Owing to environmentally-destructive impact of aromatic hydrocarbons, such as benzene, benzene ethyl, toluene, and xylenes or BTEXs, these materials are classified as hazardous pollutants in the air. This study studies cancer and non-cancer risk in District 12 of Tehran Municipality, through these components for two groups of employees or storekeepers and gas station customers. By measuring pol...

Owing to environmentally-destructive impact of aromatic hydrocarbons, such as benzene, benzene ethyl, toluene, and xylenes or BTEXs, these materials are classified as hazardous pollutants in the air. This study studies cancer and non-cancer risk in District 12 of Tehran Municipality, through these components for two groups of employees or storekeepers and gas station customers. By measuring pol...

Traditional Project Management Methodologies (TPMM) aim to prevent change by extensively planning and documenting as much as possible before the system is developed while change is inevitable and that it is not to be avoided. Additionally, Traditional Project Management rely more on processes, sequential software development, like waterfall. Consequently, there is a demand for system developmen...

It has been generally recognised that the need to improve the quality of health care has lead to a strong demand for clinical protocols/guidelines supported by computer systems in their creation and execution. How to efficiently and effectively manage, query and manipulate the computerised clinical test protocols has posed a major challenge but received little research attention so far. This pa...

Taking the botnet incident response plan decision-making as an example, we construct a new graph model to represent complex plan resolution domain by using action decomposition. In this model we introduced action layer, relation between subactions and decompose the complex incident response plan into many layers. This graphic model provides a powerful representing framework on the complex plan ...

This four-document series was created to improve education and communication concerning fertility preservation in adolescent and young adult Canadians with a new diagnosis of cancer. This article describes the services currently available in Canada, points out potential challenges, and outlines strategies to help maximize and facilitate fertility preservation in the new young cancer patient.

OBJECTIVE To implement a mentored laboratory quality stepwise implementation (LQSI) programme to strengthen the quality and capacity of Cambodian hospital laboratories. METHODS We recruited four laboratory technicians to be mentors and trained them in mentoring skills, laboratory quality management practices and international standard organization (ISO) 15189 requirements for medical laborato...

A sound retention strategy should incorporate a business plan, a value proposition, progress measures, and management influences. The business plan will indicate whether a healthcare organization will achieve a return on investment for its effort. A value proposition will showcase an organization's strengths and differentiate it from its competitors. Measuring progress toward meeting retention ...

Although asthma self-management plans are widely recommended as essential in the long-term treatment of adult asthma, there have been few studies examining their use. Our objective was to assess the effect of a "credit card" adult asthma self-management plan in a community experiencing major health problems from asthma, by means of a before and after intervention trial of the efficacy of the "c...