Safety is a critical issue for the construction industry. Literature argues that human error contributes to more than half of occupational incidents and could be directly impacted by effective training programs. This paper reviews the current safety training status in the US construction industry. Results from the review evidence the gap between the status and industry expectation on safety. To...

BACKGROUND Cycle ergometer training (CET) has been shown to improve exercise performance of the quadriceps muscles in patients with COPD, and inspiratory muscle training (IMT) may improve the pressure-generating capacity of the inspiratory muscles. However, the effects of combined CET and IMT remain unclear and there is a lack of comprehensive assessment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighty-one pati...

1. ABSTRACT Amazon is the world’s largest online retailers where millions of customers purchase and review products on its website. However, many Amazon customers do not review and rate products after the purchase, and tons of research projects work on producing better prediction strategies for customer ratings. In this research project, we show a new approach to enhance the accuracy of the rat...

BACKGROUND While short-term effects of parent training (PT) have been extensively evaluated, long-term outcome and present predictors of a diagnosis for children with ODD/CD treated with parent training are very limited. METHOD In the present study, diagnostic status as outcome and predictors of treatment response were examined in a 5-6-year follow-up. Out of 99 children who had been treated ...

Precise eye status detection and localization is a fundamental step for driver distraction detection. The efficiency of any learning-based object detection method highly depends on the training dataset as well as learning parameters. The reported research develops optimum values of Haar-training parameters to create a nested cascade of classifiers for real-time eye status detection. The detecto...

Heart rate variability (HRV) and parasympathetic power are closely related to the well-being and health status in humans. The main goal of the study was to determine whether these measures can reflect recovery status after weight training. After a 10-day detraining period, 7 weightlifters were challenged with a 2-hour weight training which elicited approximately fourfold increases in circulatin...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Exercise-induced iron deficiency is a common finding in endurance athletes. It has been suggested recently that hepcidin may be an important mediator in this process. OBJECTIVE To determine hepcidin levels and markers of iron status during long-term exercise training in female runners with depleted and normal iron stores. METHODS Fourteen runners were divided into two gr...

P ower is determined from work per unit of time and considered to be a fundamental aspect of successful athletic performance, especially in sports that require speed, agility, and explosive actions (7, 17, 27, 39). Consequently the optimal training techniques to maximize power and the transfer of power to athletic performance have received considerable attention from researchers and sport condi...

clinical training provides the possibility of learning a wide range of important diseases that doctors may encounter in their future career. the present study was conducted to analyze the viewpoint of the students on the outpatient clinical training. this descriptive study was carried out on 109 medical students during internship using convenience sampling. data were collected by a questionnair...