B. Le Guen, P. Bérard, M. Gonin, C. Bailloeuil, M. Carles, B. Gibert 1Electricité De France Gaz De France, Service Central d'Appui à la Médecine du Travail (EDF-Gaz de France/ SCAMT), 22-28 rue Joubert 75009 Paris, France 2Institut de Protection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, DPHD, BP n° 6, F-92265 Fontenay aux Roses Cedex, France 3COGEMA PIERRELATTE, SMT, BP n° 16, 26701 Pierrelatte, Cedex, France 4C...

The JAPEX/JNOC/GSC et al. Mallik 5L-38 gas hydrate research well was drilled to 1166 m through about 200 m of subpermafrost gas-hydrate-bearing sediments under the Mackenzie Delta, Canada. An extensive logging program was completed to characterize in situ the physical properties of the sediments where gas hydrate fills as much as 80% of the pore space. Analysis of sonic logging waveform show th...

in order to investigate the effective factors on the reduction of rain-fed wheat yield, an experiment in 45 fields was conducted in the township of bandar-gaz in 2012. in this research, all information such as crop management operations, seedbed preparation, cultivar, site preparation, seed sowing, weed combating, planting and harvesting issues, time of toxicant spraying, used seed rate were co...

Une mŽthode mettant en Ïuvre des moyennes conditionnelles est appliquŽe aux modŽlisations de la combustion et de la formation des polluants dans les moteurs ˆ allumage commandŽ avec charge stratifiŽe. Un systme d'Žquations dŽcrit, pendant la combustion, la composition et la tempŽrature locales du gaz encore non bržlŽ. Le modle de flamme cohŽrente (CFM) a ŽtŽ choisi pour simuler la combustion ...

Background: Township cadres, considered as basic executors of state policy, play an important role in Chinese society. Their job satisfaction is a vital issue for township management, but there are few studies on this topic in China. The goal of this study is to analyze the relationship between occupational stress and job satisfaction, and to further examine whether psychological capital (PsyCa...

BACKGROUND Sichuan Province is an agricultural and economically developing province in western China. To understand practices of prescribing medications for outpatients in rural township health centers is important for the development of the rural medical and health services in this province and western China. METHODS This is an observational study based on data from the 4th National Health S...

BACKGROUND Although there is a large increase in investment for tuberculosis control in Myanmar, there are few operational analyses to inform policies. Only 34% of nationally reported cases are from women. In this study, we investigate sex differences in tuberculosis diagnoses in Myanmar in order to identify potential health systems barriers that may be driving lower tuberculosis case finding a...

Langa Township, located in Cape Town, South Africa is home to many internal South African migrants and external African immigrants. As a mobile population, many Langa residents have embraced the mobile phone as a means of securing relationships with family members living elsewhere, while also maintaining relationships forged within the township and South Africa in general. Addressing the role o...

BACKGROUND Township-village health centers in rural areas play an important role in health service system in China. In East China's Jiangsu Province, the City of Haimen privatized all 25 township-village health centers in 2002. This study assesses the effect of privatization on staff retention among these health centers. METHODS This is a retrospective study based on 10-year administrative da...