BACKGROUND Hepatitis C virus (HCV) recently emerged as a major public health hazard in Egypt. However, dramatic healthcare budget constraints limit access to the costly treatment. We assessed risk perception and priority setting for intervention among HCV, unsafe water, and outdoor air pollution in Cairo city. METHODS A survey was conducted in the homes of a representative sample of household...

A dam construction project is exposed to various risks due the amount of investment, duration implementation, complexity design and etc., these will lead human financial losses. Thus, based on three principles, including (i) time, (ii) quality, (iii) cost, identifying, assessing, ranking risks, Occupational Safety Health (OSH) can have a significant impact objectives. The machinery maintenance ...

In service oriented computing ranking of best service from service registry is an essential process for service selection. The main objective of this research is to select a best service using fuzzy C-Means clustering. Identifying the best web service among all the existing services is a challenging issue. In the existing system, the ranking process uses a static priority of QoS parameters to f...

Competition for fertile females determines male reproductive success in many species. The priority of access model predicts that male dominance rank determines access to females, but this model has been difficult to test in wild populations, particularly in promiscuous mating systems. Tests of the model have produced variable results, probably because of the differing socioecological circumstan...

This paper focuses on the risks of environmental carcinogenic and/or genotoxic contaminants in food. It describes, for each contaminant studied, the carcinogenicity and genotoxicity, the toxicological reference values, the exposure and the risk characterisation. The compounds studied were classified into 3 categories based on a risk assessment. Effects others than carcinogenicity and/or genotox...

This article presents a filter-wrapper based feature ranking technique that is able to learn and rank quality attributes according to new cases of software quality assessment data. The proposed feature ranking technique consists of a scoring method named Most Priority of Feature (MPF) and a learning algorithm to learn the software quality attribute weights. The existing ranking techniques do no...

This paper describes the process and outcomes of an initiative to develop a system to prioritize operating room bookings for children who require elective dental treatment. This initiative had 3 objectives: to improve the timeliness of treatment in the operating room based on medical and dental need, to provide a means to identify and expedite the highest-priority cases when operating room time...