Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Water and Wastewater
Monitoring, Risk Assessment and Remediation Techniques
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Quality and hydrochemical assessment of groundwater in geological transition zones: a case study from N.E. Nigeria
Sustainable management of groundwater resources in geological transition zones (GTZ) is essential due to their complex geology, increasing population, industrialization, and climate change. Groundwater quality...
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Targeted Method for Quantifying Air-Borne Pesticide Residues from Conventional Seed Coat Treatments to Better Assess Exposure Risk During Maize Planting
Agricultural seed-coat treatments are prone to drift as seed coatings may scuff off and become incorporated into field particles during planting. Vacuum planters release exhaust and kick up field dust, laden w...
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Comparative evaluation of machine learning models for groundwater quality assessment
Contamination from pesticides and nitrate in groundwater is a significant threat to water quality in general and agriculturally intensive regions in particular. Three widely used machine learning models, namel...
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Hydrochemistry and stable isotopes (18O and 2H) characteristics of groundwater in Lokoja and its environs, central Nigeria
To determine hydrochemical and stable isotope characteristics of groundwater in Lokoja and its environs, 39 samples were collected, analyzed and interpreted. The results of the analyses revealed that pH of the...
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Biochar for Effective Cleaning of Contaminated Dumpsite Soil: A Sustainable and Cost-Effective Remediation Technique for Develo** Nations
Several studies have reported that open municipal dumpsites in develo** countries are acting as a major source for a wide variety of pollutants. In develo** nations, many dumpsites are located in the urban...
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Sources of Organochlorine Pesticidal Residues in the Paddy Fields Along the Ganga-Brahmaputra River Basin: Implications for Long-Range Atmospheric Transport
Paddy rice is a major food crop covering more than a quarter of the total area under cultivation in India. Ganga-Brahmaputra River Basin (GBRB) is an important region for rice cultivation as half of the total ...
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A Review of Barriers to Utilization of the Medicare Hospice Benefits in Urban Populations and Strategies for Enhanced Access
Disparities in access to health care extend to end-of-life care. Lack of access to hospice mirrors lack of access to health maintenance and primary care. Patients who are served by hospice nationally are dispr...
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Absorbing Society’s Influence: Body Image Self-Discrepancy and Internalized Shame
In this study, we examined how injunctive cultural norms concerning body image are perceived by women, assessed the degree of body shame that occurs when an individual sees herself as differing from the cultur...
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Detecting Pedestrians Using Patterns of Motion and Appearance
This paper describes a pedestrian detection system that integrates image intensity information with motion information. We use a detection style algorithm that scans a detector over two consecutive frames of a...
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Non-Linearity in the Angles-Only Initial Orbit Determination Problem
An investigation has been initiated to examine the concept of determining an initial orbit using angles-only observations over a short arc from a single space based sensor. The methods of Laplace and Gauss for...
