a bstract background: health professionals and their medical equipment have long been known to act as vectors of infectious diseases.the aim of the present study was to evaluate the role of pens used by nursing students working in clinics in relation to transmission of bacteria. materials and methods: the study was conducted in sakarya university school of health sciences in march 2012, with th...

this study proposes a new linear approximation for solving the dynamic response equations of a rocking rigid block. linearization assumptions which have already been used by hounser and other researchers cannot be valid for all rocking blocks with various slenderness ratios and dimensions; hence, developing new methods which can result in better approximation of governing equations while keepin...