In addressing questions surrounding the comparison of different popula-tions' health, the first issue to be raised is whether devoting scarce analytical resources on attempting to answer them is worthwhile. A second issue is whether these questions are capable of being answered satisfactorily. Only after that does it seem important to try to address more direct questions of how best to do this....

in this research paper, a 10 minute period measured wind speed data at 10 m, 30 m, and 40 m heights are presented for one of the major provinces of iran. four stations in khuzestan- abadan, hosseyneh, mahshahr, and shushtar- are analyzed to determine the potential of wind power generation in this province. from the primary evaluation and by determining mean wind speed and also the weibull funct...

Health economics is a science to optimize resource allocation. Therefore, health economics can only be applied when there are choices(1), and there are no dearth of choices in modern medicine. The characteristic feature of health economics is that it deals both with inputs, or costs, and outputs, or consequences(1). In this article, we will be discussing the applications of health economics in ...

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) utilizes chemical-specific minimal risk lev­ els (MRLs) to assist in evaluating the public health risk associated with exposure to hazardous sub­ stances. The MRLs are derived based on the health effects data compiled from current literature searches and presented in ATSDR's toxicological profiles. Health effects are categorized according...

It has been commonplace in epistemology since its inception to idealize away from computational resource constraints, i.e., from the constraints of time and memory. One thought is that a kind of ideal rationality can be specified that ignores the constraints imposed by limited time and memory, and that actual cognitive performance can be seen as an interaction between the norms of ideal rationa...

Grant Agreement number: 312631 Project acronym: SPICED Project title: Securing the spices and herbs commodity chains in Europe against deliberate, accidental or natural biological and chemical contamination Funding Scheme: Collaborative Project (CP) – Small or medium-scale focused research project (STREP) Period covered: from M1 (01 July 2013) to M36 (30 June 2016) Name of the project coordinat...

This study reports the results of problem/designbased education offered by the Environmental Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University (ITU) through an example of the senior-year Graduation Design Project (GDP), and the outcomes of introducing new environmental management considerations to environmental system design, and impacts of those on the senior-year Environmental Engineeri...