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Edrick Ramos, Raja Karim Bux, Dora Ileana Medina, Héctor Barrios-Piña and Jürgen Mahlknecht
Groundwater is the main source of drinking water supply in most urban environments around the world. The content of potentially toxic elements is increasing in many groundwater systems owing to inadequate groundwater recharge, aquifer overexploitation, n...
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Muhammad Adnan, Faiza Khalid and Majid Ali
Earthquakes are among of the most harmful and potentially fatal natural disasters. Masonry structures in seismic zones of urban and rural areas around the world pose a threat to human life. Housing that is both affordable and earthquake-resistant in eart...
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Dijana Oskoru?, Sanja Kapelj, Sa?a Zavrtnik and Karlo Leskovar
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) 2000/60/EC established a framework for community action in the field of water policy. This Directive requires the monitoring of surface watercourses? quality, which is undoubtedly influenced by the sediment composition...
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Ali H. Saleh, Mohamed Gad, Moataz M. Khalifa, Salah Elsayed, Farahat S. Moghanm, Adel M. Ghoneim, Subhan Danish, Rahul Datta, Moustapha E. Moustapha and Magda M. Abou El-Safa
This research intends to offer a scientific foundation for environmental monitoring and early warning which will aid in the environmental protection management of Qaroun Lake. Qaroun Lake is increasingly influenced by untreated wastewater discharge from ...
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Dorina Camelia Ilie?, Nicolaie Hodor, Liliana Indrie, Paula Dejeu, Alexandru Ilie?, Adina Albu, Tudor Caciora, Marin Ilie?, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran and Vasile Grama
Old textiles are important elements of thecultural heritage. As a result of their composition mostly of natural elements old textiles are extremely prone to physical and chemical degradation due to fungal action. The treatments usually applied for the cl...
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Alex G. Stewart and Ewan Wilkinson
Following environmental pollution exposure, calls to screen the population for disease or disease markers are often made. Population screening is a cross-sectional review of a population to find latent cases or biomarkers of disease that indicate the pos...
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Agnieszka Gruszecka-Kosowska
The presence of potentially harmful elements (PHEs) in popularly consumed fruits in Poland was determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The As, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, Se, Sb, Tl, and Zn contents were investigated in 21 fruit speci...
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S.S.N. Gamage,R.M.T.S. Ratnayake,A.M.A.D.M. Senadhira,D.A. Weerasinghe,V.A. Waduge
Naturally-occurring radionuclides deposited beneath the earth, which are referred to as "NORM" and other toxicnon-radioactive elements transported to the earth surface with the oil and gas production. Hence, knowledge of the prevailing background levels ...
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Giuseppe Gatta, Anna Gagliardi, Grazia Disciglio, Antonio Lonigro, Matteo Francavilla, Emanuele Tarantino and Marcella Michela Giuliani
Industrial and municipal wastewaters are often used for irrigating agricultural fields in arid and semi-arid countries, representing the most attractive option to alleviate pressure on fresh-water resources. However, the wastewater may contain various po...
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