this article contains the views of different scholars and their researches about allah verdi khan bridge. in this brief study two important points have been highlighted. first, who is the probable constructor of the bridge and what the references tell about it. secondly, the explanation about the grave mistakes of the foundation and completion dates of the bridge and thus argument about the exa...

objective: the objectives of the study were to find out the prevalence of depression and to identify associated risk factors among community dwelling elderly in karachi. methods: it was a cross-sectional, descriptive study involving 284 community-dwelling elderly residing in karachi, pakistan. a non-probability convenience sampling was done. the geriatric depression scale (gds-15) was used to a...

This study used a video-based hazard perception dual task to compare the hazard perception skills of young drivers with middle aged, more experienced drivers and to determine if these skills can be improved with video-based road commentary training. The primary task required the participants to detect and verbally identify immediate hazard on video-based traffic scenarios while concurrently per...

A source separation program for household kitchen waste has been in place in Beijing since 2010. However, the participation rate of residents is far from satisfactory. This study was carried out to identify residents' preferences based on an improved management strategy for household kitchen waste source separation. We determine the preferences of residents in an ad hoc sample, according to the...

The paper describes the results of the EU FP7 EDGI project concerning how to extend gLite VOswith public and institutional BOINC desktop grids. Beyond simply showing the integration architecture components and services, the main emphasis is on how this integrated architecture can efficiently support parameter study applications, based on the so-calledmetajob concept created by the EDGI project....

It is common in many countries that engineers having an academic degree in Civil Engineering are appointed responsible for different tasks related to Bridge Engineering. However, there are serious questions about whether formal university courses in civil engineering could cover the needs of a bridge engineer to fulfill his or her job successfully. Regarding the recent significant advances in t...

We show that every bridgeless graph of maximum degree ∆ has a spanning d(∆ + 1)/2e-walk. The bound is optimal.