Numerous climate change effects on biodiversity have been anticipated and documented, including extinctions, range shifts, phenological shifts, and breakdown of interactions in ecological communities, yet the relative balance of different climate drivers and their relationships to other agents of global change (for example, land use and land-use change) remains relatively poorly understood. Thi...

MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVERS ARE INCREASINGLY USING electronic devices while driving for activities such as calling or sending text messages (texting) from cell phones, watching video, and searching the Internet. Automakers are also incorporating electronic devices into standard vehicle design, including dashboard Internet and satellite connections. Because these devices are integrated into everyday l...

An increasing focus on hospital productivity has rendered a need for more thorough knowledge of cost drivers in hospitals, including a need for quantification of the impact of age, case-mix and other characteristics of patients, as well as establishment of the cost-quality relationship.The aim of this study is to identify cost drivers for vascular surgery in Danish hospitals with a specific vie...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of control source and risk perception in predicting the behavior of taxi drivers in Karaj. The research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of this study was all 718 young taxi drivers in the city of Karaj. According to the Cochran formula at the level of 0.05, 250 young taxi drivers in Karaj were selected by avail...

In the article by Marottoli and colleagues [1] about automobile crashes among elderly drivers, data were collected from 283 drivers on independent variables in demographic, health, psychosocial, activity, and physical performance. However, data should have been obtained about sleep disorders that are common in elderly persons, including sleep-disordered breathing, periodic leg movements, and po...

today, the number of drivers and traffic users is increasing. so, it is necessary to know that the human factor has the most important factor in the traffic. thus, any behavior change or fault that arises from human factor (for example drivers) can have inappropriate impacts on the traffic. so, it is important that traffic users be trained about the effectiveness and attention to the traffic si...