Assessment of elemental concentrations in the urban air (case study: Tehran city).

abstract：:In this study, we collected a total of 15 Ordovician limestone (OL) water, 4 shallow groundwater, 3 mine water, 2 surface water, and 2 coal bedrock water samples, aiming to analyze the characteristics of distributions and sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in OL water in a typical exploited coal mine n...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hao C,Huang Y,Ma D,Fan X,He P,Sun W

更新日期：2018-11-07 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 Metropolitan Region of Santiago has been declared as nonattainment area for carbon monoxide (CO). The data was based on seven air monitoring stations that do not necessarily represent the real population exposure. Usually, a series of coefficients that relates the concentration of pollutants with health effects (b...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sanhueza P,Pizarro J,Vargas C,Torreblanca M,Passalacqua M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The geographical and temporal distribution patterns of airborne dust particulates have been studied in different representative areas of Raipur City. Dust fall samples from different sites were collected and some selected toxic metals namely Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Sb and Pb in them were determined by AAS. Total annua...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Thakur M,Deb MK,Imai S,Suzuki Y,Ueki K,Hasegawa A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traffic junctions are one of the crowded places where commuters are at high risk of developing respiratory infections, due to their greater exposure to airborne and human transmitted microbial pathogens. An airborne bioaerosol assessment study was carried out at a high traffic density junction focusing on their concen...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Madhwal S,Prabhu V,Sundriyal S,Shridhar V

更新日期：2020-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a rapid and effective dispersive solid-phase microextraction (d-SPME) method was developed to preconcentrate Pd from aqueous extract of soil samples by slotted quartz tube-flame atomic absorption spectrometry (SQT-FAAS). The unique properties of magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) were used to directly isolat...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Aylin Kasa N,Sel S,Özkan BÇ,Bakırdere S

更新日期：2019-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Qiantang River is a typical river used for drinking water source, flowing through agricultural area in east China. Surface water samples at 45 sampling sites from the river were collected and analyzed for 13 organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) during six surveys in 2 years of 2005-2006. Sediments, soils, farmland runoff ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhou R,Zhu L,Chen Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Water resource protection goals for aquatic life are often general and can result in under protection of some high quality water bodies and unattainable expectations for other water bodies. More refined aquatic life goals known as tiered aquatic life uses (TALUs) provide a framework to designate uses by setting protec...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bouchard RW Jr,Niemela S,Genet JA,Yoder CO,Sandberg J,Chirhart JW,Feist M,Lundeen B,Helwig D

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Cambodia, groundwater has been contaminated with arsenic, and purification of the water is an urgent issue. From 2010 to 2012, an international collaborative project between Japan and Cambodia for developing arsenic-removing technology from well water was conducted and supported by the foundation of New Energy and ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kang Y,Takeda R,Nada A,Thavarith L,Tang S,Nuki K,Sakurai K

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Climate change, higher levels of natural resource demands, and changing land use will likely lead to changes in vegetation configuration in the mountain regions. The aim of this study was to determine if the vegetation cover and composition have changed in the Swedish region of the Scandinavian Mountain Range, based o...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hedenås H,Christensen P,Svensson J

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The removal of soluble contaminants from fractured porous bedrock by means of a recovery well is modeled by means of a lumped parameter approach. The diffusion of contaminant from immobile liquid within the pores of the fractured rock into the mobile liquid in the interstices is handled by means of a time constant the...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wilson DJ,Mutch RD Jr

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metals are persistent environmental contaminants, and transport of metals into the environment poses a threat to ecosystems, as plants and wildlife are susceptible to long-term exposure, bioaccumulation, and potential toxicity. We investigated the distribution and cascading extent of heavy metal accumulation in ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lester MB,van Riper C 3rd

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing urbanization and industrial processes in Trinidad within recent years could pose a possible contamination threat to the aquatic environment. The southwestern part of the island houses numerous industrial activities, and the recent sightings of schools of dead fish and other marine organisms in that loca...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mohammed FK,Sieuraj J,Seepersaud M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study presents an approach on the evaluation of potential laminar erosion in the Ribeirão Sucuri Grande watershed. It is located in the northeast of the state of Goiás, Brazil, a conservation area under strong anthropogenic pressure. A Mamdani fuzzy inference system was designed using linguistic variables, pertin...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： de Souza JC,Sales JCA,do Nascimento Lopes ER,Roveda JAF,Roveda SRMM,Lourenço RW

更新日期：2019-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissipation behaviour of the chloronicotinyl insecticide, imidacloprid (Tatamida 17.8 % SL), in fresh and cured cardamom capsules was studied following application at doses 20 and 40 g a.i. ha(-1) in a cardamom plantation of Indian Cardamom Hills (ICH), Idukki, Kerala, India. A single-laboratory ultra performance liqu...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pratheeshkumar N,Chandran M,Beevi SN,Mathew TB,George T,Paul A,Xavier G,Ravi KP,Kumar SV,Rajith R

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used multiple linear regression analysis to investigate relationships between late-summer epilimnion thickness, transparency, lake area, acidity and summer weather conditions in a large ($n = 116$) multi-year data set for 9 small Boreal Shield lakes. Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) was the best individual predictor ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Keller WB,Heneberry J,Leduc J,Gunn J,Yan N

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1986 and 2001, thirty-nine lakes in southwestern New Brunswick in Atlantic Canada were surveyed for acid precipitation-related water quality changes. Most of the study lakes are located on granite bedrock and represent the most acid sensitive lakes in the province. Between 1987 and 1992, hydrogen ion depositio...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pilgrim W,Clair TA,Choate J,Hughes R

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：:Eighty-one cutaway peat production fields with a total area of about 9000 ha exist and were studied in Estonia in 2005-2015. Only a very small number of the fields (seven) have been restored-either afforested or used for growing berries. The re-vegetation of Estonian cutaway peat production fields is mainly the result...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Orru M,Ots K,Orru H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a low-cost fiber optic sensor for measuring photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) in turbulent flow. Existing technology was combined in a novel way for probe development addressing the need for a small but durable instrument for use in flowing water. Optical components including fiber optics and a wid...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chudyk W,Flynn KF

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dams and sluices break down the river continuum, alter the river hydrological regime, and intercept the migration processes of nutrients and pollutants. The regulation of dams and sluices will have great impacts on water quality characteristics in the river basin. In this study, variable fuzzy pattern recognition mode...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Qin G,Liu J,Xu S,Wang T

更新日期：2020-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioefficacy, persistence and metabolism of foliar application of acephate 75 SP at the respective recommended and double doses of 1500 and 3000 g a.i. ha(-1) were studied on kharif mungbean crop. Acephate gave a very effective control of the pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) at the tested doses on mungbean ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kumar R,Mandal K,Taggar GK,Singh R,Singh B

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple box model computing time-averaged concentrations in soil and water of contaminants such as pesticides, following a pulse emission under the assumption of constant removal rates, is presented and evaluated against a benchmark model and some lysimeter experiments representative of different soil and climate set...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pistocchi A

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Neves-Corvo mining complex (MC) situated in southern Portugal exploits one of the most world's important copper deposits. Agricultural soils surrounding the MC, used by the inhabitants for crop production, contain excessive amounts of As, Cu, Pb, and Zn. Thus, a potential risk to human consumption exists if edible...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Reboredo FH,Pelica J,Lidon FC,Ramalho JC,Pessoa MF,Calvão T,Simões M,Guerra M

更新日期：2018-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesohabitat components such as substrate and surface flow types are intimately related to benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in streams. Visual assessments of the distribution of these components provide a means of evaluating physical habitat heterogeneity and aid biodiversity surveys and monitoring. We determined ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Silva DR,Ligeiro R,Hughes RM,Callisto M

更新日期：2014-09-01 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 has investigated the common risks associated with the water quality changes from the source to the consumer households and the associated disease burden in the piped water supplies. Samples from the source to the household storage from Nagpur City were collected and analysed for heavy metals, nutrient and m...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： John V,Jain P,Rahate M,Labhasetwar P

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the implementation of a Geospatial approach for improving the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) disposal suitability site assessment in growing urban environment. The increasing trend of population growth and the absolute amounts of waste disposed of worldwide have increased substantially reflecting chan...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Pandey PC,Sharma LK,Nathawat MS

更新日期：2012-04-01 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