conclusions despite relatively high prevalence of smoking than drug use in zahedan drivers, there are few reports of these behaviors. laboratory tests cannot suitably measure substance use due to their interference with other substances. considering adverse effects of smoking on health and driving, it is necessary to train drivers to reduce or stop smoking during driving. results generally, fou...

smotic pressure and associated residual stresses play important oles in cartilage development and biomechanical function. The urling behavior of articular cartilage was believed to be the ombination of results from the osmotic pressure derived from xed negative charges on proteoglycans and the structural and ompositional and material property inhomogeneities within the issue. In the present stu...

s the most common type of cancer in the United States, skin cancer is a significant public health issue.1 It is estimated that in 2004 more han 1 million people will be diagnosed as having basal ell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, and 2300 ill die. Melanoma, predicted to affect 55,100 individals, has a much higher mortality rate and will result in 900 deaths.2 Furthermore, although rates...

a O s fi o t l hen Greg Carlson became CEO of a newly merged hospital, he was faced with a dilemma. How was he going to lend two cultures while maintaining moale and avoiding layoffs? Surely a dauntng task. Carlson (whose doctoral thesis xamined mortality rates for hospital-emloyed versus contract cardiac surgeons— he conclusion was in favor of employee odel), decided to create a “culture desig...