The Brief Loquaciousness and Interpersonal Responsiveness Test (BLIRT) measures the extent to which people respond to others quickly and effusively. The BLIRT displays desirable psychometric properties and distinguishes people who should theoretically score high (e.g., car salespersons) from those who should score low (e.g., librarians). Scores on the scale predict (a) the amount and rapidity o...

Efficient treatment of pharmaceutical waste is a big challenge because of the enormous quantity, complexity and hazardous nature. Lack of implementation of effective treatment technology aggravates the situations further in the countries facing the challenges of rising population, increasing urbanisation and industrialization generating enormous quantities of industrial wastes. This paper criti...

Snoring, one of the most prevalent obnoxious human habits, can be a social nuisance and may well be a medical problem. No one who has slept beside a snorer needs any description of what is snoring, or any convincing that a remedy would be very much welcome. Snoring is a sound produced during sleep by vibrations of the soft tissues of the pharyngeal walls, soft palate and the uvula 1. Although s...

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Leather industry, one of the polluting industries because of generation of huge amount of liquid and solid wastes, also emits obnoxious smell because of degradation of proteinous material of skin and generation of gases such as NH3, H2S and CO2. Solid wastes are raw trimmings, fleshings, chrome shavings, buffing dusts and keratin wastes. Accumulation of these wastes lead to sludge problem and c...

OIn 1775 Joseph Priestley issued the first volumes of his Experiments & Observations on different kinds of Air [1], the fruit of work which had been occupying him for the previous four or five years [2], In the appendix to volume II of Priestley's work appeared a letter dated 3rd October 1775 in which the writer asserts that there is "no room to doubt of the great advantages the medical world m...

To the Editor: In relation to the article written by Bill Brina of your staff concerning the Iiaac Haye's show, I would like it to be known that this particular critic is obnoxious himself. From this particular critique of the ASP 10/3/72, it is obvious that this writer is white. It is obvious that he could not relate to the performance because of his being white!! In. the article, the critic m...

Malaria remains a major health problem of our time. The disease plagues human society and impacts obnoxious and immeasurable burden on human population. Since children particularly are the worse affected, it is pertinent to examine some of the demographic factors connections in malaria incidence. This paper is aimed at modeling length of stay using covariates from hospital register and also ass...