A questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the problems involved in the infectious waste recovery at home-visit nursing stations. 1965 nursing stations were selected randomly, and questionnaires were sent to them. Nurses at 1314 stations (66.9%) responded to the survey and responses from 1283 stations were identified as suitable for analysis after excluding 26 stations that closed and ...

background:a critical environmental impact of the petroleum industry is the contamination of soil by oil and other related products which are highly toxic and exhibit molecular recalcitrance. therefore, this study focused on investigating the total amount of petroleum hydrocarbons (tphs) in soil of urban fuel stations in hamedan city, iran. methods:thirteen high traffic urban fuel stations were...

Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is an ad-hoc network with a fixed network infrastructure (see an example in figure 1). The physical structure of a WMN includes base stations, a backbone and mobile stations. The base stations (also known as mesh routers or mesh points) are static wireless nodes, forming the network infrastructure and providing wireless network access to the mobile stations. The back...

As traffic levels increase on railways in Britain and elsewhere, improved understanding of the trade-offs between capacity provision/utilisation and service quality is increasingly important, as Infrastructure Managers and Railway Undertakings seek to maximise capacity provision without an unacceptable loss of service reliability and punctuality. This is particularly true of the stations and ju...

It is a widely held belief that the Soviet space program deliberately follows the paths described in the early years of the century by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. 1 Be that as it may, it is certainly possible to find close parallels between Tsiolkovsky’s writing and the course of events, but more likely these parallels result because modern engineers have arrived at similar solutions to the same pr...

Although the EDCA access mechanism of the 802.11e standard supports legacy DCF stations, the presence of DCF stations in the WLAN jeopardizes the provisioning of the service guarantees committed to the EDCA stations. The reason is that DCF stations compete with Contention Windows (CW ’s) that are predefined and cannot be modified, and as a result the impact of the DCF stations on the service re...

this study was conducted to identify drought event and its emerging regions in markazi desert, iran with focus onsemnan province in a 30 years statistical period. in this research, 61 stations having adequate data selected and usedafter extracting annual statistic from monthly and daily data. standardized precipitation index values for each stationwere calculated and classified. the results hav...