Inflation increased to 4 per cent in January following record price rises in food, clothing and furniture; petrol prices are hovering around an all-time peak, heating costs are rising and the hike in VAT is expected to push inflation up further.

Pseudomonas putida OUS82 was isolated from petrol- and oil-contaminated soil in 1992, and ever since, it has been used as a model organism to study the microbial assimilation of naphthalene and phenanthrene. Here, we report the 6.7-Mb draft genome sequence of P. putida OUS82 and analyze its featured pathways for biodegradation.

Conventionally, we think of an increase in competition as weakly decreasing prices, increasing the number of consumers served, thus increasing consumer surplus, decreasing firms profits, etc. Here, we demonstrate that, under some tame circumstances, an increase in competition may lead to a price increase in a horizontally differentiated market. We show this relationship for the petrol market in...

In the Petrol Station Replenishment Problem (PSRP) the aim is to jointly determine an allocation of petroleum products to tank truck compartments and to design delivery routes to stations. This article describes an exact algorithm for the PSRP. This algorithm was extensively tested on randomly generated data and on a real-life case arising in Eastern Quebec.

Ekonomide finansal piyasalarda yer almasının yanı sıra üretim girdisi olarak kullanılan petrol, ülke ekonomilerinde önemli rol oynamaktadır. Petrolün girdi aldığı ekonomilerde, petrol fiyatı değişiklikleri sonucunda şirketlerin maliyetleri ve nakit akışları değişmekte dolayısıyla karlılıkları etkilenebilmektedir. Bu bağlamda piyasaları etkileyebilme gücüne sahiptir. çalışmada, Borsa İstanbul’da...

BACKGROUND Petrol is known to be hazardous to human health and is associated with various health effects, such as haematotoxicity and oxidative stress. Although Malaysia has adopted the European fuel quality standards in recent years in order to reduce petroleum pollutants and to improve air quality, gasoline with research octane number 95 (RON95), believed to contain benzene and other toxic su...