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Abdul Qayoom Landar, Taj Muhammad Jahangir, Muhammad Yar Khuhawar, Muhammad Farooque Lanjwani and Faheem Yar Khuhawar
Sanghar District is located in the central part of Sindh Province and shares a boarder with India to the east. This work examines the water quality of the groundwater of three subdistricts, Sanghar, Khipro, and Jan Nawaz Ali, mostly used for human consum...
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M. Ashrafuzzaman, Carla Gomes and João Guerra
This study focuses on investigating the impact of climate change on the availability of safe drinking water and human health in the Southwest Coastal Region of Bangladesh (SWCRB). Additionally, it explores local adaptation approaches aimed at addressing ...
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Bijoy Bepary and Golam Kabir
Wind energy is among the foremost vital renewable energy sources in the world. With the increase in its popularity and use, the requirement for safety measures regarding this type of energy is becoming more prevalent. The development and operation requir...
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Abu Faisal Ahamad, Petra Schneider, Romaza Khanum, Mohammad Mojibul Hoque Mozumder, Sabrina Jannat Mitu and Md. Mostafa Shamsuzzaman
The ship-breaking industry has become a promising sector in Bangladesh by contributing to the country?s primary steel demand as raw material for re-rolling mills, providing livelihood opportunities for the poor. This paper investigates the livelihood ind...
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Levente Levei, Maria-Alexandra Hoaghia, Marius Roman, Luminita Marmureanu, Corina Moisa, Erika Andrea Levei, Alexandru Ozunu and Oana Cadar
The human health risk associated with PM10 exposure was assessed for the residents of Cluj-Napoca city, Romania, for a best case-scenario based on the monthly average PM10 and for a worst-case scenario based on the monthly 90th percentile of PM10 concent...
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Magdalena Penkala, Pawel Ogrodnik and Wioletta Rogula-Kozlowska
Along with house heating and industry, emissions from road traffic (exhaust and tire, brake, car body or road surface abrasions) are one of the primary sources of particulate matter (PM) in the atmosphere in urban areas. Though numerous regulations and v...
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Guanghui Guo, Mei Lei, Yanwen Wang, Bo Song and Jun Yang
This study investigated the accumulation of As, Cd, and Pb in 16 wheat cultivars and the associated health risks for the inhabitants of Jiyuan, China. The results indicated that the concentrations of As, Cd, and Pb decreased in the order of root > lea...
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Peter Westerholm, Bertil Remaéus and Magnus Svartengren
This paper provides a narrative of the national intervention strategy in Sweden aimed to restrict the industrial use of asbestos. For many years, asbestos was imported for widespread industrial use, resulting in large amounts throughout Swedish society. ...
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Mercy Raquel Orellana Bravo, Juan Andrés Piedra Peña, Luis Santiago Sarmiento Moscoso
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The aim of this study is to estimate the presence of moral hazard in the Ecuadorian health system, understood as an over-utilization of it. For this, a binomial logit model, which measures the probability of use of health services between insured and uni...
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Hang Zhou, Wen-Tao Yang, Xin Zhou, Li Liu, Jiao-Feng Gu, Wen-Lei Wang, Jia-Ling Zou, Tao Tian, Pei-Qin Peng and Bo-Han Liao
The objectives of the present study were to investigate heavy metal accumulation in 22 vegetable species and to assess the human health risks of vegetable consumption. Six vegetable types were cultivated on farmland contaminated with heavy metals (Pb, Cd...
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The changing natures of climate factors have different impacts on agriculture based on the areas, periods and crops. In case of Malaysia, climatic changes have adverse impacts on agriculture. Due to climate change here agricultural productivity and profi...
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Ronald Hagan, Andrew M. Jones and Nigel Rice
We use discrete-time hazard models with internationally comparable data from the full eight waves of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) to study the relationship between retirement and health in nine European countries. Our results provide new...
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Mohd A. Dzulfakar, Mohd S. Shaharuddin, Abdul A. Muhaimin and Aizat I. Syazwan
A cross-sectional study was conducted at Sungai Lembing (SL) and Bukit Ubi (BU), Kuantan, Malaysia. The main objectives of this epidemiological study were to determine the aluminum concentration in drinking water, to compare with the government standard ...
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Muhammad Saleem, Javed Iqbal, Zongbo Shi, Scott H. Garrett and Munir H. Shah
Although fish are often recommended as a component of a healthy diet, the environmental accumulation of heavy metals in many fish species has been of considerable concern for those weighing the nutritional health benefits against adverse toxic outcome of...
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Christine C. Ekenga, Cora-Ann McElwain and Nadav Sprague
Exposure to lead has long been a community health concern in St. Louis, Missouri. The objective of this study was to examine public response to reports of elevated lead levels in school drinking water in St. Louis, Missouri via Twitter, a microblogging p...
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Mario Fargnoli, Mara Lombardi, Nicolas Haber and Daniele Puri
Recently, standards and regulations concerning occupational safety have become more and more rigorous. Nevertheless, the number of accidents and victims has not decreased significantly, as reported by official statistics. In Italy, the agricultural secto...
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Jaume Gasia, Marc Martin, Aran Solé, Camila Barreneche and Luisa F. Cabeza
In some processes, latent heat thermal energy storage (TES) systems might work under partial load operating conditions (the available thermal energy source is discontinuous or insufficient to completely charge the phase change material (PCM)). Therefore,...
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Jerome Nriagu, Emilia A. Udofia, Ibanga Ekong and Godwin Ebuk
Background: Although there is considerable public concern about the environmental impacts of oil pollution in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, actual evidence on the pathological and psychological effects in the health of local communities is minimally known....
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Danail Hristozov and Ineke Malsch
The objectives of this article are to: (1) investigate the current state of knowledge of the risks of engineered nanoparticles for the environment and human health, (2) estimate whether this knowledge is sufficient to facilitate their comprehensive and e...
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