There is a relatively large body of research on the potential cardiovascular (CV) effects associated with short-term ozone exposure (defined by EPA as less than 30 days in duration). We conducted a weight-of-evidence (WoE) analysis to assess whether it supports a causal relationship using a novel WoE framework adapted from the US EPA's National Ambient Air Quality Standards causality framework....

Dust storms in arid and desert areas affect radiation budget, air quality, visibility, enzymatic activities, agricultural products human health. Due to increased drought land use changes recent years, the frequency of dust occurrence Iran has been increased. This study aims identify source Sistan watershed (Iran-Afghanistan borders)—an important regional for southwestern Asia, using remote sens...

There is no definitive method to determine if a novel food protein will become an allergen. For this reason, the allergenic risk of a novel food protein is currently evaluated using a weight-of-evidence (WOE) approach. The components of this WOE approach were arrived at based on expert opinion rather than evidential science. Digestive stability is considered a physiochemical property of food al...

This study investigated the instructional efficiency of adaptive instruction to learner expertise in the domain of C programming language with college students. It also aimed to investigate whether a bimodal process-oriented worked-out example (WOE) could effectively control extraneous cognitive load and further improve instructional efficiency. For this purpose, a learner-paced problem-solving...

Golestan Province is one of the most vulnerable areas to catastrophic flood events in Iran. The severity this region has grown dramatically during last decades, demanding a major investigation. Accordingly, an authentic map providing detailed information on floods required reduce future disasters. Three ensemble models produced by combination Evaluation Based Distance from Average Solution (EDA...

Theology is a discipline of major issues. We are interested in the fundamental questions of human existence, suffering and hope, identity and community, good and evil, history and future, salvation and damnation. We always run the risk of expanding our subject matter unto ‘the world and surroundings’. To avoid that, we have focused our joint attention in this book to the level of lived religion...

This interaction profile discusses and evaluates the evidence for joint toxic action among lead, manganese, zinc, and copper. The interaction profile recommends how to incorporate concerns about possible interactions or additivity into public health assessments of hazardous waste sites where people might be exposed to mixtures of these chemicals. The profile recommends using endpoint-specific h...

We investigate the effects of cueing, in a multimedia programme for the individualized training of the ‘whole task’ to prepare a plea, on the learning outcomes of 43 sophomore law students. The cueing formats of worked-out examples (WOEs), process worksheets (PWs), and both WOE and PW are compared to a no-cueing control condition. Our hypotheses that WOE enhance near transfer, by stimulating im...