background and objectives: exposure to contaminated needlesticks and sharp devices is an important occupational hazard among healthcare workers. the objective of this study was to gain further insight into prevalence and risk factors of needlestick and sharps injuries among healthcare workers. methods: a cross-sectional survey was carried out among 384 healthcare workers of two hospitals in ne...

background : hepatitis b virus (hbv) is one of the most popular causes of chronic liver diseases through the world. there are approximately 350 million individuals infected with the hbv that 15 to 20 million of them are co-infected with hdv. it is known that co-existent infection with hdv tends to accelerate the progress of chronic hbv infection to chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellula...

background: the reliability and safety of gas refineries are strongly associated with the reliability of other parts of the system. defect and failure in one part of a system can cause total system breakdown or accident. the failure and damage in these equipment such as transformers and boilers results in not only the equipment damage and human injuries but also productivity reduction. the purp...

conjunctive use of ground and surface water can increase reliability of the water supply by providing independent sources. in this study, corrected utility-efficient pro-gramming that allows for more than one seasonal irrigation depth for each crop was used to determine the amount of utility maximizing investment in the well capacity for conjunctive use. results showed that optimum investment a...

background accident investigation programs are a necessary part in identification of risks and management of the business process. objectives one of the most important features of such programs is the analysis technique for identifying the root causes of accidents in order to prevent their recurrences. analytical hierarchy process (ahp) was used to compare management oversight and risk tree (mo...

aim : the aim of this study was to review our experience with gestations in autoimmune hepatitis patients. background : there are only limited data describing pregnancy in patients with autoimmune hepatitis. patients and methods : retrospective analysis of pregnancies with autoimmune hepatitis followed in centro hospitalar do porto, portugal in the last ten years. results : we reported nine pre...

introduction: traffic accidents are the 8 th cause of mortality in different countries and are expected to rise to the 3 rd rank by 2020. based on the haddon matrix numerous factors such as environment, host, and agent can affect the severity of traffic-related traumas. therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the effective factors in severity of these traumas based on haddon matrix. meth...

Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is an emerging topic in the world of business and information technology. However to date there is a lack of research on an integrated approach to GRC has hardly been researched. In this paper we construct an integrated process model for high-level IT GRC management. First, we discuss existing process models for integrated GRC. Then we set the scope of our...

Introduction The rapidly changing regulatory environment across all industry sectors requires managers and their boards to be more anticipatory to the challenges of strong governance, effective enterprise-wide risk management and the implementation of an efficient and effective compliance regime. Many organisations have sought to create an integrated governance, risk and compliance (GRC) oversi...