BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The waste anesthetic gases (WAGs) present in the ambient air of operating rooms (OR), are associated with various occupational hazards. This paper intends to discuss occupational exposure to WAGs and its impact on exposed professionals, with emphasis on genetic damage and oxidative stress. CONTENT Despite the emergence of safer inhaled anesthetics, occupational expos...

Waste anesthetic gases (WAGs) can be defined as all halogenated organic compounds (including methoxyflurane, halothane, isoflurane, sevoflurane, desflurane, and enflurane) and nitrous oxide that escape from the anesthetic circuit, or are exhaled by the patient. Management of WAGs intuitively seems prudent, but because excessive exposure is often difficult to detect without special monitoring de...

This paper presents WAGS (Word Alignment Gold Standard), a novel benchmark which allows extensive evaluation of WA tools on out-of-vocabulary (OOV) and rare words. WAGS is a subset of the Common Test section of the Europarl English-Italian parallel corpus, and is specifically tailored to OOV and rare words. WAGS is composed of 6,715 sentence pairs containing 11,958 occurrences of OOV and rare w...

Waste collection and transportation is considered as the most costly stage of waste management, to the extent that more than 70% of the total waste management costs are related to this sector. The aim of this study was to analyze the cost of the waste collection and transportation system of the 5th district of Tabriz, Iran, in 2015. For this purpose, the maps of collection routes and locations ...

This linguistics study aims to observe the development of norms in WhatsApp Groups (WAGs). Over years, linguists have devoted their time theorizing im/politeness evaluations and linguistic interactions computer-mediated communication (CMC). However, virtual not gained adequate attention. systematically documented examined conversations 539 members three WAGs describe group communication. The da...

The two studies reported here explored the factor structure of the newly constructed Writing Achievement Goal Scale (WAGS), and examined relationships among secondary students' writing achievement goals, writing self-efficacy, affect for writing, and writing achievement. In the first study, 697 middle school students completed the WAGS. A confirmatory factor analysis revealed a good fit for thi...

Introduction: About 50 to 70 percent of the waste management total cost is spent on collection operations, so any little progress in reducing collection costs could significantly reduce total costs. This study aimed to analyze the collection and transportation of municipal solid waste cost in Yazd in the next 15 years. Materials and Methods: The study location (five areas) was different urban ...

The potential risk posed by contaminants in surface and shallow subsurface soil at WAGS 6 and 10 were evaluated by developing models to determine exposure pathways and receptors, and using bioenergetics-based exposure models to estimate exposure. However, an assumption that no pathway to ecological receptors exists for this medium was incorporated into the WAGS 6 and 10 ERA. Groundwater is cons...

Effectiveness: According to the wags, SE has been in constant crisis ever since computer users had to depend on others to create their software. More recently, the PITAC Report claimed (in slightly different language) that we cannot produce the needed software at the pace we need it, and the software produced breaks too easily. Just as 30 years ago, the slogan “faster, better, cheaper” still su...