PROBLEM Alcohol-related youth traffic fatalities continue as a major public-health concern. While state and federal laws can be useful in tackling this problem, the efficacy of many laws has not been empirically demonstrated. We examined the impact of state laws prohibiting alcohol advertising to target minors. METHOD Using statistics obtained from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS...

This Research Note emphasizes recent trends in the number of alcohol-impaired drivers involved in fatal crashes, by the gender of the driver as well as the State where the fatal crash occurred. This analysis was performed in light of recent data1 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that depicted a recent increasing trend in the number of female drivers arrested for driving under the influe...

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1 Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 71345-1583, Shiraz, Iran. 2 Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 71468-64685, Shiraz, Iran. 3 Department of Medical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Fars, Iran. 4 Non...

Due to complexity of biomedical problems, adaptive and intelligent knowledge discovery and data mining systems are highly needed to help humans to understand the inherent mechanism of diseases. For biomedical classification problems, typically it is impossible to build a perfect classifier with 100% prediction accuracy. Hence a more realistic target is to build an effective Decision Support Sys...

The purpose of this study was to Survey and identify obstacles of Successful Implementation of Business Strategies in food industry Companies of Fars Province. This research is a mixed method research that combined both quantitative and qualitative research methods. In qualitative part, focus group and in quantitative part inferential and descriptive research was applied. In order to inferentia...

field and aim: obesity is in parallel with raise in risk of a lot of disease such as atherosclerosis, hypertension and type two diabetes and has relation with lifestyle and socioe- economic state. aim of present study was evaluation the relationship between obesity and effective factors on cardiovascular health and socio-economic state of male students of islamic azad university-fars branch sci...

OBJECTIVE Self-directed care (SDC) is a mental health service delivery model in which participants budget the state dollars allotted for their care to purchase the goods and services they deem most appropriate for achieving their recovery goals. This study examines the demographic characteristics, service utilization patterns, and outcomes of individuals enrolled in the Florida Self-Directed Ca...