Although distracted drivers are claiming more and more lives each year, drivers continue to perform dangerous behaviors behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. Of all driving distractions, texting and driving has proven to be one of the most dangerous. This research investigated the effect of text messaging on driver reaction, and whether the effect varied as a function of gender. Thirty-five Wic...

During this period, four successive regimes in Bangladesh have felt reluctantly compelled to set up structures for local participation in government. Each found it had to reach out beyond the support of urban and rural elites and the military if it was to move beyond mere stability to real development of the country. Despite many problems. most notably local elite takeover at local level and mi...

We developed a game-theoretic approach concerning the option pricing validity and tractability of which is ascertained by deriving the Black-Scholes formula. We also applied this approach to the welfare implications of the bailout policy. It is found that such a policy always worsens the economic welfare. This is because of the moral hazardous behavior of the buyer owing to the limited liabilit...

in this study the accuracy of one of the vital signs(boyd temperature) reported by the nursing staff was compared with the reporting of the control group,in order to find the problems and ways to solve them.to do this,117 body temperatures reported from hospitalized patients in pediatrics wards in Kerman university No1 hospital were analused.samples were gathered by clustering method from diffe...

Equity issues have led many economists to re-consider their preference for conducting efficiency analyses with aggregated estimates of the benefits and costs of changes in environmental resource allocations. For instance, there is evidence that health risks due to hazardous wastes disproportionately affects the poor and non-white. Policies that lead to these disproportionate effects are not nec...

PURPOSE Unsafe behaviors are an important cause of accidents in adolescent age groups. This study was designed to examine the behaviors of adolescent pedestrians in southern Iran. METHODS This is a descriptive analytical cross-sectional study. The study population consisted of high school students in Shiraz, capital city of Fars Province, Iran. Five hundred and sixteen students were selected ...