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Use of commercial sphagnum to estimate the geographic impact of a battery of recycling plant [PDF]
, 2006 International audienceA technique of biosurveillance (moss-bags) is used to evaluate thé heavy metal depositions (lead, cadmium, arsenic, barium and antimony) around an industrial source.
Durif, Marc
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2014 Biosurveillance activities focus on acquiring and analyzing epidemiological and biological data to interpret unfolding events and predict outcomes in infectious disease outbreaks.
Montiago X. LaBute +4 more
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Botulinum Neurotoxin Detection Methods for Public Health Response and Surveillance
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2018 Botulism outbreak due to consumption of food contaminated with botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) is a public health emergency. The threat of bioterrorism through deliberate distribution in food sources and/or aerosolization of BoNTs raises global public ...
Nagarajan Thirunavukkarasu +13 more
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A comprehensive review of Pseudoperonospora cubensis: biology, epidemiology, and disease management
Frontiers in HorticultureOver the past two decades, significant changes in the population structure of Pseudoperonospora cubensis have been reported worldwide. These changes have been associated with, among other things, severe epidemics of cucurbit downy mildew that are now ...
Isaack Kikway +3 more
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Visualization of Big Spatial Data using Coresets for Kernel Density Estimates
, 2017 The size of large, geo-located datasets has reached scales where visualization of all data points is inefficient. Random sampling is a method to reduce the size of a dataset, yet it can introduce unwanted errors.
Lex, Alexander +3 more
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ORBiT - The Oak Ridge Biosurveillance Toolkit
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2014 We describe ORBiT, the Oak Ridge Biosurveillance Toolkit, the objective of which is to provide 1) forecasting and early warning, and 2) an extensible data analytics platform for biosurveillance by enabling the use of traditional and non-traditional datasets, consisting of heterogeneous data types and modalities.
Pullum, Laura, Ramanathan, Arvind
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VertigOChemical pollution of surface waters represents a major challenge in Africa, particularly in urban and industrialized areas. The use of biomarkers to monitor this pollution has emerged as an effective approach to assess water quality and its impacts on ...
Afoussatou Amadou +2 more
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Annual cycle of bats in a cave of Jebel Errwa, a sub-desert zone of central Tunisia
Tropical Zoology, 2019 Bat use of the “Bat cave” of Jebel Errwa (central Tunisia) was studied over one year. A maximum of 650 bats were found during diurnal and nocturnal surveys.
Ridha Dalhoumi +3 more
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Utilisation des biomarqueurs pour la caractérisation de l'état écotoxicologique des masses d'eau [PDF]
, 2009 National audienceIn the past 25 years, numerous biomarkers have been developed with the objective to apply them to aquatic ecosystem biomonitoring. Recently, the Water Framework Directive (WFD) of the European union specified monitoring programs required
Porcher, Jean-Marc, Sanchez, Wilfried
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The Hunting of the Bump: On Maximizing Statistical Discrepancy
, 2005 Anomaly detection has important applications in biosurveilance and environmental monitoring. When comparing measured data to data drawn from a baseline distribution, merely, finding clusters in the measured data may not actually represent true anomalies.
Agarwal, Deepak +2 more
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