breast carcinoma is the major cause of cancer-related death in women. the incidence of this carcinoma is rising and there are many attempts to decrease this problem. the aim of this study was detection of full-length cytokeratin 19 (ck19) mrna, in peripheral blood and tissue of breast cancer patients in early stage of cancer. in this study, rt-pcr (reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reactio...

context:  medical waste(mw) is all waste materials generated at health care facilities. mw mw naturally is hazardous for environment and subsequently for human.waste minimization (wm) is the latest alternative for risk reduction. all hospital staff generally and nurses specially can play an active role through education and the implementation of measures to reduce medical wastage and their envi...

Identifying Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) disposal sites and appropriately managing them is a challenging task to many developing countries like Bangladesh. It is a complex issue in an urban area, as increasing population levels, rapid economic growth and rise in community living standard, accelerates the generation rate of MSW. The study area is zone-2 (Mirpur-Pallabi) of Dhaka North City Corpor...

Hazardous waste (HW) management represents a central aspect of the environmental performance of industrial establishments in Egypt. In response to the need for monitoring this performance and the progress of industries in managing their HW, sets of HW indicators have been developed within the larger scope of environmental performance indicators for industry. The HW indicators address three them...

Rapid urbanization and industrialization, population growth and economic growth in developing countries make management of municipal solid waste more complex comparing with developed countries. Furthermore, the conventional municipal solid waste management approach often is reductionists, not tailored to handle complexity. Therefore, the need to a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary approach r...

This study aims to present the effects of citizen participation on Integrated Solid Waste Management – ISWM, considering all stages of urban cleansing: solid waste production, collection, transport, treatment, recycling and final disposal, as well as to help decision makers and agencies involved in solid waste management in developing a policy that will utilize citizen participation as an impor...

The main work of this project is the characterization of household waste and its equivalent energy recovery of the household waste management in the urban areas. Primary and secondary data were used for the manuscript. In the total amount of the waste 87% is vegetable, 4% grass and wood, 1% plastic, 2% is paper and only 1% metal were found. The moisture content as discarded waste was found 68.0...

The population growth, changing consumption patterns, and rapid urbanization contribute significantly to the growing volumes of solid waste that are generated in urban settings. As the rate of urbanization increases, demand on the services of solid waste management increases. The rapid urban growth in Langkawi Island, Malaysia, combined with the increasing rates of solid waste production has pr...