of Chernobyl's consequences in Belarus -- practices that limit public attention to radiation and make its health effects impossible to observe. Just as mitigating radiological contamination requires infrastructural solutions, she argues, the production and propagation of invisibility also involves infrastructural efforts, from redefining the scope and nature of the accident's consequences to reshaping research and protection practices. Kuchinskaya finds vast fluctuations in recognition, tracing varyingly successful efforts to conceal or reveal Chernobyl's consequences at different levels -- among affected populations, scientists, government, media, and international organizations. The production of invisibility, she argues, is a function of power relations.
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