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Tuviere Onookome-Okome, Angel Hsu, Dean G. Kilpatrick, Angela Moreland and Aaron Reuben
Public works environmental disasters such as the Flint water crisis typically occur in disenfranchised communities with municipal disinvestment and co-occurring risks for poor mental health (poverty, social disconnection). We evaluated the long-term inte...
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Paraskevas Parlakidis, George Adamidis, Christos Alexoudis, Paschalina Pythoglou, Sotirios Papadopoulos and Zisis Vryzas
Adjuvants are supplemental substances added to pesticide tank mixtures to enhance their efficacy by altering the dispersing, emulsifying, spreading, sticking, and wetting properties of the spray mixture. The goals of this study were an assessment of the ...
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Lisa Kobos, Kim Anderson, Laura Kurth, Xiaoming Liang, Caroline P. Groth, Lucy England, A. Scott Laney and M. Abbas Virji
Healthcare facility staff use a wide variety of cleaning and disinfecting products during their daily operations, many of which are associated with respiratory or skin irritation or sensitization with repeated exposure. The objective of this study was to...
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Xiaofei Zhang, Weidong He, Yongwang Zhang, Cheng Chen and Xun Wu
This paper presents an experimental study on the tensile behavior of basalt-fiber-grid-reinforced mortar (BGRM) before and after exposure to an elevated temperature of 300 °C considering the effect of fiber grid type, short polyvinyl alcohol fiber (PVA),...
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Emilia-Adela Salca, Tomasz Krystofiak, Barbara Lis and Salim Hiziroglu
The objective of this study was to evaluate the glossiness of black alder wood (Alnus glutinosa L.) samples coated with two varnish types as a function of exposure to dry heat and artificial aging. The chemical resistance of the coated samples to cold li...
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Noraniza Mohammad Jani, Mohammad Shakir Nasif, Nasir Shafiq and Ian Holt
This paper presents the experimental analysis of the effects of simulated hydrocarbon fire exposure on the mechanical properties and the heat transmission in fiber-reinforced self-compacting concrete, FR-SCC. For that purpose, 300-mm thick, and 1200-mm s...
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Johannes P. Steyn,Suzette Viviers
AbstractOrientation: Investors are increasingly weighing up the cost of investing in companies with adverse impacts on society and the natural environment.Research purpose: In light of the shift to responsible investing, this study compared the risk-adju...
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Deirdre J. Murphy, Clare Dunney, Aoife Mullally, Nita Adnan, Tom Fahey and Joe Barry
Most studies of alcohol consumption in pregnancy have looked at one time point only, often relying on recall. The aim of this longitudinal study was to determine whether alcohol consumption changes in early and late pregnancy and whether this affects per...
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Johan Jarl, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Anne Ludbrook and Dennis Petrie
This study estimates the avoidable and unavoidable costs of alcohol-related, liver cirrhosis inpatient care, controlling for the lag structure and period of decline in disease risk. Lag structures with different lengths are applied to the exposure to ris...
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Ibrahim O. Farah
Black seed (N. Sativa L) is an oriental spice of the family Ranunculaceae that has long been rationally used as a natural medicine for treatment of many acute as well as chronic conditions including cardiovascular disease and immunological disorders. It ...
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