Receptor modeling for source apportionment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban atmosphere.

abstract：:In this paper, a new game theoretic methodology is developed for interbasin water transfer management with regard to economic, equity, and environmental criteria. The main objective is to supply the competing users in a fair way, while the efficiency and environmental sustainability criteria are satisfied and the util...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mahjouri N,Ardestani M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marble is a natural dimension stone that is widely used in building due to its resistance and esthetic qualities. Unfortunately, some concerns have arisen regarding its production process because quarrying and processing activities demand significant amounts of energy and greatly affect the environment. Further, perfo...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Capitano C,Peri G,Rizzo G,Ferrante P

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Closed chamber measurements for methane emission estimation are often carried out with opaque chambers to avoid heating of the headspace. However, mainly in wetlands, some plants possess an internal convective gas transport which quickly responds to changes in irradiation. These plants have also been found to often ch...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Günther A,Jurasinski G,Huth V,Glatzel S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heavy metal concentrations of soil and dust samples from roadside, residential areas, parks, campus sport grounds, and commercial sites were studied in Guangzhou, South China. Heavy metals in samples were determined by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrophotometer following acidic digestion with HCl...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Cai QY,Mo CH,Li HQ,Lü H,Zeng QY,Li YW,Wu XL

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

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：:In the last decade, the development of novel analytical methodologies enabled the identification of several environmental pollutants responsible for health problems associated with indoor exposure. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are among the potential hazardous chemicals present in ambient air. Due to their ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Martins GV,Martins S,Martins AO,Basto MC,Silva GV

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ergene River Basin is located in the north-west part of Marmara Region of Turkey. There are many industrial enterprises on its basin and as well as the majority of these facilities are located on the upstream of the basin. Therefore, Ergene River is one of the rare river ecosystems that are contaminated almost from th...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Tokatli C

更新日期：2019-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This work aimed to evaluate, on a spatial and temporal scale, the effect of the flow on the concentrations of Cu and Zn in sediments from two water bodies (the Alvorada and Mandaguari Rivers). Five sediment-sampling periods were conducted, under four different streams in each sampling point (shallow/fast (SF), shallow...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： da Paz Schiller A,Ferronato MC,Schwantes D,Gonçalves AC Jr,Barilli DJ,Manfrin J

更新日期：2019-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater fish, Cyprinus carpio, were exposed to sublethal concentration of cypermethrin (20 µg/l) for 6, 12, 24 and 48 h to determine the protein fractions, amino acids, protease, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, ammonia, urea and glutamine levels in gill, brain, liver and muscle tissues. Total,...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Reddy PM,Bashamohideen M

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wind-driven coastal upwelling along the Pacific Northwest Coast of the USA results in oceanic water that may be periodically entrained into adjacent estuaries and which possesses high nutrients and low dissolved oxygen (DO). Measurement of water quality indicators during these upwelling water entrainment events would ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Brown CA,Nelson WG

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Clean Water Act mandates that the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of our nation's waters be maintained and restored. Physical integrity has often been defined as physical habitat integrity, and as such, data collected during biological monitoring programs focus primarily on habitat quality. However, w...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Asmus B,Magner JA,Vondracek B,Perry J

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In birds, concentrations of heavy metal contaminants were associated with their diet and environmental quality. This study presents concentrations of lead and cadmium in feathers and the relationship between concentrations in the feather and stomach content of three species of heron and egret chicks. Cadmium concentra...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kim J,Oh JM

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soils play a vital role in the quality of the urban environment and the health of its residents. City soils and street dusts accumulate various contaminants and particularly potentially toxic elements (PTEs) from a variety of human activities. This study investigates the current condition of elemental concentration in...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Modabberi S,Tashakor M,Sharifi Soltani N,Hursthouse AS

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the mudskipper, Periphthalmus papilio inhabiting the coast line of the Lagos lagoon, Gulf of Guinea, to determine suitable biomarkers of stress due to its current status as a polluted water body. The gill and liver samples showed evidence of some activities of antioxidative stress enzymes including catalas...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Nnamdi AH,Olumide AA,Adeladun AE,Oyenike K,Rosemary EI

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sanitary landfill is still the most significant and reasonable and the least expensive waste disposal method. The process of selecting a landfill site with minimal adverse effects on the environment is a complex task, in which numerous criteria need to be taken into account. In the present research, the AHP (analytica...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Khorsandi H,Faramarzi A,Aghapour AA,Jafari SJ

更新日期：2019-11-08 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：:Two vegetation-monitoring methods were compared: subplot frequency analysis (SF) and visual estimation of percentage cover (VE). Two independent observers collected data from two semi-natural, species-rich grasslands on three different occasions during the growth-season. During the last data collection period, survey ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Carlsson AL,Bergfur J,Milberg P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses on mercury (Hg) bioaccumulation in Indian cat fish, Wallagoo attu and Mystus aor, from different rivers. Methyl mercury (MeHg) concentrations were determined in muscle tissue of two different parts, ventral and dorsal part, of each species and the levels of organic mercury were co-related with lipid...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pal M,Ghosh M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coal fly ash (CFA), a by-product generated from coal-burning power plants, readily leaches toxic elements into aquatic environments. The present study describes a classification system for CFA based on the chemical composition of CFA and leachability of toxic elements, which can promote the safe and effective utilizat...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Seki T,Ogawa Y,Inoue C

更新日期：2019-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of Landsat data allows improving the monitoring and assessment of large-scale areas with land cover changes in rapid developing regions. Thus, we pretend to show a combined methodology to assess land cover changes (LCCs) in the Hamoun Wetland region (Iran) over a period of 30-year (1987-2016) and to q...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kharazmi R,Tavili A,Rahdari MR,Chaban L,Panidi E,Rodrigo-Comino J

更新日期：2018-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal fractionation provides information on mobility and stability of various metal species which can be used to evaluate the movement of such metals in soils. The effect of wastewater irrigation on the fractions, spatial distribution, and mobility of cadmium (Cd) and zinc (Zn) was investigated in five urban gardens i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Abdu N,Agbenin JO,Buerkert A

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prices for ferro-alloys have hardened due to the closure of plants in developed countries on account of increasingly stringent pollution control legislation, resulting in a higher cost of production. A ferro-alloy industry with a capacity of 80000 MT per annum was selected to study the nature of pollution. Because of ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Reddy MK,Venkat Rao D,Rama Rao KG,Rama Mohan Rao I,Vittal Rao M

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) has been associated with a number of adverse health effects. Increasing studies have suggested that such adverse health effects may derive from oxidative stress, initiated by the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) within affected cells. The study aimed to assess phys...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Jeng HA

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wetland of focus, Inle Lake, located in central Myanmar, is well known for its unique biodiversity and culture, as well as for ingenious floating garden agriculture. During the last decades, the lake area has seen extensive degradation in terms of water quality, erosion, deforestation, and biodiversity concomitant...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pradhan N,Habib H,Venkatappa M,Ebbers T,Duboz R,Shipin O

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stormwater wet detention ponds have been a commonly employed best management practice for stormwater management throughout the world for many years. In the past, the trophic state index values have been used to evaluate seasonal changes in water quality and rank lakes within a region or between several regions; yet, t...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Tahsin S,Chang NB

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The (239+240)Pu activities and (240)Pu/(239)Pu atom ratios were analyzed using a double-focusing SF-ICP-MS for sediment core samples obtained in 2007-2008 from the North Jiangsu tidal flats in the Yellow Sea in China. Particular attention was focused on the (240)Pu/(239)Pu atom ratios in the sediment to identify the o...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Liu Z,Zheng J,Pan S,Gao J

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The original version of this article is unfortunately published online with missing acknowledgment section. ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Thalla AK,Vannarath AS

更新日期：2020-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This area has a rate of patients with obstructive chronic lung disease that is the highest in Portugal and the second in Europe. Levels of pollution observed in 1985/86 and 1986/87 allowed evaluating the effects of concentrations lower than those that usually cause acute episodes. It was observed that even low levels ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Alvim Ferraz MC,Faria Ferraz MC,Ferraz JM,Fonseca PI

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadmium (Cd) pollution in plastic shed soils has become increasingly severe, posing a great threat to human health and social stability. Phytoremediation of cadmium pollution is an environmentally friendly and inexpensive remediation method. In this study, maize (Zea mays L.) was selected as the phytoremediation crop ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sun K,Yue Y,Wen D,Li X,Yang Y,Yang N,Zhang H,Chen N,Wang K

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of human biological samples, such as blood, urine, nails, and hair, is generally used for the verification of human exposure to toxic metals. In this review, various spectrometric methods for the determination of cadmium and lead in biological samples are discussed and compared. Several spectrometric tech...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lemos VA,de Carvalho AL

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00