Human body models (HBMs) have the potential to provide significant insights into the pediatric response to impact. This study describes a scalable/posable approach to perform child accident reconstructions using the Position and Personalize Advanced Human Body Models for Injury Prediction (PIPER) scalable child HBM of different ages and in different positions obtained by the PIPER tool. Overall...

PURPOSE Hypertension is one of the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and has a direct relationship with aging. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of education based on the health belief model (HBM) on the adoption of hypertension-controlling behaviors in the elderly. METHODS The present quasiexperimental study was conducted on 100 hypertensive elderly perso...

BACKGROUND Iron oxide (IO) nanoparticles (NPs) of sizes less than 50 nm are considered to be non-toxic, biodegradable and superparamagnetic. We have previously described the generation of IO NPs coated with Human Serum Albumin (HSA). HSA coating onto the IO NPs enables conjugation of the IO/HSA NPs to various biomolecules including proteins. Here we describe the preparation and characterization...

BACKGROUND While many researchers often use a theoretical framework for mammogram repeat interventions, it seems they do not apply an identified mediation analysis method. The aim of this study was to determine the mediators of mammogram replication behavior in two tailored interventions for non-adherent Iranian women. MATERIALS AND METHODS A sample population of 184 women over 50 years old i...

BACKGROUND/AIM In this study, we aimed to investigate the additive effect of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) and defibrotide (DFT) in a rat model of femoral arterial thrombosis. METHODS Thirty Sprague Dawley rats were included. An arterial thrombosis model by ferric chloride (FeCl3) was developed in the left femoral artery. The rats were equally assigned to 5 groups: Group 1-Sham-operated (witho...

BACKGROUND The "European Environment & Health Action Plan 2004-2010" originates from the concern of the European Commission on the well-being of individuals and the general population. Through this plan, the Commission has set the objectives to improve the information chain for a better understanding of the link between sources of pollution and health effects, to better identify existing knowle...

The methodology agreed within the framework of HBM4EU project is used in this work to derive HBM-GVs for general population (HBM-GVGenPop) and workers (HBM-GVWorker) exposed cadmium (Cd) its compounds. For Cd, a significant number epidemiological studies with dose–response relationships are available, particular kidney effects. These effects described terms relation between urinary Cd (U-Cd) or...

We consider a model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from high-velocity neutron stars in the galactic halo. In this model, bursters are born in the galactic disk with large recoil velocities Vr, and GRBs are beamed to within emission cones of half-angle φb centered on Vr. We describe scenarios for magnetically-channeled GRBs that have such beaming characteristics. We then make detailed comparisons o...

BACKGROUND Balancing the rights and obligations of custodians and applicants in relation to access to biobanks is of utmost importance to guarantee trust and confidence. This study aimed to reveal which issues divide different stakeholders in an attempt to determine the rights and/or obligations held on human biological materials (HBM) and data. METHODS Twenty-eight informants in the Benelux ...

Hierarchical Balancing Method is applied on Linearly Extensible ∆ multiprocessor network. This method is used for calculating Load imbalance Factor for arbitrary binary and ternary trees. The result obtained are plotted and found that results are better as compared to HBM giving other results on some other multiprocessor network. Simulation studies show the better performance to other similar s...