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António Sampaio Duarte,Fernando Castanheira Pinto
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Na prossecução dos objetivos do milénio da ONU, o aumento e melhoraria do acesso a sistemas de saneamento básico seguros e sustentáveis continuam a ser uma prioridade de intervenção crítica e essencial para salvaguarda da saúde humana e qualidade de vida...
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Daniel L. Mendoza, Erik T. Crosman, Corbin Anderson and Shawn A. Gonzales
The combination of extreme heat waves and ozone pollution is a major health hazard for urban populations in the summertime, particularly for the most sensitive groups such as children, the elderly, the unsheltered, and those with pre-existing health cond...
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Nuno Marques de Almeida and Adolfo Crespo
The frequency and severity of natural or human-induced disaster events, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, pandemics, hazardous material spills, groundwater contamination, structural failures, explosions, etc., as well as their impacts, have...
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Mansour Bayazidy, Mohammad Maleki, Aras Khosravi, Amir Mohammad Shadjou, Junye Wang, Rabee Rustum and Reza Morovati
River water is one of the most important natural resources for economic development and environmental sustainability. However, river water systems are vulnerable in some of the densely populated regions across the globe. Intense sand mining and waste dis...
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Joachim Schulze, Simon Gehrmann, Avikal Somvanshi and Annette Rudolph-Cleff
The summer of 2022 was one of the hottest and driest summers that Germany experienced in the 21st century. Water levels in rivers sank dramatically with many dams and reservoirs running dry; as a result, fields could not be irrigated sufficiently, and ev...
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Tianyi Xie, Yaorong Ge, Qian Xu and Shi Chen
Understanding different aspects of public concerns and sentiments during large health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, is essential for public health agencies to develop effective communication strategies, deliver up-to-date and accurate healt...
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Elizabeth Ford, Richard Tyler, Natalie Johnston, Vicki Spencer-Hughes, Graham Evans, Jon Elsom, Anotida Madzvamuse, Jacqueline Clay, Kate Gilchrist and Melanie Rees-Roberts
Background: In the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS), digital transformation programmes have resulted in the creation of pseudonymised linked datasets of patient-level medical records across all NHS and social care services. In the Southeast E...
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Vishnupriya Jonnalagadda, Ji Yun Lee, Jie Zhao and Seyed Hooman Ghasemi
The nation?s transportation systems are complex and are some of the highest valued and largest public assets in the United States. As a result of repeated natural hazards and their significant impact on transportation functionality and the socioeconomic ...
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Younghan Edwin Jung, M. Myung Jeong, Hwandon Jun and Trevor Smith
Combined sewer overflow (CSO) is a significant environmental concern and public health risk (e.g., water contamination, eutrophication, and beach closure). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has introduced the National Pollutant Discharge Eliminat...
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Andrea Crampton and Angela T. Ragusa
Climate and anthropogenic change, particularly agricultural runoff, increase blue-green algae/cyanobacteria blooms. This article researches cyanobacteria alert-level identification, management, and risk communication in Lake Hume, Australia. Two methods,...
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