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Amélia P. Marinho-Reis, Cristiana Costa, Fernando Rocha, Mark Cave, Joanna Wragg, Teresa Valente, Amália Sequeira-Braga and Yves Noack
The main objectives of the present study were to (i) investigate the effects of mineralogy and solid-phase distribution on element bioaccessibility and (ii) perform a risk assessment to calculate the risks to human health via the ingestion pathway. Multi...
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Juan R. Jaudenes, Ángel J. Gutiérrez, Soraya Paz, Carmen Rubio and Arturo Hardisson
Fluoride is a halogen found in soil and water from natural and anthropogenic sources. Foods, such as cereals, fruits, and vegetables, among others, absorb and accumulate fluoride. High intakes of this element produce toxic effects such as dental or skele...
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Brandon M. Owen and Neha Sunger
In this study, we conducted a worst-case risk assessment for children?s health from ingestion exposure to water sources in two densely populated counties of the Piedmont province of New Jersey?Hunterdon and Mercer counties. Carcinogenic and non-carcinoge...
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Brandon M. Owen and Neha Sunger
In this study, we conducted a worst-case risk assessment for children?s health from ingestion exposure to water sources in two densely populated counties of the Piedmont province of New Jersey?Hunterdon and Mercer counties. Carcinogenic and non-carcinoge...
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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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Christine E. Stauber, Dajun Dai, Sydney R. Chan, Jeremy E. Diem, Scott R. Weaver and Richard Rothenberg
While DeKalb County, Georgia, offers free radon screening for all eligible residents, portions of the county remain relatively under-sampled. This pilot study focused on 10% of the census tracts in the county with the lowest proportion of radon testing; ...
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Virginia Andreoli and Francesca Sprovieri
Human exposure to mercury is still a major public health concern. In this context, children have a higher susceptibility to adverse neurological mercury effects, compared to adults with similar exposures. Moreover, there exists a marked variability of pe...
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Carlyn J. Matz, David M. Stieb, Karelyn Davis, Marika Egyed, Andreas Rose, Benedito Chou and Orly Brion
Estimation of population exposure is a main component of human health risk assessment for environmental contaminants. Population-level exposure assessments require time-activity pattern distributions in relation to microenvironments where people spend th...
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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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Vetrimurugan Elumalai, K. Brindha and Elango Lakshmanan
Heavy metals in surface and groundwater were analysed and their sources were identified using multivariate statistical tools for two towns in South Africa. Human exposure risk through the drinking water pathway was also assessed. Electrical conductivity ...
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Vetrimurugan Elumalai, K. Brindha, Elango Lakshmanan
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Heavy metals in surface and groundwater were analysed and their sources were identified using multivariate statistical tools for two towns in South Africa. Human exposure risk through the drinking water pathway was also assessed. Electrical conductivity ...
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Rajesh Kushwaha, Naba Hazarika, Arin Srivastava
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A pilot study was carried out in New Delhi, India, to assess the level of traffic related aerosol exposure, individually and associated metals. These investigations also try to formulate their risk assessment using different modes of transport on a typic...
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Xiang He, Zhenshan Lin and Kangning Xiong
Guizhou Plateau is a region in China that typically shows the contradictory human-earth system. A vulnerability assessment indicator system was constructed to explore the coupled human-natural system characteristic of the karst landform based on the grey...
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Beibei Yan, Qianqian Wei, Xinfeng Li, Xiaoyu Song, Zongjun Gao, Jiutan Liu, Ruilin Zhang and Min Wang
This study analyzed the sources of total metal elements using the positive matrix factorization (PMF) model and conducted human health risk assessment for adults and children using the health risk assessment model recommended by the United States Environ...
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Maricruz Fun Sang Cepeda, Marcos de Souza Freitas Machado, Fabrício Hudson Sousa Barbosa, Douglas Santana Souza Moreira, Maria José Legaz Almansa, Marcelo Igor Lourenço de Souza and Jean-David Caprace
Operators of offshore production units (OPUs) employ risk-based assessment (RBA) techniques in order to minimise inspection expenses while maintaining risks at an acceptable level. However, when human divers and workers are involved in inspections conduc...
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Carlo Lo Re, Giorgio Manno, Mirko Basile, Marco Filippo Ferrotto, Liborio Cavaleri and Giuseppe Ciraolo
The Ionian sea is prone to tsunamis due to its proximity to the Calabrian subduction zone, which is one of the major tsunamigenic areas of the Mediterranean. The tsunami disaster risk is, nowadays, significantly higher due to the increased exposure of bu...
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Stefanos Stefanidis, Vasileios Alexandridis and Theodora Theodoridou
Worldwide, floods are the most common and widespread type of disaster during the 21st century. These phenomena have caused human fatalities, destruction of infrastructures and properties, and other significant impacts associated with human socioeconomic ...
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Victoria Ramos, Oscar J. Suárez, Samuel Suárez, Víctor M. Febles, Erik Aguirre, Patryk Zradzinski, Luis E. Rabassa, Mikel Celaya-Echarri, Pablo Marina, Jolanta Karpowicz, Francisco Falcone and José A. Hernández
In this work, the evaluation of electromagnetic effect of Ultra High Frequency Radio Frequency Identification (UHF-RFID) passive tags used in the healthcare environment is presented. In order to evaluate exposure levels caused by EM field (865?868 MHz) o...
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Unni Eidsvig, Monica Santamaría, Neryvaldo Galvão, Nikola Tanasic, Luca Piciullo, Rade Hajdin, Farrokh Nadim, Hélder S. Sousa and José Matos
Keeping transport links open in adverse conditions and being able to restore connections quickly after extreme events are important and demanding tasks for infrastructure owners/operators. This paper is developed within the H2020 project SAFEWAY, whose m...
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Pantelis Sidiropoulos, Nicolas R. Dalezios, Athanasios Loukas, Nikitas Mylopoulos, Marios Spiliotopoulos, Ioannis N. Faraslis, Nikos Alpanakis and Stavros Sakellariou
Natural and anthropogenic causes jointly lead to land degradation and eventually to desertification, which occurs in arid, semiarid, and dry subhumid areas. Furthermore, extended drought periods may cause soil exposure and erosion, land degradation and, ...
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