What is an urban atmosphere? How can we differentiate an 'atmosphere' from other facets of urban consciousness and experience? This essay explores some of the wider cultural, political, and philosophical connotations of atmospheres as a focal point for critical reflections on space and subjectivity. The idea of an 'affective atmosphere' as a distinctive kind of mood or shared corporeal phenomen...

Metallic work is one of the widespread economic activities in urban Kano. Little or no attention is usually directed at occupational health risk by local or state authorities in Kano. The present work was aimed at the evaluation of DNA damage in metal workers by Alkaline Comet Assay in blood lymphocytes. The results showed that there was significant difference statistically between the level of...

Business intelligence is one of the tools of IT in business and Information systems for management have been just developed theoretically, and have never fulfilled the demands of organizations, practically. The establishment and marketing of electronic insurance demands the readiness of tools and the foundation of IT. Business intelligence provides the managers with a collection of tools, techn...

Purpose: To evaluate the prescribing pattern of clinicians in the general outpatient unit of the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano (AKTH),. Methods: This was a descriptive retrospective study conducted using 500 prescriptions made at the general outpatient unit of AKTH between April and July 2009. Results: A total of 497 prescriptions were successfully analyzed. The average number of drugs per...

Recent observations and theoretical investigations of neutron stars indicate that their atmospheres consist not of hydrogen or iron but possibly heavier elements such as helium. We calculate the ionization and dissociation equilibrium of helium in the conditions found in the atmospheres of magnetized neutron stars. For the first time this investigation includes the internal degrees of freedom o...

Investigations of the effect of high pressures of Na (100 to 130 atmospheres) and of Ar (60 to 80 atmospheres) showed that these gases are effective in reversing the phases of an oil in water emulsion. Nitrous oxide did not cause reversal at pressures as high as 53 atmospheres nor did helium as high as 107 atmospheres. We found CO(2) most effective in reversing the emulsions and attributed this...