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Exposure particulate matter (PM2.5) and health risk assessment on informal workers in landfill site, Indonesia

open access: yesEnvironmental Challenges, 2023
This study investigates the extent of informal workers' exposure to PM2.5 and the associated health risks in the landfill. The location of this investigation is a landfill, which is unique and characteristic of developing countries, especially in ...
Azham Umar Abidin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Numerical Simulation of Dispersion Patterns and Air Emissions for Optimal Location of New Industries Accounting for Environmental Risks

open access: yesPollutants, 2022
One of the main reasons for air pollution is industrial plants releasing huge amounts of air pollutants in the form of gas emissions. The different chemical pollutants and their corresponding levels present in these emissions, and their proximity to the ...
Ali Bseibsu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using Re-scaled Resilience Screening Index Results and Location Quotients for Socio-Ecological Characterizations in U.S. Coastal Regions

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science, 2019
In terms of natural hazard events, resilience characterizations provide a means of identifying risk profiles, degrees of preparedness, and the ability of communities to respond and recover.
Lisa M. Smith   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Infinite simple characteristic quotients

open access: yes, 2023
13 pagesWe construct uncountably many infinite, simple, characteristic quotients of non-abelian free groups, answering a 1978 question of James Wiegold.
Coulon, Rémi, Fournier-Facio, Francesco
core   +3 more sources

Urban Shrinkage and Socio-Economic Segregation in Medium-Sized Cities: The Case of Schwerin (Germany)

open access: yesQuaestiones Geographicae, 2021
Although past studies have found that processes of urban shrinkage may act as a catalyst for socio-economic segregation, these relationships remain underexplored outside the context of large cities and capitals.
Huntington David
doaj   +1 more source

Location quotients for manufacturing enterprises by ownership in Wuxi, 1985, 2004 and 2013.

open access: yes, 2017
Location quotients for manufacturing enterprises by ownership in Wuxi, 1985, 2004 and 2013.
Lei Zhou (19808)   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Issues of Healthcare-Associated Infections — The Economic and Social Perspective

open access: yesEngineering Management in Production and Services, 2017
The aim of the paper was to diagnose and analyse the rates of infections in Polish voivodships, and possible consequences from both economic and social perspectives of the changes in the levels of cases reported.
Twardowska Klaudia, Jewczak Maciej
doaj   +1 more source

Divergent Land-Use Efficiency in China’s City–Town–Village Hierarchy: Asymmetric Decoupling of Construction Land from Population During 2010–2020

open access: yesLand
Sustainable settlement governance requires construction land to remain coordinated with population change, as persistent land–population mismatches undermine both resource sustainability and settlement quality, yet much of the land-use efficiency ...
Rongxi Peng, Sichuang Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Symmetrical Approaches for the Non-Survey Regionalization Techniques: Ameliorating the Flegg’s Location Quotients

open access: yesЭкономика региона
In most countries, policy planners face a lack of published primary regional and local input-output (I-O) data for analysing productive networks, which has led researchers to develop various non-survey techniques for the secondary estimation of regional
Argyrios D. Kolokontes
doaj   +1 more source

Dystrophin gene mutation location and the risk of cognitive impairment in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2010
BACKGROUND: A significant component of the variation in cognitive disability that is observed in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is known to be under genetic regulation. In this study we report correlations between standardised measures of intelligence
Peter J Taylor   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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