Neutralization of landmines is dangerous and complicated work. For Humanitarian Demining, the most common neutralization method is demolition using small explosive charges. Although common practice, demolition has several disadvantages. Deminers need non-explosive mine neutralization technologies that are safer, more reliable and less expensive. To meet this need, several innovative non-explosi...

BACKGROUND Hospital mortality rates are one of the most frequently selected indicators for measuring the performance of NHS Trusts. A recent article in a national newspaper named the hospital with the highest or lowest mortality in the 2005/6 financial year; a report by the organization Dr Foster Intelligence provided information with regard to the performance of all NHS Trusts in England. ME...

Such watches are known as “PDS” watches. PDS tornado (TOR) watches are issued when the forecaster has high confidence that multiple strong (F2-F3 on the Fujita Scale) or violent tornadoes (F4-F5 on the Fujita Scale) will occur in the watch area, while PDS severe thunderstorm (SEV) watches are issued when there is a threat of a high end “derecho” (e.g. Johns and Hirt 1987, Coniglio et al. 2004) ...

Abstract The growing contamination of various freshwater resources due to industrial effluent is a serious concern among the scientific community. Several organic compounds are essentially used as chemical intermediate in variety processes. These hazardous chemicals which already considered dangerous global public health and other forms life their high toxicity, carcinogenicity. contaminants fo...

conclusions the prevalence of high-risk behaviors among street children in southeast iran is almost high. in this regard, street vendors and children who their parents are illiterate or have been separated are more at risk. generally, principal organizing these children and family education could decline their problems. however, these actions need intersectoral collaboration in society. backgro...

The importance of modeling and software development in the field of environment and health is briefly outlined in this paper. In this context we introduce the term "exposomics". We give two short modeling examples: the first one is on the evaluation of chemicals in breast milk with the experimental software PyHasse, and the second one on the evaluation of sex odds near the storage cask site Gor...