Environment for decades has been subjected to varied degree of degradations majorly by anthropogenic activities at the detriment its full potentials. In light this, paper evaluates environmental risk perceptions residential and commercial outfits in neighborhoods petrol stations Maiduguri metropolis. Data were collected quantitatively qualitatively with aid questionnaires, interview schedules l...

This paper deals with embedded systems architecture components called as application patterns, and with their employment for design reuse. The first part of this contribution introduces the concepts of application patterns and relates them to the well-known object-oriented design abstractions. Employing application patterns that demonstrate the concrete examples of reusability, the kernel of th...

A 29-year-old male petrol station pump attendant was admitted with ataxia and clinical evidence of a sensorimotor polyneuropathy which developed over the preceding 3 months. He had cognitive dysfunction, hearing loss, and cerebellar clinical abnormalities that came on slowly over the three years. He had a fifteen-year history of sniffing mostly glue, occasionally paint thinners, and, in the rec...

Saito, K. (1973). British Journal of Industrial Medicine, 30, 352-358. Electroencephalographic studies on petrol intoxication: comparison between nonleaded and leaded white petrol. The effect of nonleaded and leaded petrol on the brains of rats was studied electroencephalographically. Bipolar electrodes were implanted on the brain surface between the frontal and occipital lobes of the left hemi...

In the present investigation, a newly isolated organic solvent-tolerant and alkaliphilic bacterial strain was reported from a hydrocarbon (gasoline and diesel) contaminated soil collected from the petrol station, Shirpur (India). The strain was identified as Bacillus circulans MTCC 7942, based on phenotype, biochemical, and phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequence. The capability of Baci...

Ernest Urbanovich • Ella E. Young • Martin L. Puterman • Sidney O. Fattedad The Workers’ Compensation Board of British Columbia, PO Box 5350, Station Terminal, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6B 5L5 Marsh Canada Limited, 1300-510 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6C 3J2 Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, University of British Columbia, 2053 Main Mall, Vanco...

the purpose of this study was to compare symptoms of ptsd among war affected people and employees in the fire station. totally, 60 people affected by war and 60 fire workers were selected using simple random sampling. by completing pcl inventory, samples of ptsd were characterized. data was analysed through spss software by independent t-test. as the results showed, severity of ptsd symptoms am...

While many studies confirm the association between HIV, alcohol and injecting drug use by female sex workers (FSWs), little is known about their use of marijuana, khat and other substances and the association of these substances with HIV, risky sexual behaviour, and sexual violence. To better understand this association, data were analysed from a cross-sectional, behavioural survey of 297 FSWs ...