Chemical composition of ambient particulate matter and redox activity.

abstract：:Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Excluding the genetic factors, environmental factors, mainly the pollutants, have been implicated in the causation of the majority of cancers. Wastewater originated from health-care sectors such as hospitals may carry vast amounts of carcinogenic and genotoxic chemicals to...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Sharma P,Mathur N,Singh A,Sogani M,Bhatnagar P,Atri R,Pareek S

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years the concern about the behaviour of oxides of nitrogen (NOx: NO, NO2) in atmosphere has increased considerably. NOx undergoes various complex atmospheric reactions to generate secondary pollutants which are known to cause severe adverse effects on human health. This work focuses on the study of physical...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lal S,Patil RS

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the bacterial contaminations in drinking water samples collected form some rural habitations of northern Rajasthan, India. A total of ten bacterial species: Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterobacter aerogenes, Klebsiella sp, Proteus vulgaris, Alcaligenes faecal...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Suthar S,Chhimpa V,Singh S

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two non-parametric kriging methods such as indicator kriging and probability kriging were compared and used to estimate the probability of concentrations of Cu, Fe, and Mn higher than a threshold value in groundwater. In indicator kriging, experimental semivariogram values were fitted well in spherical model for Fe an...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Adhikary PP,Dash ChJ,Bej R,Chandrasekharan H

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The California's San Joaquin River and its tributaries including Orestimba (ORC) and Del Puerto (DPC) Creeks are listed on the 2006 US EPA Clean Water Act §303(d) list for pesticide impairment. From December 2007 through June 2008, water and sediment samples were collected from both creeks in Stanislaus County to dete...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ensminger M,Bergin R,Spurlock F,Goh KS

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, the use of biochemical markers, especially in the assessment of toxic effects and modes of action, under controlled laboratory conditions has increased. However, transposing their use to in situ monitoring or risk assessment evaluations has encountered barriers, mainly related to the difficulty in int...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Domingues I,Santos CS,Ferreira NG,Machado L,Oliveira R,Ferreira A,Lopes I,Loureiro S,Soares AM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicochemical characteristics of dissolved components from environmental samples have been studied in order to understand the impact of atmospheric pollution from aerosols and rain on surface and sub-surface waters, at industrialised urban areas in and around Mangalore, southwest coast of India. Comparatively, the H...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hegde P

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation was performed to measure concentrations of major and trace elements in surficial wetland sediments in the southern Tibetan Plateau in order to assess the sediment quality. Results showed that most of elements have concentrations comparable to those of the Tibetan surface soil (TSS) except for As, Ca, ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhang Q,Kang S,Li C,Chen F,Boukalova Z,Cerný I

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the microgeographic structure of the Alapahoochee watershed, part of the Suwannee River basin, south-central GA, USA, and relates it to variations in liver metal concentrations and genetic structure of the Florida cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti. One objective was to determine if liver ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kirkly JA,Bielmyer-Fraser GK,Elder JF,Bechler DL

更新日期：2018-03-15 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：:Analyzing the spatial extent and distribution of forest fires is essential for sustainable forest resource management. There is no comprehensive data existing on forest fires on a regular basis in Biosphere Reserves of India. The present work have been carried out to locate and estimate the spatial extent of forest bu...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Saranya KR,Reddy CS,Rao PV,Jha CS

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, an attempt has been made to work out water balance, determine rate of sedimentation and physico-chemical analysis of the lake water. The water balance is carried out using the mass balance equation to account for various input and output components. Sedimentation rates and pattern are estimated using (1...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Singh S,Kumar B,Thakural LN,Galkate R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the acceleration of urbanization, the heat island effect, as a prominent feature of urban climate, has attracted more attention. Differences in urban landscape patterns have an essential impact on the urban thermal environment. The objective of the study is to examine the impact of urban landscape types and patte...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Li B,Shi X,Wang H,Qin M

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Wastewater pollution in industrial areas is one of the most important environmental problems. Heavy metal pollution, especially chromium pollution in wastewater sources from dyeing and tannery has affected the life on earth. This pollution can affect all ecosystems and human health directly or by food chain. Therefore...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Oktor K,Yilmaz S,Türker G,Erkuş E

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectral reflectance values of four canopy components (stems, buds, opening flowers, and postflowers of yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis)) were measured to describe their spectral characteristics. We then physically combined these canopy components to simulate the flowering stage indicated by accumulated flo...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ge S,Everitt J,Carruthers R,Gong P,Anderson G

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) has established that several remediating microbial species are capable of degrading only low molecular weight (LMW)-PAHs, whereas high molecular weight (HMW)-PAHs are hardly degradable. In the present study, the efficiency of degradation of both LMW...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： SureshKumar P,Thomas J,Poornima V

更新日期：2018-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A field monitoring network was set up within the Stamford canal watershed in 1989 to study both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of storm runoff from this urbanised catchment. The data acquisition equipment comprised a continuous recording rain gauge, a water level recorder and an automatic water sampler capab...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Cheong CP

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentrations of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs; dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethanes (DDTs), hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB)) were investigated in 105 soil samples collected in vicinity of the chemical industrial parks in Tianjin, China. OCP concentrations significantly varied in the study area, ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Wang G,Lu Y,Li J,Wang T,Han J,Luo W,Shi Y,Jiao W

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper deals with the solid waste image detection and classification to detect and classify the solid waste bin level. To do so, Hough transform techniques is used for feature extraction to identify the line detection based on image's gradient field. The feedforward neural network (FFNN) model is used to classify ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hannan MA,Zaila WA,Arebey M,Begum RA,Basri H

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics of urbanization and predicting future growth is now essential for sustainable urban planning and policy making. This study explores future urban expansion in the rapidly growing region of eastern lowland Nepal. We used the hybrid cellular automata-Markov (CA-Markov) model, whi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Rimal B,Keshtkar H,Sharma R,Stork N,Rijal S,Kunwar R

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Total mercury (HgTOT), inorganic mercury (IHg), and methylmercury (MHg) were determined in dry season waters, sediments, and tailings from an active mine which has long history of gold exploitation. Although HgTOT in waters was generally low (0.03 to 19.60 ng L(-1)), the majority of the samples had proportions of MHg ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Lusilao-Makiese JG,Tessier E,Amouroux D,Tutu H,Chimuka L,Weiersbye I,Cukrowska EM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the temporal dynamics (monthly/tidal) of water temperature, salinity, chlorophyll-a (chlo-a), suspended particulate matter (SPM), particulate organic carbon (POC), and dissolved nutrients in the surf zone of Monte Hermoso sandy beach, Argentina. We also aimed to understand the ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Menéndez MC,Fernández Severini MD,Buzzi NS,Piccolo MC,Perillo GM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been an accelerated expansion of deserts in the past five decades. Recent data reveal that the atmogenically formed organic compound, trichloroacetic acid (TCA) is a contributory factor in addition to anthropogenic and natural sources. The aim of this study was to use TCA as an indicator for the possible occ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Weissflog L,Krüger GH,Kellner K,Pienaar JJ,Pfennigsdorff A,Seyfarth K,Ondruschka B

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proactive sampling strategy was designed and implemented in 2000 to document changes in streams whose catchment land uses were predicted to change over the next two decades due to increased building density. Diatoms, macroinvertebrates, fishes, suspended sediment, dissolved solids, and bed composition were measured ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gardiner EP,Sutherland AB,Bixby RJ,Scott MC,Meyer JL,Helfman GS,Benfield EF,Pringle CM,Bolstad PV,Wear DN

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Croatian part of the Danube River extends over 188 km and comprises 58 % of the country's overall area used for commercial freshwater fishing. To date, the heavy metal contamination of fish in the Croatian part of the Danube has not been studied. The main purpose of this study was to determine heavy metal levels i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zrnčić S,Oraić D,Ćaleta M,Mihaljević Ž,Zanella D,Bilandžić N

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On 15 July, 1980, the Council of Ministers of the European Communities adopted a Council Directive on air quality limit values and guide values for sulphur dioxide and suspended particulates. This directive constitutes the first European legislation on stating air quality standards.The guiding principles underlying th...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Smeets J

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal pathogens, browsing mammals, birds, insects, nutrient deficiencies, drought, frost and waterlogging are all damaging agents to plantation species. The subsequent loss in leaf tissue or reduced photosynthetic potential can reduce growth and potentially lead to tree death. The Crown Damage Index (CDI) was develop...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Smith AH,Pinkard EA,Stone C,Battaglia M,Mohammed CL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ammonia is an important water quality variable, which in excess, can be detrimental to waterways and their ecosystems. In the Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program in South-east Queensland ammonia is monitored monthly, however, often more than 50% of the ammonia observations in Moreton Bay are below detection limit, mak...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Toscas PJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of apples in Poland is the largest among the countries of the European Union, and therefore, the consumption of these fruits is high in our country. The aim of this study was to determine the presence of pesticide residues in Polish apples and to assess if these residues pose a risk to the health of the...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Szpyrka E,Kurdziel A,Słowik-Borowiec M,Grzegorzak M,Matyaszek A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissipation behavior of octachlorodipropyl ether (OCDPE) residues in fresh tea shoots and in tea prepared under field conditions was investigated, and the transfer of residues from brewed tea to tea infusion was determined. OCDPE levels in tea shoots, prepared tea, tea infusion, and spent tea leaves were determine...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Liao M,Shi Y,Cao H,Hua R,Tang F,Wu X,Tang J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00