Spatial distribution, bioavailability, and toxicity of metals in surface sediments of tropical reservoirs, Brazil.

abstract：:Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a class of environmental pollutants generated from incomplete combustion of organic materials. PAHs in tea have been studied for five locally available brands. Six to seven PAHs from list of 16 priority pollutants (US EPA) were found to be present in samples of various brand...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Singh S,Vashishth A,Vishal

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air pollution in the workplace environment due to industrial operation have been found to cause serious occupational health hazard. Similarly, heat stress is still most neglected occupational hazard in the tropical and subtropical countries like India. The hot climate augments the heat exposure close to sources like f...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bhanarkar AD,Srivastava A,Joseph AE,Kumar R

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to monitor long-term temporal and spatial groundwater NO(3) (-) removal efficiencies in different riparian zones via a limited number of sampling wells. Groundwater NO(3) (-) concentrations were measured fortnightly or monthly over a period of two years using transects of ground water samplin...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Dhondt K,Boeckx P,Verhoest NE,Hofman G,Van Cleemput O

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work provides a preliminary study of the destination, mobility, and availability of tributyltin (TBT), dibutyltin (DBT), and monobutyltin (MBT) in contaminated sediments and water column within Puerto Rosales Port, located in the middle zone of the Bahía Blanca Estuary (Argentina). Therefore, this study presents ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Quintas PY,Fernández EM,Spetter CV,Arias AH,Garrido M,Marcovecchio JE

更新日期：2019-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies are increasingly using cholinergic parameters as biomarkers of early neurotoxicity, but few have characterized this system in ecologically relevant model organisms. In the present study, key neurochemicals in the cholinergic pathway were measured and analyzed from discrete parts of brain and blood from captive...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Basu N,Scheuhammer A,Rouvinen-Watt K,Grochowina N,Evans D,Chan HM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Today, armed conflict affects some twenty countries, covering an area making up 11% of the surface area of the Earth. Any degradation of nature in these areas represents a harmful depletion of the world's natural heritage. Despite this, environmental issues are neglected during these periods of conflict, considered se...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mobaied S,Rudant JP

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The unsuitable construction of unpaved roads has been causing problems related to the formation of erosive processes, sediments in watersheds, bogs, flooding, and holes. Presuming that the areas where flow accumulation intersects unpaved roads represent risk points, our objectives are (1) to develop a qualitative meth...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Almeida RTS,Griebeler NP,de Oliveira MWR,Botelho THA,Moreira ANH

更新日期：2019-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Two PCP-degrading bacterial strains, Bacillus cereus (ITRC-S6) and Serratia marcescens (ITRC-S7) were used for the treatment of pulp and paper mill effluent at conditions; 1.0% glucose and 0.5% peptone at 30 +/- 1 degrees C at 120 rpm for 168 h of incubation. These two bacterial strains effectively reduced colour (45-...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chandra R,Raj A,Yadav S,Patel DK

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two sets of samples from Lake Päijänne and one from Lake Ladoga were used to examine the relations between the meiofauna and environmental variables. The most obvious indicators of an unpolluted environment were, in order of importance, the true meiofauna/total meiofauna ratio, the proportion of Aeolosomatidae, the pr...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Särkkä J

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gill anomalies in two fish species (Geophagus brasiliensis and Astyanax bimaculatus) were compared among three freshwater systems with different water quality: one eutrophic river, one eutrophic reservoir, and one oligotrophic reservoir. The raised hypotheses are that reservoirs with low water quality (eutrophic) have...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Gomes ID,Nascimento AA,Sales A,Araújo FG

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children are in direct contact with surface soil and may inadvertently ingest and inhale toxic contaminants while playing; hence, special attention should be given to playgrounds regarding toxic contaminants. The concentrations of ten toxic metals were determined in soil samples collected from school playgrounds and c...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Javed SA,Al-Bratty M,Al-Rajab AJ,Alhazmi HA,Ahsan W,Abdelwahab SI,Thangavel N

更新日期：2019-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Trees outside forests (TOFs) are an important natural resource that contributes substantially to national biomass and carbon stocks and to the livelihood of people in many regions. Over the last decades, decision makers have become increasingly aware of the importance of TOF, and as a consequence, this tree resource i...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Schnell S,Kleinn C,Ståhl G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prices for ferro-alloys have hardened due to the closure of plants in developed countries on account of increasingly stringent pollution control legislation, resulting in a higher cost of production. A ferro-alloy industry with a capacity of 80000 MT per annum was selected to study the nature of pollution. Because of ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Reddy MK,Venkat Rao D,Rama Rao KG,Rama Mohan Rao I,Vittal Rao M

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to estimate the contribution from the coastal resources in the coastal region to the national economy for sustainable development. There was no separate data base for the coastal zone so that the contribution from the coastal resources in the coastal region to the national economy was n...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Kuleli T

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ecosystem disruptive bloom of red Noctiluca scintillans (hereafter Noctiluca) was observed in coastal waters of the north-western Bay of Bengal during April 2014. Based on the principle of phytoplankton group/species specific remote sensing reflectance (Rrs), a technique of detecting green Noctiluca and diatom was ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Baliarsingh SK,Dwivedi RM,Lotliker AA,Sahu KC,Kumar TS,Shenoi SSC

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is an attempt to compare the pollution status in two sediment cores, one from a polluted site (Ghizri Creek) and another from a relatively unpolluted site (Sandspit). Sediment cores (45 cm in length) from coastal locations were characterized in terms of grain size, sediment composition, pH, organic matter, ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mashiatullah A,Chaudhary MZ,Ahmad N,Ahmad N,Javed T,Ghaffar A

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity concentrations of soil samples collected from thirty different locations of Malwa region of Punjab were determined by using HPGe detector based on high-resolution gamma spectrometry system. The range of activity concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K in the soil from the studied areas varies from 18.37 Bq...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Mehra R,Singh S,Singh K,Sonkawade R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The River Nzoia basin is the main source of water for domestic, agricultural, and industrial activities. The levels of the priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in water, soil, and sediments of River Nzoia during two seasons are reported. The physico-chemical parameters gave levels that were within the maxi...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Basweti JK,Nawiri MP,Nyambaka HN

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Several local surveys on the submerged vegetation have been conducted in past decades along the Finnish Baltic coastal areas. Surveys have been carried out by using various methods, which make the temporal comparisons of the results difficult. The need of a joint programme for coastal phytobenthic monitoring is emphas...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bäck S,Ekebom J,Kangas P

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:A prerequisite to sustaining ecosystems is the inventory and classification of landscape structure and composition. Ecological classification and mapping involves the delineation of landscapes into easily recognizable units. Topography, soils, vegetation, physical landscape form, and successional pathways are delineat...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Moores LJ,Pittman B,Kitchen G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-chamber microbial fuel cells (MFCs) were used to study the applicability of MFCs for hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) detection in water. The microbial acetate oxidation in the anode and the Cr(VI) reduction in the cathode together generated voltages, which were used to indicate the change in Cr(VI) concentrations of ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Chung H,Ju WJ,Jho EH,Nam K

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshwater fish, Cyprinus carpio, were exposed to sublethal concentration of cypermethrin (20 µg/l) for 6, 12, 24 and 48 h to determine the protein fractions, amino acids, protease, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, ammonia, urea and glutamine levels in gill, brain, liver and muscle tissues. Total,...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Reddy PM,Bashamohideen M

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Mexico, 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane (DDT) was used until the year 2000, principally in agriculture and anti-paludal program health campaigns. The southeastern region of Mexico was an important area of malaria, and from 1957 DDT was applied indoors every 6 months, with a coverage of 2 g/m(2). The c...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Torres-Dosal A,Martinez-Salinas RI,Hernandez-Benavides D,Perez-Vazquez FJ,Ilizaliturri-Hernandez C,Perez-Maldonado IN

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two dense nonaqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) tracer tests were carried out in a shallow aquifer north of Fort Worth, TX. i-Propanol was used as the nonpartitioning tracer: n-hexanol and n-octanol were the partitioning tracers. Field data, mathematical modeling, the results of column tests, and field tracer tests with NaC...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Burt RA,Christians GL,Williams SP,Wilson DJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was carried out to determine the concentrations of heavy metals in the soil samples collected from an abandoned lead acid battery (LAB) industrial waste dumpsite in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. This was to assess the potential risks of the heavy metals on human due to exposure among local residents (childr...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Ogundele LT,Adejoro IA,Ayeku PO

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Blast-induced ground vibration is one of the most important environmental impacts of blasting operations because it may cause severe damage to structures and plants in nearby environment. Estimation of ground vibration levels induced by blasting has vital importance for restricting the environmental effects of blastin...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Fişne A,Kuzu C,Hüdaverdi T

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) have been found to be widely dispersed in the environment and are being considered potentially pathogenic for humans and animals, while reports of their human to human transmission are absent. Water and aerosols are potential transmission modes of NTM to humans. Hospitalized patients ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Dovriki E,Gerogianni I,Petinaki E,Hadjichristodoulou C,Papaioannou A,Gourgoulianis K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was undertaken to examine the nature of particulate chalk dust settled on classroom floor during traditional teaching with dusting and non-dusting chalks on two types of boards viz. rough and smooth. Settling chalk particles were collected for 30 min during teaching in glass Petri plates placed in classrooms...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Majumdar D,William SP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytoplankton species composition and seasonal changes were investigated in the Bhoj wetland Bhopal. Taxonomic composition, diversity, and abundance of phytoplankton were studied at nine stations from March 2008 to February 2010, in relation to various physico-chemical factors. Total phytoplankton species composition ...

journal_title：Environmental monitoring and assessment

authors： Bhat NA,Wanganeo A,Raina R

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00