In order to facilitate effective clinical coding and hence the precise financial reimbursement of acute services, in 2005 Western District Health Service (WDHS) (located in regional Victoria, Australia) undertook a provisional coding trial for inpatient medical episodes to determine the magnitude and accuracy of clinical documentation. Utilising clinical coding software installed on a laptop co...

Background: Municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ash contains a not insignificant amount of metallic aluminum, while circulating fluidized bed combustion (CFBC) fly ash is rich in active SiO 2. To reduce the materials cost of autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) production, these two types of solid waste could theoretically be used as the aerating agent and silica source, respectively....

Dear Editor: Biomedical waste is any waste generated during the diagnosis, treatment or immunization of human beings or animals, in research activities pertaining to or in the production of or testing of biologicals, and all other categories waste generated by healthcare activities. It includes a broad range of materials from used needles and syringes, soiled dressings, body parts, diagnostic s...

This study identifies and analyses the occupational risks associated with solid waste management practices in the informal enterprises of Gweru. Many concerns have been raised about the potential harm from waste to the environment and the general public, but the risks and consequent costs of occupational hazards in waste management have received little attention in the rush to adopt or adapt te...

Performance of data recovery is important for network coding in wireless sensor networks. The newly proposed ‘packet-centric’ distributed rateless coding strategies present fairly good performance close to that of the optimized centralized rateless codes. Nevertheless, such strategies may waste a lot of computation and energy resources, because many coded packets may visit the sensor nodes repe...

background : due to the crucial role of dental solid waste in the spreading of pathogens and threats to human health and the environment, its optimal management is very important. methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study. the study population consisted of 40 dental centers, from among which 11 dental centers were selected through random sampling. from each center, 3 samples were co...

considering the increase in waste production, scarcity of land allocated to landfill in urban areas, concerns about ecological damages caused by hazardous waste and damages done to the environment, municipal waste management has become of tremendous importance. the study investigated the behavioral patterns of households regarding waste separation at source using data collected through intervie...

Recently, by observing Algerian market, we find that the Chinese products are cornering this market. Since the living standards have risen in Algeria, as well, the purchasing power has increased too. Therefore, this led to the increasing amounts of municipal solid waste in Algeria. And it reached 10 million tons in 2011 and it is projected to reach 18 million tons by 2030. In Algeria, most of w...

This paper estimates the economic values of household preference for enhanced solid waste disposal services in Malaysia. The contingent valuation (CV) method estimates an average additional monthly willingness-to-pay (WTP) in solid waste management charges of €0.77 to 0.80 for improved waste disposal services quality. The finding of a slightly higher WTP from the generic CV question than that o...

The Constrained Random (CR) portion in any verification environment is a significant contributor to both the coding effort and the simulation overhead. Often, verification engineers waste a significant amount of time debugging problems related to CR in their SystemVerilog‎[1], and UVM‎[4], testbenches. The paper illustrates the top most common SystemVerilog CR gotchas, which when carefully stud...