OBJECTIVES To assess general practitioner knowledge of banned substances in sport. METHODS Postal questionnaire sent to all general practitioners in West Sussex. RESULTS Only 55 (35%) of those who responded (157 in total) were aware that guidelines are to be found in the British National Formulary, and 19 (12%) of respondents believed that medical practitioners are allowed to prescribe anab...

Malware attacks which focus on exploiting an application to launch the payload have become major security threat. We present the methodology and algorithm which is able to detect anomaly in application behavior and prevent such type of attacks. Our approach is to represent the normal behavior of an application, detect deviations from this normal behavior and prevent them. We represent normal be...

Doping is an area of ongoing public, legal, and medical debate and in recent years it has been reported to be connected with many sports including athletics, cycling, body building, soccer, and swimming. Ethical issues related to doping include the honesty of the sports competition and the safety of drugs and other methods applied to improve the physical performance. These issues are of increas...

background: stress is a nonspecific reaction to everything the body needs. although occupational stress exists in every occupation, it is seen with more frequency and intensity amongst those occupations related to human health. in this study, we aimed to investigate the level of occupational stress in operating room staffs working in the hospitals affiliated to isfahan university of medical sci...

The COVID-19 pandemic, the implementation of learning for yellow, orange, and red zone areas is prohibited from face-to-face while green area allowed. Demanding teachers to make teaching materials that help students learn at home school. This study aims produce Integrated Science Problem Based Learning models based on valid practical local wisdom. type research using Plomp model consists three ...

Global optimization based on evolutionary algorithms can be used as the important component for many engineering optimization problems. Evolutionary algorithms have yielded promising results for solving nonlinear, non-differentiable and multi-modal optimization problems in the power systems area. Differential evolution (DE) is a simple and efficient evolutionary algorithm for function optimizat...

As a nonlinear, non-convex and large scale optimization problem including both continuous and discrete control variables, security-constrained optimal power flow (SC-OPF) is one of the most important power system problems which need a superior optimization technique to be effectively solved. Inspired by the mating process of honey bees, honey bee mating optimization (HBMO) is a recently invente...

This paper presents the results of a phased qualitative study into the possibilities of a combination of computer assisted self-interviewing with the randomized response technique to decrease evasive answer bias when sensitive topics are studied. As a sensitive topic, compliance with rules concerning the right to receive welfare was studied. In total, 18 respondents (age 21– 63, 12 females, 6 m...