... collaborate in the 2003 study The aim is to characterize a complex region in order to map the Pb concentration in soil in those residential areas near mining, smelting industrial complexes and tailings ... the 1,075 mine-related sites surrounding the residential properties (which include tailings and tailing ponds, mine adits, rock dumps, mining materials used for construction, or mine tunnels) ... resulted in mining waste accumulating along rail road lines Mining waste was also dispersed as airborne dust The quantities of tailings discharged to the Coeur D’Alene River Basin constitute
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 10:47
... high risk along with the increased numbers of risk alleles/factors However, the variation of absolute risk distribution increased with increasing numbers of factors used in the risk-predicting ... identified in previous GWAS studies [8-14], were consistently associated with breast cancer risk in this Chinese population Risk assessment models and absolute risk calculations combining the 5 ... testing set, and the remaining 914 cases and 967 controls formed the validation set Trang 7After providing informed consent, each woman was personally interviewed face-to-face by trained interviewers
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20
Study on flood risk assessment in downstream area in ke go reservoir, ha tinh province
... planning Flood risk assessment is key part in flood risk management Flood risk assessment is a function of three main variables: flood hazards, vulnerability, and coping capacity Understanding ... et al., 2007) Nowadays, the using flood modeling is necessary in the water resources planning management in general, and flood risk assessment in particular Following the magnitude frequency analyses ... flooding processes using river discharge within rural flow Specifically for modeling of river morphology MIKE 21C, MIKE 21FM-Sediment transport (ST) modeling has been developed For flow modeling in
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2017, 22:31
Environmental Health Risk Assessment of Dioxin Exposure through Foods in a Dioxin Hot Spot—Bien Hoa City, Vietnam
... containing dioxin was spilt onto land, causing considerable soil, water, mud and food contamination by dioxin at the Airbase and its vicinities In addition to the dioxin which was released during ... spinal bifida in offspring of exposed people [4] Dose-Response Assessment Studies on effects of dioxin exposure in experimental animals indicate dioxin causes a number of toxic effects, including ... years ago, the levels of dioxin (mainly TCDD) in many hot spots in Vietnam including Bien Hoa Airbase remain very high today [10-13] Under certain conditions, dioxin is able to be broken down
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2017, 10:32
DSpace at VNU: Contamination by arsenic and other trace elements in tube-well water and its risk assessment to humans in Hanoi, Vietnam
... risk from drinking As-contaminated groundwater (Smith et al., 2000).Tondel et al (1999)reported a relationship between As concentration in drinking water and prevalence of skin lesions in Bangladesh ... As-rich Fe oxyhydroxides into ground-water under reductive conditions in alluvial sediments in Bangladesh and West Bengal Increased usage of groundwater for drinking in these areas has caused ... because inorganic As is carcino-genic and causes skin and various internal cancers (IARC, 1980; WHO, 2001) It is reported that about 36 million of the population in the Bengal Delta is at risk from
Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 04:53
DSpace at VNU: Persistent organochlorine residues in human breast milk from Hanoi and Hochiminh city, Vietnam: contamination, accumulation kinetics and risk assessment for infants
... organochlorine residues in human breast milk from Hanoi and Hochiminh city, Vietnam: contamination, accumulation kinetics and risk assessment for infants Nguyen Hung Minha, Masayuki Someyaa, Tu Binh Minha, ... that daily intake rates of persistent organochlorines in mothers in Vietnam may result in health risk for nursing children Abstract Despite the ban on persistent organochlorines (OCs) in most of ... those in primiparas Considering the fact that the interval between the first and the second child of a mother in Vietnam is usually short, this result probably indicates continuous intake of DDTs in
Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 15:37
DSpace at VNU: Application of GIS and modelling in health risk assessment for urban road mobility
... assessment of health effects remains challenging, mostly due to a number of uncertainties in different parts of the assessment process The assessment of health risk in this study is conservative ... with diesel engines being the main emitters (Hai Phong DOSTE 2003) The air quality in Haiphong degraded continuously during the last 10 years As the port of Haiphong plans to increase its activities, ... relationships and risk assessment Modelling and Geographic Information System (GIS) approaches allow estimating exposure to increase the accuracy of the procedure This starts with using a transport
Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2017, 17:22
Radioactivity in the environment chapter 6 why chemical risk assessment can learn from radiation risk assessment
... measuring the amounts of industrial chemicals in a person’s blood or urine in order to determine concentrations in his or her body Such measurements identify the concentrations of substances in ... “all routes of exposure—inhalation, absorption through the skin and ingestion, including hand-to-mouth transfer by children.” More importantly, biomonitoring reveals the integrated effect of different ... as independent living beings; they are contaminated in utero and are born already tainted by indus-trial chemicals, many of them known toxicants A news article reported that newborns were tainted
Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2018, 17:48
INSIGHTS ON RISK ASSESSMENT IN PERFORMANCE AUDIT
... approved in 2012 and designed for business oversight institutions in relation to the implementation of risk assessment systems, and demonstrating that risk assessment is also considered increasingly ... considered increasingly important in the public sector Thus, the risk-assessment based approach is becoming increasingly important both in carrying out the supervision of institutional performance and ... increasing its profit margins The risk identification stage includes an evaluation of the financial significance of an item, as well as of risk factors inherent to financially relevant areas In assessing
Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2018, 11:20
Risk assessment and recommendation of post exposure prophylaxis after a sentinel case of rabies in a Tertiary care hospital, south India
... PPE used during procedure NG tube insertion Tracheal tube maintenance Lumbar puncture Intubation ET suctioning Q8 Did you sustain a needle stick injury after it was or may have been in contact ... considered as high risk exposures In summary, after confirming that it is a case of rabies, an integrated attempt was put up by our infection control staff, which culminated in a prompt risk analysis ... our risk analysis after the affirmation of rabies by RFFIT (Rapid Fluorescent Focus Inhibition Test) in Serum & CSF (>1024 in Serum & 256 in CSF) The present study incorporated the assessment
Ngày tải lên: 11/03/2020, 11:19
Risk assessment for the implementation of controlled human Schistosoma mansoni infection trials in Uganda
... minor, 2; insignificant 1. Trang 8Table 4. Risks associated with natural infection during trial period.Risk Inherent risk score Total inherent risk risk post control Mixed sex infection in ... morbidity In the current model, volunteers participating in the trial will be infected using only male cercariae which penetrate the skin and result in patent infection In future, a single-sex ... importing snails), ii) the introduction of a new schistosome strain into Uganda, and iii) clinical trial risks common to all options (natural infection during the trial period, and the risks
Ngày tải lên: 11/05/2020, 12:08
Evaluation of water quality and human risk assessment due to heavy metals in groundwater around Muledane area of Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
... health risk assessment Human exposure risk pathways of an individual to trace metals contamination could be through three main path-ways including inhalation via nose and mouth, direct ingestion ... children), respec-tively Carcinogenic risk (CR) through ingestion pathway was estimated using Eq. 6: where, CRing is the carcinogenic risk via ingestion route and SFing is the carcinogenic slope factor ... annual rainfall ranging from 400 to 800 mm Rainfall during summer is very high with lit-tle rainfall in winter The temperatures may reach up to 37 and 23 °C on the average in summer and winter,
Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2020, 12:45
Validation of the Caprini Risk Assessment Model in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
... recent publications advocate individualized patient risk assessment (4–7) The Caprini Risk Assessment Model (RAM) was derived over a decade ago based on a combination of clinical experience and published ... body contouring surgery, including circumferential abdominoplasty (7.7%), abdominoplasty (5.0%), and breast or upper body contouring (2.9%) procedures (7) Using the modified Davison-Caprini RAM (13), ... thermally injured patients determined by duplex sonography J Trauma 2003;55:1162–1167 [PubMed: 14676666] Trang 10Figure 1.The Caprini Risk Assessment Model (Adapted from: Caprini JA Thrombosis risk assessment
Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2020, 07:03
Mammographic density and structural features can individually and jointly contribute to breast cancer risk assessment in mammography screening: A case–control study
... demonstrated by the in-creasing gradient in breast cancer risk for the combin-ation models seen in Table 3 Several studies have similarly found that adding new risk factors to already existing risk models ... (texture/parenchymal pattern) jointly can improve risk segregation of screening women, using information already available from normal screening routine, in respect to future personalized screening strategies ... to show a modest in-crease in the discriminatory power [11, 45–48] How-ever, this remains of importance in outlining high-risk groups on a population basis [49] Our results indicated that the
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2020, 01:45
Drought risk assessment during the dry season in Tien river estuary (HNUE Journal Of Science)
... desertification of Binh Thuan province" Or as the study "Application of Remote Sensing to Assess Han Drought Risk in Bac Binh District, Binh Thuan Province" by Trinh Le Hung and Dao ... Risk Assessment using Remote Sensing and GIS: The Case of Southern Trang 10Zone, Tigray Region, Ethiopia African Civet Habitat Mapping and Modeling Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies in ... province, Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol 35, pp 357-363 [7] Trinh Le Hung, Dao Khanh Hoai, 2015 Application of Remote Sensing Assessing Han Drought Risk in Bac Binh District, Binh Thuan Province,
Ngày tải lên: 24/09/2020, 03:49
Drought risk assessment during the dry season in Tien River estuary
... project "Application of plant index (NDVI) of Landsat image to assess the desertification of Binh Thuan province". Or as the study "Application of Remote Sensing to Assess Han Drought Risk in Bac Binh District, Binh Thuan Province" by Trinh Le Hung and Dao Khanh Hoai[7] presented ... Drought Risk Assessment using Remote Sensing and GIS: The Case of Southern Zone, Tigray Region, Ethiopia African Civet Habitat Mapping and Modeling Using Remote Sensing and ... and geographic information systems (GIS), the use of satellite images as well as GIS software is becoming more and more effective in monitoring, monitoring and assessing drought. In this study, the author assessed the risk of drought at Tien river estuary through two indices: Normalize Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)
Ngày tải lên: 24/09/2020, 04:11
Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment - Chapter 1 pps
... results of ecological modeling As these kinds of models are used more in risk assessment, evaluating the kinds of errors that can be made and developing modeling approaches for avoiding such errors ... ecological models in the context of ecological risk assessment in the next section THE PROCESS OF ECOLOGICAL MODELING FOR CHEMICAL RISK ASSESSMENT The U.S EPA (1992) defined ecological risk assessment ... Environmental Decision-Making Lev R Ginzburg and H Resit Akỗakaya Training and Education Applying Existing Ecological Models Integrating Existing Models Developing New, Case-Specific Models Investment Trade-offs...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 09:21
Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment - Chapter 5 docx
... it Relevance — HIGH — Possible endpoints include expected population size (age- or stage-specific), risk of decline, risk of extinction, and expected crossing time (the time at which the population ... estimating two matrices — one with toxins and one without toxins) Obtaining estimates of all such parameters can often be quite difficult However, model parameters are intuitive and can be interpreted ... to be considered (e.g., by choosing and parameterizing a dose–response function or by estimating two matrices — one with toxins and one without toxins) Obtaining estimates of all such parameters...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 09:21
Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment - Chapter 7 pptx
... results include risk of extinction, risk of decline, time to extinction, time to decline, expected abundance, and expected variation in abundance The model has several parameters (e.g., carrying ... results include risk of extinction, risk of decline, time to extinction, time to decline, metapopulation occupancy, local occupancy duration, expected abundance, and expected variation in abundance ... are increasing or decreasing in time Treatment of Uncertainty — HIGH — The model simulates variability in patch occupancy It has special features for sensitivity analysis to incorporate uncertainties...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 09:21
Ecological Modeling in Risk Assessment - Chapter 9 pps
... LEEM was initiated by the International Joint Commission to aid in anticipating the effects of declining nutrient loading, invasion of zebra mussels, loading of toxic organic contaminants on ... proficiency in DYNAMO and FORTRAN programming languages and requires resources for placing the model in an uncertainty analysis framework ECOWIN EcoWin is an object-oriented approach to the modeling ... outputs from EcoWin include those endpoints that are routinely included in ecological risk assessments The model explicitly accounts for toxic chemical effects Flexibility — HIGH — EcoWin was purposely...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 09:21