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Heat Health Risk and Adaptability Assessments at the Subdistrict Scale in Metropolitan Bei**g
Against the background of global climate change, the increasing heat health risk from the combined effect of changes in high temperature, exposure,...
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Universal or targeted approaches? an experiment about heat risk messaging
Extreme heat causes more deaths than tornadoes and floods combined in the United States. While vulnerable populations are at higher risk of...
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Heat and Health
The sun is the main source of heat for our planet. Solar energy is transmitted through space and the Earth’s atmosphere (Fig. 9.1). The spectrum of...
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Map** risk of heat stress for dairy cattle in Tigray Regional State, Northern Ethiopia
This study aimed to assess the risk of heat stress conditions for dairy cattle in the Tigray regional state of Ethiopia under historical and future...
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Planning for heat: Time activity patterns, heat hazards, and exertional heat illnesses among American interscholastic football players
For interscholastic athletes participating in outdoor sports, excessive heat can affect health, safety, and performance. Increasingly, many state...
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Source and Risk Assessment of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Ambient Air and Its Human Health Implications
In recent years, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the environment gained scientific interest because of their persistent nature, widespread...
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Attribution of subseasonal temperature modes as the drivers of dry and moist heat discomfort for the heat hazard monitoring over the Indian region
Heatwaves are often driven by subtropical persistent highs and quasi-stationary Rossby waves along with regional factors such as soil moisture. Both...
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Analysis of Public Awareness, Health Risks, and Co** Strategies Against Heat Waves in NCT of Delhi, India
Over the recent years, unparalleled heat waves driven by climate change with more severity, intensity, and frequency have been recorded in Delhi,...
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Qualitative and health risk assessment of water using a novel weight-integrated health hazard and fuzzy-derived indices
Uncontrolled development and industrial progression exacerbate surface water quality, posing a risk of water-borne diseases. To assess the...
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A Comparative Assessment of Changes in Heat-Related Mortality Risk Under the RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 Scenarios Based on the CORDEX-CORE Ensembles
This study assesses the future heat-related mortality risk under varying levels of warming specified by the RCP2.6 and RCP8.5 scenarios using...
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Social Considerations: Health, Economics, and Risk Communication
At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social...
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Disaster Risk Management: A Resilient Health System
Defining disasters and their impacts has several difficulties and limitations due to the complexity of the term. In this chapter, we focus on health...
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Beach day or deadly heatwave? Content analysis of media images from the 2021 Heat Dome in Canada
During extreme heat events (EHEs) the public often learns about health protective actions through the media. Visual news coverage can act as a...
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Quantification of contamination, ecological risk index, and health risk assessment of groundwater using artificial neural network and multi-linear regression modeling approaches within Egbema, Nigeria
This paper examined the efficiency of artificial neural network (ANN) and multivariate linear regression (MLR) models in the prediction of...
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Concentration, toxicity, and health risk assessment of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in top soils around Nekede auto-mechanic village, Imo State
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are organic pollutants that are found in the ecosystem and can pose risks to the populace. For this study, a total...
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Combining socio-economic and climate projections to assess heat risk
The assessments of future climate risks are common; however, usually, they focus on climate projections without considering social changes. We...
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Amplified risk of compound heat stress-dry spells in Urban India
Compound warm-dry spells over land, which is expected to occur more frequently and expected to cover a much larger spatial extent in a warming...
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Effects of direct heat stress on summer maize and risk assessment
The frequency and severity of extreme heat have increased in many parts of the world under global warming, seriously threatening food security and...
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Health and Safety Issues
Improper waste segregationSegregation, storage,Storage and treatment would lead to the presence of hazardous substances which may impact health and...
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Avoidable heat-related mortality in China during the 21st century
Using non-accidental mortality records from 195 sites and 11 model simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6, we assessed...
