considerable investments have been made in establishing wastewater treatment plants (wwtps). however, evaluation of the performance of plants during recent years, when more wwtps have become operational, shows that effluent quality criteria were not met in many instances. preliminary assessment of the operational problems of wwtps in iran disclosed that numerous factors affect this issue of eff...

Considerable investments have been made in establishing wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). However, evaluation of the performance of plants during recent years, when more WWTPs have become operational, shows that effluent quality criteria were not met in many instances. Preliminary assessment of the operational problems of WWTPs in Iran disclosed that numerous factors affect this issue of eff...

BACKGROUND Before 1999, there was no national model or standard doctrine for managing casualties from chemical incidents in the UK. A Department of Health (DoH) initiative to prepare the National Health Service (NHS) for chemical incidents was launched in the same year. This led to the distribution of an NHS standard chemical personal protective equipment suit (CPPE) together with a new single ...

Operational risk and outsourcing are two major topics on today's agenda of top executives, especially in the banking industry. This paper introduces a framework to classify operational risk in outsourcing in a way that generates quantifiable output for measurement purposes. The authors developed a matrix system that deploys a catalogue of sources of risk and a mutually exclusive yet exhaustive ...

Dependability and security are flip sides of the same coin – linked conceptually though differing in process! Both arise from the occurrence of design or operational “deficiencies” in a system though differ in the processes of invocation of these deficiencies. Security issues often pertain to the intentional abuse of these deficiencies (vulnerabilities) to perturb the system operations; dependa...

The availability of pre-existing PHC structures was a key indicator that most countries have the fundamental and operational basis for CHN. Nevertheless, significant deficiencies undercut CHNs' contributions to enhancing in these nations. According report, policymakers' general lack commitment their limited ability use CHN-related global regional policy tools at disposal are leading causes gaps.

INTRODUCTION Relocating obstetric (OB) services to a children's hospital imposes demands on facility operations, which must be met to ensure quality care and a satisfactory patient experience. We used in situ simulations to prospectively and iteratively evaluate operational readiness of a children's hospital-based OB unit before it opened for patient care. METHODS This project took place at a...

Operating Systems (OS’s) constitute the operational core for computing devices, and consequently, the OS’s ability to sustain operations determines the dependability level of the provided system services. In order to facilitate their applicability to a variety of hardware platforms, OS’s have evolved into complex, componentized software entities whose key function is to provide applications acc...