Background: Listeria monocytogenes is a Gram-positive and facultative anaerobic food-borne bacterium which is capable of intra and extra cellular growth. L. monocytogenes usually can exist on different surfaces and instruments at production and processing sites of food products with animal origin. In Iran, the consumption of burger has increased recently, but its safety is still of great concer...

Current early risk assessment techniques rely on subjective human judgments and unrealistic assumptions such as fixed requirements and work breakdown structures. This is a weak approach because different people could arrive at different conclusions from the same scenario even for projects with a stable and well-defined scope, and such projects are rare. This paper introduces a formal model to a...

P165 Table 1 Competent (%) Not competent, training available (%) Not competent, training not available (%) Emergency contraception counselling 100 0 0 Referring to support organisations 90 10 0 Prescribing STI/HIV/Hep B prophylaxis 90 10 0 SV history taking and risk assessment in u-18s 89 4 7 Forensic exam counselling/ documenting injuries 64 29 7 Documenting history/exam for medico-legal repor...

Methods We assessed 40 persons from serodiscordant couples, in the hospital’s psycho-social assistance office. Of these, 20 were HIV-positive young men and women registered in the Regional HIV/AIDS Center. Assessments were made between January and August 2013. The instrument used was a questionnaire developed by the psychologist, with questions relating to the frequency of sexual intercourse an...

Monte Carlo simulation has been used extensively for addressing probabilistic uncertainty in range estimating for construction projects. However, subjective and linguistically expressed information results in added non-probabilistic uncertainty in construction management. Fuzzy logic has been used successfully for representing such uncertainties in construction projects. In practice, an approac...

P165 Table 1 Competent (%) Not competent, training available (%) Not competent, training not available (%) Emergency contraception counselling 100 0 0 Referring to support organisations 90 10 0 Prescribing STI/HIV/Hep B prophylaxis 90 10 0 SV history taking and risk assessment in u-18s 89 4 7 Forensic exam counselling/ documenting injuries 64 29 7 Documenting history/exam for medico-legal repor...

INTRODUCTION With the proliferation of Internet access and the shift to performing some brick-and-mortar transactions online, the need for stability and reliability in the E-commerce arena is becoming increasingly apparent. E*Trade, one of the many successful E-commerce sites, depends completely upon its online presence to stay in business. An outage, regardless of cause, can potentially cost m...

The degree of disease risk represented by the introduction, spread, or establishment of one or several diseases through the importation of animals and animal products is assessed by importing countries through an analysis of risk. The components of a risk analysis include hazard identification, risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication. A risk assessment starts with identificatio...