This paper examines the links between solid urban waste management and peri-urban agriculture in Bamako and Ouagadougou. Staple crop farmers in the vicinity of both cities value urban waste as a source of organic matter and are prepared to pay for it. Cultivation on degraded soils has even been revived in some cases thanks to this readily available resource. However, uncertain land tenure means...

In this paper, we propose a novel decode-and-forward dual-relay selection technique based on Alamouti space time coding for twoway wireless relay networks (TWRNs). The twoand the threephase TWRN protocol are used in the first and second version of the proposed technique, respectively, to exchange the information symbols of the communicating terminals. In order not to waste any power for transmi...

background: monitoring of indicator and pathogenic microorganisms is essential for proper composting. the aim of this study was to evaluate the change in population of coliform bacteria and salmonella spp. in composting process of municipal wastes and after its application on soil. methods: the samples were taken from each raw waste pile, initial pile, and active phase pile, cooling phase pile ...

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...

Rapid increase in construction activities has resulted in shortage of conventional construction materials.In the present scenario, the high cost of conventional building materials is a major factor affecting housing delivery in the world.This has necessitated research into alternative materials of construction.The effective housing techniques deal with reduction in cost of construction as well ...

Biomedical waste is currently a real health and environmental concern. In this regard, a study was conducted in 5 hospitals in Dakar to review their management of biomedical waste and to formulate recommendations. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted from 1 April to 31 July 2010 in five major hospitals of Dakar. A questionnaire administered to hospital managers, heads of depart...

Chryseobacterium sp. strain P1-3, harboring keratin degrading activity, has recently been isolated from poultry waste. Here, we report the 4.6-Mbp draft genome sequence of the keratinolytic bacterium with a G+C content of 37.0% and 4,087 protein-coding genes.

Lean principles have been effective in reducing waste in manufacturing organizations. These principles are now being applied in software development processes. This paper describes lean thinking concepts and the process of applying lean in the technical coding at IMVU a virtual worlds company. It also summarizes lessons learned in the implementation of lean for software development processes.

We report here the annotated draft genome sequence of the thermophilic biomass-degrading fungus Malbranchea cinnamomea strain FCH 10.5, isolated from compost at a waste treatment plant in Vietnam. The genome sequence contains 24.96 Mb with an overall GC content of 49.79% and comprises 9,437 protein-coding genes.

To resolve the problem that virtual machine deployment reservation scheme waste a lot of resources and single-objective deployment algorithm is not comprehensive, a virtual machine resource allocation algorithm based on virtual machines group multi-objective genetic algorithm is proposed. The algorithm is divided into group coding and resources coding. Resources coding integrated coding accordi...