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Patient Safety in Surgery, 2017 Background Anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion (ACDF) is a well-established surgical treatment. Several types of intervertebral spacers can be used, but there is increasing evidence that PEEK cages yield insufficient fusion and thus less clinical ...
Andreas Kotsias +4 more
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Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Sources, Pathways, and Effects
Environmental Science and Technology, 2013 Mercury (Hg) is a global pollutant that affects human and ecosystem health. We synthesize understanding of sources, atmosphere-land-ocean Hg dynamics and health effects, and consider the implications of Hg-control policies.
C. Driscoll +4 more
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Effective Decontamination and Remediation After Elemental Mercury Exposure: A Case Report in the United States [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2021 Elemental mercury exposure can result in significant toxicity. Source decontamination and remediation are often required after larger elemental mercury exposures, but the details of these processes are infrequently reported. In the case described herein,
Kelly Johnson-Arbor, Brian Schultz
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Natural, cultural and industrial heritage as a basis for sustainable regional development within the Geopark Idrija project (Slovenia) [PDF]
Geographica Pannonica, 2010 The Idrija Municipality, situated in the western part of Slovenia, extends over an area of 294 km2 with around 12,000 inhabitants. The area of Idrija is placed at the crossing of Dinaric and Alpine mountain ranges.
Gorjup-Kavčič Mojca +4 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 The heavy metal pollution in arable soil poses a significant threat to human health. Thus, it is of great significance to investigate the contamination of heavy metal elements in the soil.
Fei Guo +9 more
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China Geology, 2022 To illuminate the migration and transformation of selenium (Se) in the igneous rock-soil-rice system, 285 pairs of rhizosphere soil and rice samples were collected from the granitoid and basalt areas in Hainan Province, South China. The contents of Se in
Xiu-jin Liu +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Successful aging is likely to involve both genetic and environmental factors, but environmental toxicants that accelerate aging are not known. Human exposure to mercury is common, and mercury has genotoxic, autoimmune, and free radical effects which ...
Roger Pamphlett
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When Less Is More
IEEE Access, 2019 Digitizing RF signals using few bit ADCs can provide system advantages in terms of reduced power dissipation, wider sampling bandwidth, and decreased demand for digital throughput. The diversity of established applications based on few bit ADCs, together
Christopher T. Rodenbeck +5 more
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Mercury recovery from acidic mercury solution using electrodeposition
工程科学学报, 2020 Mercury, a heavy metal, can seriously harm human bodies and the environment due to its characteristics of high toxicity, biological enrichment, and long-range migration.
Zi-liang LI +4 more
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Patient Safety in Surgery, 2017 Background Anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion (ACDF) is a well-established surgical treatment for radiculopathy and myelopathy. Previous studies showed that empty PEEK cages have lower radiographic fusion rates, but the clinical relevance remains ...
Olaf Suess +5 more
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