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Open AccessAssessment of acute and chronic ecotoxicological effects of aqueous eluates of stone wool insulation materials
Stone wool is an inorganic mineral insulation material increasingly used to reduce the climate impact of buildings. The acute and chronic ecotoxicological potential of stone wool eluates have been studied in a...
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Environmental Toxicology
Environmental toxicology investigates the adverse effects caused by natural and synthetic pollutants in all living organisms of ecosystems and at all levels of biological organization from molecules via cells,...
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Künstliche Intelligenz im Krankenhaus
Das Krankenhaus wandelt sich von der traditionellen Krankenanstalt zum Smart Hospital. Im vorliegenden Beitrag gehen die Autoren der Frage nach, wie künstliche Intelligenz Prozesse und Abläufe im Krankenhaus v...
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Open AccessLaboratory and field studies on the use of artificial mussels as a monitoring tool of platinum exposure in the freshwater environment
The artificial mussel (AM) is a passive sampling device that was originally developed for monitoring metal concentrations in the marine environment, but is also increasingly used in freshwater environments. Th...
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Open AccessIs micropollutant-loaded powdered activated carbon from a wastewater treatment plant toxic to the bivalve Corbicula sp.?
In order to reduce emissions of micropollutants (MPs) via effluents of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), additional treatment steps are suggested and already deployed in selected WWTPs. Next to advanced oxi...
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The role of fish helminth parasites in monitoring metal pollution in aquatic ecosystems: a case study in the world’s most productive platinum mining region
Due to the increasing consumption of platinum (Pt), especially in automobile exhaust catalysts, environmental concentrations of Pt are of emerging concern worldwide. Limited information exists on environmental...
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Risk Culture: An Alternative Approach to Handling Risks
This chapter consists of two parts: the first part describes existing approaches to handling risk and uncertainty and points out their limitations, whereas the second part introduces a model for risk culture, ...
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A direct solid sampling analysis method for the detection of silver nanoparticles in biological matrices
Engineered silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are implemented in food contact materials due to their powerful antimicrobial properties and so may enter the human food chain. Hence, it is desirable to develop easy, s...
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Open AccessIs sexual reproduction of high-mountain plants endangered by heat?
Strong solar irradiation in combination with still air and dry soil can cause prostrate high-mountain plants to heat up considerably and ultimately suffer heat damage. Such heat damage has been repeatedly show...
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Field Studies on PGE in Aquatic Ecosystems
Aquatic ecosystems can be considered as an important sink of platinum group elements. Different sources, like road runoff or industrial effluents are directly discharged into aquatic ecosystems. This article s...
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Laboratory Studies on the Uptake and Bioaccumulation of PGE by Aquatic Plants and Animals
The present book chapter gives an overview of laboratory exposure experiments dealing with the biological availability, uptake and accumulation of the platinum group elements (PGE) platinum, palladium and rhod...
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Biological Effects of PGE on Aquatic Organisms
It is known since many years that the PGE Pt, Pd and Rh may have a range of negative effects on any forms of biota. Within this chapter the authors arrange literature data on these effects in the aquatic biosp...
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Open AccessProgress in ecotoxicology, environmental chemistry and ecology
This Editorial introduces a series of papers on ‘Progress in ecotoxicology, environmental chemistry and ecology’ and was initiated in the context of the Joint SETAC GLB/GDCh Annual Meeting 2013 at the Universi...
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Precious Metals in Urban Aquatic Systems: Platinum, Palladium and Rhodium: Sources, Occurrence, Bioavailability and Effects
The platinum group elements (PGE) belong to the rarest metals on our planet. During the last three decades three of the six PGE (platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd) and rhodium (Rh)) are found in increasing concentr...
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Uptake of Palladium by the Fauna
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Biological Effects of Palladium
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Biomonitoring of Palladium in the Environment Using Different Accumulation Indicators
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Open AccessGenetical and functional investigation of fliC genes encoding flagellar serotype H4 in wildtype strains of Escherichia coli and in a laboratory E. coli K-12 strain expressing flagellar antigen type H48
Seroty** of O-(lipopolysaccharide) and H-(flagellar) antigens is a wideley used method for identification of pathogenic strains and clones of Escherichia coli. At present, 176 O- and 53 H-antigens are described...
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Significance of platinum group metals emitted from automobile exhaust gas converters for the biosphere
Following the introduction of automobile catalytic converters the platinum group metals (PGM) platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd) and rhodium (Rh) gain on increasing interest in environmental research as these metal...
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Relevance and Analysis of Traffic Related Platinum Group Metals(Pt, Pd, Rh) in the Aquatic Biosphere, with Emphasis on Palladium
Following the introduction of automobile catalysts in the middle of the Eighties in Germany there is an increasing emission of the platinum-group-metals (PGM) platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd) and rhodium (Rh). St...
