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Hicham Yazid, Taoufiq Bouzid, El mountassir El mouchtari, Lahoucine Bahsis, Mamoune El Himri, Salah Rafqah and Mohammadine El haddad
Walnut shells were used to produce highly microporous activated carbon. The prepared activated walnut shells were found to be an efficient adsorbent for removing Cr(VI). The study used the response surface methodology to investigate four independent vari...
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Octavio Carrillo-Muro, Alejandro Rivera-Villegas, Pedro Hernandez-Briano, Marco Antonio Lopez-Carlos and Beatriz Isabel Castro-Perez
The objective was to determine the effect of calcium propionate (CaPr) inclusion in the diet, at different periods on the growth performance, carcass characteristics, and meat quality of finishing lambs. Thirty-six Dorper × Katahdin crossbred male lambs ...
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Luís Silva, Luís Alcino Conceição, Fernando Cebola Lidon and Benvindo Maçãs
Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) is a central issue to address regarding the nitrogen (N) uptake by crops, and can be improved by applying the correct dose of fertilizers at specific points in the fields according to the plants status. The N nutrition index...
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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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Alberto Facchini, Adriana Morana, Luciano Mescia, Cosimo Campanella, Md Mizan Kabir Shuvo, Thierry Robin, Emmanuel Marin, Youcef Ouerdane, Aziz Boukenter and Sylvain Girard
Research on optical amplifiers has highlighted how ionizing radiation negatively impacts the performance of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs), through the degradation of their gain. The amplitudes and kinetics of this degradation are mainly explained...
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Mohammed Khalid Mahmood, Herve Tassery, Delphine Tardivo and Romain Lan
Background and Aims: Previous observational studies found inconsistent associations between serum vitamin D levels and dental caries risk. A dose-response meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies was performed to investigate the association. Methods: To ...
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Teresa Baptista, Marina Almeida-Silva, Dário Silva, Carlos Diogo and Nuno Canha
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is a public and occupational health concern, as we are exposed to air pollutants daily given that we spend a great amount of our time in indoor environments. IAQ can be affected by numerous factors, from outdoor pollutants that g...
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Dun-Sheng Yang, Meng-Wei Shen and Shyi-Tien Chen
Some mosquitos are disease-causing vectors. Their widespread existence poses a great threat to disease control worldwide. Finding an effective, low-cost solution for mosquito population control is desperately needed. Pruned branches from three fruit tree...
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Thawanrat Kobkeatthawin, Sanya Sirivithayapakorn, Thongchai Nitiratsuwan, Dudsadee Muenhor, Pei-Sun Loh and Siriporn Pradit
The present study determined the metal levels in surface sediment and in soft tissue of the Strombus canarium at Libong Island, Thailand, and estimated the possible risk from consuming the shellfish. The mean concentrations of the metals Fe, Cu, Co, Pb, ...
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Sanghee Lee and Hyun Jung Kim
The aim of the study was to estimate the dietary exposure to acrylamide (AA) from the consumption of various processed food and to assess the associated health risks in different age groups in Korea. Potato crisps and French fries presented the highest m...
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