The prevalence of bacterial resistance in clinical, food, water and some environmental samples in Southwest Nigeria.

abstract：:A combined approach consisting of monitoring and thermodynamic modeling was used in order to calculate the concentration of trace element species in water samples of a broad salinity range and to explain their chemical behaviour. The study was performed on water samples (fresh, marine, hyper-saline) taken from the are...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Tepavitcharova S,Todorov T,Rabadjieva D,Dassenakis M,Paraskevopoulou V

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continual, historical, and accurate information about the land use/land cover (LULC) changes of the earth's surface is extremely important for sustainable management of natural resources. In this study, historical topographic sheets, IRS P6 LISS-III, and LANDSAT TM images were used to provide recent and historical LUL...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Adhikary PP,Barman D,Madhu M,Dash CJ,Jakhar P,Hombegowda HC,Naik BS,Sahoo DC,Beer K

更新日期：2019-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical measurements often constitute the basis for informed decision-making at different levels in society; sound decision-making is possible only if the quality of the data used is uncompromised. To guarantee the reliability and comparability of analytical data an intricate system of quality-assurance measures has ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chauhan SK,Gupta PK,Shukla A,Gangopadhyay S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Active and abandoned primary and secondary goldmines have been observed to be major sources of metals into the environment. This study assessed the level of metal concentrations in rock and tailing samples collected from the abandoned primary goldmine site at Iperindo. A total of five rock and ten tailing samples were...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gbadebo AM,Ekwue YA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the Ibirité reservoir (an urban tropical eutrophic reservoir) has been the recipient of the discharge of a large volume of raw urban sewage, the key cause of ecosystem degradation has been historically solely attributed to the discharge of effluents from an oil refinery. This fact motivated an investigation t...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mozeto AA,Yamada TM,de Morais CR,do Nascimento MR,Fadini PS,Torres RJ,Sueitt AP,de Faria BM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molasses-based distilleries generate large quantities of effluent, which is used for irrigation in many countries including India. The effluent is rich in organic and inorganic ions, which may leach down and pollute the groundwater. An on-farm experiment was conducted to assess the impact of long-term irrigation with ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Jain N,Bhatia A,Kaushik R,Kumar S,Joshi HC,Pathak H

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying areas that are susceptible to soil erosion is crucial for water resource planning and management efforts. Furthermore, modeling has proven helpful in recognizing and monitoring high-risk areas at the watershed scale. The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) geospatial interface (GeoWEPP) software integr...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Reza Meghdadi A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The studies on elemental carbon content in the atmospheric air, performed at the air monitoring station in Katowice (Poland), have revealed violations of allowable maximum average annual and diurnal concentrations. Elemental carbon is introduced into the atmosphere mainly as soot generated from combustion processes. T...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mniszek W,Wypych J,Zielonka U

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) have been found to be widely dispersed in the environment and are being considered potentially pathogenic for humans and animals, while reports of their human to human transmission are absent. Water and aerosols are potential transmission modes of NTM to humans. Hospitalized patients ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Dovriki E,Gerogianni I,Petinaki E,Hadjichristodoulou C,Papaioannou A,Gourgoulianis K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many coastal regions, the disposal of dredged material constitutes the largest (albeit often localised) anthropogenic disturbance to the seabed. Impacts can be minimised by reducing the amount of sediment overburden on the bed at any one time allowing short-term recovery to proceed via the vertical migration of res...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bolam SG

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of sustainable forest management (SFM) requires forest resource managers to monitor and collect information pertaining to their environmental, economic and social impact. There are increasing expectations from a variety of publics (government, customers, and other stakeholders) that forests be demonstrably...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hickey GM,Innes JL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study is aimed at analysing and comparing different soil enzymes in soil samples of native contaminated sites of a Mathura refinery and adjoining agricultural land. Enzyme activities are considered as indicators of soil quality and changes in biogeochemical function due to management or perturbations. Soil...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chaudhary P,Singh SB,Chaudhry S,Nain L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to determine the concentrations of heavy metals in the soil samples collected from an abandoned lead acid battery (LAB) industrial waste dumpsite in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. This was to assess the potential risks of the heavy metals on human due to exposure among local residents (childr...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ogundele LT,Adejoro IA,Ayeku PO

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing recognition that protozoa is very useful in monitoring and evaluating water ecological healthy and quality. In order to study the relationship between structure and function of protozoan communities and water qualities, six sampling stations were set on Lake Donghu, a hypereutrophic subtropical Chi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Jiang JG,Shen YF

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1972, the Parties (United States and Canada, 1987) to the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement have been working collaboratively to achieve the purpose of the Agreement "to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters of the Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem". Billions of dollars a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Shear H

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diver-towed global positioning systems (GPS) handhelds have been used for a few years in underwater monitoring studies. We modeled the accuracy of this method using the software KABKURR originally developed by the University of Rostock for fishing and marine engineering. Additionally, three field experiments were cond...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Schories D,Niedzwiedz G

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:A decision analysis method for integrating environmental indicators was developed. This was a combination of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP). Being able to take into account the interdependency among variables, the method was capable of ranking ecosystems in terms of environme...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Tran LT,Knight CG,O'Neill RV,Smith ER

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accurate predictions of ground ozone concentrations are required for proper management, control, and making public warning strategies. Due to the difficulties in handling phenomenological models that are based on complex chemical reactions of ozone production, neural network models gained popularity in the last de...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chelani AB

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective environmental management requires documentation of ecosystem status and changes to that status. Without long-term data, short-term natural variability can mask chronic and/or cumulative impacts, often until critical levels are reached. However, a trade-off generally occurs between sampling in space and time....

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hewitt JE,Thrush SF

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural NH(3) emissions affect air quality and influence the nitrogen cycle. In the subject study, NH(3) emissions from a broiler farm and the resulting atmospheric concentrations in the immediate vicinity during three growing cycles have been quantified. Additionally, vegetation along a transect in an adjacent w...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： von Bobrutzki K,Ammon C,Berg W,Einert P,Fiedler M,Müller HJ,Scherer D,Strohbach B

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major ecological challenge facing Lake Victoria basin is the influx of chemical contaminants from domestic, hospital, and industrial effluents. Determined levels of perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) in wastewater and sludge from selected wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Kenya are presented and their daily discharge...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chirikona F,Filipovic M,Ooko S,Orata F

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this research is to determine agricultural land loss and environmental pollution caused by industrialization and urban sprawl using the Geographical Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing technique (RS). Remotely sensed data is the most powerful tool for monitoring land use changes and GIS is the best ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kurucu Y,Chiristina NK

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To abate the severe acidification of Swedish lakes are about 7% directly limed (AL-lakes). These are important to include when assessing acidification. Consequently, we need to estimate their chemical status as if they were not lime-affected. We hypothesize that there is a spatial dependence for calcium (Ca) and magne...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Göransson E,Bringmark E,Rapp L,Wilander A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sorption of carbon tetrachloride, ethylene dibromide, and trichloroethylene in two silty clay loam soils and aluminium (Al(3+)) or calcium (Ca(2+)) saturated montmorillonite clay was studied. When the adsorbents were exposed to environmental levels of these chemicals (10 to 1000 ppb in water) the amounts of each o...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Rogers RD,McFarlane JC

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though not litigable in most European countries, portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometers (pXRF) provide cost- and time-effective as well as prompt information about hot spots of inorganic soil contaminants. The quality of aqua regia analysis of contaminants can be approximated by a thorough sample preparation, i.e.,...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hangen E,Čermák P,Geuß U,Hlisnikovský L

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An ecosystem disruptive bloom of red Noctiluca scintillans (hereafter Noctiluca) was observed in coastal waters of the north-western Bay of Bengal during April 2014. Based on the principle of phytoplankton group/species specific remote sensing reflectance (Rrs), a technique of detecting green Noctiluca and diatom was ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Baliarsingh SK,Dwivedi RM,Lotliker AA,Sahu KC,Kumar TS,Shenoi SSC

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarizes the results of a series of studies on the various factors that affect the leaching of lead from unplasticized poly(vinyl chloride) (UPVC) pipes. Factors that were studied include temperature, pH and extractants. Results showed that, for a given UPVC pipe, the rate of leaching of lead depended pri...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Koh LL,Wong MK,Gan LM,Yap CT

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bisphenol A (BPA) is an endocrine disruptor with multiple purported metabolic effects. This study aimed to measure BPA among Lebanese population, to identify its predictors, and to explore any link to metabolic disorders. A representative sample of 501 adults from Lebanon was recruited in a cross-sectional study. Urin...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mouneimne Y,Nasrallah M,Khoueiry-Zgheib N,Nasreddine L,Nakhoul N,Ismail H,Abiad M,Koleilat L,Tamim H

更新日期：2017-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:An elevated nitrogen concentration in water is one of the main problems affecting water quality in Mediterranean rivers. The objectives of this study were (1) to evaluate the contribution of the Tafna catchment to the nitrate load entering the Mediterranean Sea, (2) to quantify the impact of agriculture on the nitrate...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zettam A,Taleb A,Sauvage S,Boithias L,Belaidi N,Sanchez-Perez JM

更新日期：2020-07-12 00:00:00