background: noise pollution can contribute to adverse health effects in humans. noise annoyance and related problems, caused by noise emission during the progress of building construction, have become increasingly important. these problems can influence the exposed workers, as well as vicinity residents. the goal of the present study was to assess the noise annoyance due to noise from construct...

hypothermia generates potentially severe complications in operating or recovery room. forced air warmer is effective to maintain body temperature. extremely low frequency electromagnetic field (elf-emf) is harmful to human body and mainly produced by electronic equipment including convective air warming system. we investigated elf-emf from convective air warming device on various temperature se...

the effect of hydraulic retention time in a range from 1.0-5.5 days was evaluated in a laboratoryscaleanaerobic fixed bed reactor packed with a hybrid material composed of tire rubber and zeolite. underthese conditions, cod removal efficiencies varied from 28.3% to 82.1%, respectively. over the more than 6months of operation, no clogging was observed. the results obtained demonstrated that this...

We consider an inspection game between an arbitrary number of polluting rms and an agency who can choose to monitor ambient pollution. We obtain an equilibrium where all rms comply with the same probability and where the inspection agency inspects all rms individually if ambient pollution exceeds an endogenous threshold. If the ne for noncompliance is high enough, the agency's costs are lower t...

We add name groups and group creation to the typed ambient calculus. Group creation is surprisingly interesting: it has the eeect of statically preventing certain communications, and can thus block the accidental or malicious escape of capabilities that is a major concern in practical systems. Moreover, ambient groups allow us to reene our earlier work on type systems for ambient mobility. We p...

legal terms are as heritage of civilization and arising out of social developments of nations. however, public order in international law is required in international instruments and is cited repeatedly by international tribunals and authors but still have a vague concept in practice. what is studied in this article is analyze of concept and nature of international public order in considering v...