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Benefit-Cost Assessment of the Port Mackenzie Rail Extension [PDF]

, 2008
Costs We assume that the Port MacKenzie rail extension would cost $275 million to construct.1 This is a conservative estimate based on a range of between $200 million and $300 million for different route options.
Colt, Steve, Szymoniak, Nick
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PFAS in first-time mothers from Sweden: temporal trends and the impact from fish/seafood consumption and drinking water exposure

Environment International
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS)-contaminated drinking water has been a significant source of human exposure to PFAS in Uppsala, Sweden. Herein, we investigated temporal trends of PFAS in serum samples collected three weeks after delivery from ...
Irina Gyllenhammar, Jonathan P. Benskin, Merle Plassmann, Martin Kruså, Philip McCleaf, Pernilla Hedvall Kallerman, Erik Lampa, Anders Glynn   +7 more
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Assessment of food-related knowledge and preferred awareness methods by the Saudi community: a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health
Background Food safety and healthy food are linked to each other: to be healthy, people must eat nourishing food that doesn’t carry foodborne diseases (FBDs).
Moudhi Almutlaq, Shaqraa O. Alrasheed, Tagreed Alfuraih, Roaa Almarwani, Sadeem M. Aljabr, Abdulelah Bhkli   +5 more
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Efficacy of ecological compensation programs under centralized management: evidence from China

Frontiers in Marine Science
Watershed ecological compensation programs have emerged as a pivotal instrument for internalizing the externalities associated with watershed ecological protection.
Xiaoyao Xie, Wentai Tao, Yuhong Wang
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Cost–Benefit Assessment of Offshore Structures Considering Structural Deterioration

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023
Offshore facilities are essential infrastructure systems for many nations because their partial or total interruption causes diverse consequences in the economic, political, environmental, and social sectors.
Gerardo Varela, Dante Tolentino
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Diagnostic assessment for mathematics in a distance learning context [PDF]

, 2008
The idea of a diagnostic process to identify students likely to benefit from additional support originated from two separate investigations relating to the performance of entry-level mathematics students at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
Bohlmann, Carol A, Fletcher, Lizelle
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Matrix Effect Variability in Urine Samples from Different Cohorts and Implications on LC-ESI-MS Mycotoxin Biomarker Analysis

Toxins
Matrix effects (ME) during LC-ESI-MS analysis are a commonly acknowledged issue for a variety of matrices and analytes. Although sample preparation techniques are steadily evolving to reduce ME, the complexity and variability of the urine matrix remain a
Michael Kuhn, Åsa Svanström, Nicholas N. A. Kyei, Sanna Lignell, Hans-Ulrich Humpf, Benedikt Cramer   +5 more
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Economic Implications for Farmers in Adopting Climate Adaptation Measures in Italian Agriculture

Land, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of the economic convenience of adopting adaptation measures to climate change at farm level. Concerns raised about climate risks on agriculture indicate that adaptation of the agricultural sector to ...
Simonetta De Leo, Antonella Di Fonzo, Sabrina Giuca, Marco Gaito, Guido Bonati   +4 more
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Life-Cycle Unemployment, Retirement and Parametric Pension Reform [PDF]

This paper investigates the consequences of pension reform for life-cycle unemployment and retirement. We find that (i) improving actuarial fairness in pension assessment not only boosts old age participation but also reduces unemployment among prime age
Fisher, Walter, Keuschnigg, Christian
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Chrysanthemum as a remarkable edible flower resource with anti‐glycation effects: Representative variety differences, phenolic compositions, and the interaction mechanism

Food Frontiers
Various edible chrysanthemum flowers possess different anti‐glycation effects due to various compositions; however, the interaction mechanism is unclear.
Zhangtie Wang, Yuhang Zhu, Minjun Xu, Kejie Peng, Binhai Shi, Yixuan Wang, Qi Chen, Weisu Huang, Yidan Chen, Baiyi Lu   +9 more
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