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Photocatalytic Activity Induced by Metal Nanoparticles Synthesized by Sustainable Approaches: A Comprehensive Review

Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022
Nanotechnology is a fast-expanding area with a wide range of applications in science, engineering, health, pharmacy, and other fields. Among many techniques that are employed toward the production of nanoparticles, synthesis using green technologies is ...
Prashanth Gopala Krishna, Prabhu Chandra Mishra, Mutthuraju Mahadev Naika, Manoj Gadewar, Prashanth Paduvarahalli Ananthaswamy, Srilatha Rao, Sivadhas Rosejanet Boselin Prabhu, Kalanakoppal Venkatesh Yatish, Holenarasipura Gundurao Nagendra, Mahmoud Moustafa, Mahmoud Moustafa, Mohammed Al-Shehri, Saurabh Kumar Jha, Saurabh Kumar Jha, Saurabh Kumar Jha, Bharat Lal, Sreeja Mole Stephen Santhakumari   +16 more
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Exposição humana a substâncias químicas potencialmente tóxicas na dieta e os riscos para saúde Chemical dietary exposure and the risks to human health

Química Nova, 2009
Humans are exposed to a variety of chemicals from the consumption of food, including undesirable compounds such as pesticides and mycotoxins. Chemical human risk assessment is a process intended to estimate the risk to a given population from the ...
Andréia Nunes Oliveira Jardim, Eloisa Dutra Caldas   +1 more
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Understanding Target-Specific Effects of Antidepressant Drug Pollution on Molluscs: A Systematic Review Report

Toxics
Antidepressant drugs (ADDs) are one of the most widely prescribed pharmaceuticals globally and are widely detected in the environment. They are designed to target monoamine neurotransmission—a highly conserved pathway between humans and animal species ...
Maurice E. Imiuwa, Alice Baynes, Edwin J. Routledge   +2 more
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Microbial risk assessment of Vibrio spp. in seafood products in Mexico

Salud Pública de México, 2014
Food-borne diseases are among the major public health problems that currently exist. Microbiological risk assessment is a process used to evaluate the hidden hazards in food, the likelihood of exposure to these hazards and their impact on public health ...
Karla M López-Hernández, Violeta T Pardío-Sedas, José de Jesús Williams   +2 more
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Heavy Metal Toxicity Levels and Ecological Risk Assessment of Petroleum-Based Pollutants in the Sediments of the Soku Oil and Gas Field of Southern, Nigeria

CITAS
The Soku Gas Plant and associated oil facilities in South-south Nigeria has been a source of continuous discharge of oil spills and other industrial wastes to the ecosystems surrounding it.
Ifeanyichukwu Clinton Ezekwe, Christian Livingstone Otiasah, Cynthia Akolo, Abiye Tomquin   +3 more
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Toward economic flood loss characterization via hazard simulation

Environmental Research Letters, 2016
Among all natural disasters, floods have historically been the primary cause of human and economic losses around the world. Improving flood risk management requires a multi-scale characterization of the hazard and associated losses—the flood loss ...
Jeffrey Czajkowski, Luciana K Cunha, Erwann Michel-Kerjan, James A Smith   +3 more
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Updated Parameters for Listeria monocytogenes Dose–Response Model Considering Pathogen Virulence and Age and Sex of Consumer

Foods
Better knowledge regarding the Listeria monocytogenes dose–response (DR) model is needed to refine the assessment of the risk of foodborne listeriosis. In 2018, the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) derived a lognormal Poisson DR model for 14 different ...
Régis Pouillot, Andreas Kiermeier, Laurent Guillier, Vasco Cadavez, Moez Sanaa   +4 more
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New Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Model for Nepal Himalayas by Integrating Distributed Seismicity and Major Thrust Faults

Geosciences, 2023
Nepal is one of the most seismically active regions in the world, as highlighted by the recent devastating 2015, Mw~7.8 Gorkha earthquake, and a robust assessment of seismic hazard is paramount for the design of earthquake-resistant structures.
Saroj Maharjan, Antoine Poujol, Christophe Martin, Gabriele Ameri, David Baumont, Kiana Hashemi, Yacine Benjelloun, Hussein Shible   +7 more
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A Remote-Sensing-Based Method Using Rockfall Inventories for Hazard Mapping at the Community Scale in the Arequipa Region of Peru

Remote Sensing
Small communities in the Arequipa region of Peru are susceptible to rockfall hazards, which impact their lives and livelihoods. To mitigate rockfall hazards, it is first necessary to understand their locations and characteristics, which can be compiled ...
Cassidy L. Grady, Paul M. Santi, Gabriel Walton, Carlos Luza, Guido Salas, Pablo Meza, Segundo Percy Colque Riega   +6 more
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Characterizations of Lifetime Distributions Using Two Relative Reliability Measures

Journal of Function Spaces, 2022
In this paper, a general characterization property considering two new dynamic relative reliability measures is obtained. The new dynamic relative reliability measures are expressed as the ratio of hazard rates and as the ratio of reversed hazard rates ...
Ghadah Alomani, Mohamed Kayid
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