STUDY OBJECTIVE Carbon monoxide (CO) is the leading cause of poisoning fatalities in the United States. We conducted a survey to sample the quality of the information available to the public from Connecticut heating oil distributors regarding these risks. METHODS An observational, cross-sectional telephone survey of oil distributors in Connecticut was conducted, using a scripted set of questi...

This study presents the challenge involved in the negotiation and construction of a standard process in a major petroleum company that has the purpose of guiding the implementation of ergonomic studies in the development of projects, systemising the implementation of ergonomics design. The standard was created by a multi-disciplinary working group consisting of specialists in ergonomics, who wo...

Planning and assessment in maintenance, renewal and working status of oil field facilities and oil production management are evolving toward complex, spatially explicit regional assessments. These problems have to be addressed with object-oriented spatiotemporal data models that can restore, manage, query and visualize various historic and updated basic information concerning with oil field fac...

persian gulf is a tectonic intra-continental sediment basin in which 40% of global oil and gastrade carries out and is a rich oil and gas resource. persian gulf area is about 236000km2 that is one of thelargest marine habitats including corals, sponges, crabs, fishes, clams, scaphpoodas, cephalopodas, foraminiferas, echinodermatas, ostracodas and bryozoas. some of them live in seabed sediments ...

china has been in a process of intensive industrialisation in recent years; and as a result, the country is now one of the largest growing economies in the world. throughout the 1970s and 1980s, china was exporting oil, but in 1993 it became to an importer of oil. china's economic growth in recent years has turned the country into the second biggest consumer of energy and the third largest impo...

We consider the problem of optimally determining an investment portfolio for an energy company owning a network of gas pipelines, and in charge of purchasing, selling and distributing gas. We propose a two stage stochastic investment model which hedges risk by means of Conditional Value at Risk constraints. The model, solved by a decomposition method, is assessed on a real-life case, of a Brazi...

In this paper, an automatic method for Persian WordNet construction based on Prenceton WordNet 2.1 (PWN) is introduced. The proposed approach uses Persian and English corpora as well as a bilingual dictionary in order to make a mapping between PWN synsets and Persian words. Our method calculates a score for each candidate synset of a given Persian word and for each of its translation, it select...

Distribution channel management not only consists of choosing distribution channels. In fact, probably the most difficult phase of the distribution management starts after this choice. Determining an appropriate organization strategy for distribution channel management is like a problem of concern to marketing practitioners and academics as well in this phase. In this study, the organization st...

Venezuela possesses the Western Hemisphere’s largest conventional proven oil reserves at 77.8 billion barrels and has proved natural gas reserves of 148 trillion cubic feet, the largest in Latin America and the seventh-largest in the world. Despite these abundant resources, economic performance of the country has been poor. Oil production declined steadily every year beginning in 1973 and by th...