OBJECTIVES Research suggests that individual and environmental resilience protective factors may be associated with adolescent substance use; however, the associations between a broad range of such factors and use of various types of substances have not been examined. The study aimed to determine the association between a comprehensive range of adolescent individual and environmental resilience...

Background. Mosquito-borne diseases constitute an important cause of morbidity and mortality. The use of personal protective measures (PPM) like mats, bednets, screening, repellents, liquid vaporizers, mosquito coils, and so forth has been advocated as an effective tool in control of mosquito-borne diseases, but data about the safety profile of personal protective measures is still scarce. Obje...

The paper describes risk-informed decision support for assessing the costs and benefits of counter-terrorism (CT) protective measures for infrastructure. Such a decision support framework needs to consider threat scenarios and probabilities, value of human life, physical (direct) damage, indirect damage, risk reduction and protective measure costs. Probabilistic terrorism risk assessments that ...

Despite all protective measures, the number of contacts and cumulative contact duration in the frontline screening seem to be the influencing factors. Three out 5 of our first year orthopedic residents showed symptoms of the disease 2-3 weeks after starting their tasks in the COVID-19 floor. Other residents that were only visiting patients in the COVID floor did not become symptomatic which als...

In the flat area of Northwest China, subgrade engineering, as a more economical and efficient structural form, plays leading role in railway engineering. Therefore, wind sand prevention engineering needs to be studied. To prevent control damage scientifically, we must correctly understand types principles measures. At present, main measures protect from are vegetation measures, such planting gr...

The onset of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has challenged worldwide healthcare sector, including dentistry. highly infectious nature severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus and risk transmission through aerosol generating procedures profoundly impacted delivery dental care services globally. As practices with renewed infection control strategies preventive ...