AIMS The EndoCost study aims to calculate the costs of endometriosis from a societal perspective. METHODS This multicentre, prevalence-based cost-of-illness analysis aggregates data on endometriosis costs and quality of life from a prospective hospital questionnaire and from both retrospective and prospective patient questionnaires. The EndoCost study comprises 12 representative tertiary care...

This study presents some results from a case-control study of crashed vehicles equipped with Australian airbag technology (Supplementary Restraint Systems). Vehicles were inspected and occupants interviewed according to the National Accident Sampling System (NASS). Data were available for 383 belted drivers involved in frontal crashes including 253 drivers in airbag-equipped vehicles and 130 dr...

Declines in executive function and dual-task performance have been related to falls in older adults, and recent research suggests that older adults at risk for falls also show impairments on real-world tasks, such as crossing a street. The present study examined whether falls risk was associated with driving performance in a high-fidelity simulator. Participants were classified as high or low f...

16 There has been growing interest in establishing food waste prevention and recovery 17 programs throughout the world. The drive to target food waste stems from increasing concerns 18 about resource conservation, food security, food waste’s environmental and economic costs, and 19 a general trend in the waste management industry to transition to more sustainable practices. 20 Here the drivers ...

Grey matter volume increases have been associated with expertise in a range of domains. Much less is known, however, about the broader cognitive advantages or costs associated with skills and their concomitant neuroanatomy. In this study we investigated a group of highly skilled navigators, licensed London taxi drivers. We replicated findings from previous studies by showing taxi drivers had gr...

Hardware virtualization in the x86 architecture has enabled the use of virtual machine monitors in Beowulf clusters. In turn, each application user can then run a virtual guest operating system of his/her choice. Of course virtualizing and sharing the hardware resources in a Beowulf cluster will add additional overheads that may negatively effect performance of the application. However, the use...

BACKGROUND Smoking is an increasingly prevalent habit in Bangladesh, particularly among men with low socioeconomic status. AIM The aim of this study was determining the prevalence and pattern of smoking among bus drivers of Dhaka city, Bangladesh. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out from 15 to 26 March 2013 among four hundred bus drivers of Dhaka city, Bangladesh aged between 18...

background and objective: sleepiness is one of the important factors in motor vehicle accidents, especially in commercial drivers (cds). obstructive sleep apnea (osa) has an important role in developing sleepiness. the stop-bang questionnaire is used in medical examinations of commercial drivers in iran by law. this study aimed to investigate the judgment that drivers prefer not to report their...

In Beijing, most taxi drivers intentionally avoid working during peak hours despite of the huge customer demand within these peak periods. This dilemma is mainly due to the fact that taxi drivers’ congestion costs are not reflected in the current taxi fare structure. To resolve this problem, we propose a new pricing scheme to provide taxi drivers with extra incentives to work during peak hours....