On-line educational means were developed, which assist training in Radiation Protection and in Accelerator Technology Safety, in Radiotherapy Departments and Industrial Sterilization Facilities. Hypertext and multimedia courseware are gaining importance in University and Professional Education, and may partially release the teaching staff, and offer them more time to concentrate on more substan...

Counterproposals to President Buell G. Gallagher's blue-prints for additional facilities have been formulated by the recently established shadow cabinet.. Student Government President Shelly 'Sachs emphasized that a meeting with President Gallagher tomorrow night will determine their "feasibility." The goal of the shadow cabinet is to retain all facilities now used by students,J&chij&ng....thej...

This case study addresses environmental equity, in terms of African American, Latino, White, and poor communities’ proximity to both industrial facilities and parkland in Hall County, Georgia, USA. The project’s two primary goals are to (a) expand environmental justice analyses to account for both environmental burdens (industrial sites) and benefits (parkland acreage), and (b) extend this broa...

Modern industrial facilities have command and control systems. These industrial command and control systems are commonly called supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA).In this paper, we analyze several security issues in SCADA systems. We classify these issues based on key management, vulnerability and survivability. Using this standardized security techniques we can easily compare & c...

Spatial aggregation of different industrial facilities leads to simultaneous release of pollutant emissions. Our objective is to study cancer mortality risk associated with residence in the vicinity of pollutant factories. We used data on industries for year 2007 (3458 facilities). For the 8,098 Spanish towns, we defined a factor with 4 levels based on the number of factories in a radius of 2.5...

Any workplace implies a greater or lesser number of occupational hazards, respectively workers are exposed to risks, putting their health in danger. If we talk about industrial environments (construction, energy, metallurgy, textiles, wood, etc.), these hazards found extent, often exceeding the allowable limit, but pollutants such as dust suspension and microclimate parameters can also be offic...

This paper presents the KIV (Karlsruhe Interactive Veriier) proof environment for interactive, machine-supported veriication of software modules with algebraic interface speciications. The aim is to make industrial-strength veriication of software possible, and KIV is currently involved in industrial projects. We present the proof method, tactics, automated support , and the KIV proof engineeri...

methods this was across-sectional study, which audited 228 general practitioner offices randomly. the data from offices was collected based on researcher-made checklist, the validity of which was approved. firstly, descriptively analysis of data was done and then, the relationship between clinics characteristics and compliance with standards was assessed using analysis of variance (anova) and t...

INTRODUCTION The prevalence of endometriosis and the need for treatment in the USA has led to the need to explore the contemporary cost burden associated with the disease. This retrospective cohort study compared direct and indirect healthcare costs in patients with endometriosis to a control group without endometriosis. METHODS Women aged 18-49 years with endometriosis (date of initial diagn...