The West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP)

The 678 kilometer West African Gas Pipeline (WAGP) has a link connecting into the existing Escravos-Lagos pipeline at the Nigeria gas company’s Itoki natural gas export terminal in Nigeria and continues to a beachhead in Lagos. From lagos it moves offshore to Takoradi, in Ghana, with natural gas delivery laterals from the 20 inch diameter … Read more

Music and its relationship to IQ

“Having a musical background raises your IQ by 8-10 points!” “Listen to Mozart’s piano sonatas when studying and you’ll do better on your examinations, it helps you memorize more and retain the information.” These are one of the many stories I would read at the top of the newspaper headlines and was told by music … Read more

Synthesizing Wide-Area Networks Using Relational Technology

Replication must work. Here, we confirm the refinement of the Turing machine, which embodies the significant principles of algorithms [25]. We propose a “smart” tool for analyzing Smalltalk (LaicHipe), verifying that the well-known flexible algorithm for the analysis of gigabit switches by Edward Feigenbaum et al. [9] runs in O( logn ) time. 1 Introduction … Read more

Young people and adult level of understanding and awareness of HIV/ AIDS

The purpose of this research report was to investigate the young people and adult level of understanding and awareness of HIV/ AIDS to assist health policy makers, health educators, to provide the right health promotion campaigns. In this report, discussion was based on the practices, how it is transmitted, the knowledge of effective factors of … Read more

Cushing's syndrome

Answer 1 I believe the differential diagnosis is Cushing’s syndrome. Some of its symptoms are ‘truncal obesity, moon face, hypertension, bruising, muscle weakness, mood disorder’ (Wartofsky, 2012), ‘glucose intolerance, moderate weight gain, purple straie and in severe cases diabetes’ (Lavin, 2009). The symptoms I have listed are all symptoms of Cushing syndrome that Richard has … Read more

Molcon Interwheels

1.1. Introduction to the organization Molcon Interwheels is well-known for its tyres and wheels used in the agricultural sector, on and off-the-road-applications and industry. Since 2013, the organization has also sold truck tyres. The production of high-quality custom-made wheels, however, is one of their greatest assets. Manufacturers and dealers who need fast delivery, personalised advice … Read more

Business dress in different countries – France, India, USA, Switzerland

FRANCE ‘ Business dress is understated and stylish. ‘ Men should wear dark-coloured, conservative business suits for the initial meeting. How you dress later is largely dependent upon the personality of the company with which you are conducting business. ‘ Women should wear either business suits or elegant dresses in soft colours. ‘ The French … Read more

Illegal dumping of health care risk waste in the South of Johannesburg, South Africa.

1.3 Background Waste is an unwanted or unusable material, substance or by-product. Waste that is generated in a Healthcare facility is classed as Health Care Risk Waste (HCRW) includes sharps (syringes, disposal scalpels, blades etc.), non-sharps (swabs, bandages, disposal medical devices etc.), blood and anatomic waste (blood bags, diagnostic samples, body parts etc.), chemical (solvent, … Read more

How the structure within the organization and commodity management are related

1. Commodity group management is a part of strategic sourcing and operates in a structural context ‘Strategic sourcing involves taking a strategic approach to the selection of suppliers’an approach that is more aligned with the organization’s competitive strategy.’ (Commodity Sourcing Strategies: Processes, Best Practices, and Defense Initiatives, Rendon, 2005a, page 9) Over the last decades, … Read more

APPLICATION OF ENERGY DISSIPATION DEVICES AS EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT TECHNIQUES ON STRUCTURE

1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION ‘Momentary shaking of the ground or vibrations or oscillations of the ground caused by the slip or bye volcanic or magnetic activity or other sudden stress changes in the earth are called earthquake’. To protect the structure from significant damages and response reduction of structure under such severe earthquakes has become … Read more

ITIL

I.2. An overview of ITIL The ITIL edition from 2007, which is the third edition is considered an extension of the second version and has replaced it entirely when this was withdrawal in June 2011. The third edition provides another perspective on the life cycles of services and covers the IT organization section entirely; also … Read more

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

2, 3′, 4, 4′, 5- Pentachlorobiphenyl Induces Inflammatory Responses in Thyroid through a JNK and Aryl Hydrocardon Receptor Mediated Pathway Abstract Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent and widely distributed environmental pollutants that can compromise normal functions of multiple organs and systems, one important mechanism is the induction of inflammatory disorders. In this study, we investigated … Read more

Diabetes mellitus (DM), Type 2 Diabetes

Review of Literature 2.1 Definition and Classification Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a group of metabolic disorders of heterogeneous etiology characterized by absolute or relative insulin deficiency leading to hyperglycemia and an altered metabolism of glucose, fat and protein (Pietropaolo et al., 2007; American Diabetes Association, 2014). The disease is classified as type 1 diabetes (T1D), … Read more

Factors affecting international equity return

The title of our project is factors affecting international equity return. The purpose of our study is about the equity markets and equity returns. This concept paper examines the functioning of the equity market and equity return from conventional and Islamic perspective. In general for first decade of 21′ century, Islamic financing shown tremendous increase. … Read more