background and purpose:consumption of baking soda, as a primary material for preparation of bread dough, has been banned due to its health complications in iran. so bread production in our country faced difficulties and one part of them is related to health issues which are bread production. also, in some cases, baking soda is used in the bread production. this study was done to study the envir...

tabriz petrochemical complex is located in northwest of iran and west of tabriz oil refinery and mostly produces raw plastics. in this study the implementation of reduction of hazardous waste contact in this complex with special emphasis on personal protective equipment (ppe) is discussed. accordingly different hazards threatening personnel, indoor and outdoor environment were determined. in or...

this cross-sectional study aimed to examine the relationship between several dimensions of the burnout syndrome with certain stress-coping strategies, seniority level and marital status in male staff from national police in vaparaíso, chile.the sample collected in 2010 was composed of 338 male officers coming from various special units of a national police in valparaíso. burnout and coping stra...

Different intuitive theories constrain and guide inferences in different contexts. Formalizing simple intuitive theories as probabilistic processes operating over structured representations, we present a new computational model of category-based induction about causally transmitted properties. A first experiment demonstrates undergraduates’ context-sensitive use of taxonomic and food web knowle...

The overall goal of our contribution to this volume—our own personal project—will be to showcase the ways in which Personal Projects analysis can be used to explore variation in the construction and understanding of the meaning of self. More than that, we mean to use personal projects analysis as a vehicle for examining this variation across both individuals and whole cultures. We realize, of c...

I. RESEARCH My research uses state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical methods to study how individuals, firms, and regulators interact in health care markets. Since I joined Wharton as an Assistant Professor in the Health Care Management Department in 2004, I have been intrigued by the economics of increasingly important but little studied health care industries such as emergency medical serv...

Full Professor Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 06/2007–... Director GERAD research center, Montréal, 05/2015–... Associate Professor Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 06/2001–05/2007 Assistant Professor Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 12/2000–06/2001 Researcher Math. & Indus. Eng., École Polytechnique de Montréal, 08/1999–11/2000 A...

assistant—they can make the arrangements. " Our business cards used to list only our phone numbers. When fax machines became popular, we added our fax numbers. Now, our business cards also carry our e-mail addresses and our home page URLs. What's next? It could be the network addresses of our personal assistants. These assistants will take care of our schedule and may even represent us in many ...

My research interests concentrate on large-scale distributed systems, in particular those exhibithing a high degree of dynamicity. These include peer-to-peer networks, whereby the physical network is fixed but bears at its top a logical network known as overlay network. Reconfiguration occurs at logical level and is triggered by the massive number of peers joining and leaving the network. Anoth...