Forgotten attachments of e-mail message are a common and obnoxious problem. Several E-mail readers provide plugins that attempt to tackle this problem by trying to guess whether a message needs an attachment and warn the user in case s/he does not attach a file to such a message. However, these approaches essentially only work with a fixed list of keywords, which trigger such a warning whenever...

We use the ellipsoidal lp norm to measure the distance for both the desirable and the obnoxious facility location problems with constraints. The optimality conditions for both location models are derived. We give Newton’s method for the models. Finally, numerical examples are presented. ∗Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université catholique de Louvain [email protected]. 34 ...

The Brief Loquaciousness and Interpersonal Responsiveness Test (BLIRT) measures the extent to which people respond to others quickly and effusively. The BLIRT displays desirable psychometric properties and distinguishes people who should theoretically score high (e.g., car salespersons) from those who should score low (e.g., librarians). Scores on the scale predict (a) the amount and rapidity o...

Efficient treatment of pharmaceutical waste is a big challenge because of the enormous quantity, complexity and hazardous nature. Lack of implementation of effective treatment technology aggravates the situations further in the countries facing the challenges of rising population, increasing urbanisation and industrialization generating enormous quantities of industrial wastes. This paper criti...

Snoring, one of the most prevalent obnoxious human habits, can be a social nuisance and may well be a medical problem. No one who has slept beside a snorer needs any description of what is snoring, or any convincing that a remedy would be very much welcome. Snoring is a sound produced during sleep by vibrations of the soft tissues of the pharyngeal walls, soft palate and the uvula 1. Although s...

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Leather industry, one of the polluting industries because of generation of huge amount of liquid and solid wastes, also emits obnoxious smell because of degradation of proteinous material of skin and generation of gases such as NH3, H2S and CO2. Solid wastes are raw trimmings, fleshings, chrome shavings, buffing dusts and keratin wastes. Accumulation of these wastes lead to sludge problem and c...

OIn 1775 Joseph Priestley issued the first volumes of his Experiments & Observations on different kinds of Air [1], the fruit of work which had been occupying him for the previous four or five years [2], In the appendix to volume II of Priestley's work appeared a letter dated 3rd October 1775 in which the writer asserts that there is "no room to doubt of the great advantages the medical world m...