Authorship: How many is too many? Ana Marusic is a frequent contributor to WAME discussions and one topic that crops often crops up is authorship, and specifically, are there times when many authors are justified. After a systematic review, it appears the answer depends entirely on the discipline. In the Introduction to this report, Marusic […]
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Barry’s Blog #7
Hearing loss: most common work injury According to CDC the most common work-related injury in the U.S. is hearing loss with about 22 million workers exposed to hazardous noise at work, and 9 million exposed to ototoxic chemicals. A report by the Children’s Hearing Institute found hearing loss among children and young adults to be rising. About one […]
Barry’s Blog #6
Declining paintball injuries There was recently a report that a paintball caused a British woman’s breast implant to explode. That is the bad news. The good news is that paintball injuries have actually decreased in the United States. Hospital emergency visits due to air and paintball guns fell 20% from 2006 to 2008. Most such […]
Barry’s Blog #4
More ironies: Accident prevention foundation fined for failing to take safety measures The Industrial Foundation for Accident Prevention in India has been penalized $121,000 for not taking safety measures while training employees. A sudden blast severely burned 6 trainees. Apparently safety rules were violated in part because IFAP was warned not to conduct the training […]
From David Sleet
Editors comment: David recently sent this to some colleagues and I asked if he would permit me to post it as a blog. He agreed. For those of you too young to know, Skinner was a famous (and occasionally controversial, American psychologist perhaps most well known for ‘conditioning’. Sleet wrote: I recently re-read parts of […]
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TBI database Related to the concussion issue, it is noteworthy that the National Institutes of Health’s Center for Information Technology and the Department of Defense in the U.S. are developing a central database on traumatic brain injuries. The Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research will receive $10 million in funding over 4 years to aid […]
Barry’s Blog #2
Note: As an aging person I am still not entirely clear what blogs are all about. But I have agreed to do my best to keep ours fresh by contributing more often. Some of what I will submit are left-overs from the News and Notes section I edit. I also intend to bring to your attention items of interest that I come across on the web and elsewhere. I will comment on some of these and I encourage readers to add their views. […]
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Various items of interest (I hope) gleaned from web, etc. […]
This blog is a compendium of redcent web articles with a few pithy comments and an invitation to respond. […]
Self-driving cars! (No joke… )
Go to this link… I hope it works. Some day this could reduce traffic fatalities by more than seat belts and airbags put together (copy link into your browser) http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_thrun_google_s_driverless_car.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-04-05&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email […]