NHS staff at Merseyside hospitals announce 48-hour strike after years of being underpaid
Over 400 health staff at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (WUTH) will take strike action this month in a dispute over pay, says UNISON today (Thursday). The strike will take place at 7am on Thursday 31 August through to 6:59am on Saturday 2 September after an overwhelming majority (99%) of clinical support workers voted to strike in a recent UNISON ballot. Clinical support workers (CSWs) assist nursing staff in delivering care on the wards. They’re employed across the trust’s sites at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals on the Wirral. UNISON says these employees should be pa...
Source: UNISON Health care news - August 17, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Lucy Shaddock Tags: News Press release clinical support workers pay fair for patient care strike Source Type: news

Salafist violence and artisanal mining: Evidence from Burkina Faso - Brugger F, Zongo T.
Armed groups have expanded their presence in the Sahel over the last decade, including in areas with intensive artisanal gold mining. Our understanding of how their presence changes the governance of artisanal mining sites, how it differs from agriculture ...
Source: SafetyLit - August 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Measuring the dynamic accessibility to COVID-19 testing sites in the 15-min city: a focus on service congestion and mobility difference - Chen Y, Jia S, Xu Q, Xiao Z, Zhang S.
Accessibility to essential amenities such as food and health is crucial for all individuals and is the key to realizing the goal of the 15-min city. However, so far, few studies have fully considered the service congestion of the facility and mobility diff...
Source: SafetyLit - August 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Traffic safety analysis at interchange exits using the surrogate measure of aggressive driving behavior and speed variation - Yao Y, Zhao X, Li J, Ma J, Zhang Y.
This study explores the impacts of various traffic control devices and road conditions on road safety at interchange exits based on drivin...
Source: SafetyLit - August 17, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

X throttling outbound links to websites Musk doesn ' t like
Elon Musk's X was this week caught throttling outbound links to several sites, coincidentally ones that the billionaire has complained about or feuded with in the past. Links directing users of the website formerly known as Twitter to news sources such as The New York Times and Reuters, social…#elonmusk #twitter #facebookinstagram #threads #bluesky #times #tweetdeck #twitterbluexpremium #twitterblue #xpremium
Source: Reuters: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Twitter was reportedly throttling traffic to sites Elon didn ’t like, then backtracked as soon as it was caught
Elon Musk’s Twitter/X is catching fire after it was discovered to be throttling links to certain sites which Musk has criticized in the past. Users who clicked links on Twitter to Facebook and the New York Times would see delays of roughly five seconds before they were transferred to those sites.…#twitter #bluesky #google #yoelroth #fortunecom #fortune
Source: Reuters: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

New Jersey OKs slightly better settlement over polluted land where childhood cancer cases rose
New Jersey has accepted a revised settlement over chemical dumping that turned parts of a Jersey Shore community into one of America's most notorious toxic waste cleanup sites, but opponents say the deal is only marginally better than before and plan to sue the state to block it. The deal adds…#newjersey #jerseyshore #tomsriver #basf #dep #cibageigy #atlanticocean #superfund #dovertownship #brittaforsberg
Source: Reuters: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

X reportedly delays links to sites Elon Musk dislikes
There are reports that X added a five-second delay to sites such as Facebook, Substack and The Times – sites that Musk has ridiculed in the past. New reports claim X – formerly known as Twitter – is doing a petty (and potentially effective) tactic to disrupt certain competitors and sites Elon Musk…#times #twitter #elonmusk #hackernewsforum #facebookinstagram #bluesky #substack #mastodon #google #turkey
Source: Reuters: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Elon Musk ’s X (Formerly Twitter) Is Imposing a 5-Second Delay on Links to Meta Apps, Other Sites; Removes Slowdown for New York Times, Reuters
UPDATED, 3:55 p.m. ET: X, Elon Musk’s new name for the social network formerly known as Twitter, appears to be adding an approximately five-second delay to links that are redirected to certain sites, including Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Earlier Tuesday, X’s delay also was applied to…#twitter #threads #times #bluesky #jackdorsey #substack #meta #lindayaccarino #tesla #yaccarino
Source: Reuters: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Don ’t Fall for the Musk Distraction Machine
For years, politicians and the public have attacked the leaders of companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google, arguing they had their “thumbs on the scales” of political discourse. Critics worried these companies had too much power over how content was amplified on their sites, were picking…#twitter #google #elonmusk
Source: Reuters: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

X Apparently Slowed Access To Sites Elon Musk Dislikes
Links to certain websites on X, formerly known as Twitter, were reportedly temporarily slowed down, including those to rival social media and news organizations that have reported unflattering news about owner Elon Musk, according to tests conducted Tuesday by the Washington Post—but the platform…#twitter #elonmusk #threads #bluesky #times #charliestadtlander #mastodon #hackernewsforum #elonjet #donieosullivan
Source: Reuters: Health - August 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

America ’s Most Popular Tourist Attractions, According to Data
The United States is home to an estimated 35,000 museums, as well as thousands of state parks, hundreds of national park sites, and more than 600 amusement parks. With so many destinations and attractions to choose from, it may be hard to decide which ones are essential to visit. (But here are 30…#tempo #yougov #nationalzoo #smithsonian #washingtondc #disneyland #disney #goldengatebridge #empirestatebuilding #grandcanyon
Source: Reuters: Health - August 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Unmanned aerial systems and deep learning for safety and health activity monitoring on construction sites - Akinsemoyin A, Awolusi I, Chakraborty D, Al-Bayati AJ, Akanmu A.
Construction is a highly hazardous industry typified by several complex features in dynamic work environments that have the possibility of causing harm or ill health to construction workers. The constant monitoring of workers' unsafe behaviors and work con...
Source: SafetyLit - August 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Engineering, Physics, Structural Soundness and Failure Source Type: news

Predicting and analyzing suicidal risk behavior using rule-based approach in Twitter data - Kumar ER, Venkatram N.
Online networking sites are increasingly being used to communicate suicidal thoughts. Suicide research and policy are best served by monitoring such conversations and exchanging information of significant relevance for both individual prevention and popula...
Source: SafetyLit - August 15, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Media, Marketing, and Internet Issues Source Type: news

Laser mapping reveals detailed secrets of one World War II ’s most notorious battle
War leaves many scars—on soldiers’ bodies, in survivors’ minds. But it also inflicts damage on the natural environment that can persist long after human witnesses have died. Now, archaeologists have applied laser-based remote sensing technology to carefully examine the geographic scars left behind by the Battle of the Bulge, one of World War II’s bloodiest confrontations. Their work sheds new light on how the hilly, forested landscape influenced the movement of troops and shaped the course of the fighting. The “benchmark” study, published today in Antiquity , “sets a standard” for how confl...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

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