BACKGROUND Road traffic accidents are the second largest cause of burden of disease in Thailand, largely attributable to behavioural risk factors including drinking and driving, speeding, substance abuse and failure to use seatbelts. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and associated factors of non-seatbelt use among drivers during Songkran festival in Thailand. METHODS A cross...

The western region of Saudi Arabia is an area with a high prevalence of urolithiasis. This study was designed to find the effect of climatic changes on the occurrence of urinary stone colic as well as the effect of Ramadan fasting and pilgrimage festival. The emergency room (E.R.) records at King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Jeddah were studied for 3 consecutive years. Males diagnosed as ur...

LEIDIG) (MD) -An excellent arrangement of this work written in 1879 when Brahms was given an honorary doctorate by the University of Breslau. The work is built on German student songs; the songs are developed in a variety of tempos, styles, and moods. In the closing section, the melody is presented in a stately and dramatic manner, and the orchestra plays with full force, bringing the overture ...

The "Jesús Guridi" Conservatoire of Music, Vitoria (Spain) is a centre committed to creating and spreading contemporary music via its educational activities and an ongoing offering of concerts, festivals, meetings, conferences, seminars and master classes. Since its beginnings it has organised numerous activities dedicated to the creation of contemporary music, enjoying the participation of com...

Burning of joss paper and incense is still a very common traditional custom in countries with a majority Chinese population. The Hungry Ghost Festival which is celebrated in the 7 month of the Chinese calendar is one of the events where joss paper and incense are burned as offerings. This study investigates the impact of the Ghost Month Festival (open burning event) on air quality by analysis o...

In this article we examine the emergence of knowledge management (KM) within the professionalisation of festivals and events. The growing complexity of festival management places pressure on organisations to effectively manage ‘knowledge’ in order to succeed. Knowledge is commonly conceptualised as information that can be stored or itemised through checklists. We offer an alternative conceptual...

The paper gives a collection of open problems on abstract polytopes that were either presented at the Polytopes Day in Calgary or motivated by discussions at the preceding Workshop on Convex and Abstract Polytopes at the Banff International Research Station in May 2006.

Abstract. A lattice L is constructed with the property that every interval has finite height, but there exists no strictly order-preserving map from L to Z. A 1979 problem of Erné (posed at the 1981 Banff Conference on Ordered Sets) is thus solved. It is also shown that if a poset P has no uncountable antichains, then it admits a strictly order-preserving map into Z if and only if every interva...

Retrieving relevant tweets corresponding to cultural events can be used in various applications like event reporting, event recommendation, etc. This type of retrieval is challenging due to short length of the tweet, noise, out of vocabulary words, abbreviations in the tweet. In this paper, we focus on the problem of retrieving relevant tweets related to given cultural event of a festival. We c...