background: many workers suffer from low-back pain. type and severity of spinal complaints have relationship with work load. lack of adherence to ergonomics recommendations among the important causes of low-back pain. objective: to assess the effect of 3 ergonomics training programs on the prevalence of lowback pain among workers of an iranian automobile factory. methods: in a parallel-design 4...

Aim: We aimed to determine whether chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and respiratory failure patients' characteristics can be defined as additional criteria Body Mass Index (BMI), Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS-2002), Albumin affecting the 1-year mortality.
 Material Method: One hundred eighty-sixes patients who have been hospitalized in Pulmonary Intensive Care Unit between 01...

Atmospheric carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations have decreased since the beginning of century, and rate decrease depends on region. Depending how regions are chosen, their boundaries may not always align with where there differences in trends. To address this, we calculate trends within 0.4° × grid cells independently throughout globe using satellite CO retrievals from Measurements Of Pollution...

In Commonwealth v. Chatman, 46 N.E.3d 1010 (Mass. 2016), the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts affirmed the trial court’s denial of his motion for a new trial, which was based on his assertion that he was incompetent at his 2002 trial. The Chatman test was constructed in a 2013 appeal in this same case as a framework for retrospective evaluation of a defendant’s competency to stand trial,...

This statement summarizes the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on hormone therapy for the prevention of chronic conditions in postmenopausal women and the supporting scientific evidence, and updates the Task Force's 2002 recommendations on hormone replacement therapy. The updated statement is based on the results of the Women's Health Initiative randomized, controlled trial, ...

the aim of this study was to estimate the genetic and phonotypic trends of somatic cell score in iranian holstein cows. also, the environmental factors affecting this trait are investigated. a total of 375351 test day records of somatic cells take from 54374 animals between year 2002 and 2007 were used in this study. the breeding values were estimated by fitting animal model in asreml software....