RETRACTED ARTICLE: Effective environmental factors on geographical distribution of traffic accidents on pedestrians, downtown of Tehran City

To investigate the association between childhood obesity and neighborhood-level socio-economic and environmental factors in Japan. The prevalence of childhood obesity in 2008 was obtained from annual reports of the School Health Survey. The following 12 factors were publicly available: income per person, ratio of people completing up to college or university education, population density, total length of roads per square kilometer, number relative to the population of food and drink stores, restaurants, large-scale retail stores, convenience stores, passenger cars, traffic accidents, criminal offenses, and death by accidents. The ratio of people completing up to college or university education was inversely associated with obesity in boys and girls. No association was found between obesity and the other factors examined. An inverse association was shown between educational level and childhood obesity in both boys and girls. Further studies integrating associations between childhood obesity and neighborhood-level factors are needed.

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The presence of synaptic and chromosome disjunction mutants in Cenchrus ciliaris (Poaceae: Paniceae)

Bothalia ◽

10.4102/abc.v29i2.604 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 327-334 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

N. C. Visser ◽

J. J. Spies ◽

H. J. T. Venter

Keyword(s):

Environmental Factors ◽

Geographical Distribution ◽

High Temperatures ◽

Chromosome Abnormality ◽

Mutant Gene ◽

Cenchrus Ciliaris ◽

High Incidence ◽

Low Humidity ◽

Recessive Mutant ◽

Chromosome Disjunction

Synaptic mutants are present in Cenchrus ciliaris L This species, due to the presence of linear bivalents and occasional trivalents and quadrivalents, is an intermediate desynaptic species. In addition, geographical distribution and environmental factors, such as high temperatures and low humidity, could also have had an influence on the desynapsis observed.The disjunction of chromosomes during anaphase I was mostly abnormal in this desynaptic species. Precocious disjunction of chromosomes into chromatids occurred during anaphase I Due to the high incidence of this chromosome abnormality, a mutant gene, 'pc' responsible for the disjunction of chromosomes, must be present. The absence of cytokinesis in one specimen indicates a recessive mutant gene, 'va' to be active in this species.

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Environmental factors affecting the frequency of road traffic accidents: a case study of sub-urban area of Pakistan

Environmental Science and Pollution Research ◽

10.1007/s11356-019-04752-8 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (12) ◽

pp. 11674-11685 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Hafiz Mohkum Hammad ◽

Muhammad Ashraf ◽

Farhat Abbas ◽

Hafiz Faiq Bakhat ◽

Saeed A. Qaisrani ◽

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Keyword(s):

Environmental Factors ◽

Urban Area ◽

Traffic Accidents ◽

Road Traffic ◽

Road Traffic Accidents ◽

Factors Affecting

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Evaluation and Analysis of Factors Affecting Road Traffic Accidents in Tripoli-Libya

International Journal of Engineering Research in Africa ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/jera.38.124 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 ◽

pp. 124-132

Author(s):

Faris Ahmed Abdulfatah Elturki ◽

Shaban Ismael Albrka Ali

Keyword(s):

Environmental Factors ◽

Human Factors ◽

Traffic Accidents ◽

Road Traffic ◽

Influential Factor ◽

Road Traffic Accidents ◽

Permanent Disability ◽

High Exposure ◽

Transportation Demand ◽

The Road

Incessant of transportation demand growth in developing countries in latest years has led to several traffic issues in city areas, among the most challenging ones are vehicular emission, traffic congestion, and accidents. The growth of transportation demand has great influences, and very unfortunate impact on the society regarding crashes, death, and injuries from road accidents have reached epidemic proportions worldwide. The variation increased in speeds and vehicle density resulted in high exposure to accidents which lead loss of life and permanent disability, injury, and damage to property. This paper classified and investigate the most critical factors affect road traffic accidents (RTAs) in Tripoli the capital city of Libya. Four main categories were chosen to build the questionnaire, namely; human factors, road factors, vehicle factors and environmental factors. Moreover, a quantitative method was used to collect the data from the field, 400 respondents include; drivers, pedestrian and passengers were the sample size of the questionnaire and relative importance index (RII) were used for classification of one group and among all groups. The results show that more than 84%of respondents considered the over speeding as the most significant factor cusses of RTAs among all groups, while 81% considered the disobedience to driving code such as children who are playing with the car on the road as the most influential factor in human factors group. Also, nearly 74% of respondents seeing that poor brakes or brake failure factor has a high and considerable impact on the RTAs among the vehicle factors. Regarding the road factors group, 79% of the respondents ranked poor or no street lighting factor as one of the most effective factors on RTAs in road factors and third effecting factor concerning all factors, on the other hand, the environmental factors have the slights impacts compared with other factors.

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