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Klára Odehnalová, Petra Pribilová, ?tepán Zezulka and Blahoslav Mar?álek
Plastic/rubber materials used as fasteners in equipment for analyzing or removing organic pollutants in water treatment technologies form an essential part of the device. Micropollutants in water are typically present at very low concentrations (ng/L to ...
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Carla S. S. Ferreira, Miguel Oliveira, Mário Pacheco and Maria Ana Santos
The physiological conditions of an organism may influence its ability to cope with environmental stressors, such as contaminants. Biotransformation and the endocrine system interact with each other to promote animal?s fitness. However, little is known re...
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Concetta Pironti, Maria Ricciardi, Antonio Proto, Pietro Massimiliano Bianco, Luigi Montano and Oriana Motta
Endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) as emerging contaminants have accumulated in the aquatic environment at concentration levels that have been determined to be significant to humans and animals. Several compounds belong to this family, from natural su...
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Mingquan Wang, Fangshu Qu, Ruibao Jia, Shaohua Sun, Guibai Li and Heng Liang
Steroidal estrogens are a representative type of endocrine-disrupting chemical contaminant that has been detected in surface water. In this paper, modified polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes were prepared by adding different amounts of polyvinyl py...
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Monica M. Cook, Erin M. Symonds, Bert Gerber, Armando Hoare, Edward S. Van Vleet and Mya Breitbart
Conventional wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) processes are primarily designed to reduce the amount of organic matter, pathogens, and nutrients from the incoming influent. However, these processes are not as effective in reducing the concentrations of m...
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Karina Scurupa Machado, Fernanda Dittmar Cardoso, Julio Cesar Rodrigues Azevedo, Cristina Borba Braga
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Female sexual hormones have attracted the attention of the scientific community due to the effects that they cause by interfering in the endocrine system. Many contemporary studies have sought to monitor some of the main female sexual hormones in surface...
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Sarah Roberts, Christopher Higgins and John McCray
Conventional onsite wastewater treatment system design relies on a septic tank and soil treatment unit (STU) for treatment of wastewater and integration of the final effluent into the environment. Organic water contaminants (OWCs), chemicals found in pha...
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Aldo Pacheco Ferreira
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Concern over exposure to endocrine disruptors (EDs) and impacts on wildlife and human has gradually increased in importance in recent years. Wastewater systematically receives most if not all of these chemicals, so a deeper understanding of the fate of E...
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Wei-Tung Huang, Hao-Cheng Yu, Chih-Chien Hsu, Ching-Fong Liao, Hong-Yi Gong, Cliff Ji-Fan Lin, Jen-Leih Wu and Ching-Feng
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