prostate cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in iran, yet there are few studies examining risk factors specific to the iranian context. we conducted a case-control study to explore risk factors for prostate cancer in mazandaran, iran from 2005 to 2008. the cases were 137 men with clinicopathologically confirmed prostate cancer. controls were 137 neighborhood and age match men wit...

Evaluating risk early in concept design in order to inform the early trade studies is difficult due to the lack of information available at that early stage. This paper describes the approach used to perform a preliminary risk evaluation to inform the trade studies MIT and the Draper Laboratory are doing as part of the Concept Evaluation and Refinement (CE&R) activities of the new NASA Space Ex...

BACKGROUND Several studies have shown that early cannabis use is correlated with poor educational performance including high school drop-out. The predominant explanation for this relationship is that cannabis use causes disengagement from education. Another explanation is that the association between early cannabis use and educational attainment is not causal, but the result of overlapping risk...

in today’s competitive business environment, the design and management of supply chainnetwork is one of the most important challenges that managers encounter. the supply chain network shouldbe designed for satisfying of customer demands as well as minizing the total system costs. this paper presentsa multi-period multi-stage supply chain network design problem under demand uncertainty. the prob...

The I.ECEC+ Project 2018-1-HU01-KA201-047763 (2018-2021) aims at strengthening collaboration among different European institutions working within (or in relation to) early childhood education (ECEC) settings. general objectives of the project are to contribute integration disadvantaged children and improve quality institutional care childhood. immediate goal was learn about intercultural compet...