Since January 1992, all benzodiazepines have been classified as dangerous drugs under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance in Hong Kong. This legislative provision requires medical practitioners and pharmacists to keep a detailed record of their prescriptions of benzodiazepines The present study looks at the impact of the provision on prescribing trends in the Hong Kong population and in a general psy...

parametric design optimization of an automotive body crashworthiness improvement is presented. the thicknesses of parts are employed as design variables for optimization whose objective is to increase the maximum deceleration value of the vehicle center of gravity during an impact. using the taguchi method, this study analyzes the optimum conditions for design objectives and the impact factors ...

Background: The legislative review of the criminal record on the crime of repetition and the severity of the punishment for repeated offenders indicates that the legislator firstly used various laws to include repetition of crime, and in some cases such as drug offenses and for criminal reasons. It has taken into account a certain degree of exacerbation that is markedly different from what is s...

The performance of components produced by conventional route of a thermo mechanical process and those produced by continuous casting is interesting from different aspects of economy and technology. The performance of products in their service depends on their properties which are strongly influenced by production routes. In the present work the hardness, tensile and tensile-impact behaviors of ...

It has been three years since states began to implement the accountability and program improvement provisions of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990 (Perkins II), and policymakers are asking whether these provisions are working. We know, from previous National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) research, that states adopted systems of mea...

the purpose of this study is evaluating the impact of organizational culture and leadership style on knowledge management considering the mediating role of technology acceptance. the hypotheses were tested against the data collected from a sample of 54 manufacturing companies in qazvin province, using the variance based structural equations modeling (partial least square technique) and path ana...

This research as a practical, quantitative, and descriptive survey was conducted with the aim of studying the impact of leadership styles and organizational culture on employees' entrepreneurial orientation. The statistical population included 110 employees of Saveh educational organization. By using the method of random sampling, 68 people were selected as the sample. Data analysis was conduct...