objectives: behavioral-based safety is a term used to describe the prevention of accidents, injuries and loss in the workplace. an effective behavior-based safety program relies on engaging employees to understand how unsafe behaviors lead to injuries and how to eliminate them from the workplace. this paper examines behavior-based safety program in a massive construction site. methods: for this...

background: as adolescent tobacco smoking has become a widespread problem in developing countries, it is time to understand the cognitive determinants of adolescents' decisions to engage in tobacco smoking. this study aimed to investigate the predicting factors associated with tobacco smoking among male adolescents based on prototype willingness model (pwm) as a theoretical framework. methods :...

This paper presents CH-SAT, a Complete Heuris-tic procedure for the SATissability problem (SAT) based on local search techniques. CH-SAT aims to combine the ee-ciency of local search and the completeness of memorizing-backtracking. CH-SAT extends successively a consistent partial assignment using a complete assignment as guidance for variable-ordering. To extend the partial assignment, CH-SAT u...

background: various psychological interventions were considered as part of the treatments of irritable bowel syndrome. however, the effectiveness of coping strategies in improving symptoms of this disease remains unclear. the objective of this study was to assess the effects of coping strategies training in treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (ibs). methods: in this randomized, placebo-contro...