The paper will provide a summary of all lifelines performance in this strong earthquake. The paper will discuss the damage, emergency response, and recovery of electric power, telecommunication, transportation (roads and bridges), seaports, airports, water and wastewater, and their facilities. The impact as a result of the lifelines service interruption will be discussed; most important is the ...

ABSTRACT: Aqueous enzymatic extraction of oil from pistacia khinjuk was performed using cellulase. The central composite design was used to optimize the parameters that are significant to the process. The influence of three regressors on the percentage of oil recovery from seed was evaluated using second-order polynomial multiple regression model. Analysis of variance showed a high coefficient ...

the effect of short term usage of gnrh antagonist as pretreatment on superovulation in goats was evaluated. statistical analysis was performed using t-test and showed that usage of gnrh antagonist as pretreatment can improve number of recovered embryos (p0.05). this study showed that usage of gnrh antagonist can improve superovulatory response in term of embryo recovery in goats .this study sho...

iontophoresis of epinephrine for assessment of neuromuscular junction response is a new technique that can improve diagnose of neuromuscular dysfunction. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of iontophoresis of epinephrine on neuromuscular junction response. iontophoresis of epinephrine solution (1mg/ml), sodium chloride, calcium gluconate, epinephrine with sodium chloride a...

we studied the effects of a single ketamine injection in an experimental model of chronic hypernatraemia in rats. three groups, each of 20 male wistar rats were chosen for the experiment; the control group was given water and the test groups were given 1% (group 1) and 2% (group 2) nacl solutions for two weeks. all groups were fed with the same diet, containing about 0.5% salt. other living con...

A humidity sensor thin film based on nanoporous PbWO4-WO3 composites has been prepared by spin coating technique with different weight ratio of PbWO4 (Pb) and WO3 (WO) (PWWO-01, PWWO-82, PWWO-64, PWWO-46, PWWO-28, PWWO-01) and their humidity sensing properties have also been investigated at different relative humidity (RH) in the range of 5% - 98% at room temperature with dc resistance. It is f...

Once again, the lack of universal terminology is hampering efforts to move disaster medicine forward—this time, as it relates to the longitudinal phases of a disaster. During a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting I attended in December, confusion ensued as meeting participants discussed the transition period between the response and development phases of a disaster. Participants generally a...