BACKGROUND/AIMS The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) initiated the Task Force Project to evaluate the feasibility of conducting a population-based stroke registry in Ludhiana city, Punjab, Northwest India. METHODS All first-ever, stroke patients over 18 years from the city of Ludhiana were included in the study from March 26th 2010 to March 25th 2011. Stroke information was collected...

Information and communications technology (ICT) is being exploited within cities to enable them to better compete in a global knowledge-based service-led economy. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, cities exploited large technical systems (LTSs)Vsuch as the telegraph, telephony, electrical networks, and other technologiesVto enhance their social and economic position. This paper examine...

Safe disposal of municipal sewage sludge is a challenging global environmental concern. The aim of this study was to assess the response of soil microbial functional diversity to the accumulation of municipal sewage sludge during landfill storage. Soil samples of a municipal sewage sludge (SS) and from a sewage sludge landfill that was 3 m from a SS landfill (SS3) were analyzed relative to an u...

Kirkuk city is known for its industrial activities, especially oil and cement production, as well road traffic. The aim of this study was to assess potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in the soil plants from urban areas by measuring pollution indices estimating effect that has on environment. Leaf samples were taken 10 different locations Kirkuk. These pre-treated using acid digestion method conc...

Taking as a starting point the conviction that everyday interactions carry potential to be either conflictual or peaceful, this article examines people’s behaviour in deeply divided city of Kirkuk, Iraq. Using historic bazaar Kirkuk site analysis, and through research survey 511 people, it focuses on between Kurds, Arabs Turkmen. The draws Bourdieu’s theory symbolic capital takes an intersectio...

The value of the travelogues and observations recorded by travelers are an important tool for shedding light on hidden aspects Kurdish history. Especially about historical periods which little is known. Therefore, surveyors, after being analyzed, can become a good conducting research. It was because importance that we chose this article entitled (The City Kirkuk in Writings Memoirs Foreigners d...

BACKGROUND Medical records are kept in the interest of both the patient and clinician. Proper filing of patient's medical records ensures easy retrieval and contributes to decreased patient waiting time at the hospital and continuity of care. This paper reports on an intervention study to address the issue of misfiling and multiple patient folders in a health facility. DESIGN Intervention stu...

Whether city governments should intervene and provide public funds for building Municipal Wireless Networks (MWN) is a controversial and important issue. Some people support the government’s intervention because MWN services seem to fit in the “public goods” category and result in “positive externality” (Cornes and Sandler, 1986). However, others are suspicious of the efficacy of the government...

Article history: Received 9 November 2012 Received in revised form 27 June 2013 Accepted 28 August 2013 Available online 27 November 2013 This study focuses on the appropriation process of two public computing infrastructures in the City of Oulu, Finland, a municipalWiFi network and large interactive displays. We analyze the adoption of these technologies in public urban places with a conceptua...