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Nicola Banwell, Shannon Rutherford, Brendan Mackey, Roger Street and Cordia Chu
Disasters and climate change have significant implications for human health worldwide. Both climate change and the climate-sensitive hazards that result in disasters, are discussed in terms of direct and indirect impacts on health. A growing body of lite...
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Zijian Li and Aaron Jennings
Abstract: The impact of pesticide residues on human health is a worldwide problem, as human exposure to pesticides can occur through ingestion, inhalation, and dermal contact. Regulatory jurisdictions have promulgated the standard values for pesticides i...
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Kuen Wai Ma, Hai Ming Wong and Cheuk Ming Mak
Occupational noise is unavoidably produced from dental equipment, building facilities, and human voices in the dental environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of occupational noise exposure on the dental professionals? health ...
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Aili Yang, Qi Yang, Yurui Fan, Meiqin Suo, Haiyan Fu, Jing Liu and Xiajing Lin
In this study, an integrated simulation, inference and optimization approach with two-stage health risk assessment (i.e., ISIO-THRA) is developed for supporting groundwater remediation for a petroleum-contaminated site in western Canada. Both environment...
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Sunhwa Park, Hyeonhee Choi, Deok-Hyun Kim and Hyun-Koo Kim
In this work, a method of simultaneously analyzing pesticide concentration and assessing its risks was developed. Assessments were conducted to evaluate the distribution characteristics and risks to human health of pesticides in shallow groundwater in ag...
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Xiaorong Wang, Boyue Liu, Shaolin He, Hongying Yuan, Dongli Ji, Ruolin Li, Yang Song, Wei Xu, Bo Liu and Yingjun Xu
To clarify the risk posed to groundwater in oil shale in situ mining areas, we examine five leached pollutants: Fe, Mn, Cr, sulfate, and ammonia nitrogen. Potential groundwater contents of these five pollutants were evaluated using an improved Nemero com...
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Jiju Guo, Wengeng Cao, Guohui Lang, Qifa Sun, Tian Nan, Xiangzhi Li, Yu Ren and Zeyan Li
The presence of high concentrations of geogenic arsenic (As) in groundwater poses a serious threat to the health of millions of individuals globally. This paper examines the research progress of groundwater with high concentrations of geogenic As through...
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Bouwèdèo Toi Bissang, Antonio J. Aragón-Barroso, Gnon Baba, Jesús González-López and Francisco Osorio
Drinking water requires excellent physico-chemical quality. It must therefore not contain any substance which is harmful, or which may harm the health of the consumer. The drinking water supply of Bangeli canton (Togo) is provided by ground water and sur...
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Hongyu Zhao, Xiaotao Hong, Juanfen Chai, Bo Wan, Kaichao Zhao, Cuihong Han, Wenjing Zhang and Huan Huan
Microplastics (MPs) are abundant in soil and the subsurface environment. They can co-transport with pathogens or act as vectors for pathogens, potentially causing severe ecological harm. The interaction of MPs with pathogens is an important topic. To des...
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Min Wang, Xiaoyu Song, Yu Han, Guantao Ding, Ruilin Zhang, Shanming Wei, Shuai Gao and Yuxiang Liu
In order to understand the pollution degree and source of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in groundwater around the accident site and evaluate their harm to human health, 22 groundwater samples were collected around the accident well, and the contents ...
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Abu Yousuf Md Abdullah and Jane Law
Mental health disorder risks of young and old age groups hold considerable importance for understanding present and future risk burdens. However, assessing mental health risks is significantly constrained by the influence of shared and age group-specific...
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Ying Liu, Wenjing Shen, Kaixuan Fan, Weihao Pei and Shaomin Liu
The impacts of heavy metal pollution in arable soil on agricultural production, environmental health, and the wellbeing of urban and rural residents cannot be overlooked. It has become a significant bottleneck in achieving comprehensive rural revitalizat...
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Daniela Galatro, Rosario Trigo-Ferre, Allana Nakashook-Zettler, Vincenzo Costanzo-Alvarez, Melanie Jeffrey, Maria Jacome, Jason Bazylak and Cristina H. Amon
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of blood cancer that affects both adults and children. Benzene exposure has been reported to increase the risk of developing AML in children. The assessment of the potential relationship between environmental benzen...
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Djouhaina Brella, Lazhar Belkhiri, Ammar Tiri, Hichem Salhi, Fatma Elhadj Lakouas, Razki Nouibet, Adeltif Amrane, Ryma Merdoud and Lotfi Mouni
In this study, we analyzed the quality and the potential noncarcinogenic health risk of nitrate in groundwater in the El Milia plain, Kebir Rhumel Basin, Algeria. Moran?s I and the ordinary kriging (OK) interpolation technique were used to examine the sp...
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Ayoub Barkat, Foued Bouaicha, Sabrina Ziad, Tamás Mester, Zsófi Sajtos, Dániel Balla, Islam Makhloufi and György Szabó
In this research, contamination levels and the spatial pattern identification, as well as human and environmental health risk assessments of the heavy metals in the phreatic groundwater aquifer of the Oued Souf Valley were investigated for the first time...
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Liangji Xu, Jiayi Wang and Kun Zhang
Coal mining causes surface subsidence, and the accumulated water body is constantly affected by the mining microseism in this process. Understanding the relationship between the subsided water quality and microseism plays a special role in assessing the ...
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Zafar Iqbal Khan, Rehan Haider, Kafeel Ahmad, Abdulwahed Fahad Alrefaei, Naunain Mehmood, Hafsa Memona, Shahzad Akhtar and Ilker Ugulu
This study aimed to assess the concentrations of Pb, Cr, Cd, and Ni in the edible parts of grapefruit and kinnow fruit irrigated with sewage water, tube-well water, and canal water. Preparation of the samples used in the study for metal analysis was carr...
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Magdalena Wróbel, Angelika Piesniewska, Farhad Zeynalli, Kacper Kapelko, Beata Hanus-Lorenz and Justyna Rybak
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Milon Chowdhury, Md Nasim Reza, Mohammod Ali, Md Shaha Nur Kabir, Shafik Kiraga, Seung-Jin Lim, Il-Su Choi and Sun-Ok Chung
Vibration assessment of upland crop machinery under development is essential because high vibrational exposures affect machine efficiency, service life of components, degradation of the working environment, and cause health risks to the operator. It is i...
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Yiwen Jiao, Yitian Liu, Wei Wang, Yujiao Li, Wentong Chang, Ao Zhou and Ronglong Mu
Acid mine drainage (AMD) is a major anthropogenic source of heavy metal discharge worldwide. However, little research has been carried out on the development of AMD in abandoned pyrite mines and the heavy metal contamination of mine surface water. The ai...
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