BACKGROUND Hip protectors represent an attractive strategy for reducing hip fractures among high-risk fallers in long-term care facilities. However, clinical studies yield conflicting results regarding their clinical value. This is mainly due to poor acceptance and adherence among users in wearing these devices. As a result, there is an urgent need to identify potential barriers and facilitator...

Risk management and success in projects are highly intertwined – better approaches to project risk management tend to increase chances of project success in terms of achieving scope & quality, schedule and cost targets. The process of responding to risk factors during a project’s life cycle is a crucial aspect of risk management referred to as risk response strategies, in this paper. The curren...

In this paper, we analyze momentum strategies that are based on reward-risk stock selection criteria in contrast to ordinary momentum strategies based on a cumulative return criterion. Reward-risk stock selection criteria include the standard Sharpe ratio with variance as a risk measure, and alternative reward-risk ratios with the expected shortfall as a risk measure. We investigate momentum st...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact acceptance national governments’ restrictions imposed due COVID-19 pandemic on citizens’ safety perceptions daily life and future plans. In particular, aim examine relationship among citizens who belong Generations Y Z represent tourism markets, as tourists host communities, in three important receiving countries, namely, Egypt, Portuga...

Background Although the effect of 3-dimensional (3D) planning for total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) on component positioning and patient outcomes has been increasingly studied, 3D surgeon decision making not well studied. Methods A retrospective review was performed a database containing TSA cases which glenoid planned with commercially available computed tomography software program (Virtual Im...