National monitoring of PCDD/DFs in environmental media around incinerators in Korea.

abstract：:Human exposure to brominated flame retardants (BFRs) varies widely throughout the world as it depends on country-related usage, production and legislation of these chemicals. US and UK exposure assessments show very diverse levels and patterns which in turn, are likely to differ from those in background exposed countr...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Roosens L,Cornelis C,D'Hollander W,Bervoets L,Reynders H,Van Campenhout K,Van Den Heuvel R,Neels H,Covaci A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of adsorption isotherms for three volatile organic compounds (VOCs) (toluene, 1,2-dichlorobenzene and 1,1,1-trichloroethane) on polyacrylonitrile carpet fibers over the temperature range 25-45 degrees C were carried out in a thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA). Linear isotherms were observed in all cases wit...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Elkilani AS,Baker CG,Al-Shammari QH,Bouhamra WS

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonylphenol is a toxic xenobiotic compound classified as an endocrine disrupter capable of interfering with the hormonal system of numerous organisms. It originates principally from the degradation of nonylphenol ethoxylates which are widely used as industrial surfactants. Nonylphenol ethoxylates reach sewage treatmen...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Soares A,Guieysse B,Jefferson B,Cartmell E,Lester JN

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Green space has a variety of health benefits. However, little is known about its impact on autism, the fastest-growing neurodevelopmental disorder in children. This study examined the relationship between green space and childhood autism prevalence. Autism count data in 2010 were obtained for 543 of ~560 public elemen...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Wu J,Jackson L

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meta-analysis approaches can be used to assess the human risks due to exposure to environmental chemicals when there are numerous high-quality epidemiologic studies of priority outcomes in a database. However, methodological issues related to how different studies report effect measures and incorporate exposure into t...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Allen B,Shao K,Hobbie K,Mendez W Jr,Lee JS,Cote I,Druwe I,Gift J,Davis JA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widespread use of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) in consumer products and the overwhelming uncertainties in their ecological and human health risks have raised concerns regarding their safety among industries and regulators. There has been an ongoing debate over the past few decades on ways to overcome the challe...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Semenzin E,Subramanian V,Pizzol L,Zabeo A,Fransman W,Oksel C,Hristozov D,Marcomini A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cabin of an automobile can be considered to be a part of the living environment because many people spend long periods of time during business, shopping, recreation or travel activities. However, little is known about the interior air contamination due to organic compounds diffusing from the interior materials use...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Yoshida T,Matsunaga I

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is increasing policy interest in the potential for vegetation in urban areas to mitigate harmful effects of air pollution on respiratory health. We aimed to quantify relationships between tree and green space density and asthma-related hospitalisations, and explore how these varied with exposure to bac...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Alcock I,White M,Cherrie M,Wheeler B,Taylor J,McInnes R,Otte Im Kampe E,Vardoulakis S,Sarran C,Soyiri I,Fleming L

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bio-accumulation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the environment and in the food chain can lead to high pollutant concentrations in human fat-containing tissues and breast milk. OBJECTIVES:We aimed to identify the maternal characteristics that determined POP concentrations in breast milk of primi...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Aerts R,Van Overmeire I,Colles A,Andjelković M,Malarvannan G,Poma G,Den Hond E,Van de Mieroop E,Dewolf MC,Charlet F,Van Nieuwenhuyse A,Van Loco J,Covaci A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In regions with heavily contaminated drinking water, a significant contribution of drinking water to overall human perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) exposure has been well documented. However, the relationship of PFOA/PFOS blood concentrations in the general population to routine drinking ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Zhang S,Kang Q,Peng H,Ding M,Zhao F,Zhou Y,Dong Z,Zhang H,Yang M,Tao S,Hu J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood lead levels (BLLs) were measured in the adult Inuit population of Nunavut, Northern Canada, during the Inuit Health Survey (IHS) in 2007-2008. Approximately 10% of the adult participants had BLL over the Health Canada's guidance of 100μg/L. OBJECTIVES:1) To repeat the measurement of BLL among the IHS ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Fillion M,Blais JM,Yumvihoze E,Nakajima M,Workman P,Osborne G,Chan HM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Particulate plastics in the terrestrial and aquatic environments are small plastic fragments or beads (i.e., 5 mm down to the nanometre range). They have been frequently referred to as 'micro-plastics' or 'nano-plastics'. Research has identified particulate plastics as a vector for toxic trace elements in the environm...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Bradney L,Wijesekara H,Palansooriya KN,Obadamudalige N,Bolan NS,Ok YS,Rinklebe J,Kim KH,Kirkham MB

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiological studies have shown the association between the exposure to air pollution and several adverse health effects. To evaluate the possible acute health effects of air pollution due to the emissions of a cement plant in two small municipalities in Italy (Mazzano and Rezzato), a case-control study design was ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Bertoldi M,Borgini A,Tittarelli A,Fattore E,Cau A,Fanelli R,Crosignani P

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A coupled numerical model of the atmospheric thermo-hydrodynamics and pollutant photochemical transport is described. This model can be used to study the complex relationships between the chemical and thermo-hydrodynamic processes in the atmosphere of urban areas with an emphasis on photochemical ozone formation. Prel...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Aloyan AE,Arutyunyan V,Haymet AD,He JW,Kuznetsov Y,Lubertino G

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pasture Quality (PQ) model is a simple, mechanistic, dynamical system model that was designed to capture the essential biological processes in grazed grass-clover pasture, and to be optimised to derive improved grazing strategies for New Zealand dairy farms. While the individual processes represented in the model ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Woodward SJ

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant reed (Arundo donax L.) was grown on surface soil and irrigated with mixed heavy metal solutions of Cd(II) and Ni(II) to study the impact of these heavy metals on its growth and photosynthesis. The tested concentrations were 5, 50, and 100 ppm for each heavy metal against the control and resulted in high cadmium ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Papazoglou EG,Karantounias GA,Vemmos SN,Bouranis DL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans (dioxins) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic pollutants (POPs) with potentially adverse impact on child neurodevelopment. Whether the potential detrimental effects of dioxins and PCBs on neurodevelopment are of specific or unspecific ch...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Caspersen IH,Aase H,Biele G,Brantsæter AL,Haugen M,Kvalem HE,Skogan AH,Zeiner P,Alexander J,Meltzer HM,Knutsen HK

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently semivolatile lower chlorinated biphenyls have been identified in inner city air, in public buildings like schools, and at many other sites. Inhalation exposure to these compounds, which are readily metabolized to mono- and dihydroxy-biphenyls and further to quinones, is of great concern in light of new studie...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Flor S,Ludewig G

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For researches on toxic chemicals in settled indoor dust, selection of dust fraction is a critical influencing factor to the accuracy of human exposure risk assessment results. However, analysis of the selection of dust fraction in recent studies revealed that there is no consensus. This study classified and presented...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Cao ZG,Yu G,Chen YS,Cao QM,Fiedler H,Deng SB,Huang J,Wang B

更新日期：2012-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Greenspace has been increasingly recognized as having numerous health benefits. However, its effects are unknown concerning sudden unexpected death (SUD), commonly referred to as sudden cardiac death, which constitutes a large proportion of mortality in the United States. Because greenspace can promote physical activi...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Wu J,Rappazzo KM,Simpson RJ Jr,Joodi G,Pursell IW,Mounsey JP,Cascio WE,Jackson LE

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence on health effects of ultrafine particles (UFP) is still limited as they are usually not monitored routinely. The few epidemiological studies on UFP and (cause-specific) mortality so far have reported inconsistent results. OBJECTIVES:The main objective of the UFIREG project was to investigate the sh...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Lanzinger S,Schneider A,Breitner S,Stafoggia M,Erzen I,Dostal M,Pastorkova A,Bastian S,Cyrys J,Zscheppang A,Kolodnitska T,Peters A,UFIREG study group.

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental surveillance of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance could contribute toward the protection of human, animal and ecosystem health. However, justification for the choice of markers and sampling sites that informs about different risk scenarios is often lacking. Here, we define five fundamentally differen...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Huijbers PMC,Flach CF,Larsson DGJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper deals with predicting carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide emissions generated by power production sector in the Baltic States in period up to year 2020. The economies of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are rapidly growing therefore forecast of emissions related with this occurrence becomes very important. The I...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Denafas G,Sitnikovas D,Galinis A,Kudrenickis I,Klavs G,Kuusik R

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the early 1990s in the lagoon of Venice, especially in the central basin, the surface sediment underwent high re-suspension and sedimentation changes and water turbidity increased both because of the disappearance of the macroalgal coverage and the harvesting of the Manila clam Tapes philippinarum Adams and Reev...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Sfriso A,Facca C,Marcomini A

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress in humans is affected by the health and nutritional status as well as exposure to external environmental factors. To evaluate the effects of external factors, an assessment of baseline levels as well as diurnal variations in oxidative stress status of healthy individuals is needed. In this study, we e...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Martinez-Moral MP,Kannan K

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study are to explore metal contamination in food with respect to variations in: i) the levels found over a period of eleven months and/or ii) by food types; and iii) to report patterns in reporting between countries. The frequencies of reported cases of metal ion contamination were < or = 25% of total...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Nepusz T,Petróczi A,Naughton DP

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenobiotics from anthropogenic and natural origin enter animal feed and human food as regulated compounds, environmental contaminants or as part of components of the diet. After dietary exposure, a chemical is absorbed and distributed systematically to a range of organs and tissues, metabolised, and excreted. Physiolo...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Lautz LS,Nebbia C,Hoeks S,Oldenkamp R,Hendriks AJ,Ragas AMJ,Dorne JLCM

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) is one of the common phthalate plasticizers used primarily in soft polyvinyl chloride, which is a plastic polymer that makes up the total weight of goods from 1% up to 40% in many consumer products. The aims of this study were to examine the urinary DEHP metabolites in South Korean ch...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Song NR,On JW,Lee J,Park JD,Kwon HJ,Yoon HJ,Pyo H

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With both climate change and air quality on political and social agendas from local to global scale, the links between these hitherto separate fields are becoming more apparent. Black carbon, largely from combustion processes, scatters and absorbs incoming solar radiation, contributes to poor air quality and induces r...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Highwood EJ,Kinnersley RP

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total urinary phthalate metabolites (the free plus glucuronidated forms) have been frequently measured in the general population. However, data are limited on the free forms which may be more bioactive, especially for sensitive population such as pregnant women. Here the data gap was addressed by measuring concentrati...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Zhu Y,Wan Y,Li Y,Zhang B,Zhou A,Cai Z,Qian Z,Zhang C,Huo W,Huang K,Hu J,Cheng L,Chang H,Huang Z,Xu B,Xia W,Xu S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00