Further work on accident-proneness was carried out in the 1930s and 1940s.
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However, a number of studies have cast doubt on whether accident-proneness actually exists as a distinct, persistent and independently verifiable physiological or psychological syndrome. Although substantial research has been devoted to this subject, there still seems to be no conclusive evidence either for or against the existence of accident proneness in this sense.
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Susan's accident-proneness is commonly used throughout the series to provide comic relief."Housewives has the recipe for a bubbly evening soap". USA Today. Retrieved December 23, 2009.Goldblatt, Henry (October 21, 2005).
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The exact nature and causes of accident-proneness, assuming that it exists as a distinct entity, are unknown. Factors which have been considered as associated with accident-proneness have included absent-mindedness, clumsiness, carelessness, impulsivity, predisposition to risk-taking, and unconscious desires to create accidents as a way of achieving secondary gains. Broad studies on the speed and accuracy using a specially designed test sheet of finding a specific figure on various people as Japanese, Brazil born Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Filipinos, Thai and Central Americans with different educational backgrounds. The studies have revealed that educational background or study experience is the key factor of concentration capability.
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Opioid use may increase accident-proneness. Opioids may increase risk of traffic accidents and accidental falls. Reduced Attention Opioids have been shown to reduce attention, more so when used with antidepressants and/or anticonvulsants. Hyperalgesia Opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH) has been evident in patients after chronic opioid exposure.
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Cooke was frequently hospitalised for head injuries and had suspected brain damage because of his accident-proneness. Later it was questioned whether this was due to repressed suicidal tendencies. He also suffered from recurrent headaches and was once admitted to an asylum. His reported blackouts later stopped after an operation in 1949.
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Carelessness refers to the lack of awareness during a behaviour that can result in unintentional consequences. The consequences way of carelessness are often undesirable and tend to be mistakes. A lack of concern or an indifference for the consequences of the action due to inattention may partake in the origin of carelessness. Carelessness has been hypothesized to be one possible cause of accident-proneness.
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He left school at 14 to work as a delivery boy for Central Provision Stores in order to support the family. He would give his weekly wages to his mother who could not fully support the family with the money she earned from cooking and cleaning. Many of Cooke's jobs put him in the hospital due to his accident-proneness. At a job in the factory of Harris, Scarfe and Sandover, Cooke was hospitalised after being struck on the nose by a winch.
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The subject is still being studied actively. Research into accident- proneness is of great interest in safety engineering, where human factors such as pilot error, or errors by nuclear plant operators, can have massive effects on the reliability and safety of a system. One of the areas of most interest and more profound research is the Aeronautical area, where accidents have been reviewed from psychological and human factors, to mechanical and technical failures. There has been many conclusive studies, that present that human factor has great influence on the results of those occurrences.
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Gordon was interested in rare diseases, and this was reflected in his publications, and eventually became a consultant in rare diseases both within the UK and abroad. His most important field however, was paediatric neurology, a field in which he excelled. What concerned him most was the topics of chronic disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, Language disorder, learning disability, Accident-proneness, emotional and behavioral disorders, all medical disorder's that are within the field of paediatric neurology. Gordon in conducting research and writing publications examined in detail, those who had suffered from learning disabilities and low self-esteem could later lead to clumsiness and failure at school.
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The film starred David Niven in the principal role, with two other actors—Capucine and Claudia Cardinale—having more prominent roles than Sellers. However, Sellers's performance is regarded as being on par with that of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, according to biographer Peter Evans. Although the Clouseau character was in the script, Sellers created the personality, devising the costume, accent, make-up, moustache and trench coat. The Pink Panther was released in the UK in January 1964 and received a mixed reception from the critics, although Penelope Gilliatt, writing in The Observer, remarked that Sellers had a "flawless sense of mistiming" in a performance that was "one of the most delicate studies in accident-proneness since the silents".
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She once went fishing with her father and cast her hook so wildly that a car swung itself into the river after her hook dragged off its handbrake. Children jeer "Lawks, it's Gawks!" when she walks into a classroom before she can knock the blackboard off the wall, and she once slapped a dog up a tree when she tried to pet it. Because of her accident-proneness, Greta's parents have hidden a Ming vase behind wellington boots that they hope Greta will never touch again: at nine years-old, it fell on the dog and broke two ribs, then she nearly melted it with a candle, then she burnt her parents' homemade protecting cage, and then her head got stuck in it when she (and the toilet) crashed through the ceiling. Her parents had warned her that if she ever touches the vase again, she will become a celery-eating maid in a Clapham Common mansion while they are sold into slavery in Marrakesh.
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