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Minimizing the Potential for Groundwater Contamination from Agricultural Point Sources [PDF]
, 1989 An activated charcoal filtration unit was designed to remove pesticides from leftover pesticide solutions and rinsates generated under farm-like conditions.
Lavy, Terry L. +2 more
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Why don’t pesticide applicators protect themselves? Exploring the use of personal protective equipment among Colombian smallholders [PDF]
, 2010 The misuse of personal protective equipment (PPE) during pesticide application was investigated among smallholders in Colombia. The integrative agent-centered (IAC) framework and a logistic regression approach were adopted.
Binder, C. R., Feola, Giuseppe
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Clinical toxicology, 2019 Introduction: The agricultural Green Revolution in the 1950s and 60s is thought to have averted many deaths from famine. However, it also introduced highly hazardous pesticides such as parathion and endrin into poor rural communities that were totally ...
A. Karunarathne +3 more
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Genetic Impacts on the Structure and Mechanics of Cellulose Made by Bacteria
Advanced Science, EarlyView.A genetic mutation in a protease of a cellulose‐overproducing evolved bacterium significantly affects the proteome, structure, and mechanical properties of bio‐fabricated cellulose pellicles. By overexpressing synthase proteins that build the cellulose‐forming biological machinery of the cell, the evolved bacterium generates dense, stiff, and strong ...
Julie M. Laurent +8 more
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Implications of differences between temperate and tropical freshwater ecosystems for the ecological risk assessment of pesticides [PDF]
Despite considerable increased pesticide use over the past decades, little research has been done into their fate and effects in surface waters in tropical regions.
Brink, P.J., van den, Daam, M.A.
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Spatial distribution of pesticide use in Brazil: a strategy for Health Surveillance.
Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2017 The intensive use of pesticides in Brazilian agriculture is a public health issue due to contamination of the environment, food and human health poisoning.
W. Pignati +6 more
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Advanced Science, Volume 12, Issue 28, July 24, 2025.A dual‐particle interfacial self‐assembly approach is used to create surface‐accessible Pickering emulsions with Au@Prussian blue nanoparticles acting as the functional component. These emulsions have strong plasmonic properties and are equipped with molecular sieves and internal standards.
Yingrui Zhang +5 more
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South African Medical Journal, 2013 The review by the Tygerberg Poison Information Centre (TPIC) in the May SAMJ highlights valuable information about the public health importance of pesticides as a source of acute poisoning, particularly among children. The epidemic of poisoning of children related to informal sector sales of street pesticides such as aldicarb, a World Health ...
London, Leslie, Rother, Hanna-Andrea
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