The notion of age-friendliness is gaining increasing attention from policy makers and researchers. In this study, we examine the congruence between two types of age-friendly surveys: subjective assessments by community residents versus objective assessments by municipal officials. The study was based on data from 39 mostly rural communities in Manitoba, Canada, in which a municipal official and...

In Québec, workers intervening in hazardous zones of machines, equipment and processes during maintenance, repairs and unjamming activities have to apply lockout procedures. Lockout procedures involve shutting down the equipment, isolating it, applying individual locks, releasing residual energies and verifying the absence of energies. Lockout has mostly been linked to industrial sectors. Howev...

Initial findings from a project examining community municipal portal adoption are reported. The study employs a theoretical model showing a causal effect of organizational factors and portal interface characteristics on a person’s intentions to use a community municipal portal and how individual demographics and perceptions mediate this effect. Six community municipal portals in Ontario, Canada...

The paper presents a measurement framework for assessing the eGovernance maturity level of countries through the analysis of municipal websites. The paper also introduces the results of a survey carried out to apply and validate the framework. Applied to municipal websites of different countries, the framework considers websites content and design. For each country, the sample included three we...

BACKGROUND Pleural cancer is a recognised indicator of exposure to asbestos and mesothelioma mortality. AIMS To investigate the distribution of municipal mortality due to this tumour, using the autoregressive spatial model proposed by Besag, York, and Mollie. METHODS It was possible to compile and ascertain the posterior distribution of relative risk on the basis of a single Bayesian spatia...

This study aimed to identify the level of governance and its effectiveness within sports institutions, social responsibility workers institutions. It was used a descriptive approach (survey). Sample participants were recruited using comprehensive inventory method from clubs, federations Olympic Committee. A total 176 individuals as sample for study. Out individuals, researchers distributed 161 ...

Municipal solid waste management is a major challenge, especially in metropolises. This research focuses on a non-technical issue in municipal solid waste management named municipal solid waste separation at the source and seeks to find the best policy in terms of model results. Source separation for recycling has been recognized as a way to achieve sustainable municipal solid waste (MSW) manag...

The study was conducted in the city of Kirkuk July 2020 and included 100 people who visited hospitalsand health sectors Kirkuk, which is located northern Iraq. As ages thatranged between 12 72 years from both sexes, also did not sufferfrom any symptoms or signs related to Covid-19 virus. were studyare reviewed, like what we said hospitals sectors, they suffering fromhigh temperatures, cough bot...

Waste water was collected from the municipal town of Madurai and was subjected to filtration in two different filters. The first filter employed sand for the process of filtration where as the second filter carbon for the same. Finally when the clarified water is drawn out of the filter, it shows that there is a considerable reduction in the physico-chemical parameters then that of the untreate...