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... Organophosphates (OPs) are an integral part of modern agriculture; however, due to overexploitation, OPs pesticides residues are leaching and accumulating in the soil, and groundwater contaminated terrestrial and aquatic food webs. Acute exposure to OPs could produce toxicity in insects, plants, animals, and humans. OPs are known for covalent inhibition of acetylcholinesterase enzyme in pests and ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; bioclimatology; pollution; therapeutics; toxicology; vision; Show all 6 Subjects
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... With pollution-related health problems on the rise, the focus of modern Environmental Health (EH) has mostly been placed on toxicology and exposure science. Despite the importance of toxicological aspects, the environment should be studied not only to identify pollution-related hazards, but also to investigate potentially therapeutic and health-enhancing effects of its elements. Generally speaking ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; ecosystems; environmental performance; Gabon; Maldives; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) is a popular sustainability index. It is a composite index which ranks 180 countries based on their environmental performance in 32 indicators. Using the EPI data and stochastic dominance efficiency methodology, this paper examines the sensitivity to the subjective weights assigned to the indicators and categories of environmental performance. The findings ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; genetic markers; genome; inflation; microbiome; surveys; Show all 6 Subjects
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... BACKGROUND: Individual and environmental health outcomes are frequently linked to changes in the diversity of associated microbial communities. Thus, deriving health indicators based on microbiome diversity measures is essential. While microbiome data generated using high-throughput 16S rRNA marker gene surveys are appealing for this purpose, 16S surveys also generate a plethora of spurious microb ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; case studies; environmental education; models; stakeholders; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Environmentally overburdened communities need information and resources to cope with hazards. We describe, and use a case study to depict, a participatory process of engaging Detroit stakeholders with academic researchers in the co-production of environmental health communication tools to enhance their capacity to address the unjust conditions. Over five years, we disseminated tools to 763 individ ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; biodiversity; climate; microbiome; microorganisms; plant physiology; pollution; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Humans negatively influence Earth ecosystems and biodiversity causing global warming, climate change as well as man-made pollution. Recently, the number of different stress factors have increased, and when impacting simultaneously, the multiple stress conditions cause dramatic declines in plant and ecosystem health. Although much is known about how plants and ecosystems are affected by each indivi ...
Selena L. Rice; Elena Lazarus; Christopher Anderton; Kenneth Birnbaum; Jennifer Brophy; Benjamin Cole; Diane Dickel; David Ehrhardt; Noah Fahlgren; Margaret Frank; Elizabeth Haswell; Shao‐shan Carol Huang; Samuel Leiboff; Marc Libault; Marisa S. Otegui; Nicholas Provart; R. Glen Uhrig; Seung Y. Rhee; The Plant Cell Atlas Consortium
environmentalhealth, etc ; data collection; data visualization; humans; industry; stakeholders; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The Plant Cell Atlas (PCA) community hosted a virtual symposium on December 9 and 10, 2021 on single cell and spatial omics technologies. The conference gathered almost 500 academic, industry, and government leaders to identify the needs and directions of the PCA community and to explore how establishing a data synthesis center would address these needs and accelerate progress. This report details ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; aquatic ecosystems; lakes; rivers; spectroscopy; water quality; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The monitoring of water bio-physical parameters and the management of aquatic ecosystems are crucial to cope with the current state of inland water degradation. Not only does water quality monitoring support management decision making, it also provides vital insights to better understand changing structural and functional lake processes. Remote sensing has been widely recognized as an essential in ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; agriculture; aquaculture; biomass; electronics; head; models; tail; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Fish biomass is one of the reliable parameters that can provide insight into fish and environmental health. Estimation of biomass in a dense and occulted environment is an inevitable and challenging task in modern aquaculture industries, which has been addressed in this work. The proposed work aims to determine the length features of fish using a deep learning-based segmental analysis technique. I ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; COVID-19 infection; green infrastructure; mental health; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Shifts in activity patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic might have impacted the benefits of outdoor activities for mental health. By leveraging an existing mobile application, we collected self-reported data on daily outdoor activities, emotional well-being, and the influence of COVID-19 on participant’s outdoor activity levels during April–July 2020. Individuals reporting outdoor activities, in ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; air pollution; environment; mercury; socioeconomic development; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Information about the long-term trends of wet mercury (Hg) deposition is important for assessing the impact of atmospheric pollution on environmental health. As the most populated and capital city of Tibet, Lhasa is isolated far away from the heavily-polluted urban clusters in China. In this study, a 10-year observation was conducted in Lhasa to establish the long-term trend of wet Hg deposition a ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; environmental monitoring; functional diversity; hydrology; sediments; England; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Fine sediment is a leading cause for the decline of aquatic biodiversity globally. There is an urgent need for targeted monitoring to identify where management methods are required in order to reduce the delivery of fine sediment to aquatic environments. Existing sediment-specific biomonitoring indices and indices for general ecological health (taxonomic and trait-based) developed for use in the U ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; Mammarenavirus; Oryzomys; fever; land use change; rodents; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In the Americas, infectious viral diseases caused by viruses of the genus Mammarenavirus have been reported since the 1960s. Such diseases have commonly been associated with land use changes, which favor abundance of generalist rodent species. In the Americas—where the rates of land use change are among the highest worldwide—at least 1326 of all 2277 known rodent species have been reported. We con ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; bibliometric analysis; bioeconomics; biotechnology; ecosystems; humans; landscapes; microbiome; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Microbiomes are all around us in natural and cultivated ecosystems, for example, soils, plants, animals and our own body. Microbiomes are essential players of biotechnological applications, and their functions drive human, animal, plant and environmental health. The rapidly developing microbiome research landscape was studied by a global mapping excercise and bibliometric analysis. Although microb ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; beverage industry; ecological economics; eggs; foams; humans; wastes; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Reducing single-use plastic consumption in the food and beverage industry has become increasingly important to policymakers as non-recycled plastic waste escapes into ecosystems. Plastic waste may pose direct and indirect threats to human, animal, and ecosystem health. In this paper we examine how warning labels on plastic packaging affects consumer valuation for packaged food products. Using a ch ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; COVID-19 infection; capital; economic investment; pandemic; risk; Show all 6 Subjects
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... One cause of the high rate of COVID-19 cases in the USA is thought to be insufficient prior capital investment in national health programs to preemptively reduce the likelihood of an outbreak and in national capacity to reduce the severity of any outbreak that does occur. We analyze the choice of capital investments (e.g. testing capacity, stockpiles of PPE, and information sharing capacity) and f ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; computer software; decision making; occupations; research; sanitation; telemedicine; Show all 7 Subjects
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... This paper aimed to introduce a process-mining framework for measuring the status of environmental health in institutions. The methodology developed a new software-based index namely Institutional Environmental Health Index (IEHI) that was integrated from ontology-based Multi-Criteria Group Decision-Making models based on the principles of fuzzy modeling and consensus evaluation. Fuzzy Ordered Wei ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; biosolids; humans; land application; microplastics; mulching; sewage; soil; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Land application of microplastic-based biosolids leading to microplastic (MP) contamination in the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems is largely unknown. Through this report we aim to provide an insight on the current status of MP based biosolid application and identify its potential risks to human and ecological health whilst providing solutions to mitigate them. Complex nature of the soil matrix ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; climate; land; landscapes; reflectance; spectroradiometers; vegetation; Sonoran Desert; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Accurate identification of cacti, whether seen as an indicator of ecosystem health or an invasive menace, is important. Technological improvements in hyperspectral remote sensing systems with high spatial resolutions make it possible to now monitor cacti around the world. Cacti produce a unique spectral signature because of their morphological and anatomical characteristics. We demonstrate in this ...
environmentalhealth, etc ; ecosystem management; humans; models; mountains; population density; China; Show all 7 Subjects
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... A deeper understanding of the spatiotemporal variation characteristics of ecosystem health and its driving mechanism are important for ecosystem management and restoration. Under the complex environment in the southwestern mountainous area of China, various natural and anthropogenic factors interact with each other, complicating the mechanism driving ecosystem health. Quantitatively exploring the ...