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Environmental Pollution Risk and Insurance [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002
We consider environmental risks that are evaluated too heavy for a single insurance company, but that can be insured by n companies which a premium is assigned to. This is precisely the Italian scenario where a pool of companies co-insures these risks. Under a game theoretic approach we start by analyzing how they should split the risk and the premium ...
Fragnelli, Vito, Marina, Maria Erminia
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Environmental Risk Factors for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: an Umbrella Review of Meta-analyses.

Gastroenterology, 2019
BACKGROUND & AIMS Multiple environmental factors have been associated with development of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). We performed an umbrella review of meta-analyses to summarize available epidemiologic evidence and assess its credibility ...
D. Piovani, S. Danese, L. Peyrin-Biroulet, G. Nikolopoulos, T. Lytras, S. Bonovas   +5 more
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Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Keratoconus.

Annual Review of Vision Science, 2020
Keratoconus, a progressive corneal ectasia, is a complex disease with both genetic and environmental risk factors. The exact etiology is not known and is likely variable between individuals.
S. Lucas, K. Burdon
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Identification by TCGA database search of five genes that are aberrantly expressed and involved in hepatocellular carcinoma potentially via DNA methylation changes

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2020
Background Various treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are utilized in clinical practice; however, the prognosis is still poor on account of high recurrence rates.
Junya Matsushita, Takehiro Suzuki, Kazuyuki Okamura, Gaku Ichihara, Keiko Nohara   +4 more
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Increased Use of Bayesian Network Models Has Improved Environmental Risk Assessments

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 2020
Environmental and ecological risk assessments are defined as the process for evaluating the likelihood that the environment may be impacted as a result of exposure to stressors.
S. Moe, J. F. Carriger, M. Glendell
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Influence of NOM on the Stability of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles in Ecotoxicity Tests

Applied Sciences, 2020
Nanomaterials are known to aggregate in the presence of ions. Similarly, the aggregation of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) exposed to various ions such as sodium chloride and calcium chloride in water systems increases with the ionic strength ...
Byoung-cheun Lee, Gilsang Hong, Hyejin Lee, Pyeongsoon Kim, Do-Yeon Seo, Gukhwa Hwang, Geunbae Kim, Pilje Kim   +7 more
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Spatial distribution, receptor modelling and risk assessment of organophosphate esters in surface water from the largest freshwater lake in China

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022
The occurrence and risk of organophosphate esters (OPEs) has become a global concern in recent years. This study investigated the occurrence, spatial distribution, and potential sources of thirteen OPEs and their associated ecological and human health ...
Jiapei Lv, Changsheng Guo, Ying Luo, Yang Liu, Yanghui Deng, Shanwei Sun, Jian Xu   +6 more
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Occurrence, distribution, and ecological risk of psychoactive substances in typical lakes and rivers in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022
The occurrence, distribution, and ecological risks of psychoactive substances (PSs) in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) was investigated in this study. The surface water samples were collected in July in 2020 from five major water bodies, and 9 PSs were ...
Wenxiu Liu, Heng Zhang, Yang Liu, Xu Li, Haijian Lu, Changsheng Guo, Jian Xu   +6 more
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Direct and indirect effects of smoking during pregnancy on child development: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study

Scientific Reports
Maternal smoking during pregnancy is known to have an adverse impact on child development. This study aimed to elucidate whether maternal smoking during pregnancy has a direct adverse effect on the child development or whether it exerts an indirect ...
Nozomi Tatsuta, Kunihiko Nakai, Makiko Sekiyama, Yu Taniguchi, Miyuki Iwai-Shimada, Mai Takagi, Yayoi Kobayashi, Tomohiko Isobe, Shoji F. Nakayama, Shin Yamazaki, The Japan Environment and Children’s Study Group   +10 more
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Arsenite exposure induces premature senescence and senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) in human hepatocyte-derived cell line Huh-7

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
Background: Chronic arsenite exposure has been known to induce cancer in various organs; however, the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. The characteristic feature of carcinogenesis due to arsenic exposure is that the disease develops after a ...
Kazuyuki Okamura, Miyuki Sato, Takehiro Suzuki, Keiko Nohara   +3 more
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