İş sağlığı ve güvenliği günümüzde temel insan haklarından biri olarak sayılmaktadır. Nitekim İnsan Hakları Evrensel Bildirgesinde, herkesin adil elverişli koşullarda çalışma hakkı olduğu kabul edilmiştir. Bu anlayış Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Anayasasının 49’uncu maddesine de dâhil edilmiş devlete, çalışanları korumak için gerekli tedbirleri alma zorunluluğu getirilmiştir. Uluslararası antlaşmalar Ana...

Escherichia coli O157:H7 is an important agent of haemorrhagic colitis and haemolytic uraemic syndrome in children less than five years old and elderly people. The objective of this study was to investigate the prevalence of verotocytoxin producing E. coli 0157 (VTEC O157) among human patients with diarrhoea in Morogoro, Tanzania. Faecal samples originating from 275 human patients with diarrhoe...

In Hong Kong, landfill dumping has been a main approach for municipal solid wastes disposal and will be continued in the near future. However, gaseous emission from municipal waste may causes offensive odours and disturbs the neighbours around landfill sites. Usually there are not enough buffer zones between landfill sites and the nearest sensitive receptors due to a land restriction in Hong Ko...

We consider a class of location-allocation problems with immobile servers, stochastic demand and congestion that arises in several planning contexts: location of emergency medical clinics; preventive healthcare centers; refuse collection and disposal centers; stores and service centers; bank branches and automated banking machines; internet mirror sites; web service providers (servers); and dis...

Sugar is the most important food supplement of our daily diet. During production, sugar mills use a large volume water and produce significant amount wastewater polluted with high organic compounds. Therefore, it necessary to treat before their disposal. For this reason, article presents results obtained from monitoring coupled system aged refuse filled bioreactors (ARFB) in full scale mill. Th...

This issue's "Legal Briefing" column covers legal developments pertaining to conscience clauses and conscientious refusal. Not only has this topic been the subject of recent articles in this journal, but it has also been the subject of numerous public and professional discussions. Over the past several months, conscientious refusal disputes have had an unusually high profile not only in courtho...

Humans naturally dispose of objects that disgust them. Is this phenomenon so deeply embedded that even incidental disgust – i.e., where the source of disgust is unrelated to a possessed object – triggers disposal? Two experiments were designed to answer this question. Two film clips served as disgust and neutral primes; the objects were routine commodities (boxes of office supplies). Results re...