In this study, inductive coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) is employed for the evaluation of soil pollution for selected metals in the Vanderbijlpark area of South Africa. Soil samples investigated were collected from five different sites in the city based on their proximity to the industrial areas of Vanderbijlpark. Soil samples were collected from close to traffic robots,...

PROBLEM The Chinese central government launched the Health System Reform Plan in 2009 to strengthen disease control and health promotion and provide a package of basic public health services. Village doctors receive a modest subsidy for providing public health services associated with the package. Their beliefs about this subsidy and providing public health services could influence the quality ...

1Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America 2Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America 3Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America 4Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins Univ...

From 1978 to 1982, 117 cases of Lyme disease were reported in New Jersey. The number of cases increased each year from four in 1978 and 1979 to 56 in 1982. Forty-eight percent of cases occurred in a four-township area in central Monmouth County. The proportion of cases with arthritis decreased in 1982 because of early antibiotic treatment and better reporting of milder cases. The proportion of ...

OBJECTIVE To assess adolescents' satisfaction with reproductive health services in Mdantsane Township, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. METHOD A structured questionnaire was used to assess the levels of participants' satisfaction with reproductive health services. The sample consisted of 200 adolescents within the ages of 16 to 19 years. A response of "yes" indicated that the person was s...

Increasing urbanization and industrialization is continuously putting a pressure on the ground fresh water resource in form of quality quantity. Therefore recycling through wastewater treatment need present hour. study efficiency 3.2MLD sewage plant (STP) based membrane bioreactor technology (MBR) located Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) township Aonla, Bareilly, Uttar Prad...

An Assessment of Uncertainty Regional Climate Change Models, Error Correction Methods and Forecasting in Birjand Township

BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between fluoride ions in drinking water and the incidence of dental fluorosis in some endemic areas of Bongo District, Ghana. METHOD Two hundred children were randomly selected from various homes and taken through a questionnaire. Their teeth were examined for the detection of dental fluorosis using the Dean's specific in...

Quantitative analysis for the risk of human cancer from the ingestion of inorganic arsenic has been based on the reported cancer mortality experience in the blackfoot disease (BFD) -endemic area of southwest Taiwan. Linear regression analysis shows that arsenic as the sole etiologic factor accounts for only 21% of the variance in the village standardized mortality ratios for bladder and lung ca...

The Government of Indonesia, through Bappenas, launched the Village/Township Monograph Digitization (DMD/K) program in 2020. This is an effort to digitally document data villages/twonship so that it can be processed and analyzed as a basis for planning decision making. Bantaeng Regency was selected one regions implementing this program. study aims determine extent implementation principles Agil...