This study dealt with estimating AADT which serves the important basic data in transportation sector. AADT estimation is fundamental to the analysis of transportation data sets and the management of transportation systems. AADT is estimated using short-term traffic counts at most sites because permanent traffic counts is installed at limited sites. To estimate AADT, an adjustment factor applica...

Summary 367 families comprising 2034 Persons were surveyed for their food consumption, as a Part of a comprehensive goiter research project in Shahriar. Results related to goiter have been published previously and in this report food consumption data are reported. Families were surveyed fat their nutrient intake and food habits using the 24-hour-dietary recall method. The results showed that ...

To the Editors: Lim et al. (1) found no relationship between the ''Consumption of aspartame-containing beverages and incidence of hematopoietic and brain malignancies'' by surveying retired individuals about their consumption of diet sodas and determining whether they had an increase in brain tumors 5 years later. In fact, this study design was not able to test the hypothesized relationship bec...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the short- and long-term effects of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in a sample of light, medium and heavy drinkers who live 300+ miles north of the epicenters. METHOD Participants in an ongoing longitudinal study submitted daily reports on alcohol consumption and mood via Interactive Voice Response technology. The daily self-reports of 86 subjects betw...

CONTEXT In India, 14% of the population use smoked tobacco products. Increasing prices of these products is one of the measures to curb their consumption. AIMS This study analyzes "unit price" and "daily consumption" of cigarettes and bidis and investigates their relation with each other. SETTINGS AND DESIGN A cross-sectional survey was conducted in four states of India (Bihar, West Bengal,...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to describe trends in the consumption of manufactured and roll-your-own cigarettes between 1991 and 2012 in Spain, and to project these trends up to 2020. METHODS We estimated daily consumption per capita during 1991-2012 using data on sales of manufactured cigarettes (20-packs) and rolling tobacco (kg) from the Tobacco Market Commission, and using data of t...

In Hong Kong physical activity and calcium intake of 400 Chinese men and women with hip fractures were compared with those of 800 controls. Daily walking outdoors, upstairs, uphill, or with a load protected against fracture. This was independent of cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption. Higher levels of reported activity in middle life were also protective. Average calcium intake was around...