the purpose of the present study was to examine differences in lifestyle factors such as physical activity among homosexual (gay or lesbian), bisexual, and heterosexual korean adolescents.the sample consisted of 74,186 adolescents from grades 7-12 (ages 12-18) who participated in the 8(th) annual korea youth risk behavior web-based survey in 2012. of this sample, only 11,829 provided enough inf...

abstract in this research, four meteorological set of data including maximum temperature, minimum temperature, precipitation and radiation from echo-g, under a1scenario have been used for climate change detection over south khorasan. echo-g is a general circulation model that currently is used in hamburg university and korea meteorological research institute. in this research climate change ass...

original article   introduction: establishment of hse management system (hse-ms) in industries is served as important managerial factor which achieves the requirements of health, safety, environment and sustainable development. today, hse_ms is known as a vital system in occupational fields due to corresponding considerations for economy, sustainable development, society and ecology. the import...

background: depleted uranium (du) is uranium with low content of u 235 produced as a result of uranium enrichment. du has high density (19.05 g /cm3), which is 2.54 more than iron, so it’s high penetrating power makes it preferable as emanations with high penetration power. it was used in second gulf ware in 1991 for first time. the radioactivity of soil, plants, fruit, meat, milk and water is ...

background: cancer-screening programs are effective in reducing cancer prevalence and mortality; however, cancer remains the leading cause of death in elderly people in korea. the aim of this study was to identify the factors associated with elders’ participation in the national cancer screening program (ncsp) and differences in screening rates by gender. methods: original data from the korea n...

the aim of this study was investigating the characteristic and outcome of self-immolation cases admitted to the burn centre of birjand, iran over an eight year period. this study is a retrospective review of case notes for patients with self-immolation and admitted to our referral burn centre in the last 8 years (january 2003-january 2011). a performa was designed to collect the data such as: d...

in an attempt to characterize theileria parva parasites circulating in south sudan cattle , polymerase chain reaction (pcr)-based assays were carried out using four single copy encoding antigen genes p104, pim, p150 and p67 in addition to one microsatellite ms321. a total of 20 bovine dna samples from two locations in south sudan were included in this study, in addition to two references strain...