Ancient City of Ray, located at the southern urban part of Tehran province, is one of the best recognized civilization sites in the world. In this study, the past earthquake incidence in Ray was reviewed using hazards united states tool as a geographic information system-based natural hazard analysis tool. hazards united states tool was chosen to estimate the damage on structural and non-struct...

Heavy metal pollution of soil is becoming one of the most severe environmental hazards and has received great attention in the last few years because of its negative impact on human health and agriculture. Economically, excessive accumulation of heavy metals is most toxic to crop plants and results in decreased soil microbial activity, soil fertility and yield losses (McGrath et al., 1995). Var...

heavy metals are aggressive environmental pollutants. they are easily taken up by plants and they are strong stress factors for plant metabolisms. heavy metals influence includes also disturbances in plant mineral nutrition by competition with other nutrients. the specific objective of this research work was to study whether elevated cr (vi), cd and pb contamination caused an unbalanced nutriti...

waste collection is a necessary activity all around the world and the removal of municipal solid waste is a job associated with a variety of biological, chemical, mechanical, physical, and psychosocial hazards. in our country, like many developing countries, municipal solid waste is collected manually and collection of household waste is also a job which requires repeated heavy physical activit...

A pilot study was done to evaluate several road safety issues in Malaysia that arerelated heavy transportation. The project consisted of survey, analyticalcalculations, and computer simulations. survey conducted investigate the use current active features like warning signs, which include lights, light reflective stickers, color canvas used on vehicles. There were 55 responses collected showed ...

Willingness to communicate (WTC) construct plays an important role in second language (L2) teaching and learning. Almost any second language learner is likely to respond to a direct question, but many will not continue or initiate communication. The present study investigates Pakistani undergraduate students' perception of their willingness to initiate communication in English across four types...

BACKGROUND The manufacture of paint involves a variety of processes that present with medical hazards. Safety initiatives are hence introduced to limit hazard exposures and promote workplace safety. This aim of this study is to assess the use of available control measures/initiatives in selected paint factories in Lagos West Senatorial District, Nigeria. METHODS A total of 400 randomly select...