BACKGROUND Worker safety education using models that identify and reinforce factors affecting behavior is essential. The present study aimed to determine the effect of safety education based on motivational interviewing on awareness of, attitudes toward, and engagement in worker safety in the glass production industry in Hamedan, Iran, in 2014. METHODS This was a quasi-experimental interventi...

The paper surveys the literature on optimal taxation with emphasis on intermediate goods, or, more specific, freight (road) transport. There are two models frequently used, first, the one emanated from Diamond & Mirrlees’ (1971) paper, where the production efficiency lemma made it clear that intermediate goods was not to be taxed. And, second, the Ramsey-Boiteux model where a cost-of-service re...

walnut is one of the important products in kerman province and baft town is the main area of ‎walnut orchards. so the technical, allocative and economical efficiency of walnut farmers computed ‎assign the degree of farmer’s success in the optimum allocation of their resources. at first the ‎proper production function was estimated, and then stochastic frontier production and technical, ‎efficie...

Helge Backhaus, Denis Martin, and Hans Wippel attended this year’s IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks 2009 in Zurich. There they presented a demonstrator based on research of the 4WARD and G-Lab project, as well as the IME graduate school (Fig. 1). The demo was created together with Lars Völker, Peter Baumung, and Benjamin Behringer. Selected concepts of the demonstrator include the des...

PURPOSE To systematically review and assess the use of the Ligament Advanced Reinforcement System (LARS; Surgical Implants and Devices, Arc-sur-Tille, France) for posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) reconstruction. METHODS A search of multiple databases was conducted using the following terms: (LARS[All Fields] AND posterior[All Fields]) OR (LARS[All Fields] AND PCL[All Fields]). The methodolog...

Title: Evaluating patient experiences in decentralised acute care using the Picker Patient Experience Questionnaire; methodological and clinical findings Authors: Ann-Chatrin Leonardsen ([email protected]) Vigdis Grøndahl ([email protected]) Waleed Ghanima ([email protected]) Espen Storeheier ([email protected]) Anders Schönbeck ([email protected]) Nina Mikkelsen (n...

Lars Valerian Ahlfors died October 11, 1996, and a memorial article appears elsewhere in this issue. This feature article contains three essays about different aspects of his mathematics. Ahlfors’s contributions were so substantial and so diverse that it would not be possible to do all of them justice in an article of this scope (the reference [36] serves as a detailed map of Ahlfors’s contribu...

this present research work was carried out to evaluate the energy consumption in a typical iranian building based on the forecast of climatic variables. thus, the lars-wg model was validated for some northwest stations of iran, including tabriz, ardebil, oromieh, kermanshah, hamedan, sannandaj, qazvin, and zanjan. the average monthly outdoor temperature was forecasted from 2011 to 2100. the rel...