... predominant oxidation state is In( III) (7) In the earth’s crust traces of indium, Ͻ Ͻ1%, occur in aluminum and zinc ores In contrast to cadmium, indium has few industrial or medical applications and, ... ϳ8% from drinking water, and ϳ0.1% by inhalation However, the thorium and uranium concentrations in New York City drinking water are low and the data of Yu and Mao (27) indicate that in Hong Kong, ... data of Fisenne et al (25) and Yu and Mao (27), compares the fractions of the daily intakes of 230,232 Th, 235,238 U, and 226 Ra due to diet, drinking water, and inhalation for New York City and...
... resulting from an increase of the primary production often leads to an increase in the sequestering of trace elements in the sediments Heavymetals being anthropogenic in origin are deposited in ... steel plants are located in the area The chemical industry is predominantly located in Finland, i.e refinery, fertiliser and chlorine plants andin S w e d e n - chlorine and PCV plants It is important ... partitioning Metal toxicity is resultant of the chemical combination ofmetalsand ligands, i.e the Lewis acids and bases in organisms The cellular bases are predominantly S, N and O as donor atoms in...
... tissue of falling leaves It is also formed in plant after wounding Upon depolymerization, cork suberin releases a mixture of monomers and oligomers, including monoacylglycerols of monoacid (C22), of ... common way in developing countries to increase the bioavailability of minerals from grains and beans is using fermentation Many bacteria possess phytase activity and by fermenting grains or beans ... contaminated with a bacterium known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa This bacterium was able to survive the routine disinfection of the inhalant during manufacturing by forming a biofilm comprised of many...
... establishing a detailed knowledge of the content and use of products containing ENPs in the UK; 2) developing an understanding of the factors and processes affecting the fate and transport of ENPs in ... through the skin Factors determining the mammalian cellular toxicityof nanoparticles Mechanismsoftoxicityin mammalian cells Comparing invitro with in vivo mammalian test systems Risk assessment ... coating being a primary determinant of toxicity. 94 3.67 The recent discovery of genetic variants in proteins that are involved in maintaining skin barrier function, such as those encoded in a cluster...
... faculty, staff and students of Connecticut College for their assistance in a number of ways including planning and carrying out the conference and writing, reviewing, editing and proofing chapters ... accelerating the leaching of available base cations, enhancing the accumulation of sulfur and nitrogen, and increasing the concentration of dissolved inorganic aluminum in soil water Driscoll and ... landscape and bringing these new and candidate members of the EU into full compliance with LRTAP standards A major source of pollutants that cause acid deposition in areas of eastern Canada and...
... contained in medicines marketed in Sweden were originally produced in India, most of them with the same insufficient control and treatment of production effluents One of the consequences of these investigations ... assessmentin particular, understanding the toxicityof human pharmaceuticals in the environment is beginning to advance our understanding oftoxicity pathways To date, relatively few toxicity ... number of treatment approaches, including appropriately designed and maintained constructed wetlands [56], appear viable for supporting risk management of indirect and direct potable water reuse In...
... through increasing use of agro-forestry techniques (e.g inter-cropping cereals with leguminous nitrogen-fixing trees) and increasing the efficient applications of chemical fertilizers In other ... studying the passage of solutes through beds of clay However unique in form and function, soil is not an isolated body It is, rather, a central link in the larger chain of interconnected domains and ... and sustainably that which we not know and thoroughly understand That is why the tasks of developing and disseminating sound knowledge of the soil and its complex processes have assumed growing...
... important and avoidable consequence of poor lighting design, often exacerbated (especially in the case of floodlighting) by poor installation and maintenance These factors result in light shining outwards ... James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, Professor of Science and Civilization, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow of Keble College • Professor of Environment ... management of existing National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the equivalent National Scenic Areas in Scotland seek to eliminate unnecessary outdoor light and to better design and...
... contaminant as a substance that • Waste Management act in British Columbia Province “interferes or is capable of interfering with the normal conduct of business” Includes odor in its definition of ... interactions of cyclodextrine and chloroform In this way, computational chemistry helps to achieve a better understanding of what happens during the inclusion process This saves time- and money-consuming ... results in a change of mass and it is then converted into an A.Yuwono and P Schulze Lammers “Odor Pollution in the Environment and the Detection Instrumentation” Agricultural Engineering International:...
... still have been detected in finished drinking water (Table 1.2) The infrequent detection of PPCPs in finished drinking water may reflect the relative efficiency of drinking-water treatment technologies ... regulatory and technical community and has prompted interest in sponsoring research that defines the composition and concentrations of PPCPs in potential sources and their fate and effects following ... Department of Civil Engineering Auburn University Auburn, Alabama Howard S Weinberg Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina Z...
... clofibric acid, diclofenac, fenoprofen, gemfibrozil, ibuprofen, indomethacin, ketoprofen, and naproxen) in WWTP effluents The recoveries ranged from 59% (indomethacin) to 92% (fenoprofen) in ... atenolol, metoprolol and sotalol, carbamazepine and the three fluoroquinolones antibiotics—ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and norfloxacin in groundwater, surface waters, and raw and treated sewages ... component in sewage, whereas carboxy-ibuprofen was dominant in seawater samples The determination of neutral (carbamazepine) and acidic pharmaceuticals (ibuprofen, naproxen, ketoprofen, diclofenac, and...
... for drinking water, pond water, and well water.48 The binding of estrogens to an MIP developed to aid in the analysis of estrogens in natural waters was lower than the binding of estrogens in deionized ... Jr., and Aga, D.S., 2004 Investigating the molecular interactions of oxytetracycline in clay and organic matter: insights on factors affecting its mobility in soil Environmental Science and Technology ... sulfamethazine, tylosine, and chloramphenicol in animal confinement buildings.3 The dust from the interior of an animal confinement building was analyzed and found to contain approximately 85%...
... and 1000.0 mg/L in case of gadobutrol and gadoxetic acid disodium, 100 mg/L in case of dimeglumine gadopentetate, and 1000 mg/L in case of gadofosveset trisodium) Mortalities and visual abnormalities, ... ecotoxicological studies and biodegradability tests of several gadolinium-containing contrast enhancing agents for MRI and provides an environmental risk assessment based on the information obtained MRI is ... producers The growth inhibition test of dimeglumine gadopentetate was conducted in agreement with the standard DIN 38 412 L8.27 It was incubated in an aqueous solution including nutrients, with...
... still gaps in the data andin our understanding Those gaps are outlined in the following paragraphs Researchers are still focusing on only a small proportion of the medicines in use (including the ... to begin to understand those factors and processes affecting the uptake of veterinary medicines into plants and to develop modelling approaches for predicting uptake 5.5 MODELING EXPOSURE IN SOILS ... concentrations of veterinary medicines in soil following spreading of manure from treated animals.56 The scheme provides a sequence of standard equations and a database containing information on...
... site of metal binding in tetracycline, J Am Chem Soc., 97, 2397, 1975 33 Case, C.L and Carlson, M.S., Effect of feeding organic and inorganic sources of additional zinc on growth performance and ... values in the same range for the binding of fluoroquinolones by Aldrich humic acid (3000 to 200,000 L/kg DOC) Sorption of flumequin and oxolinic acid increased markedly between pH and but remained ... binding of OTC by solutions of Aldrich humic acid with and without amendments of Al3+, Fe3+, and Ca2+ DOM binding coefficients (KDOC, L/kg DOC) ranged from 5500 to 250,000 L/kg and increased in...
... each of the factors is biologically active, with tylosin A being most active and most prevalent in medicinal and feed formulations (Teeter and Meyerhoff, 2003) Tylosin acts in bacteria by binding ... An understanding of the degradation and fate of veterinary antibiotics in soil is important because of widespread use of the compounds in livestock production in the United States, and the concurrent ... were in the absence of exposure to tylosin or other antibiotics and may be explained by a natural level of resistance in the population Leaching of tylosin-resistant Enterococcus in the MT and...
... that human urine may contain residues of pharmaceuticals and that a sanitation concept including urine recycling will lead to an input of these compounds into the top soil layer of agricultural ... water-holding capacity was determined with the bulk soils, and 40, 60, and 90% of that value were maintained readjusting the weight with some drops of ultrapure water Incorporation of the compounds into ... the spiking solution in acetone was mixed with 480 mL of urine (resulting in a 3.5% solution of acetone in urine) Application took place at a soil moisture of 75% of maximum water-holding capacity...
... is often employed in drinking water treatment facilities Ozone and UV can be used as oxidants and disinfectants, but chlorine and chloramines are most often employed for final disinfection in ... chlorine to form N-chloroamines that can further decompose The kinetics andmechanismsof sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim, and three fluoroquinolone antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, and ... Chlorine disinfectants, such as free chlorine and chloramines, are widely used in drinking water disinfection in the United States Free aqueous chlorine (HOCl/OCl–) can be formed by dissolving...
... Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment andin Water Treatment Systems TABLE 11.6 Emerging Contaminants in U.S Drinking Water (n = 20) Compound DEET Atrazine Meprobamate Dilantin Ibuprofen ... concentrations of 39 and 13 ng/L, respectively In finished drinking water, carbamazepine and dilantin were less frequently detected (55 and 70%, respectively) with maximum concentrations of 5.7 and 6.7 ... enhanced agglomeration of individual resin beads that yields resin settling against the rapidly rising water in the settler Since the MIEX resin used for benchscale testing was cycled several...