abstract：:Buruli ulcer (BU), an often-deforming skin ulceration caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans (MU), is now considered by the World Health Organization to be the third most common mycobacterium infection. However, the reservoir of MU in the environment and the epidemiology of BU are poorly understood. The disease is prevalent...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Duker AA,Portaels F,Hale M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An internally consistent dataset comprising 103 surficial estuarine sediment samples were collected from Sydney Harbour, Australia and locations south of Sydney. This paper describes the chemical characteristics of the dataset and evaluates its suitability for use in evaluating biological effects-based sediment qualit...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： McCready S,Birch GF,Long ER

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:Nematodes represent a very abundant group of soil organisms and non-parasitic species are important for soil quality and in the soil food web. In recent years, it has been shown that nematodes are appropriate bioindicators of soil condition and they are also suitable organisms for laboratory toxicity testing. The aims...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Sochová I,Hofman J,Holoubek I

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human health risk assessment is one of the rapidly evolving tools used in the management of contaminated aquifers. Health risk assessments have been traditionally based on the point estimate approach. Due to the uncertainty and variability inherent in subsurface properties and exposed human population characteristics,...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Wethasinghe C,Yuen ST,Kaluarachchi JJ,Hughes R

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1975 to 2004, a municipal solid waste incinerator (MSWI) was operating in Montcada (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain). Because of the potential health risks derived from emission of pollutants by the facility, especially polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and dibenzofurans (PCDFs), a long-term monitoring progra...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Schuhmacher M,Domingo JL

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The removal and transformation of natural organic matter were monitored in the different stages of the drinking water treatment train. Several methods to measure the quantity and quality of organic matter were used. The full-scale treatment sequence consisted of coagulation, flocculation, clarification by flotation, d...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Matilainen A,Vieno N,Tuhkanen T

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water quality scenarios around an offshore outfall off Kochi were simulated using MIKE21 water quality model, assuming a high Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD=50 mg l(-1)) effluent discharge. The discharge is introduced into the model through an outfall located at a distance of 6.8 km from the shore at a depth of 10 m. ...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Babu MT,Das VK,Vethamony P

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface sediment samples were collected from various locations in the Mumbai and Kochi harbours, west coast of India, to assess the presence of butyltin compounds. Tributyltin (TBT) and dibutyltin (DBT) varied from 16 to 16,816 ng/g dry wt. and from undetected to 469 ng/g dry wt., respectively, of the sediment in Koch...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Bhosle NB,Garg A,Harji R,Jadhav S,Sawant SS,Krishnamurthy V,Anil C

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nonionic biodegradation-resistant ("hard") alkylphenol ethoxylate (APEO) surfactants and their degradation products are known endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs). We report here the findings concerning the APEOs concentrations and homologic distribution profiles in Israel's estuarine and coastal zone seawater to...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Zoller U

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:A novel technique, gas chromatography-UV spectrometry (GC-UV), was used to quantify volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in settled dust from 389 residences in Sweden. The dust samples were thermally desorbed in an inert atmosphere and evaporated compounds were concentrated by solid phase micro extraction and separated b...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Nilsson A,Lagesson V,Bornehag CG,Sundell J,Tagesson C

更新日期：2005-10-01 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：:The status of typical persistent organic pollutant (POP) contamination in many media (e.g., farm produce, soil, human milk, water, and sediments) was surveyed and China's relevant countermeasures for controlling POPs were analyzed in this paper. The results showed that the proportion of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Tieyu W,Yonglong L,Hong Z,Yajuan S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2-year field experiment was conducted in an Ochric Aquic Cambosols on a 1-ha field with rotation of winter wheat-summer corn located in Fengqiu County in North China Plain from 1 October 1998 to 30 September 2000 to quantify water balance and evaluate soil water loss by deep drainage and nitrate loss by leaching out...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Zhu A,Zhang J,Zhao B,Cheng Z,Li L

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, nitrate (NO3) contamination of groundwater has become a growing concern for people in rural areas in North China Plain (NCP) where groundwater is used as drinking water. The objective of this study was to evaluate groundwater resource level, to determine groundwater quality and to assess the risk of N...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Hu K,Huang Y,Li H,Li B,Chen D,White RE

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sediments used in this study were collected from different depths of eight sites in East China Sea in November 2002. The levels and distribution patterns of the selected organochlorine pesticides (OCPs=p,p'-DDT, o,p'-DDT, p,p'-DDE, p,p'-DDD, alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-HCH) in samples were investigated by the tech...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Yang RQ,Jiang GB,Zhou QF,Yuan CG,Shi JB

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess soil As contamination and potential risk for human, soil, paddy rice, vegetable and human hair samples from the areas near the industrial districts in Chenzhou, southern China were sampled and analyzed. The results showed that the anthropogenic industrial activities have caused in local agricultural...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Liao XY,Chen TB,Xie H,Liu YR

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to its wide industrial use, chromium is considered a serious environmental pollutant. Contamination of soil and water by chromium (Cr) is of recent concern. Toxicity of Cr to plants depends on its valence state: Cr(VI) is highly toxic and mobile whereas Cr(III) is less toxic. Since plants lack a specific transport...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Shanker AK,Cervantes C,Loza-Tavera H,Avudainayagam S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentachlorophenol (PCP) was investigated in freshwater sediments and human breast milk collected from the Pearl River Delta, China. The average level of PCP in river sediments was 7.93 ng/g based on dry weight, ranging from 1.44 to 34.4 ng/g. As to the sediments from fishponds, samples from Zhongshan had the highest P...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Hong HC,Zhou HY,Luan TG,Lan CY

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reports an environmental health study on risk identification. It discusses risk factors linked to rural work and pesticide contact in a restricted geographic area and shows the necessity of improving rural workers' health in the central part of Sao Paulo State. The municipality of Bariri, which is the cas...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： de Brito Sá Stoppelli IM,Crestana S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk management of food-animal antibiotics has reached a crucial juncture for public health officials worldwide. While withdrawals of animal antibiotics previously used to control animal bacterial illnesses are being encouraged in many countries, the human health impacts of such withdrawals are only starting to be und...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Cox LA Jr

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thallium (Tl) is a rare but widely dispersed element. All forms of thallium are soluble enough to be toxic to living organisms. Thallium is more toxic to humans than mercury, cadmium, lead, copper or zinc and has been responsible for many accidental, occupational, deliberate, and therapeutic poisonings since its disco...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Peter AL,Viraraghavan T

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that dissolved organic matter in soil solution may affect the toxicity or bioavailability of heavy metals to plants, but existing information on various organic substances is insufficient for treating problems with heavy metal-contaminated soils. To clarify how dissolved organic matter alters the toxi...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Inaba S,Takenaka C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and simple analytical method for the determination of organochlorines, such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and selected organochlorinated pesticides (OCPs) and organobromines, such as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), in sediment samples was optimised using CRM 536 (PCBs in freshwater sediment). The...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Covaci A,Gheorghe A,Voorspoels S,Maervoet J,Steen Redeker E,Blust R,Schepens P

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respirometric tests on a soil contaminated by crude oil were performed. Continuous measurements of oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations and temperature in the soil atmosphere resulted in a large volume of data. Time series and system identification theories were used to analyze data as a biological signal, allowin...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Fiúza AM,Vila MC

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:Sediment cores were taken from six sites across the UK. Apart from Banbury Reservoir in London, all the other sites are relatively remote lakes. Trace elements Pb, Zn, Cu, Cd, Cr, Ni, Sn, As and V, major elements such as Fe, Mn, Ti and Al were analysed, and organic content measured as loss-on-ignition was determined i...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Yang H,Rose N

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:We have measured the concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDD/F), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE) in 10 market baskets consisting of almost 4000 individual food samples representing 228 different food items, and also in the total diet basket. Lower bound con...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Kiviranta H,Ovaskainen ML,Vartiainen T

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental homogeneity is being continuously disturbed and affected by artificially introduced loads of chemical toxicants that also include heavy metals. The Tiljala wetlands of the eastern fringe of Calcutta, West Bengal (India) are a virtual sink for the deposition of urban and industrial wastes that get admixed...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Mukherjee S,Mukherjee S,Bhattacharyya P,Duttagupta AK

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal bedding made of waste wood samples from seven different plants in Japan were chemically analyzed in terms of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) including polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/DFs), coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls (Co-PCBs), drin compounds, chlordane compounds and variou...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Asari M,Takatsuki H,Yamazaki M,Azuma T,Takigami H,Sakai S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental contamination caused by extra heavy oil-based drill cuttings (DCs) is a major problem in the Liaohe Oilfield, northeastern China. To study the potential effectiveness of the mature reed wetland in removing extra heavy oil contained in drill cuttings, biodegradation of extra heavy oils and study of the ef...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Ji GD,Yang YS,Zhou Q,Sun T,Ni JR

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this review is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the threats posed by persistent toxic substances (PTS) to the environment and human health in Egypt and to identify priorities, data gaps and recommendations for future intervention to control, reduce or eliminate releases of PTS. Data on availab...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Barakat AO

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arsenic contaminating groundwater in Bangladesh is one of the largest environmental health hazards in the world. Because of the potential risk to human health through consumption of agricultural produce grown in fields irrigated with arsenic contaminated water, we have determined the level of contamination in 100 samp...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Das HK,Mitra AK,Sengupta PK,Hossain A,Islam F,Rabbani GH

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The source and the extent of Pb pollution in the urban environment of Hong Kong were investigated at five different urban settings selected on the basis of their annual average daily traffic (AADT) varying from less than 100 to 61,700. In addition, a small distant island without any traffic was selected to establish t...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Duzgoren-Aydin NS,Li XD,Wong SC

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A five-step sequential extraction procedure was applied for the determination of the distribution of seven elements (Cd, Pb, Cr, Cu, Mn, Zn, Fe) in sediment samples collected at two lakes, Volvi and Koronia, located in N. Greece. Samples were taken in two seasons, and the average concentration of the elements was calc...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Fytianos K,Lourantou A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of human activities with 3-year monitoring on the fluctuation of nutrients along the Pinios River and its tributaries were studied. Their seasonal variations throughout the years 1996-1998 were also presented. High temperatures, from June to August, cause a restriction of the water flow, an enhancement of n...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Bellos D,Sawidis T,Tsekos I

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing concern about the exposure to fungal aerosols in occupational environments and associated respiratory allergic diseases and asthma. A large number of people work in cattle sheds around the world, pulmonary function impairments and higher frequency of respiratory symptoms have been reported in dairy...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Adhikari A,Sen MM,Gupta-Bhattacharya S,Chanda S

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air quality in underground spaces has seldom been evaluated in Korea. Accordingly, the current study recently evaluated asbestos exposure among Seoul metropolitan subway workers during the renovation of the subway's air-conditioning system. To identify possible routes of asbestos exposure, suspected sources, including...

journal_title：Environment international

authors： Yu IJ,Yoo CY,Chung YH,Han JH,Yhang SY,Yu GM,Song KS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00