Over the years, there has been an obvious pollution problem in Lagos area, Nigeria with high population of over eleven million and the near absence of waste management infrastructures. Concentrations of some pollution parameters and trace elements (temperature, pH, salinity, SO42-, NO3-, PO43-, F-, DO, BOD, COD and coliform, Cr, Co, Ni, Ag, Cd and Pb) were determined from water bodies of Isolo ...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been recommended as one of the paradigms to efficiently manage asset information especially for maintenance purposes. Although still emerging, BIM benefits in cost and time savings are already being reaped developed countries, yet its applications developing countries scarce. This study investigates a method used rehabilitation buildings Cameroon, an Afr...

In highly competitive shipping market environment, container network operators-Freight forwarders, companies etc. are concerned about design, development and deployment of optimized allocation model to achieve cost savings through improved storage yard operations, crane productivity, outbound allocation/distribution seaport terminals hence reduction in ships’ waiting times. this paper, we devel...

Few recent stories about teen pregnancy have been so compelling as the item that surfaced in June 2008 in Time magazine, and was then zoomed around the world’s media post haste. The location is Gloucester, Massachusetts – America’s oldest seaport. The venue is Gloucester High School. The protagonists are a 17-strong group of girls, aged 14–16 years, who over the past calendar year have become p...

Large costs arise at a seaport container terminal from the duration of the unloading of vessels and from the time a vessel is waiting to be unloaded. The optimal allocation of vessels to berth space (Berth Allocation Problem) becomes more and more important as its solution is also input to further terminal decision problems. We compare solutions for a realistic data Berth Allocation Problem fou...

Abstract Recently, because of serious global challenges including the consumption energy and climate change, there has been an increase in interest environmental effect port operations expansion. More interestingly, a strategic tendency seaport advancement to manage system using model which balances volatility economic development demands. An efficient management is regarded as being vital for ...

Bioinorganic chemistry has increasing impact in many areas of science and technology. APPLIED BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY (ISABC) will focus on these applied aspects of bioinorganic chemistry. Themes include metal-containing frugs, radiopharmaceuticals, toxicology and nutrition, biologically active chelates and macrocycles, biominerals and new materials, as well as environmental, marine and agricult...

The limited economic and spatial resources require a careful planning of investments, so that achieving the most accurate knowledge of the performances of any proposed solution is a problem of worth importance. A possible solution to this problem is provided by sensitivity analysis to evaluate their robustness to uncertainties. Then, in this paper, traffic simulations will be used to evaluate, ...

In the last four decades the container as an essential part of a unitload-concept has achieved undoubted importance in international sea freight transportation. With ever increasing containerization the number of seaport container terminals and competition among them have become quite remarkable. Operations are nowadays unthinkable without effective and efficient use of information technology a...