BACKGROUND Sensitivity and symptoms related to animal proteins have been investigated in various occupational groups. However, data from pet shops are limited. AIMS To investigate rates of sensitivity to cats and dogs among pet shop workers, to assess the relationship between sensitivity, allergen levels and symptoms and to investigate whether passive transport from pet shops to homes is poss...

In this paper we present the performance analysis of two nite queues coupled by a triggering scheduler Customers waiting for service have rst to pass the scheduler and then experience service by their dedicated server The scheduler is permitted to gather a custo mer from a particular queue only if the corresponding server is idle An application of this model can be found in job shop like manufa...

Disclaimer ©Institute for Retail Studies. All rights reserved. 1 The views and opinions expressed in this Working Paper are strictly the responsibility of the authors. 3 INTRODUCTION Charity retailing has grown over the last five years into a thriving and expanding sector and can no longer be ignored by academic researchers. Corporate Intelligence Group (1992) report that there are now over 5,0...

Allocating buffers in manufacturing systems is one of easiest ways to improve the throughput of the system, as changes can be implemented quickly and the initial cost of the change is low. Yet, while an increase in the buffer size usually increases the throughput, it often also increases the work in progress and the makespan, therefore increasing the inventory and the time to the customer. Subs...

Allocating buffers in manufacturing systems is one of easiest ways to improve the throughput of the system, as changes can be implemented quickly and the initial cost of the change is low. Yet, while an increase in the buffer size usually increases the throughput, it often also increases the work in progress and the makespan, therefore increasing the inventory and the time to the customer. Subs...

INTRODUCTION Vape shops sell electronic cigarettes and related products such as e-liquids, which may contain nicotine. Direct contact with nicotine can lead to adverse health effects, and few regulations exist on how nicotine is handled in vape shops. This study examined how customers and employees come into contact with, and handle, nicotine-containing e-liquids in vape shops with the goal of ...

BACKGROUND E-cigarettes are sold at many different types of retail establishments. A new type of shop has emerged, the vape shop, which specializes in sales of varied types of e-cigarettes. Vape shops allow users to sample several types. There are no empirical research articles on vape shops. Information is needed on consumers' beliefs and behaviors about these shops, the range of products sold...

Many developing countries produce huge amount of agro waste. The disposal this waste is a major problem. residues like wheat and rice husk, sawdust from carpentry shops, groundnut shells, dry leaves plants are available in large quantity. Apart the problems storage, transportation easy handling waste, burning biomass grates poses greater problem widespread air pollution. Biomass pellets well-li...

1. ABSTRACT Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are gaining wide spread usage in the field of scientific computing owing to the performance boost GPUs bring to computation intensive applications. The typical configuration is to integrate GPUs and CPUs in the same system where the CPUs handle the control flow and part of the computation workload, and the GPUs serve as accelerators carry out the bul...