Air pollution and lung diseases in Oporto Area.

abstract：:Metals and radionuclide levels in marine birds of the Aleutians are of interest because they are part of subsistence diets of the Aleut people, and can also serve as indicators of marine pollution. We examined geographic and species-specific variations in concentrations of radionuclides in birds and their eggs from Am...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Burger J,Gochfeld M

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Riparian wetlands provide critical functions for the improvement of surface water quality and storage of nutrients. Correspondingly, investigation of the adsorption characteristic and capacity of nutrients onto its sediments is benefit for utilizing and protecting the ecosystem services provided by riparian areas. The...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Zhang L,Du C,Du Y,Xu M,Chen S,Liu H

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to use an integrative approach to assess the ecological status of a small river impacted by multiple sources of disturbance. The River Febros (NW Portugal) is a small and highly impacted non-regulated river; approximately 44% of the watershed area is dedicated to agriculture, but there ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Carvalho L,Cortes R,Bordalo AA

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, a new systematic approach is designed to maximize the demand coverage and receiving waste load by river-reservoir systems while enhancing water quality criteria. The approach intends to control the reservoir eutrophication while developing a trade-off between the maximum receiving load and shortage on d...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Masoumi F,Afshar A,Palatkaleh ST

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The general principles of scale and coarse and fine filters have been widely accepted, but management agencies and industry are still grappling with the question of what to monitor to detect changes in forest biodiversity following forest management. Part of this problem can be attributed to the lack of focused questi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Thompson ID

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, radiological distribution of gross alpha, gross beta, (226)Ra, (232)Th, (40)K, and (137)Cs for a total of 40 natural spring water samples obtained from seven cities of the Eastern Black Sea Region was determined by artificial neural network (ANN) method. In the ANN method employed, the backpropagation a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Yeşilkanat CM,Kobya Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoor air quality (IAQ) has begun to surface as an important issue that affects the comfort and health of people; however, there is little research concerned about the IAQ monitoring of hotels up to now. Hotels are designed to provide comfortable spaces for guests. However, most complaints related to uncomfortable th...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kuo NW,Chiang HC,Chiang CM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation was carried out to monitor Pb and Cd contamination in grazing land located near a highway. Environmental media at different distances from highway (soil, grass, water, cow's forage, fertilizer, manure and milk samples) were collected from three sampling locations. Soil and grass were characterized by ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Parkpian P,Leong ST,Laortanakul P,Thunthaisong N

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The condition of tree crowns is an important indicator of tree and forest health. Crown conditions have been evaluated during inventories of the US Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program since 1999. In this study, remeasured data from 55,013 trees on 2616 FIA plots in the eastern USA were used to a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Morin RS,Randolph KC,Steinman J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anthropogenic activities release effluents containing nutrients and pathogenic bacteria that change the characteristics of coastal ecosystems. An important type of marine pollution which has occurred in 3 different states in India during 2019 is sea foam. Sea foam was found on Hole beach, Goa (Lat: 15.404° N, Long: 73...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Shetye SS,Bandekar M,Nandakumar K,Kurian S,Gauns M,Jawak S,Pratihary A,Elangovan SS,Naik BR,Lakshmi S,Aswathi VK

更新日期：2021-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface mining represents the dominant driver of land coverage changes in the Jiu Valley mining area in Romania. Detecting and quantifying active mines and reclaimed areas are very important tasks given the effects of surface mining on the environment. In this paper, Landsat imagery for the years 1988, 1998, 2008, and...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Vorovencii I

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents an environmental hazard assessment to account the impacts of single rainstorm variability on river-torrential landscape identified as potentially vulnerable mainly to erosional soil degradation processes. An algorithm for the characterisation of this impact, called Erosive Hazard Index (EHI), is de...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Diodato N

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emission of the dioxin-like compounds from on-site waste incinerators of seven schools in Kyonggi Province of Korea was evaluated by determination of the cytochrome P4501A(CYP1A) catalytic activity and antiestrogenic activity using cell culture microbioassay. The residue samples were extracted in a Soxhlet apparat...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Oh SM,Ro KS,Chung KH

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical and chemical (nutrients and major ions) indicators of water quality monitored by Environment Canada between 1977 and 1987 in the Niagara River at Niagara-on-the-Lake and in the St. Lawrence River at Wolfe Island are analyzed for seasonal and annual variations. Parametric methods such as moving averages and li...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Tsanis IK,El-Shaarawi AH

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of India's major concerns is the increasing level of land pollution largely due to the uncontrolled disposal of industrial solid and hazardous waste. With rapid industrialization, the generation of industrial solid and hazardous waste has increased appreciably and the nature of waste generated has become complex. ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Vijay R,Sihorwala TA

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corpus Christi Bay (TX, USA) is a shallow wind-driven bay and thereby, can be characterized as a highly pulsed system. It cycles through various episodic events such as hypoxia, water column stratification, sediment resuspension, flooding, etc. Understanding of the processes that control these events requires an effic...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Islam MS,Bonner JS,Ojo TO,Page C

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present statistical analysis was the assessment of the relation between time series of environmental factors and of frequencies of diseases of the respiratory system in pre-school children. During about one year, daily measurements of air pollutants and climatic variables were taken. During the same...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Helfenstein U,Ackermann-Liebrich U,Braun-Fahrländer C,Wanner HU

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I have been exposed to the technical literature, attitudes, and behaviour associated with large scale potential accidents. The time seems appropriate to try to couple these matters with what we now know of bioindicator systems. There are some good case histories, for example, with respect to oil pollution events, and ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Jeffrey DW

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytosociological study in and around reclaimed coal mine site is an essential requirement for judging restoration impact on a disturbed site. Various studies have been aimed towards assessing the impact of different restoration practices on coal mine wastelands. Plantation scheme in a scientific way is the most suita...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kumar A,Jhariya MK,Yadav DK,Banerjee A

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective environmental management requires documentation of ecosystem status and changes to that status. Without long-term data, short-term natural variability can mask chronic and/or cumulative impacts, often until critical levels are reached. However, a trade-off generally occurs between sampling in space and time....

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hewitt JE,Thrush SF

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrofishing is widely used to monitor fish species composition and relative abundance in streams and lakes. According to standard protocols, multiple segments are selected in a body of water to monitor population relative abundance as the ratio of total catch to total sampling effort. The standard protocol provides...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Miranda LE

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of ground-level ozone in beech forests depends not only on the pollution intensity but also on the other environmental factors. This paper presents the analysis of the concentrations of ground-level ozone during the growing season (April-September) of beech trees, which represent the main objects modifying ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Janík R,Kubov M,Schieber B

更新日期：2020-03-12 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：:Phosphorus (P) flux potential can predict the trend of phosphorus release from wetland sediments to water and provide scientific parameters for further monitoring and management for phosphorus flux from wetland sediments to overlying water. Many studies have focused on factors affecting sediment P flux potential in se...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： He J,Su D,Lv S,Diao Z,Ye S,Zheng Z

更新日期：2017-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Venerid clam, Paphia malabarica Chemnitz, is the commercially exploited species distributed exclusively in Vembanad Lake and Ashtamudi estuary, along the south west coast of India. In this study, the survival rate and development of P. malabarica larvae were studied for 3 days in ambient salinity (33), copper (2.5 mic...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gireesh R,Gopinathan CP

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring networks aiming to assess the state of groundwater quality and detect or predict changes could increase in efficiency when fitted to vulnerability and pollution risk assessment. The main purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology aiming at integrating aquifers vulnerability and actual levels of grou...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Preziosi E,Petrangeli AB,Giuliano G

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarizes the results of a series of studies on the various factors that affect the leaching of lead from unplasticized poly(vinyl chloride) (UPVC) pipes. Factors that were studied include temperature, pH and extractants. Results showed that, for a given UPVC pipe, the rate of leaching of lead depended pri...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Koh LL,Wong MK,Gan LM,Yap CT

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like all infectious diseases, the infection rate of COVID-19 is dependent on many variables. In order to effectively prepare a localized plan for infectious disease management, it is important to find the relationship between COVID-19 infection rate and other key variables. This study aims to understand the spatial re...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Hassan MS,Bhuiyan MAH,Tareq F,Bodrud-Doza M,Tanu SM,Rabbani KA

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of secondary minerals and Cs mobility in Hanford sediments were investigated under conditions similar to the Hanford tank leak in a dynamic flow system at 50 degrees C. The objectives were to (1) examine the nature and locations of secondary mineral phases precipitated in the sediments and (2) quantify the a...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mashal KY,Cetiner ZS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial and temporal variation of suspended particulate matter was measured in Ibadan, Nigeria during the raining and dry months of 2013 and 2014, respectively. Six different locations were considered, reflecting city-spread, population density, lifestyle, and vehicular- and industrial-related activities. Elemental ch...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Akinlade GO,Olaniyi HB,Olise FS,Owoade OK,Almeida SM,Almeida-Silva M,Hopke PK

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00