background adolescence and youth are life-threatening stages of development when a range of unsafe behaviors can harmfully affect a person’s health and their social and educational performance. objectives the present study aimed to determine the incidence and prevalence of high-risk behaviors related to intentional and unintentional harm in adolescents of zahedan (iran). patients and methods th...

AANA Journal  June 2016  Vol. 84, No. 3 155 On Combat Anesthesia To the editor: I was reading the article on combat anesthesia, August 2015, Vol 83, No 4, pages 247-253. There is a comment in the article on page 251, about Role VI care; I believe the authors meant to state Role IV care. Also, in the paragraph on page 250: “In the military, nearly everyone knows his or her blood type; it is on...

We present the probabilistic model architecture for combining a layered model of human driver expertise with beliefs about the vehicle state to describe the effect of anticipations on driver actions. It implements the sensory-motor system of human drivers in a psychological motivated mixture-of-behaviors (MoB) architecture with autonomous, goal-based attention allocation and anticipation proces...

BACKGROUND It is thought that small volumes of alcohol may have positive effects on health. However, excessive drinking results in serious health problems. An accurate method to determine individual alcohol use behaviors are needed to assess objectively the extent to which drinking affects health. This study investigated the association between risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and alcohol use ...

BACKGROUND Cigarette taxation has been recognized as one of the most significant policy instruments to reduce smoking. Smoking and drinking are highly comorbid behaviors, and the public health benefits of cigarette taxation may extend beyond smoking-related outcomes to impact alcohol consumption. The current study is the first to test whether increases in cigarette taxes are associated with red...

Research has shown that college student-athletes are at increased risk for hazardous alcohol use. As such, this study examined social and cognitive influences on athletes’ alcohol consumption by exploring the association between injunctive norms (parental, teammate, and coach approval) and hazardous alcohol use among college athletes, and testing whether alcohol expectancy outcomes and valuatio...

This paper presents a learning from demonstration approach to programming safe, 1 autonomous behaviors for uncommon driving scenarios. Simulation is used to 2 re-create a targeted driving situation, one containing a road-side hazard creating 3 significant occlusion in an urban neighborhood, and collect optimal driving behav4 iors from 24 users. Paper employs a key-frame based approach combined ...

Individual observations of risky behaviors present a paradox: individuals who take the most risks in terms hazards (smoking, speeding, sexual behaviors) are also less likely to when it comes innovation, financial or entrepreneurship. Existing theories risk-preferences do not explain these patterns. From simple model, we argue that many decisions involving risk have temporal dimension, and this ...