Description The Genotyping Facility at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) is operated by Team 67 – Genetics of complex traits in humans, led by Panos Deloukas. While the quality control (QC) pipeline extends from sample reception (DNA collections team) to the secure end-point dissemination of the genotype data, herein we concentrate primarily on the bioinformatic characterization and fi...

OBJECTIVE To assess the occupational health hazards faced by healthcare workers and the mitigation measures. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional study utilizing quantitative data collection methods among 200 respondents who worked in 8 major health facilities in Kampala. RESULTS Overall, 50.0% of respondents reported experiencing an occupational health hazard. Among these, 39.5% experien...

Waste-to-Energy (WTE) is a viable option for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management and a renewable energy source. MSW is a chronic problem in Saudi Arabia and more specifically in Saudi Urban areas. The MSW practices in KSA are simply done by collecting the waste and dumping it in open landfill sites. KSA is considering WTE as a potential renewable energy source that can contribute to electric...

This paper represents the results of ten pollution prevention/waste minimization assessments performed on marine maintenance and commercial printing industries in the Hampton Roads area of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The pollution prevention project is the result of a working partnership (the Partnership) formed between Old Dominion University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering...

A difficult and challenging decision facing policy makers is the allocation of goods that generate externalities. It is well known that markets forces alone will lead to inefficient outcomes. Of particular interest in modern industrial societies is the task of choosing locations for siting noxious facilities such as waste treatment facilities, landfills, or nuclear waste repositories. Such faci...

many organizations have developed knowledge sharing programs, such as mentoring, and knowledge transfer from retired employees, in order to articulate and maintain valuable knowledge. knowledge sharing leads to the spreading of innovative ideas and best practices. it consists of two important processes: knowledge contribution and knowledge reception. however, knowledge reception can be failed w...

BACKGROUND Healthcare waste is produced from various therapeutic procedures performed in hospitals, such as chemotherapy, dialysis, surgery, delivery, resection of gangrenous organs, autopsy, biopsy, injections, etc. These result in the production of non-hazardous waste (75-95%) and hazardous waste (10-25%), such as sharps, infectious, chemical, pharmaceutical, radioactive waste, and pressurize...

Alternative chemical and fuel oil produced from plastic waste may play a key role in national sustainable development. The Korean government has promoted several recycling policies including to energy. Here, we focus on the investigation of facility characteristics pyrolysis. Four pyrolysis facilities, which had different processes various properties, were chosen order develop an advanced polic...

This report presents the results of PRCs waste audit study for the metal finishing industry. The study was conducted to identify opportunities for waste reduction available to the metal finishing industry and to develop a generic audit protocol that can be used by metal finishers to assess their own waste reduction opportunities. The study emphasized technologies available to smalland medium-si...