An increasing number of elections have been performed using Online Voting including Estonia, Canada, Norway and Switzerland. In October 2005, Estonia organized countrywide remote e-voting. Every Estonian citizen got the opportunity to cast their vote via Internet from all over the world. Approximately 2% of actual voters made use of this opportunity. Different countries are also working on to d...

Purpose Patient Navigation (PN) has the potential to increase timely utilization of cancer prevention, early detection and treatment services among underserved populations. Few such navigators exist in community-based settings. Tongans in Southern California experience some of the largest cancer health disparities in the state. In addressing breast and cervical cancer, a pilot project was launc...

BACKGROUND Poor communication between physicians and nursing staff could result in inadequate interprofessional collaboration with negative effects on patient health. In order to ensure optimal health care for patients, it is important to strengthen interprofessional communication and collaboration between physicians and nurses during their education. AIM The aim of this project is to foster ...

Currently, petroleum hydrocarbons are the most abundantly used chemicals in the world. Manufactured from crude oil, petroleum hydrocarbons are found in gasoline, kerosene, fuel oil, asphalt, and even some chemicals used in home or at work. Almost every person on this planet has once or more used a petroleum product or byproduct. Due to their wide de mand, they are transported all over the world...

Microbial bioremediation of petroleum wastewater by phenol-degrading-bacteria holds promise in circumventing the issue of petroleum-spill related pollution. Herein, biodegradation of petroleum wastewater samples collected from oil refinery site was carried out in a fluidized bed bioreactor by Ca-alginate immobilized biomass of phenol-degrading strains of Bacillus cereus (AKG1 MTCC9817 and AKG2 ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Petroleum pollution is a global disaster and there are several soil cleaning methods including bioremediation. METHODS In a field study, fugal strains were isolated from oil-contaminated sites of Arak refinery (Iran) and their growth ability was checked in potato dextrose agar (PDA) media containing 0-10% v/v crude oil, the activity of three enzymes (Catalase, Peroxid...

Major degraders of petroleum hydrocarbons in tropical seas have been indicated only by laboratory culturing and never through observing the bacterial community structure in actual environments. To demonstrate the major degraders of petroleum hydrocarbons spilt in actual tropical seas, indigenous bacterial community in seawater at Sentosa (close to a port) and East Coast Park (far from a port) i...

BACKGROUND Hydrocarbons which are among the major components of petroleum products are considered toxic and have been implicated in a number of human diseases. Tanker drivers are continuously exposed to hydrocarbons by inhalation and most of these drivers do not use protective devices to prevent inhalation of petroleum products; nor do they visit hospital regularly for routine check-up. OBJEC...

Artificial neural networks are rapidly gaining popularity. This paper discusses the importance of this new tool to petroleum engineers, and the advantages that this computing process has over other conventional methods. The mechanics by which neural networks achieve their objective are also discussed. Artificial neural networks can assist petroleum engineers in solving some fundamental petroleu...

Although mass spectrometry has been studied extensively in the past 50 years for analysis of petroleum and other fossil fuels, comprehensive characterization of total petroleum composition across a wide boiling range remains a challenge. In this work, we report our efforts in combining GC separation, field Ionization, and time-of-flight high-resolution mass spectrometry (GC-FI-TOF HRMS) for det...