Integrated environmental assessment of the Mid-Atlantic region with analytical network process.

abstract：:Two spectrophotometric methods have been developed for the determination of nitrite using dapsone (DAP) with alpha-naphthol and 4-amino-5-hydroxynapthalene-2,7-disulphonic acid monosodium salt (AHNDMS) as chromogenic reagents with maximum absorbance wavelength at 540 and 520 nm respectively. For the method that utiliz...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Nagaraj P,Prakash JS,Shivakumar A,Shrestha AK

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a biodiversity monitoring program conducted in the Ogawa Forest Reserve and its vicinity, situated in a cool temperate region of Japan, identified three different patterns for species richness. Forests of the region are characterized by a mosaic of secondary deciduous stands of various ages scattered am...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Makino S,Goto H,Inoue T,Sueyoshi M,Okabe K,Hasegawa M,Hamaguchi K,Ctanaka H,Okochi I

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of Cd, Cu, Cr, Ni, Zn, Fe and metallothioneins (MTs) were measured in the gonads of Paracentrotus lividus from Amvrakikos gulf (Ionian Sea, Greece). Three natural populations were selected; two of them, growing inside the gulf (Agios Thomas and Koronisia), presented higher density and smaller body size ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Strogyloudi E,Pancucci-Papadopoulou MA,Papadopoulos GL

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total mercury (HgTOT), inorganic mercury (IHg), and methylmercury (MHg) were determined in dry season waters, sediments, and tailings from an active mine which has long history of gold exploitation. Although HgTOT in waters was generally low (0.03 to 19.60 ng L(-1)), the majority of the samples had proportions of MHg ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lusilao-Makiese JG,Tessier E,Amouroux D,Tutu H,Chimuka L,Weiersbye I,Cukrowska EM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Karkonosze National Park is affected by long-distance metal air transport of anthropogenic contamination as well as by tourist activity. Therefore, concentrations of Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn were evaluated in soil as well as in vital and non-vital fronds of Athyrium distentifolium Opiz collected in th...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kazienko A,Torzewski K,Wojtuń B,Samecka-Cymerman A,Mróz L,Kempers AJ

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Organochlorine residues were measured in the carcasses and, in some cases, brains and stomach contents of four species of birds collected along the Sheboygan River, Wisconsin during the years 1976 to 1980. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were high in all samples and were the contaminants of greatest concern. Carcass ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Heinz GH,Swineford DM,Katsma DE

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past, scientific research has predicted a decrease in the effectiveness of Bt cotton due to the rise of secondary and other sucking pests. It is suspected that once the primary pest is brought under control, secondary pests have a chance to emerge due to the lower pesticide applications in Bt cotton cultivars. ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhao JH,Ho P,Azadi H

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This quantitative and qualitative study aimed to evaluate the level of fungal contamination in computer keyboards from an Integrated Health Center (IHC) at Piauí, Brazil, and to evaluate the efficacy of 50% sodium bicarbonate and 50% alcoholic vinegar solutions to eliminate these microorganisms. Ten keyboards from six...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Nepomuceno DB,Lima DV,Silva MO,Porto JCS,Mobin M

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to propose a water quality index (WQI) for the Federal District, Brazil, as a management tool for water resources used in irrigation. Irrigated agriculture is a sector that has been growing in the region, with a consequent demand for quality water. One strategy for assessing water quality in ru...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Muniz DHF,Malaquias JV,Lima JEFW,Oliveira-Filho EC

更新日期：2020-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Five priority areas of potential impact by contaminants (API) were investigated at the Presidente Bernardes Refinery in Cubatão, São Paulo, Brazil with the following aims: (i) to identify both organic and inorganic contaminants present in soil and groundwater; (ii) to define the environmental conditions relevant for m...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Schneider RP,Morano SC,Gigena MA,Missawa SK,Rocha RC,Da Silva LR,Ellert N,Kataoka S,Katsuragi C,Rosa Cda S,Filho LC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past decade, an increased tendency to consume meals at dining facilities outside the home has been highlighted; moreover, meals supplied in food businesses have been involved in many foodborne disease outbreaks. Therefore, microbial air contamination in food processing facilities could be a concern and an inc...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Osimani A,Aquilanti L,Tavoletti S,Clementi F

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical soil properties between active shrimp ponds and abandoned ones on the Bangkok soil series were compared, at Ranote District, Songkhla Province in southern Thailand. Soil samples were collected at depth intervals of 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40 and 40-50 cm from pond bottoms at the same ponds used in a former stu...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Towatana P,Voradaj C,Panapitukkul N

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air pollution has emerged as an imminent issue in modern society. Prediction of pollutant levels is an important research topic in atmospheric environment today. For fulfilling such prediction, the use of neural network (NN), and in particular the multi-layer perceptrons, has presented to be a cost-effective technique...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lu WZ,Fan HY,Leung AY,Wong JC

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assesses variability, trends, and teleconnections of stream flow with large-scale climate signals (global sea surface temperatures (SSTs)) for the Omo-Ghibe River Basin of Ethiopia. Fourteen hydrological indices of variability and extremes were defined from daily stream flow data series and analyzed for two...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Degefu MA,Bewket W

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a new analytical strategy was developed to determine trace cadmium in aqueous samples with high sensitivity and accuracy. A combination of magnetic nickel nanoparticles (Ni-MNPs) based dispersive solid-phase extraction (DSPE) and flame atomic absorption spectrometry fitted with a slotted quartz tube (SQ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Yağci Ö,Akkaya E,Bakirdere S

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the distribution and source pathways of environmentally critical trace metals in coastal Antarctica, trace elemental concentrations were analyzed in 36 surface snow samples along a coast to inland transect in the Ingrid Christensen Coast of East Antarctica. The samples were collected and analyzed using ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Thamban M,Thakur RC

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the importance of markets and fairs for the commerce of medicinal plants, an ethnobotanical study was undertaken at the Caruaru Fair (Pernambuco, northeastern Brazil) to compare the richness of species sold and their values of relative importance (RI) using two datasets collected with a 4-year interval. The seas...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Monteiro JM,Ramos MA,Araújo Ede L,Amorim EL,Albuquerque UP

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is an attempt to compare the pollution status in two sediment cores, one from a polluted site (Ghizri Creek) and another from a relatively unpolluted site (Sandspit). Sediment cores (45 cm in length) from coastal locations were characterized in terms of grain size, sediment composition, pH, organic matter, ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mashiatullah A,Chaudhary MZ,Ahmad N,Ahmad N,Javed T,Ghaffar A

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organotin compounds are applied in several industrial reactions and can present antifungal and antibacterial activities. Incorrect handling and storage practices of biodiesel and diesel-biodiesel blends can lead to microbial development, impacting its final quality. Concerning this problem, this work investigated the ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ribas R,Cazarolli JC,da Silva EC,Meneghetti MR,Meneghetti SMP,Bento FM

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid approach based on two-dimensional DNA gel electrophroesis (2-DGE) mapping with selective primer pairs was employed to analyze bacterial community structure in sediments from upstream, midstream and downstream of Sagami River in Japan. The 2-DGE maps indicated that Alpha- and Delta-proteobacteria were major bac...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Liu GH,Rajendran N,Amemiya T,Itoh K

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the current state of the environmental quality of soils in Beijing, we investigated contents of 14 metals in Beijing urban soils inside the 5th ring road by even grids sampling. Statistic analyses were conducted to identify possible heavy metal pollutants, as well as the effects of land uses on th...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wang M,Markert B,Chen W,Peng C,Ouyang Z

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choosing a subset of representative items from a set of alternatives is an important problem in many scientific fields such as environmental science and statistics. For most practical problems, however, a computationally efficient solution method is not known to exist. While this problem has attracted a significant am...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Vaisman R

更新日期：2020-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to develop and test an optimal and cost-effective regional quality monitoring system in depleted transboundary low-temperature Neogene geothermal aquifers in the west Pannonian basin. Potential tracers for identification of seasonal and long-term quality changes of the Pleistocene thermal wate...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Rman N

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicochemical characteristics of dissolved components from environmental samples have been studied in order to understand the impact of atmospheric pollution from aerosols and rain on surface and sub-surface waters, at industrialised urban areas in and around Mangalore, southwest coast of India. Comparatively, the H...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hegde P

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sediment-dwelling macrofauna, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), and abiotic parameters were monitored annually in benthic marine sediments from 1989-2007 in Port Valdez, a period of declining routine discharge of treated marine ballast water containing residual PAH from a major crude oil loading facility. The re...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Blanchard AL,Feder HM,Shaw DG

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the second half of the 20th century Kalmykia has undergone severe desertification. Under Soviet rule, rangelands were increasingly devoted to animal production, and pastures were converted to cropland in a campaign to increase crops. Pastures were grazed two to three times their sustainable production, saiga po...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zonn IS

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the microbiological changes that occur during the maturation of overburden that has been disturbed by surface mining of coal, a surface mining-disturbed overburden unit in southeastern Ohio, USA was characterized. Overburden from the same unit that had been disturbed for 37 and 16 years were compared to undi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Poncelet DM,Cavender N,Cutright TJ,Senko JM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In areca nut and husk, 14 elements (As, Ca, Cd, Cl, Co, Cu, K, Mg, Mn, Na, Rb, Sb, and Zn) were determined, while 34 elements including rare earth elements were detected in the corresponding soil samples using instrumental neutron activation analysis and atomic absorption spectrometry methods, whereas the concentratio...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zote L,Lalrammawia K,Buragohain A,Lalrinhlupuii,Kakki B,Lalmuanpuii R,Pachuau Z,Vanlalhruaia J,Muthukumaran RB,Kumar NS,Jahau L,Sudarshan M,Yushin N,Nekhoroshkov P,Grozdov D,Sergeeva A,Zinicovscaia I

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The interrelationships between ventilation rate, indoor air quality, and energy consumption in operation rooms at rest are yet to be understood. We investigate the effect of ventilation rate on indoor air quality indices and energy consumption in ORs at rest. The study investigates the air temperature, relative humidi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lee ST,Liang CC,Chien TY,Wu FJ,Fan KC,Wan GH

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this work is to characterize the mineral phases present in the atmosphere at three locations in northern Oman. Samples of atmospheric particles were collected using a high volume sampler. Three indoor and one outdoor location were chosen in this investigation. Sampling locations included a residential house...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Abdul-Wahab SA,Worthing MA,Al-Maamari S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00