BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Cockroaches (Diploptera punctata) are basically tropical insects and will do their best to find a home that is both warm and moist. Their involvement in the transmission of tropical diseases is poorly investigated in Africa. METHODS A study on the bacterial, fungal and parasitic profile of cockroaches trapped in and around houses in Ekpoma was carried out using standar...

A new facility was designed to hold 1.8 million birds in 10 houses; chickens were placed in five of the houses, and the remaining five houses were under construction when this outbreak occurred. An increase in mortality was reported in five houses; however, mortality in house 7 was quite high. Well-fleshed birds were suddenly found dead without a significant drop in egg production. The middle a...

Police body cameras have been a hot topic recently, with controversy surrounding the privacy of officers, the usefulness of the cameras, the policies that should be followed when using footage, and so on [2]. Perhaps one of the most controversial aspects of the police body camera debate is the ability of an officer to disable their camera at will. Reasons ranging from privacy to convenience hav...

Inhalation of indoor radon has been recognized as one of the health hazards. In the present work a set of indoor radon measurements was carried out, in different Egyptian houses in Alexandria city, built of the same type of building materials, using time–integrated passive radon dosimeters containing LR-115 Type II solid state nuclear track detector. Measurements were carried out from October 2...

In this paper, on-body propagation modelling has been investigated applying various numerical computational techniques. Propagation measurements with body-worn antennas have been carried out at 2.4GHz inside and outside an anechoic chamber respectively for narrowband communication channel characterisation. Both simulation and measurement results have been also obtained at the UWB (Ultra Wide-Ba...

Background: Degenerative primary osteoarthritis is one of the commonest causes of pain in peripheral joints. This is commonly seen in the knee and hip joints. Replacement of these worn out joints is now the established treatment, which gives stable pain free mobile joints. Arthrodesis or fusion of worn out joints is now rarely performed. Degeneration of the intervertebral disc is a common cause...

BACKGROUND Burnout syndrome has been clinically characterised by a series of three subtypes: frenetic, underchallenged, and worn-out, with reference to coping strategies for stress and frustration at work with different degrees of dedication. The aims of the study are to present an operating definition of these subtypes in order to assess their reliability and convergent validity with respect t...