objective: to study knowledge about reproductive health among female adolescents and to assess their treatment seeking behavior regarding reproductive health problems in an urban slum of mumbai. materials and methods: cross sectional descriptive study was undertaken in an urban slum area of mumbai for period of 3 months. all adolescent girls from 10 - 19 years of age, who had attained menarche,...

background: studies show that about 90% of accidents occur because of unsafe behavior and human errors. even if workers do not have the right knowledge, attitude and behavior toward safety measures in a safe workplace, all efforts for an accident-free workplace will be in vain. this study aims to determine the level of knowledge, attitude and behavior of workers toward occupational health and s...

pullback test has no scrupulous theoretical establishment. it is based on the hypothesis that the response ofthe structure can be related to the response of an equivalent single degree-of-freedom (sdof) system. this implies thatthe response is controlled by a single mode. in fact, the steel frame of each safe room, which is introduced within theunreinforced masonry buildings for protecting the ...

In this paper the effect of faults in the elements and parts of discrete event systems is investigated. In the occurrence of faults, some states of the system must be changed and some of them must be forbidden. For this goal, different states of these elements are examined and a model for fail-safe behavior of each state is introduced. Replacing new models of the target elements in the prelimin...

In this article we show how to implement merger simulation in Stata after estimating an aggregate nested logit demand system with a linear regression model. We also show how to implement merger simulation when the demand parameters are not estimated, but instead calibrated to be consistent with outside information on average price elasticities and pro…t margins.

We chart the ways in which closure properties of consequence relations for uncertain inference take on different forms according to whether the relations are generated in a quantitative or a qualitative manner. Among the main themes are: the identification of watershed conditions between probabilistically and qualitatively sound rules; failsafe and classicality transforms of qualitatively sound...

We study the task of recognizing human actions in video whilst paying attention to the shot and thread editing structure. Most existing action recognition algorithms ignore this structure, but it is generally present in edited TV and film material. To this end, we make the following contributions: first, we introduce a new dataset of human actions to study the occurrence/reoccurrence of pattern...

Predictive models for the exponential growth rate (EGR) and germination, outgrowth, and lag times (GOL) of Bacillus stearothermophilus previously developed in our laboratory were expanded to include higher salt (1.5%) formulations. The expanded models were validated in 7 military meals-ready-to-eat incubated at temperatures from 45 °C to 60 °C, and tryptic soy broth incubated from 37.5 °C to 70...

Real world protocols often involve human choices that depend on incentives, including when they fail and require fail-safe or fail-deadly mechanisms. We look at three example systems (the EMV protocol, consensus in cryptocurrencies, and Tor) in this context, paying particular attention to the role that incentives play in fail-safe and faildeadly situations. We argue that incentives should expli...

Consistent stochastic orders of processing times and objective functions yield optimal policies in many stochastic scheduling problems. When these orders fail to hold, however, finding optimal values may be difficult. In this paper, we show how to bound these values in general situations including problems with unreliable machines and tardiness-based objectives.