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Preference and possible consumption of provided enrichment and bedding materials and disinfectant powder by growing pigs

Porcine Health Management, 2022
Background Domestic pigs have an evolutionary conserved exploratory behaviour. To comply with this requirement, the European Union aims at setting standards for appropriate enrichment materials for pigs (Council Directive 2008/120/EC).
Felicitas Koch, Janine Kowalczyk, Hans Mielke, Hans Schenkel, Martin Bachmann, Annette Zeyner, Peter Leinweber, Robert Pieper   +7 more
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Feasibility assessment of crowdsourcing slogans for promoting household waste segregation in India: a cross-sectional study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionCrowdsourcing is an emerging technique to engage or access a wider set of experts and multiple stakeholders through online platforms, which might effectively be employed in waste management.
Kavya Krishnan, Krushna Chandra Sahoo, Madhanraj Kalyanasundaram, Surya Singh, Asha Srinivas, Ashish Pathak, Ashish Pathak, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Salla Atkins, Salla Atkins, Kamran Rousta, Vishal Diwan, Vishal Diwan   +12 more
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ToxRefDB v2.1: update to curated in vivo study data in the Toxicity Reference Database

Frontiers in Toxicology, 2023
The Toxicity Reference Database (ToxRefDB) contains in vivo study data from over 5,900 guideline or guideline-like studies for over 1,100 chemicals. The database includes information regarding study design, chemical treatment, dosing, treatment group ...
Madison Feshuk, Lori Kolaczkowski, Sean Watford, Katie Paul Friedman   +3 more
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Biomonitoring-Based Risk Assessment of Pyrethroid Exposure in the U.S. Population: Application of High-Throughput and Physiologically Based Kinetic Models

Toxics
Pyrethroid insecticides have been extensively utilized in agriculture and residential areas in the United States. This study evaluated the exposure risk by age using available biomonitoring data.
Nan-Hung Hsieh, Eric S. C. Kwok
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A Machine Learning Model to Estimate Toxicokinetic Half-Lives of Per- and Polyfluoro-Alkyl Substances (PFAS) in Multiple Species

Toxics, 2023
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a diverse group of man-made chemicals that are commonly found in body tissues. The toxicokinetics of most PFAS are currently uncharacterized, but long half-lives (t½) have been observed in some cases ...
Daniel E. Dawson, Christopher Lau, Prachi Pradeep, Risa R. Sayre, Richard S. Judson, Rogelio Tornero-Velez, John F. Wambaugh   +6 more
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Changes in epidemiologic associations with different exposure metrics: A case study of phthalate exposure associations with body mass index and waist circumference

Environment International, 2014
The use of human biomonitoring data to characterize exposure to environmental contaminants in epidemiology studies has expanded greatly in recent years.
Krista Christensen, Jon Sobus, Martin Phillips, Todd Blessinger, Matthew Lorber, Yu-Mei Tan   +5 more
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Developmental toxicity of Nafion byproduct 2 (NBP2) in the Sprague-Dawley rat with comparisons to hexafluoropropylene oxide-dimer acid (HFPO-DA or GenX) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS)

Environment International, 2022
Nafion byproduct 2 (NBP2) is a polyfluoroalkyl ether sulfonic acid that was recently detected in surface water, drinking water, and human serum samples from monitoring studies in North Carolina, USA. We orally exposed pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats to NBP2
Justin M. Conley, Christy S. Lambright, Nicola Evans, Elizabeth Medlock-Kakaley, Donna Hill, James McCord, Mark J. Strynar, Leah C. Wehmas, Susan Hester, Denise K. MacMillan, L. Earl Gray, Jr.   +10 more
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
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The 2021 update of the EPA’s adverse outcome pathway database

Scientific Data, 2021
Measurement(s) adverse outcome pathway • gene interactions • Orthologous Gene • chemical gene interactions • molecular pathway • disease gene associations • SNP Technology Type(s) digital curation Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported ...
Holly M. Mortensen, Jonathan Senn, Trevor Levey, Phillip Langley, Antony J. Williams   +4 more
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Composition analysis (pick analysis) of waste generated from household: A pilot study in Ujjain city, India

Heliyon, 2023
Waste segregation is an essential function in improving waste management. Waste segregation not only facilitates recycling and reduces waste going to landfills, rather it can benefit our environment and human in various ways.
Madhanraj Kalyanasundaram, Kavya Krishnan, Surya Singh, Krushna Chandra Sahoo, Rachna Soni, Vivek Parashar, Namrata Mathankar, Ashish Pathak, Yogesh Sabde, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg, Salla Atkins, Kamran Rousta, Vishal Diwan   +12 more
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