Background: Fatal road accidents are among the most important causes of mortality in the world; Iran has one of the world’s highest accident fatality rates. Therefore, it is important to have efficient pre-hospital emergency services. Objectives: The main aim of this study was to assess the road emergency sites (RECs) in Iran. Materials and Methods: Provincial data were used for this purpose. C...

In the year 2000, SOGON formulated a strategic plan on women's health based on the reproductive health approach with the aim of reducing maternal mortality by 50% by the year 2010. In 2005, the Nigerian Road Map for accelerating the attainment of Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 was launched. One of the key guiding principles of the Road Map was promoting partnerships and joint programming ...

During times of extreme storm events, access to rural areas involves bi-directional flow: (1) Evacuation of able-bodied individuals from affected areas and (2) Access to the affected areas by emergency and rescue personnel. Impediments to ready access to the affected areas vary from those associated with pre-storm such as road congestion/accidents and pristine road surface deterioration, to mid...

BACKGROUND Off-road vehicles are popular and thrilling for youth outside urban settings, yet sometimes result in a serious crash that requires emergency medical care. The relation between birthdays and the subsequent risk of an off-road vehicle crash is unknown. METHODS We conducted a population-based before-and-after longitudinal analysis of youth who received emergency medical care in Ontar...

This study aims at quantifying the influence on the traversability of road network of road network caused by building collapse in earthquake. To this end, an analysis method on post-earthquake traversability of road network considering building collapse is proposed. First, the time-history analysis of seismic response based on the multi-degree of freedom (MDOF) model is performed for regional b...

Background and Purpose: Emergency Department (ED) staff are frequently faced with road traffic injury victims and also play role as various road users. This study was conducted to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practices of ED staff towards road safety at referral trauma hospitals of Tabriz. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2020 in the referral traum...

OBJECTIVES To locate the road emergency stations in Fars province based on using spatial multi-criteria decision making (Delphi method). METHODS In this study, the criteria affecting the location of road emergency stations have been identified through Delphi method and their importance was determined using Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP). With regard to the importance of the criteria an...

LIP UMR CNRS / ENS Lyon / UCB Lyon 1 / INRIA 69007 Lyon E-mail : Christophe [email protected], [email protected] The advent of parallelism in supercomputers, in embedded systems (smartphones, plane controllers), and in more classical end-user computers increases the need for high-level code optimization and improved compilers. Being able to deal with the complexity of the upcoming softw...