BACKGROUND Pesticides in Tanzania are extensively used for pest control in agriculture. Their usage and unsafe handling practices may potentially result in high farmer exposures and adverse health effects.The aim of this study was to describe farmers' pesticide exposure profile, knowledge about pesticide hazards, experience of previous poisoning, hazardous practices that may lead to Acute Pesti...

Go to the cloud, has always been the dream of man. Cloud Computing offers a number of benefits and services to its customers who pay the use of hardware and software resources (servers hosted in data centers, applications, software...) on demand which they can access via internet without the need of expensive computers or a large storage system capacity and without paying any equipment maintena...

In spite of the rapid decrease in magnetic disk prices, tertiary storage (i.e., removable media in a robotic storage library) is becoming increasingly popular. The fact that so much data can be stored encourages applications that use ever more massive data sets. Application drivers include multimedia databases, data warehouses, scientific databases, and digital libraries and archives. The datab...

Equipment logistics, maintenance, and repair are important aspects of construction equipment management. A well-managed equipment fleet helps reduce downtime, as well as total maintenance and repair costs. With quickly growing fleets of equipment, large contractors tend to divert the maintenance and repair of equipment from equipment managers to project managers. As a result, the equipment mana...

The development of thermal energy storage solutions (TES) in agroindustry allows reduction production costs and improvement operation sustainability. Such require high capacity the ability to adapt existing equipment. use phase change materials (PCMs), which are able store as latent heat, creates new opportunities for heat (LHS, storage) with higher density improved performance when compared se...

new field of endeavor. As with all new fields, the exact area it covers is not completely defined. Even the term languagedata processing is not yet generally accepted, although its use is increasing. The definition of the field of languagedata processing given here includes the application of any data-processing equipment to natural-language text—that is, not only the application of computing m...

BACKGROUND Nurses are the main users of supplies and equipment applied in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) which are high-priced and costly. Therefore, understanding ICU nurses' experiences about resource management contributes to the better control of the costs. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the culture of nurses' working environment regarding the resource management in the ICUs ...