Background: The aim of preliminary study was determined development process status of T-cell population lymphocytes in Ukrainian children after 22 years from Chernobyl accident for next feasibility study. Material and Method: 150 participants aged 6 to 16 years are included in three groups: Group I (n=65), 30 to 60 km from center accident at zone 3th, Group II (n=65) 60 to 90 km from s...

Abstract—Presented article outlines a rationale, why it is necessary to develop competence about infrastructure risk in water transport. Climate changes are evident and require special attention and global monitoring. Current risk assessment methods for Inland waterway transport just consider some dramatic events. We present a new method for the assessment of risk and vulnerability of inland wa...

In an effort to evaluate socio-political instability, we studied the relationship between dynamic order, socio-political upheavals and sustainability in nation states. Estimating the degree of dynamic order inherent in the socio-political regime of various countries throughout theworld involved applying Fisher information theory to data from the Political Instability Task Force database. Fisher...

residential mobility is an important ecological mobility which, besides physical impacts, has contributed in shaping or reshaping of urban social milieus. the analyses of results related to a sample of 17510 households inhabiting in 40 regions of mashhad indicates that 46.9 percent of them had experienced a residential relocation during a period of ten years, the maximum of which (62.8 percent)...

Many organizations have recognized that knowledge is the most important resource in today’s economy. With regards to knowledge-based views of the firm, organizations are actively embracing knowledge management with the expectation of acquiring and maintaining high levels of organizational performance. The relationship between knowledge management (KM) and organizational performance has been the...

To assess the effects of extreme exercise on lung function we measured maximal expiratory flow volume (MEFV) curves in fifteen runners (mean age, 35.3 years; range, 26-46) before and after an 80.6 to 100 km (50-62.2 mile) road race. Mean running time for 80.6 km was 7 hr, 42 min. Post-race testing showed significant decreases of 12.4 percent in forced vital capacity (FVC), 9.5 percent in forced...

while many researchers devoted numerous articles to the organizational culture, relatively few articles have been contributed to culture and performance research. the purpose of this study is to shed light on the role of organizational culture on performance. to achieve this goal and in order to measure organizational culture, denison organizational culture model was used. the components of thi...