We reviewed 143 papers that described the relationship between moderate drinking of alcohol and some aspect of cognition. Two types of papers were found: (1) those that provided ratios of risk between drinkers and nondrinkers (74 papers in total) and (2) those that, although they did not provide such ratios, allowed cognition in drinkers to be rated as "better," "no different," or "worse" than ...

background: the aim of this paper was the comparison of ergonomic risk assessment results (final score and action levels) for the entire body as determined using quick exposure check (qec) and rapid entire body assessment (reba).  materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study in which all 82 workers engaged in various processes with different activities in an anodizing and aluminum pr...

Fire stations have to be situated carefully; in an emergency situation, the fire department should able reach its destination within time. The study exasperated integrate Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) with Weighted Overlay analysis (WOA) GIS present a model for station location planning. case is carried out Asansol Sadar Subdivision of Paschim Bardhaman District, West Bengal, India. shows ...

Background: The objective of this study was to determine the distribution some endemic species genus Astragalus L. (Astragalus anthylloides Lam., lycius Boiss. and xylobasis var. angustus (Freyn & Sint.) Freyn Bornm.) species, interaction between soil, climatic characteristics desertification risk which affect these in semi-arid environment Çankırı, northwest Turkey. During vegetation period 20...

In this paper we study copula-based models for aggregation of operational risk capital across business lines in a bank. A commonly used method of summation of the value-at-risk (VaR) measures, that relies on a hypothesis of full correlation of losses, becomes inappropriate in the presence of dependence between business lines and may lead to over-estimation of the capital charge. The problem can...

BACKGROUND Whether an association between alcohol drinking and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) risk exists is an open question. In order to provide quantification of the issue, we carried out a meta-analysis of published data. METHODS We identified 21 case-control and 8 cohort studies, including a total of 18,759 NHL cases. We derived meta-analytic estimates using random-effects models, taking int...

Flood is considered as a major threat among natural disasters in the world. This case becomes more important and has a higher risk in urban areas due to the existence of important uses. Therefore, to reduce damages resulted from flood, this phenomenon must be managed and planned using structural and non-structural approaches. Considering the development in Iran has been carried out in high risk...