Sudden unexpected death is an important category of mortality in the population with epilepsy. Possible risk factors have been identified from an epidemiological study of this phenomenon, but the exact mechanisms remain unclear. Some of these factors include: male sex; age 20-40 years; generalized seizures; poor seizure control; poor compliance with medication. Case-control studies now being un...

The extensive research findings on neurotoxic risks of pesticides tend to remain in academic publications rather than being comprehensibly communicated to decision-makers and the public. Protecting health and promoting risk reduction, particularly in developing countries, requires access to current findings in a format that can inform policy, regulations, behaviour change and risk reduction. Su...

The paper is devoted to the smoothing of discrete functions using the fuzzy transform (shortly, Ftransform) introduced by Perfilieva in [1]. We generalize a smoothing filter based on the fuzzy transform proposed in [2] to obtain a better control on the smoothed functions. For this purpose, a generalization of the concept of fuzzy partition is suggested and the smoothing filter is defined as a c...

isasters have various physical, psychological, social and economical effects on all age groups, particularly children who are more vulnerable than adults. In the aftermath of disasters, children, just like pregnant women, elderly and the disabled, are a special group with special needs. This is because they are at greater risk based on their specific physiological and psychological characterist...

The Disaster Deficit Index (DDI) measures macroeconomic and financial risk in a country according to possible catastrophic scenario events. Extreme disasters can generate financial deficit due to sudden and elevated need of resources to restore affected inventories. The DDI captures the relationship between the economic loss that a country could experience when a catastrophic event occurs and t...

Over the past 30 years, several interventions have been identified to prevent HIV transmission from HIV-infected persons to uninfected persons in discordant relationships. Yet, transmissions continue to occur. Interventions such as voluntary counselling and testing, condom promotion and risk reduction counselling are very effective in preventing transmission among serodiscordant couples but are...

The rise of online shopping has gradually changed consumer behavior. Not only does it offer convenient shopping with a variety of products, but also allows quick price comparisons and fast access to product information. Though it has developed rapidly in recent years, it is still perceived immature due to risks. This study is to explore the differences between the perceived risks and risk reduc...

Diet is an essential strategy for the prevention of primary and secondary cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. The objectives were to examine: how families at increased risk of CVD perceived personal risk, their motivations to make dietary changes, their understanding of diet, and the influence of other family members. Individuals (>18 years) who completed an Australian family-based CVD risk re...

BACKGROUND The identification of high-risk patients could form a basis for targetted intervention following an emergency medical admission. METHODS All emergency admissions to our institution over 12 years (2002-13) were included. An Illness Severity method based on admission laboratory parameters, previously developed between 2002 and 2007, was investigated for the 2008-13 cohort. We compare...