INTRODUCTION Vape shops sell electronic cigarettes and related products such as e-liquids, which may contain nicotine. Direct contact with nicotine can lead to adverse health effects, and few regulations exist on how nicotine is handled in vape shops. This study examined how customers and employees come into contact with, and handle, nicotine-containing e-liquids in vape shops with the goal of ...

Many developing countries produce huge amount of agro waste. The disposal this waste is a major problem. residues like wheat and rice husk, sawdust from carpentry shops, groundnut shells, dry leaves plants are available in large quantity. Apart the problems storage, transportation easy handling waste, burning biomass grates poses greater problem widespread air pollution. Biomass pellets well-li...

1. ABSTRACT Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are gaining wide spread usage in the field of scientific computing owing to the performance boost GPUs bring to computation intensive applications. The typical configuration is to integrate GPUs and CPUs in the same system where the CPUs handle the control flow and part of the computation workload, and the GPUs serve as accelerators carry out the bul...

INTRODUCTION Vape shops are popular brick-and-mortar stores that sell e-cigarette products but are not understood well. Previous analysis of Yelp reviews of vape shops located in various ethnic neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California in 2014 identified characteristics of vape shop as delineated by consumers. In this study, we assessed the associations between these characteristics and vape sho...

Industrial and academic interest converge on scheduling flow shops with sequence- time-dependent maintenance. We posit that anticipatory, integrated of operational maintenance tasks leads to superior performance purely ‘wait-then-fix’ handling the tasks. Motivated by an industrial problem (sequence dependent) setup times, maximum separation constraints, a combination time- dependent tasks, this...