of the 5,655 accidents with casualty that had occurred during 1973 in teheran, 4,936 or 87. 3% were caused by the negligence on the part of the drivers. the most accident producing driving middle-aged men of 30- 39 years, who had recently acquired driving permit and were wage earners as drivers in the city of tehran. alcohol intoxication as the cause of the accident had been recorded in only o....

Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have established themselves as the leading biopharmaceutical therapeutic modality. The establishment of robust manufacturing platforms are key for antibody drug discovery efforts to seamlessly translate into clinical and commercial successes. Several drivers are influencing the design of mAb manufacturing processes. The advent of biosimilars is driving a desire to a...

Commercial-off-the-shelf operating systems (COTS OSs) increasingly favor adaptability to support diverse application and hardware peripherals in detriment to targeting robustness of OS services. The COTS OSs interface to hardware devices is provided by the device-drivers1. Furthermore, drivers have themselves become add-on COTS components, enhancing OS’s adaptability. Unfortunately, drivers con...

OBJECTIVES To describe the prevalence and correlates of safety belt and mobile phone usage in vehicles in the city of Barcelona (Spain). METHODS We performed a study using direct observation with a cross-sectional design. We selected 2,442 private cars, commercial vehicles, and taxis from all districts of Barcelona. RESULTS The prevalence of people not wearing safety belt was 10.5% among dr...

This study estimates the dose-response relationship between body mass index (BMI) and crash risk in operators of heavy commercial motor vehicles. Intake data were collected during the first two weeks of instruction from 744 new truck drivers training for their commercial driver's licenses at a school operated by the cooperating trucking firm. Drivers were then followed prospectively on the job ...

background: taxi drivers have the most important role in the public transport services. they are exposed to various harmful agents and occupational hazards. noise is a harmful occupational factors and hearing loss is its most important effect. protection of drivers against hearing loss is essential. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of hearing loss among taxi and agency drive...

Many researchers have pointed out that the open source movement is an interesting phenomenon that is difficult to explain with conventional economic theories. However, while there is no shortage on research on individuals' motivation for contributing to open source, few have investigated the commercial companies' motivations for doing the same. A case study was conducted at three different comp...

The displacement of non-renewable fossil fuels by renewable energy resources has occurred at a low rate in the USA. But a large number of drivers is expected to cause significant expansion of the US renewable energy industry in the near future. Included among the extrinsic drivers, or those that are not directly related to renewable energy resources, are reductions in natural gas and crude oil ...

Injury due to road traffic crash is a major cause of ill health and premature deaths in developing countries. Taxis provide a main mode of public transport in Vietnam but there has been little research on the risk of crash for taxi drivers. This retrospective study collected information on taxi crashes for the period 2006-2009 by interviewing drivers from five taxi companies in Hanoi, Vietnam, ...

Korea lacks practical guideline regarding driver's licensing for persons with epilepsy. Therefore, these consensus guidelines would be useful for assessing the fitness of persons with epilepsy for as drivers of personal vehicles in Korea. In the guidelines, a person with chronic epilepsy may receive a driver's license after a seizure-free period of two years. A person with seizures occurring on...