OBJECTIVE To examine the advocacy and regulatory history surrounding bans on smoking in commercial airliners. METHODS Review of historical documents, popular press articles, and other sources to trace the timeline of events leading up to the US ban on smoking in airliners and subsequent efforts by airlines and other nations. RESULTS In early years, efforts by flight attendants and health ad...

An increasing body of research suggests job embeddedness (JE) as a motivational variable influencing employees’ attitudinal and behavioral outcomes such quitting intentions task performance. Personal resources have been reported to affect JE these outcomes. However, little work has investigated the antecedents consequences among cabin attendants. There is also dearth empirical regarding mechani...

introduction: herpes labialis is important in dentistry because of its high prevalence. herpes simplex virus (hsv) is responsive to treatment and infection control methods help protect patients and dental personnel. due to high levels of stress in the flight crew this study evaluated the prevalence of recurrent herpes labialis in the personnel of an airline company. materials and methods: in th...

in this paper a new guidance technique for ballistic missiles and launch vehicles is proposed. generally the lambert guidance is used to generate missile nominal (correlated) parameters through powered flight to put it in a ballistic flight path. because of uncertainties and undesired factors, the nominal position and velocity obtained by lambert technique need to be followed in actual flight. ...