AIM To identify risk factors for cariogenic feeding practices in the first year of life. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study. METHODS 500 children born within the public health care system in São Leopoldo, Brazil, were recruited in a follow-up program. Anthropometric and demographic data were collected soon after birth; data on feeding practices were assessed at 12 months of age using a standardised ...

Background To estimate Oral Hygiene (OH) status in the Iranian population in 2011, and to determine the influence of socio-economic characteristics on OH, and its interrelation with common risk factors of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs).   Methods Data including a total of 12,105 individuals aged 6-70 years were obtained from the sixth round of the surveys of NCDs risk factors in Iran. OH was ...

Electricity spot prices are highly volatile under optimal generation capacity scenarios due to factors such as nonstorability of electricity, peak demand at certain periods, generator outages, fuel uncertainty for renewable energy generators, huge investments and time needed for generation capacity expansion etc. As a result market participants are exposed to price and volume risk, which has le...

The risk sphere in business is fast changing and expanding. Almost anything has become a risk factor that will have potent, direct, and far reaching impacts on business. This paper examines the intensity of enterprise risk management (ERM) practices among the Malaysian public listed companies. The paper espouses a ERM framework comprising fourteen important implementation elements and processes...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate targeting of statin prescribing for primary prevention to those with high cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. DESIGN Two cohort studies including the general population and initiators of statins aged 35-74 years. SETTING UK primary care records in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. PATIENTS 3.8 million general population patients and 300 914 statin users. INTE...

The nation's critical infrastructures, such as those found in Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and industrial control systems (ICS), are increasingly at risk and vulnerable to internal and external threats. Security best practices on these systems come at a very opportune time. Further, the value of risk assessment of these systems is something that cannot just be relegated as i...

BACKGROUND General practitioners are usually the first health professionals to be contacted by people with early signs of psychosis. We aimed to assess whether increased liaison between primary and secondary care improves the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of detection of people with, or at high risk of developing, a first psychotic illness. METHODS Our Liaison and Education in...

unreliability of financial statements in iran has urged this country’s financial services industry management to manipulate practices by which they could gain reliable risk scores for borrowers. this research extracts the most influential qualitative factors that would impact the default of a business relationship borrower. solicitation of the factors is done through delphi methodology. the mea...