BACKGROUND Self care of diabetes is essential for control of disease and improvement of quality of patients' life. The aim of this study was to assess factors influencing self-care practice of patients in urban area of Urmia, Northwest of Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 400 diabetic patients were randomly selected from eight healthcare centers in Urmia City in 2010. Data collecti...

in this study, the effects of road salting on the quality of forest soils near the road were monitored in the Krkonoše Mountains (Czech republic). Physical, chemical properties and microbial parameters of soils were determined and the toxic potentials of soil water extracts were evaluated using the bacterial tests (Microtox and Pseudomonas putida growth inhibition test). increased concentration...

Winter road maintenance practitioners have expressed a strong interest in obtaining weather and road condition forecasts and treatment recommendations specific to winter road maintenance routes. These user needs led the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Transportation Operations Road Weather Management Program to support the development of a prototype winter road Maintenance Decis...

Turfgrass is often planted along roadsides because of its adaptability and capacity to perform a wide range functions. Like other roadside vegetation, it must withstand biotic abiotic stresses while persisting long term with minimal management inputs. In cold-weather climates, snow ice practices on roads include the use deicing salts. Deicing salts can have negative impacts infrastructure envir...

The road pavement condition is a ected by various impacts such as trucks, deicing reagents, base erosion, etc. After some time on the road surface occur defects. Engineers are commonly used to collect pavement surface distress data, during periodic road surveys, but it takes a lot of time and manpower. In this paper, we present our automatic defects detection and classi cation on road pavement ...