Organic composition in the dry season rainwater of Guangzhou, China.

abstract：:The present study aims to estimate geochemical arsenic toxicity in the domestic livestock and possible risk for human and environment caused by them. Daily dietary arsenic intake of an exposed adult cow or bull is nearly 4.56 times higher than control populace and about 3.65 times higher than exposed goats. Arsenic to...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Das A,Joardar M,Chowdhury NR,De A,Mridha D,Roychowdhury T

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the abundant literature on metal contamination through road dust (RD) in urban/suburban and residential/highway regions, the RD of highways traversing through the Kaziranga National Park, NE India, has not been studied and lacks baseline data. The objective of the present study was to ascertain the possibility...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Devi U,Taki K,Shukla T,Sarma KP,Hoque RR,Kumar M

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improving China's agricultural greenhouse gases (GHG) emission efficiency has become an important way to cope with climate change in an ecologically-and ethically responsible manner. In this paper, we use a global slacks-based inefficiency model to evaluate the agricultural greenhouse gases (GHG) emission efficiency l...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Qin Q,Yan H,Liu J,Chen X,Ye B

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary field studies were carried out at Dolfrwynog Bog in July 2000. Replicate samples of water, Armeria maritima plants and the soils adhering to its roots were collected and analysed for copper. Concentrations of up to 6486 mg kg-1 of copper in the soils were recorded. Accumulation of copper by the plant as ex...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Brewin LE,Mehra A,Lynch PT,Farago ME

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of heavy metal contents in environmental sectors is important to estimate the carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic doses and risks for the mankind associated with it. The present work deals with the assessment of the risk exposure related to heavy metal contents in groundwater and soil samples to two diffe...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Kaur M,Kumar A,Mehra R,Kaur I

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study evaluated water supply geochemistry in Dhaka City, Bangladesh, to provide detailed trace level (subppb) water quality data that include major ions, low dissolved oxygen (DO) and toxic trace metals for sustainable development. Dhaka Groundwater, which almost uniformly meets the World Health Organizati...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Nahar MS,Zhang J,Ueda A,Yoshihisa F

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the main sources of pollution (MSP) in groundwater is crucial to improve water quality (WQ) status. Field studies were conducted in this research, where five sampling campaigns were carried out from 36 wells in the southern Tehran aquifer. In all samples, WQ parameters were measured and evaluated regarding...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ghahremanzadeh H,Noori R,Baghvand A,Nasrabadi T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total concentrations of arsenic in surface (0-15cm) garden soils in the historical mining area of Hayle-Camborne-Godolphin, Cornwall, England are large and range widely (144-892 μg/g). Amounts of water soluble and acid-fluoride extractable soil arsenic are significantly correlated with total content.Examination of 6 s...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Xu J,Thornton I

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ingestion of food grain grown in metal-contaminated soils may cause serious effects on human health. This study assessed the concentrations of Pb, As, Cd and Zn in agricultural soils and in rice grains near a former secondary lead smelter in Khulna, Bangladesh. It analyzed 29 samples of surface soil and rice grain col...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Islam MA,Akber MA,Rahman MB,Rahman MA,Haque MA,Islam MA

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental lead contamination in Uruguay became a matter of public concern in 2001, when cases of children with blood lead levels (BLL) higher than 20 μg/dl appeared in some low-income neighborhoods of Montevideo, being 10 μg/dl the intervention reference BLL. The aim of this paper is to show the results of multidi...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Cousillas A,Pereira L,Heller T,Alvarez C,Mañay N

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PAHs are pollutants of serious environmental and human health concerns. PAH studies in environmental compartments may assist in designing PAH control measures. The levels of selected PAHs in surface sediment samples of a stream near a mining site at Okobo-Enjema, Nigeria, were investigated. The data were used to deter...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ugwu KE,Ukoha PO

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-precision lead isotope ratios and lead concentrations have been compared statistically and graphically in women of child-bearing age (n = 77) from two smelter communities and one general urban community to evaluate the relative contributions to blood lead of tissue lead stores and lead from the contemporaneous en...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Gulson BL,Pisaniello D,McMichael AJ,Mizon KJ,Korsch MJ,Luke C,Ashbolt R,Pederson DG,Vimpani G,Mahaffey KR

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six ponds of age 3 were selected 45 km north from Suzhou in the Tailake region, and research conducted on nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in P. vannanmei (Penaeus vannanme) ponds and M. nipponense (Macrobrachium nipponense) hatchery ponds under normal management. Two treatments each had three replications. The results...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Xia LZ,Yang LZ,Yan MC

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt is made to synthesize the epidemiological literature and identify salient factors from the multitude of potential antecedents of gastric cancer, factors which to a greater or lesser degree create nonrandom variations in the distribution of the disease. Implicit in this approach is the notion that observatio...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Matthews SA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a general model for the biokinetics of Rn-222 in the adult human body following ingestion of the radon in water. Such a model is needed for the calculation of doses which would result from the ingestion of radon, a natural component of drinking water supplies. Information on the movement and concen...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Crawford-Brown DJ

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess aggregate exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) via several environmental media and pathways, a probabilistic framework for multi-pathway health risk assessment that integrates PAHs potency equivalence factors, risk estimation modeling, and Monte Carlo simulation was applied to a case study in ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Qu C,Li B,Wu H,Wang S,Giesy JP

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of arsenic poisonings near Granite Falls in Snohomish County, Washington, were identified during 1985-87. An initial investigation revealed the source of arsenic exposure to be high levels of arsenic in well water. A large number of wells in eastern Snohomish County were tested, residents were interviewed and...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Frost F,Franke D,Pierson K,Woodruff L,Raasina B,Davis R,Davies J

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work a two-stage process combining soil electrokinetic remediation and liquid electrochemical oxidation for the remediation of polluted soil with organic compounds has been developed and evaluated using phenanthrene-spiked kaolinite. Application of an unenhanced electrokinetic process resulted in negligible re...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Alcántara T,Pazos M,Cameselle C,Sanromán MA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aquifer contamination by petroleum hydrocarbons leads to measurable changes of groundwater hydrochemistry, primarily due to the microbiological activity. This study analyzes this phenomenon at an historical kerosene-contaminated site in Vitanovac (central Serbia). Due to the long-term hydrocarbon contamination and exp...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Marić N,Štrbački J,Mrazovac Kurilić S,Beškoski VP,Nikić Z,Ignjatović S,Malbašić J

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents the level of platinum in urban environment in and around Seoul, the capital city of Korea. Road dust, roadside soil, and tree bark samples were collected from the sites of various traffic volumes and from control sites in the suburbs. The above samples were analyzed for Pt by ICP-MS and other heavy...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Lee HY,Chon HT,Sager M,Marton L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lead poisoning produces serious health problems, which are worse when a victim is younger. The US government and society have tried to prevent lead poisoning, especially since the 1970s; however, lead exposure remains prevalent. Lead poisoning analyses frequently use georeferenced blood lead level data. Like other typ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Lee M,Chun Y,Griffith DA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary ingestion of radionuclides by human may lead to many hazardous effects such as cancers. No studies have been conducted to estimate the levels of radioactivity dosage received from Sri Lankan homemade foods. In order to find out the levels of radionuclides in Sri Lankan cooked foods, meal plans (n = 11) that ar...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Jayasinghe C,Molligoda V,Attanayaka T,Waduge V

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the processes of stone formation, compositional, spectroscopic, mineralogical and crystallographic characteristics of human urinary stones collected from patients in Sri Lanka were investigated in detail. The data showed that the majority of urinary calculi were calcium oxalate, either whewellit...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Chandrajith R,Weerasingha A,Premaratne KM,Gamage D,Abeygunasekera AM,Joachimski MM,Senaratne A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were conducted on the Black Mesa Coal Mine, Kayenta, Arizona in 1977 and 1978 to study the effectiveness of Hold-Gro Erosion Control Fabric (a product from the Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama) in the establishment of plants on coal mine soil following the surface mining of coal. Four pla...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Day AD,Ludeke KL

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship of the total arsenic content of a soil and its bioaccumulation by earthworms (Lumbricus rubellus and Dendrodrilus rubidus) to the arsenic fraction bioaccessible to humans, measured using an in vitro physiologically-based extraction test (PBET), was investigated. Soil and earthworm samples were collect...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Button M,Watts MJ,Cave MR,Harrington CF,Jenkin GT

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the ecological and human health risks of metal(loid)s (Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni, Cd, Mn, Cr, and As) in peri-urban soils, 43 surface soil samples were collected from the peri-urban area around Nanjing, a megacity in China. The average contents were 1.19, 67.8, 37.6, 105, 167, 44.6, 722, and 50.8 mg kg(-1...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Ding Z,Hu X

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Huludao zinc plant in Liaoning province, northeast China was the largest in Asia, and its smelting activities had seriously contaminated soil, water and atmosphere in the surrounding area. For the first time, we investigated the total mercury (THg) content in maize, soybean, broomcorn, 22 vegetables, and the soil ...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Zheng N,Wang Q,Zheng D

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were determined in surface soil samples from Zhejiang Province, east China. Concentrations of total PCBs ranged widely from 7.50 to 263 ng kg(-1) with a mean value of 45.4 ng kg(-1) (dry matter basis). In general, concentrations in soil samples from the southern part of the test area a...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Gao J,Luo Y,Li Q,Zhang H,Wu L,Song J,Qian W,Christie P,Chen S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New lines of evidence suggest that less than 10% of neurodegenerative diseases have a strict genetic aetiology and other factors may be prevalent. Environmental exposures to potentially toxic elements appear to be a risk factor for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and sclerosis diseases. This study proposes a multidisciplinar...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Cabral Pinto MMS,Marinho-Reis AP,Almeida A,Ordens CM,Silva MMVG,Freitas S,Simões MR,Moreira PI,Dinis PA,Diniz ML,Ferreira da Silva EA,Condesso de Melo MT

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-two brownfield sites from the city of Wolverhampton were selected from those with a former industrial use, wasteland or areas adjacent to industrial processes. Samples (<2 mm powdered soil fraction) were analysed, using inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) for 20 elements. Loss on i...

journal_title：Environmental geochemistry and health

authors： Thums CR,Farago ME,Thornton I

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00