noise is one of the major hazardous occupational exposures and one of the occupations at risk is the transportation industry. however, few studies have measured and reported the amount of noise exposure in drivers. in this study, we evaluated noise exposure among the public transportation bus drivers of one major iranian city, kerman, southeast iran. eighty public transportation buses in the st...

in bavaria, about 1.7 million children walk, ride a bike or take the bus to school. it is important that they all get to school and back home again safely. in the last few decades, we in bavaria have been able to significantly improve safety on children’s way to school. in the mid 1970s, up to 35 children were killed in accidents every year on their way to school. in the last few years, we have...

IMPLICATIONS Sire selection should focus on that which is economical. This requires a true accounting of the traits that generate revenue or incur a cost within a specific beef cattle enterprise. Once the drivers of profit have been identified, sire selection should focus on the suite of traits that impact profitability. The use of bio-economic selection indices can dramatically reduce the comp...

Abstract F DI can create employment and reduce poverty, increase the host country’s export capacity causing the developing country to increase its foreign exchange earnings. The aim of this study is to investigate whether FDI affect economic growth in GCC countries over the period 1980-2014 using ARDL approaches. The empirical results show that the FDI is one of the major drivers of e...

“Remember your humanity. Forget the rest”. (Bertrand Russell in Russell-Einstein Manifesto) In a nutshell, this review is not trying to propagate rocket science or eureka moment that scientifically finds the cure for all the ills of economic inequality like penicillin does for infections. This review is a basic but effective exploration into the true nature of social realities. This review holi...

Purpose Catering services play important role in the Spanish economy, accounting for 6.2% of GDP 2021. To overcome adverse economic impacts COVID-19, catering are considered one drivers to stimulate growth. Hence, main aim this paper is analyse sociodemographic profile family's breadwinner who allocates most his expenditure budget on different before and during pandemic caused by COVID-19 Spain...

This study analyzes cities in China at the prefecture level and above to calculate indices for “urban economic efficiency” (the relationship between input factors output) “urbanization newly increased output input), based on Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) method. We compare analyze influencing change their spatial distributions. The results show that capital labor rather than urban land cou...

The collapse of economic activity in 2020 from COVID-19 has been immense. An important question is how much that resulted government-imposed restrictions versus people voluntarily choosing to stay home avoid infection. This paper examines the drivers slowdown using cellular phone records data on customer visits more than 2.25 million individual businesses across 110 different industries. Compar...