Today, the rate and volume of human use natural resources are increasing at a very high speed. Pumping out huge amounts oil gas from Earth’s interior, which cannot quickly recover, no one calculated how this, for example, would affect all parameters movement our planet and, accordingly, change in living conditions people. Cutting down forests building dams on rivers, this climate Earth future, ...

PURPOSE This study was done to identify fundamental data on competency reinforcement programs to prevent adolescent risk behavior by developing and examining a competency model. METHODS In this study, competences on prevention of adolescent risk behavior were identified through competency modeling, and a competency model was developed and tested for validity. RESULTS Competences for prevent...

Littering is a significant challenge for environmental sustainability and major burden cities densely populated areas. Current solutions litter monitoring, such as watch campaigns city-operated collection, are costly challenging to conduct at large scale. This article presents vision using autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs) monitoring removal introduces mechanism AGVs that uses thermal dissipati...

Marine litter is a global threat, particularly on oceanic islands where the problem exacerbated. Perceptions, knowledge, awareness, and attitudes towards theme are crucial in its mitigation prevention. This study assessed these points through questionnaire to inhabitants of Portuguese archipelago. Data revealed that people associate marine with plastic impacts well informed about sources pathwa...

Background: Today, with an increase in life expectancy and an increase in middle aged and aging populations, a significant spread of chronic diseases is observed in all countries, and in particular in developing countries, which is one of the chronic diseases that is very effective in people's lives. In one The Osteoporosis Society. Which can only be prevented by early detection and diagnosis o...

Although patients in long-term-care facilities are at increased risk of infection, little is known about how to practice infection control in this setting. This article reviews risk factors for infection, the components of an infection control program, and particular infections that are important in long-term-care facilities. In addition, special characteristics of long-term-care facilities tha...

Randomized consent designs have been advocated in some setting. It has been argued that the use of the randomized consent designs is justified as it eliminates the so-called Hawthorne effect in the control group. Besides the ethical issue in not informing the patients, there are other potentially serious issues regarding the confounding and resultant bias in treatment comparison. This is partic...