Waste Pisha sandstone (WPS) is the main damming material for check dam in Loss Plateau of northwest China. The dissolution characteristics WPS alkaline solutions were investigated as a basis studying modification materials and revealing mechanism to further study pozzolanic activity development cementitious concrete utilizing WPS. In this paper, was milled calcined at 600 °C, 700 800 respective...

Abstract Background Water pipe smoking (WPS) is re-gaining widespread use and popularity among various groups of people, especially adolescents. Despite different adverse health effects WPS, many the WPS interventions have failed to control this type tobacco smoking. This study was conducted identify experienced management in preventing controlling worldwide. Methods A systematic literature rev...

In the research field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a cooperative effort has been undertaken by several international organizations to define standards and specifications for interoperable systems. The Web Processing Service (WPS) is one of the most recent specifications of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). It is designed to standardize the way that GIS calculations are made avai...

OBJECTIVE From February 2007 to October 2008, 1137 cases of lipoatrophia semicircularis were registered in distinct workplaces (WPs) in Barcelona. A protocol to establish control measures was designed. This study pretends to evaluate the effectiveness of these measures. METHODS In this case study, the outbreak course in relation to the implemented measures (relative humidity >50%, ground-mass...

Workplace spirituality is a complex construct and perceived differently in different cultures contexts. The purpose of this study was to the meaning workplace from perceptions employees an Eastern context, particularly Nepal, which primarily dominated by Vedic Buddhist spiritual traditions. This utilized constructivist grounded theory methodology elucidate WPS. analysis data revealed that WPS m...

ABOUT LADDER LADDER is a research project funded by the Policy Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) that seeks to identify alternative routes by which the rural poor can climb out of poverty. LADDER is working with nearly 40 villages and 1,200 households in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya to discover the blocking and enabling agencies in the institutio...

Purpose. This study aimed to (1) assess the levels and associations of workplace spirituality (WPS), compassion satisfaction (CS), burnout (BO), secondary traumatic stress (STS) among Iranian nurses; (2) identify impact WPS components on CS, BO, STS while controlling for demographic variables. Design Methods. In this descriptive, cross‐sectional, correlational study, 295 nurses were selected vi...