The City of Philadelphia adopted an ambitious broadband internet plan to provide the city with comprehensive wireless coverage. The decision to adopt this project involved a tradeoff between the benefit of high-speed service to all residents and cost of the project. The project represents breaking a relatively new ground, with few experiences of other government agencies to rely upon for guidan...

Leachate from a municipal battery recycling site is a potent source of mixed-metal released into the environment. The present study investigated the degree at which mixed-metal exposure to the municipal auto-battery leachate (MABL) and to the Elewi Odo municipal auto-battery recycling site leachate (EOMABRL) affected the lipid membrane of the testes in in vitro experiment. The results showed el...

In the context of quality assurance for the emergency medical services in Bavaria a segmentation of the municipal areas is necessary. Such municipal subareas are not officially defined; however, official submunicipalities do exist as point information. On the basis of these points an algorithm, generating reasonable borders within the municipal areas, was developed and implemented using ArcPy. ...

Dr. Arun Nayak, MBBS, MD Obstetrics & Gynaecology, DGO, FICOG is Professor & Head of Unit in Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Mumbai, India; Dr. Meenal Sarmalkar, MBBS, MD Obstetrics & Gynaecology, DGO is Additional Associate Professor in Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, Maharashtra...

Urbanization and rapid growth of population in India has led to drastic increase in municipal solid waste. Unscientific disposal of municipal solid waste is one of the main reasons attributed for environmental degradation. The present work concentrates on municipal solid waste management in Tiruchirappalli City which comprises of four zones namely Srirangam, Goldenrock, Araiyamangalam and Abish...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the municipal bond market with an emphasis on the numerous embedded contingent claims. Embedded contingent claims include the standard call features, sinking funds, the advance refunding option, the synthetic advance refunding option, the credit risk option (default risk), marketability, and the numerous tax-related events. Municipal bond i...

Energy resources saving policy in municipal housing economy (MHE) is a priority in the national economy of Russia. It is aimed at reduction of costs for housing stock maintenance and operation and for optimization of housing and municipal services payment system. Suggested in the article is the organizational and economical mechanism of energy resources saving management in MHE, including funct...

Widespread interest in composting as a means of municipal sludge treatment began in the early 1970s, and has i n c r e d dramatically since that time. In 1984, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) initiated a technology evaluation of municipal sludge composting based on investigations at five o p erating facilities.' The facilities studied generally processed sludge reliably and effe...

BACKGROUND Human exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) is a public health concern which could occur in a number of ways. Wastewaters seem to play an important role in the dissemination of bacteria and antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) in our environment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of three groups of ARB and their resistance genes in hospital and municipal was...

The lack of widely available, affordable broadband Internet access has spurred a movement in which municipalities are rolling out wireless broadband networks. This movement has raised a number of questions including: Why are municipalities acting as the early adopters of wireless broadband technology? How does increased state regulation of municipal broadband networks affect this trend and how ...