Al-Shidi, Hilal K Sulaiman, Hameed Al-Reasi, Hassan A Jamil, Farrukh Aslam, Muhammad
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Heavy metal contamination of Hg, As, Cu, Cr, Zn, and Pb was investigated in three different fractions 45, 125, and 200 μm of road dust in Muscat, Oman. Dust samples were collected from three different traffic roads, viz. high, medium, and low based on traffic volume and then sieved individually before they analyzed using inductively coupled plasma ...
Sabour, Mohammad Reza Derhamjani, Ghazaleh Akbari, Mohammadamin Hatami, Amir Mostafa
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Waste foundry sand (WFS) is the by-product of the foundry industry, which is produced about 0.6 tons per 1 ton of foundry industry production. While it cannot be recycled or reused, it will be disposed of in landfills. Today, with increasing attention to environmental issues, the reuse and recycle of materials because of limited resources have been...
Usman, Muhammad Jahanger, Atif
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This study investigates the heterogeneous effects of remittance inflows, institutional quality, foreign direct investment, energy consumption, financial development, and trade openness on the ecological footprint spanning from 1990 to 2016 for the global panel of 93 countries. The current study employs a panel quantile regression (PQR) approach for...
Zhu, Feng Chen, Lan Qian, Zhengmin Min Liao, Yuxue Zhang, Zhen McMillin, Stephen Edward Wang, Xiaojie Lin, Hualiang
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There are relatively few studies that focus on the health effects of exposure to size-specific particles on respiratory mortality in China. We aimed to examine the association between different particle sizes and mortality from cause-specific respiratory diseases. We used a time series model with a quasi-Poisson link to investigate the relationship...
Patyal, Anil Gill, Jatinder Paul Singh Bedi, Jasbir Singh Aulakh, Rabinder Singh
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Aflatoxins are one of the major environmental contaminants in animal feed and pose a potential threat to human health due to their secretion in the milk of lactating animals. The present study was conducted with the objectives to determine the occurrence of aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1, and G2) in dairy animal concentrate feed and to evaluate the effect ...
Wang, Dan Lou, Jiangfei Xu, Jin Yuan, Jiugang Wang, Qiang Wang, Ping Fan, Xuerong
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Alkylphenol polyethoxylates (APEOn) are the second-largest category of commercial nonionic surfactants, which are difficult to degrade naturally in the environment. This study examined the degradation of octylphenol polyethoxylate (OPEOn) by laccase and its laccase-mediated systems. The results showed that OPEOn was poorly degraded by laccase alone...
Liu, Xinpeng Wang, Baohua Qiu, Yahui Dong, Xiaole Song, Yixin Meng, Qingmei Li, Menghong
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Deep eutectic solvent (DES) was applied as the solvent of iron/alcohol amine system, and the prepared iron/ethanolamine/DES system was found to be a good desulfurizer for H2S removal. The absorbents were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The iron/ethanolamine/DES system showed a significantly enhanced desulfurization perform...
Jeong, Kyungjun Hong, Jiyeon Lee, Yongjin Yang, Jiyeon Lim, Youngwook Shin, Dongchun Kim, Changsoo
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Preschool children aged 3-6 years are vulnerable to exposed to particulate matter ("PM10" and "PM2.5"). It is required in evaluating the risk based on dose of preschool children. Microenvironments which preschool children mainly visited were classified. Inhalation type was adapted in each microenvironment in consideration of intensity of activity. ...
Liu, Zheng Bai, Ying Luo, Lixia Wan, Jundi Wang, Wei Zhao, Guohu
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Loessal soil is one of the main cultivated soils in northwest China. Part of its distribution area was irrigated with industrial wastewater in past three decades. This caused heavy metal contamination in the soil. It had induced toxicity on crops and also threatened local human health for now. Based on a field plot experiment, effects of different ...
Torabi, Amirreza Moosavirad, Seyed Hamed Ariafar, Shahram Eftekhari, Alireza
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Dust emission is one of the critical problems of the mining industry. Dust emission can cause respiratory diseases among workers and adjacent residents of the factory and environmental pollution in the region. This study aims to reduce dust emissions of an iron ore concentrate plant in Iran. Applying dust control methods can affect the production p...
