background: ninety-five percent of low birth weight infants are born in developing countries. this study was aimed to assess the predictors of low birth in east azerbaijan, north-west province of iran. materials and methods: the study was conducted through a hospital based case–control design involving 49 women delivering low birth weight infants and 98 delivering normal weight infants. the dat...

background : myocardial infarction in young age is increasing. identifying risk factors could be important for health promotion. we studied classic atherosclerotic risk factors in premature myocardial infarction. methods : in this matched case-control study, which was conducted from 2005 to 2007 in birjand county, the east of iran, atherosclerotic risk factors ( hypertension , family history of...

background: due to complex causal framework of neonatal mortality, improvement of this health indicator is quite gradual and it's decreasing trend is not as great as other health indicators such as infant and under 5 mortality rates.this study was conducted to evaluate neonatal mortality risk factors based on nested case-control design. methods:  the study population was 6900 neonates who were ...

background: poisoning is a major public health problem and is one of the most frequent causes of emergency hospital admissions. the aim of this study was to identify the main risk factors for unintentional childhood poisoning in tehran, iran and to suggest possible causes and preventative measures.   methods: in this case-control study (case, n=140; control, n=280), two controls were selected f...

This research in progress paper introduces a research initiative focusing on bank employee risk behaviour to mitigate IT operational risks in Austrian banks. The study focuses on the role of IT risk culture and internal controls in relation to employee risk behaviour and the effectiveness of different awareness building practices in banking companies in response to international banking regulat...

V. Agrawal and S. Seshadri (2000) [Risk intermediation in supply chains. IIE Transactions, 32, 819–831] considered a problem in which 7 a single risk neutral distributor supplies a short-lifecycle, long-leadtime product to several retailers that are identical except in their attitudes towards risk. They proved that the distributor should not offer the same terms to every retailer but instead of...

Much of ERM consists of qualitative discussion of the risks facing a business and controls over them. It is difficult to identify in the literature a clear body of theory to provide the foundation for the subject, integrating a business’s objectives with its risk controls. The present paper attempts this by formulation of ERM as an exercise in stochastic optimal control theory. Here there is a ...

Contracts play an important role in the every day life of many individuals. Contracts are often negotiated and drafted in an unstructured manner. In this paper we propose a more structured model driven approach to contracting. In particular, we focus on developing a risk and trust model for the transaction that is subsequently used to negotiate the contract. We show how rules can be applied to ...

In order to tracking the desired discontinuous output trajectory, we explore P-type iterative learning control law with initial state learning for impulsive differential equations. The sufficient conditions of open-loop and closed-loop iterative learning schemes in the sense of L-norm are established. Finally, an example is given to illustrate our theoretical results. 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rig...