purpose: risk factors of pelvic inflammatory disease can be different in different countries because of different sexual behaviors and religious restrictions. this study investigated the risk factors of this disease in iranian women in tehran. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional, descriptive study 1104 women with pelvic inflammatory disease were assessed from may 2010 to march 2011. ...

How wildfires are managed is a key determinant of long-term socioecological resiliency and the ability to live with fire. Safe and effective response to fire requires effective pre-fire planning, which is the main focus of this paper. We review general principles of effective federal fire management planning in the U.S., and introduce a framework for incident response planning consistent with t...

We present Scenario Planning Advisor (SPA), that takes as input the relevant news and social media trends that characterize the current situation, as well as the domain knowledge and generates multiple plans explaining the observations and projecting future states. The resulting plans are clustered and summarized to generate the scenarios for use in scenario planning for enterprise risk managem...

Optimality in motor planning, as well as accuracy in motor execution, is required to maximize expected gain under risk. In this study, we tested whether humans are able to update their motor planning. Participants performed a coincident timing task with an asymmetric gain function, in which optimal response timing to gain the highest total score depends on response variability. Their behaviours...

Emergency planning is an ongoing activity in which a multidisciplinary group of experts intermittently collaborate to define the most appropriate response to risks. One of the most important tasks of emergency planning is risk reduction. Such a task compiles the analysis of capabilities to face an emergency, the prioritizing of activities, and the definition of procedures and strategies. It is ...

the railway transportation planning under the fuzzy environment is investigated in this paper. as a main result, a new modeling method, called minimum risk chance-constrained model, is presented based on the credibility measure. for the convenience ofs olving the mathematical model, the crisp equivalents ofc hance functions are analyzed under the condition that the involved fuzzy parameter...

background to identify the prevalence of behavioural (pre-pregnancy), obstetrical and medical risks of pregnancy in iranian women.   methods a total of 2993 postpartum women who delivered in 23 randomly selected hospitals of six provinces were enrolled in this nationwide cross-sectional study. a structured questionnaire was completed based on interviewees’ self-reports and medical record data, ...