every year, for realizing the goals of five-year state civil development plan, a great part of state credits and financial resources are spent for investment in national projects, whilst most of national projects are performed with considerable delay. essential objectives of applying this research is design and explanaion of national projects managers’ competencies model, focusing on risk that ...

TOBACCO USE IS INCREASING among young Americans. Cigarette smoking rates among adolescents increased by 32% between 1991 and 1997. Cigarette smoking by young adults (18-24 years) increased by 16% between 1995 and 1997, presumably reflecting the aging of the adolescent cohort. Young adults, who represent the youngest legal targets of tobacco industry marketing, may also be initiating tobacco use...

OBJECTIVE To assess selection criteria for temporal lobectomy and to evaluate the process for pre-surgical evaluation, informed consent, and the definition of success. METHODS We constructed an electronic survey instrument composed of 26 questions and sent it to epileptologists and neurosurgeons at 105 US epilepsy centers. RESULTS While variation with the number of drug failures that signif...

Of the many problems which have dogged the Health Service since its inception, one basic one, never properly Addressed, has been that of assessing the demand for health-care. Looking at the level of provision over the Population as a whole has not been helpful. Attempting 0 do this has revealed the inadequacy of the machinery 0r measuring what those who provide health-care are Actually engaged ...

Research, especially in the early 21st century, has shown that education is needed to change people’s behaviour regarding password generation, management and storage. As our daily routines and duties have become more dependent on electronic services in the last decade, one could think that qualitative education is nowadays given to users. To verify this assumption we conducted a nation-wide, de...

Fifty-six retail stores representing 15 retail chains and 14 foodservice facilities in eight U.S. cities were sampled to determine the tenderness of beef steaks at retail and foodservice levels based on Warner-Bratzler shear (WBS) values and consumer evaluation panels. Retail consumer panels were conducted at five universities. Each retail and foodservice steak was evaluated using 10-point scal...

● 1984 accounted for 159 discharges and 1,044 days of care per ,000civilian population. These and other statistics presented in this report are based on data collected by means of the National Hospital Discharge Survey, a continuous survey that has been conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics since 1965. In 1984, data were abstracted from the face sheets of medical records of app...

General Comment No. 22, issued in 2016 by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), clarifies states’ legal duties to respect, protect, and fulfill the right to sexual and reproductive health (SRH). Our study analyzes domestic constitutions around the world to investigate whether and to what extent the right to sexual and reproductive health is respected, protected, and ful...

Infections with atypical mycobacteria in Australia during 2000 occurred at a rate of 1.8 cases per 100,000 population. The main sites of disease were the respiratory tract, soft tissue, and the lymphatics. The Mycobacterium avium complex was the most common group of mycobacteria isolated from respiratory, lymphatic sites, and blood. The rapidly growing mycobacteria, predominantly the M. fortuit...