Petro-Processors of Louisiana, Inc. (PPI) site, located North the city Baton Rouge Parish, used two sites as depositories for various petrochemical wastes from mainly 1960s until 1980s. The main problem was potential leachate migration and exposure toxic materials, which had been released into local waterways. Therefore, site is considered a public health hazard area because risks to human past...

Ménière’s disease (MD) is a chronic illness of the inner ear with an incidence, in Europe about 50-200/100.000 a year [1]. It is characterised by intermittent episodes of vertigo lasting from minutes to hours, with sensor neural, usually fluctuating, hearing loss, tinnitus, and aural pressure. Diagnosis is mainly based on clinical course and MD is usually considered as a multifactorial disease,...

A summary of the most recent and important measurements in b physics is presented. The production of beauty particles in Z decays, b quark couplings, lifetimes, B-B0 oscillations, semileptonic b decays and studies of the number of charm quarks produced in b decays are reviewed. Extraction of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements |Vtd|, |Vcb|, |Vub| and implication for |Vts| are di...

Texas and Norway may appear to be worlds apart—one flat, arid, sprawling across the vast US West, other green, mountainous, defined by its waters. Yet they face surprisingly similar challenges resulting from economies built on oil industry in a world now wracked climate change. This essay assumes that indigenous sovereignty social justice issues are inextricable environmental concerns, engages ...

Experiencer or psych verbs are a notorious problem for the interface between lexical semantics and syntax (e.g., Grimshaw 1990, Pesetsky 1995). This paper shows that the consideration of discourse structure sheds new light on the data observed in the literature. In particular, this paper follows Asher and Lascarides’ (1995, 2003) and Asher and Pustejovsky’s (2000) ideas on the close interaction...

quantum theory poses itself to be a challenging counterpart to the intelligent design argument. quantum physics founded upon uncertainty, probability and statistics has exerted great influence since its inception on the philosophical thinking of man. the findings of this theory has helped bring about a dramatic transformation in the notion of ‘order in nature.’ in modern physics, it is hardly p...