This article explores the temporal and spatial aspects of liminality in Sulayman Al Bassam’s play, Petrol Station (2017). Drawing on theory liminality, paper investigates how informed characterization, identity formation, evasive concept truth, characters’ absurd existence work. It also shows author skillfully projects geographical locations erratic boundaries between personal collective, liter...

Abstract Vehicle routing problem is a well-known optimization in the logistics area. A special case of vehicle station replenishment which different types fuel have to be transported from depots customers. In this paper we study European petrol company. The contains several additional constraints such as time windows, sized compartment vehicles, and restrictions on vehicles that can serve custo...

In this paper we observe the extension of the vehicle routing problem (VRP) in fuel delivery that includes petrol stations inventory management and which can be classified as the Inventory Routing Problem (IRP) in fuel delivery. The objective of the IRP is to minimize the total cost of vehicle routing and inventory management. We developed a Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) heuristic for solv...

Abstract Exposure to benzene and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) like toluene, ethylbenzene, o -, m p -xylene (BTEX) at a fuel station is hazardous for the workers. This study aims estimate health risk worker due exposure of BTEX after implementation vapour recovery system (VRS) stations. Air samples were collected using low-flow sampling pump as per NIOSH method by Tenax (sorbent) tube...

AIM To analyse the association between potential environmental exposure to hydrocarbons and the risk of acute childhood leukaemia. METHODS A hospital based multicentre case control study, stratified on centre, age, and sex, with 280 leukaemia cases and 285 controls was carried out. Data were collected by a standardised interview of the mothers. RESULTS No clear association was seen between ...

This paper illustrates the use of a vehicle in several industries and is capable of reducing extra strenuous and/or time consuming activities of humans. The main concentration of this work was on vehicle navigation, tracking, obstacle detection, weight overload, battery power measuring and also be able to locate the respective service station goods. Vehicle navigation employs RFID technology. T...

Editor – We appreciate the comments of P.J. Landrigan concerning our article on the factors associated with elevated blood concentrations in children in Karachi, Pakistan (1, 2). In his editorial, however, he commented that the decline in the use of leaded petrol in Pakistan had resulted in declines in children's blood lead levels. Mean blood lead concentrations in schoolchildren had been repor...