Bicycle facilities network identification handbook

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San Luis Obispo Open Space Survey

Presentation detailing work on a the San Luis Obispo Open Space Survey report for the City of San Luis Obispo involving assessment of the conditions, characteristics-of, and visitors-to SLO open spaces

The burden of disease and injury in Iran 2003

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The objective of this study was to estimate the burden of disease and injury in Iran for the year 2003, using Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) at the national level and for six selected provinces.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Methods developed by the World Health Organization for National Burden of Disease (NBD) studies were applied to estimate disease and injury incidence for the calculation of Years of Life Lost due to premature mortality (YLL), Years Lived with Disability (YLD), and DALYs. The following adjustments of the NBD methodology were made in this study: a revised list with 213 disease and injury causes, development of new and more specific disease modeling templates for cancers and injuries, and adjustment for dependent comorbidity. We compared the results with World Health Organization (WHO) estimates for Eastern Mediterranean Region, sub-region B in 2002.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We estimated that in the year 2003, there were 21,572 DALYs due to all diseases and injuries per 100,000 Iranian people of all ages and both sexes. From this total number of DALYs, 62% were due to disability premature deaths (YLD) and 38% were due to premature deaths (YLL); 58% were due to noncommunicable diseases, 28% – to injuries, and 14% – to communicable, maternal, perinatal, and nutritional conditions. Fifty-three percent of the total number of 14.349 million DALYs in Iran were in males, with 36.5% of the total due to intentional and unintentional injuries, 15% due to mental and behavioral disorders, and 10% due to circulatory system diseases; and 47% of DALYs were in females, with 18% of the total due to mental and behavioral disorders, 18% due to intentional and unintentional injuries, and 12% due to circulatory system diseases. The disease and injury causes leading to the highest number of DALYs in males were road traffic accidents (1.071 million), natural disasters (548 thousand), opioid use (510 thousand), and ischemic heart disease (434 thousand). The leading causes of DALYs in females were ischemic heart disease (438 thousand), major depressive disorder (420 thousand), natural disasters (419 thousand), and road traffic accidents (235 thousand). The burden of disease at the province level showed marked variability. DALY estimates by Iran's NBD study were higher than those for EMR-B by WHO.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The health and disease profile in Iran has made the transition from the dominance of communicable diseases to that of noncommunicable diseases and road traffic injuries. NBD results are to be used in health program planning, research, and resource allocation and generation policies and practices.</p

HOW FAST ARE ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP) SYSTEMS MOVING TO THE CLOUD?

ABSTRACT Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems evolved from traditionally isolated applications such as payroll, billing, purchasing, sales, etc. -that neither shared a common base of data, nor interacted well with one another. The need for an integrated view of enterprise systems led to the development of sophisticated and complex software packages that could be tailored for different organizations and provide different modules (e.g. Human Resources, Financial/Accounting, and Logistics), that would interact with one another and use a common base of data. ERP systems were leased or purchased, tailored and installed as in-house computer systems resisting industry outsourcing trends. Cloud Computing, and particularly Software as a Service (SaaS), is moving in-house systems to Private and Public Clouds. Sixty percent of the organizations studied already use Cloud services. Customers Relationship Management (CRM) is prominent among the services moved to the Cloud, but close to 20% of the organization respondents moved the ERP modules of human resources and financial/account systems to the Public Cloud. New ERP development is increasingly Cloud-based, while conventional in-house ERP is decreasing. The factors that are motivating the move to the Cloud as reported by 40% of the respondents are faster access to new functionality, increase in revenue by offering new products sooner, better resource utilization, decrease of IT costs, and decentralization. Finally, the factors that are hindering the move to the Public Cloud as perceived by over 30% of the respondents are security, regulations, reliability, capability and maturity of Cloud services, in addition to IT governance and SLAs

IVT Annual Report 2021

This annual report describes the activities of the IVT in the year 2021