Dear Editor, Statistics show that Iran is one of the main disaster prone countries. 1 In the Bam earthquake alone in De-cember 26, 2003, more than 25000 people died, 50,000 were injured and 100,000 lost their homes. 2 Disaster may happen during any person's life and preparedness is the best way for preventing the dramatic consequences. By sure, implementing proper preparedness for disasters in ...

We have developed a method for accurately inferring true labels from labels provided by crowdsourcing workers, with the aid of self-reported confidence judgments in their labels. Although confidence judgments can be useful information for estimating the quality of the provided labels, some workers are overconfident about the quality of their labels while others are underconfident. To address th...

Abstract In the Arabic-speaking mahjar (diaspora), plight of working poor was focus women’s philanthropy. Scholarship on welfare relief in interwar Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian diaspora currently situates it within a gendered politics benevolence. This article reconsiders that frame argues for class-centered reassessment “ladies aid” exploring intersections with proletarian mutual aid stra...

BACKGROUND To assess the frequency of chronic upper airways symptoms and to relate the presence of these symptoms to accidental exposure to chlorine and changes in lower airways symptoms, airway function, and bronchial responsiveness in a cohort of workers at risk of sporadic occupational exposure to high concentrations of chlorine. METHODS Data were collected on symptom assessment, spirometr...

INTRODUCTION A significant number of healthcare workers have responded to aid in the relief and containment of the 2013 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa. Healthcare workers are required to wear personal protective clothing (PPC) to impede the transmission of the virus; however, the impermeable design and the hot humid environment lead to risk of heat stress. OBJECTIVE Provide...

The Canadian poultry production industry contributes nearly $10 billion to the Canadian economy and employs nearly 50,000 workers. However, modern poultry facilities are highly contaminated with airborne dust. Although there are many bioaerosols in the poultry barn environment, endotoxin is typically attributed with the negative respiratory symptoms observed in workers. These adverse respirator...

This paper presents an approach to crowdsourcing annotations of UI components from images. Using the “Find-Draw-Verify” task design, an in-HIT exampleguided annotation aid is proposed to facilitate workers thereby improving the result quality.